Podcast recapping IBC 2006, including sound bites from Ted Schilowitz and Graeme Natress of RED and Grant Petty of Blackmagic Design.

We speak with Alex Wuttke and Jody Johnson from Double Negative about the 3D and 2D approaches and solutions to the film.

We speak to Erik Rogers at Company 3 in Los Angeles about their use of DaVinci color correctors for transferring and DI.

We speak with Dan Tatu of CHROME Imaging about their MATRIX compositing product, which provides color grading, compositing, painting, and more

In this week’s podcast we take a look at our sister site fxphd.com, which provides online training for vfx artists.

We speak with Pete Bebb, CG Supervisor, and Ryan Cook, Dynamics Supervisor, about Double Negative’s work on the film.

PFTrack, already established as a great 3D tracker, moved to provide a new level of functionality when it provided added object tracking in version 3.0. Now with version 3.5 this is refined even further. With Version 3.5 is due out soon, fxguide sat down with Richard Spöhrer Managing Director of PixelFarm to discuss the product in this week’s podcast.

Superman Returns thanks to director Bryan Singer, Visual Effects Supervisor Mark Stetson, and a large number of visual effects artists around the globe who worked to make the man of steel fly, see through walls, repel bullets and save the world. We cover this summer blockbuster in our one-year anniversary fxpodcast as well as in detail with our online story.

Dion Scoppettuolo, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Apple’s Shake, talks about the rumours and reality regarding the recent Shake announcement.

We chat with Mike Pryor, Head of Digital Production, about The Deaths of Ian.

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A conversation with Evan Jacobs about the visual effects done by Mr. X for the feature filme Silent Hill.

A look at some of the visual effects behind the blockbuster ‘Poseidon’ movie.

Following up from last week’s very successful podcasts is the rest of the interview with Red Camera’s Ted Schilowitz – so called Leader of the Rebellion.

In our final podcast from NAB, we explore some of the less obvious gems of the show and discuss the relevance of NAB as an event.

Roundtable and interviews covering: The Red Camera, Apple developments and SDK DVD produced by fxphd, Plug-ins, Filmlight, Gum…

Coverage of the annual Autodesk user group meeting and information about our new sister site, fxphd.

Mike Seymour covers the ins and outs of digital grading with colourist Warren Lynch.

We speak with Jake Parker and Michael Ruzicka about their presentations at the flame and smoke master classes being held at NAB this year.

We speak with Teresa Hall of Muse recruitment about how vfx artists can best present themselves to prospective employers.

A conversation with Stu Maschwitz of the Orphanage about using a 32-bit linear color workflow in AE. Maschwitz has been an evangelist for using After Effects for high end projects.

A conversation with Alp Altiner.

Mike Seymour talks with Dr. Bill Collis, Head of Research at the London-based Founrdy. The Foundry develop the Furnace, Keylight, Tinder, and Anvil plugins.

We talk with Steve Kilisky and David Simons of Adobe about the recent release of After Effects 7.

Examining the art and beauty of matte painting with senior matte painter Wayne Hagg

We speak with matte painter Gerhard Mozsi about his craft and his use of Adobe Photoshop to create both photoreal as well as concept art.

Discussion of credits, shows, awards, and the growing importance of the VES

This week, we speak with Mark Ruff, a photographer who specialises in frozen moment multi-camera time splices. After many years with a film rig and then a digital rig, Mark has developed a near real-time system.

As it is almost Christmas we figured we’d explore a different side of visual effects and talk to someone who creates the scripts and characters that we daily need to film and composite. We decided to talk to an entremely successful writer and producer. Doug Naylor is a funny guy, he writes funny comedy, but the business of writing for visual effects – especially for a tight budget, cult classic – with global appeal is a tough job. This week, Doug Naylor k

Nuke 4.5 in production. In this week’s podcast we talk to Jonathan Egstad, visual effects supervisor for the Paramount release “Aeon Flux” starring Charlize Theron. For our online story we chatted to Gary Meyer, Nuke Product Specialist about the details of the 4.5 release.