An interview with Simon Robinson, co-founder of The Foundry, to get the reasons behind their decision to reduce prices on Furnace, Tinder, and Keylight sparks for Autodesk.

Conversation with Stu Maschwitz who supervised over 1900 shots for the latest movie from a Frank Miller graphic novel.

We speak to Richard Lambert principle at Fin Design about the award winning commercial for Herringbone

Kids show with very adult tech. Sid the Science Kid from Jim Henson Studios is a remarkable project for the complexity and simultaneous simplicity of its motion capture. fxguide spoke to Steffen M. Wild, Visual Effects Supervisor, Digital Supervisor at Jim Henson Co. for this week’s fxpodcast.

A conversation with Bill Roberts from Softimage about version 7 of XSI, which was released earlier this year.

Mike Seymour chats with VFX Supervisor Eric Grenaudier from Stargate Digital about their work on the U.S. television series ‘Heroes’.

Mike Seymour chats with Ron Brinkmann, author of The Art and Science of Digital Compositing.

We talk to Jeff Goldman, a vfx supervisor at CafeFX about their emmy nominated work on John Adams

In this week’s fxpodcast, Mark Breakspear of CIS (formerly Rainmaker) discusses how Blades of Glory showed his company how fundamentally different the pipeline needs to be for visual effects in comedies. We follow up with more details and background in our online story.

Recorded on a rooftop in downtown Los Angeles at our traditional tradeshow Barcamp. We are joined by fxphd members to discuss what they have seen so far at Siggraph.

We speak with stereo colorist Jeff Olm about grading and post considerations for Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D.

In part one of a new series on Labor issues we talk with Dave Rand who has taken on the role as spokeperson for about 100 artists who worked on a film in Canada at Meteor Studios who were not paid for the last few months of work as the company filed bankruptcy. This is an important story and a great conversation about the state of visual effects as a business.

We chat with Double Negative vfx supervisor Paul Franklin about their work on the latest Batman flick, including special considerations for the IMAX release.

We speak with Chris Edwards, CEO of Los Angeles-based Third Floor, about the pre-visualization work they do for films, commercials, and games.

We speak with Chris Sage of Luma Pictures about their work, their facility pipeline, and their tools.

We talk to Michael Rubin about his book: DroidMAKER: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution.

A conversation with ILM visual effects supervisor Ben Snow about the work behind creating Ironman’s suit.

We speak with Dav Rauch from The Orphanage. Rauch is a director, designer and visual effects supervisor who led the team that conceptualized and designed Ironman’s Heads Up Display.

Our last podcast from Las Vegas, covering finds from the show floor.

Our annual roundtable from fxphd barcamp. We cover the announcements from RED, Eyeon, and more.

Coverage of the Autodesk Usergroup Meeting. Recorded Sunday evening before the start of NAB.

We talk with organizers Chris Brown, Rochelle Winters, and Ben Kozuch about the off-the-showfloor highlights of the 2008 NAB Conference in Las Vegas.

New directions for the crew at fxguide. Mike Seymour, Jeff Heusser and John Montgomery discuss life beyond fxguide.

Owner Leandro Marini discusses the approach Local Hero has taken in providing a DI solution for the indie filmmaker, offering high quality at prices in line with their budgets.

We speak with Imagineer founder and CEO Allan Jaenicke about their new mogul vfx product line, to be introduced at NAB and rolled out over the next 18 months.

Mike Seymour chats with Tim Baier, a vfx supervisor and 3D researcher who now specializes in 3D stereo productions, about the history, technology and trends in the field.

Mike Seymour talks with artist Jason Walker, who created the effects in the animated film Madame Tutlie Putli.