Jeff and Mike talk about commercial post with Rob Moggach, creative director at Dashing Creative Collective.

Casey Steffen, founder of Steffen Vfx, talks about his company’s work on scientific graphics for the medical, health, and entertainment industries.

We talk to the team at Scoundrel FX about their effects work on the mini series The Pacific. Scoundrel did over 600 shots and helped bring to life one of the most hard fought battles and periods of the Second World War.

Our annual lively discussion of what grabbed our attention at NAB. Mike, John and Jeff are joined by Jason Wingrove, Dave Edgar and Mat Graham. Also, interviews with Red Giant and Assimilate.

Bruno Nicoletti, co-founder of the Foundry, on the tech behind their program of accelerating plugins for GPUs.

Andy Hendrickson, Brent Burley and Dan Candela join us for a technical discussion about Ptex, a high quality, optimized texture format and filtering library that Disney has made Open Source.

We talk with Paul Debevec who along with Tim Hawkins, John Monos and Mark Sagar were presented a Scientific and Engineering Oscar for the Light Stage.

Lee Stranahan has ignited a serious conversation about the treatment of visual effects workers with an open letter to James Cameron in the Huffington Post. We talk to him about the reaction.

Steve Hulett of The Animation Guild joins us again to discuss visual effects and labor issues.

In part 3 of our series on Avatar we talk with Dana Batali from the Pixar Renderman team and Christian Kaestner, compositing supervisor from Framestore.

John Knoll, ILM vfx supervisor, on collaborating with Weta and stereoscopic for “Avatar”.

Joe Letteri, senior vfx supervisor for Weta Digital, details their mocap/facial capture tech and other aspects of their work on Avatar.

Industry pioneer Scott Ross is our guest as we talk about visual effects history and the future of the business.

An in-depth discussion about color management workflow with Brian Gaffney and Dan Lion from Technicolor Creative Bridge

We speak with GenArts’ CMO Steve Bannerman and VP of Engineering/Chief Scientist Gary Oberbrunner about the upcoming release of Sapphire version 5.

Alex Wuttke, Double Negative visual effects supervisor, about two main sequences from 2012.

We talk with Ed Ulbrich (Digital Domain) about the newly formed Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) Digital and what it means for artists and companies.

https://media.fxguide.com/fxpodcast/fxg-091021-previs.mp3 Play in new window DownloadThe Previsualization Society was officially announced today to “focus on producing and publishing information and resources to promote effective previs through key activities such as promoting standards, education, workflow development and practical knowledge exchange”. Founding members of the Previsualization Society are: David Dozoretz, Founder, Director and VFX Supervisor, Persistence of […]

We geek out with 3D guru Master Zap about linear compositing workflow, separating fact from fiction.

Jeff Heusser talks with Andreas Wacker, founder of INTERDUBS, a clip hosting company for post houses and production facilities.

We talk about creating an acid trip with VFX supervisor Brendan Taylor from Mr. X

For District 9, writer/director Neill Blomkamp turned to a host of Vancouver-based studios, along with Weta Workshop and Weta Digital in New Zealand, to provide alien creatures and other effects for the film. fxguide profiles the work of Image Engine, The Embassy Visual Effects, Zoic Studios and Goldtooth Creative in bringing Blomkamp’s vision to life.

For Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, director Michael Bay enlisted ILM and Digital Domain to create several new characters and blockbuster action for the sequel to his monster 2007 hit. Mike Seymour speaks to ILM’s Digital Production Supervisor Jeff White in this week’s fxpodcast. In our online article, Ian Failes speaks to Digital Domain’s Visual Effects Supervisor Matthew Butler and CG Supervisor Paul George Palop about their work.