We talk to Steve Sullivan, Director Of Research and Development for Industrial Light and Magic, about development of OpenEXR and their in-house image-based modeling tool.

We speak on set with Director Dario Piana for an update on the production of the feature film Deaths of Ian.

This week we talk to legendary London FX artist and director Jon Hollis of Nice Shirt Films, who was a co-founder of Smoke and Mirrors.

We speak with key individuals from the newly re-organized systems team in Montreal. They are involved in the development of Flame, Smoke, Lustre, Toxik and other applications. Bruno Sargeant, Jean-Luc Dery, Philippe Soeiro, Mark Jaszbereny, and Filippo Tampieri.

We speak with Darren Poe and Jeff Kim about Digital Domain’s work on Letters from Iwo Jima.

Maximizing content lifespan with guest Tyler Leshney

We speak with David Vickery of Double Negative and Tim Webber of Framestore CFC about their work on the film.

We speak with Digital Pictures Illoura about their work on the recent animated film Charlotte’s Webb.

We speak with the on-set vfx supervisor of The Deaths of Ian, Dennis Michelson.

We chat with Luc Robert, co-founder of REALVIZ, about their recent release of Stitcher Unlimited DS.

The first-ever Australian Film Institute awarded its first-ever Visual Effects Award to Rose Draper and Mike Seymour for their work on Hunt Angels. Seymour and Draper talk about their work on the film.

Mike Seymour talks with artists involved with the creation of a yellow pages tv commercial done at xyz studios.

Andreas Wacker and Angus Wall discuss techniques developed for the first major motion picture produced without using compressed tape formats or film.

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.