An exclusive, in-depth interview with Daniel Lay, the formerly anonymous blogger known as VFX Soldier. What motivated him to come forward now? You may have a perception of Soldier now, we’re willing to bet you will have a different one by the end of the interview.

In our latest fxpodcast, Mike Seymour talks to renowned visual effects supervisor Janek Sirrs about crafting the effects in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Warning: plot spoilers.

This week we talk to software developer Paul Miller who has contributed to VFX packages such as Elastic Reality, Toxik, Tiffen Dfx and Silhouette.

We talk to Pixar’s TD Paul Kanyuk. Paul will be giving a course on ‘Physically Plausible Shading and Lighting on Monster’s University and Beyond’ at SIGGRAPH Asia in Hong Kong.

This week we talk to Framestore’s Tim Webber, who was the visual effects supervisor on Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity.

With the pilot episode of the much-anticipated Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. having just aired, we interview series visual effects supervisor Mark Kolpack.

We take a look at the world of voice-overs and how services like Voices.com can be used for video projects, podcast intros, commercials or animated films.

Stargate Studios visual effects supervisor Mark Spatny on television VFX awards, the industry, artistic excellence and how effects is covered in the mainstream press.

We visit Weta Workshop to discuss practical props of Elysium with Rob Gillies, Workshop Sup. & Richard Taylor – co-director of Weta Workshop. We talk about the practical HULC suits and ultra cool weapons.

Mike gives a final rundown from SIGGRAPH 2013 and talks to The Foundry’s Katana product manager Andy Lomas about an NVIDIA OptiX / Katana lighting preview demo presented by Pixar.

As a SIGGRAPH special: an interview with Ed Catmull. Pixar’s RenderMan is this year celebrating its 25th anniversary (see Main story) and Catmull helped develop and protect the renderer that has had such a key impact on the vfx and animation.

Mike and Jeff report from the SIGGRAPH 2013 show floor on Tuesday.

A special fxpodcast from SIGGRAPH 2013, Mike Seymour and Jeff Heusser report from conference sessions and an exclusive announcement from Pixar and The Foundry about Katana and RenderMan.

We chat with Double Negative’s Harry Biddle about the render-time manipulation and generation of levelsets, which allow for the art-direction of fluid sims. Biddle will be presenting at DigiPro on the 20th of July.

This week as part of our extensive MOS coverage, we talk to Weta vfx supervisor Dan Lemmon about Man of Steel.

This week we talk to Oblivion DOP Claudio Miranda, ASC and Digital Domain visual effects supervisor Eric Barba about in-camera projections, shooting in Iceland and realizing the world of Joseph Kosinski’s film.

It’s the annual post-NAB recap with Jeff, John, and Mike…recorded on the way back to LA from Vegas.

Jeff Heusser talks to three visual effects industry veterans – Scott Squires, Scott Ross and David Rand – about the recent developments in VFX, from globalization to unionization to subsidies to working conditions to recognition and other on-going issues.

This week we speak to Hybride Technologies President Pierre Raymond about the convergence of films and games. Hybride is now a division of the game giant Ubisoft.

Visual effects supervisor Eran Dinur, from Brainstorm Digital, is part of the team nominated for a VES Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program for Men Who Built America.