fxpodcast: The Avengers
We talk with Jeff White from ILM about Hulk, digital New York and more in the mega blockbuster hit The Avengers.
fxpodcast: Marc Petit from Autodesk
A conversation with Marc Petit, Senior Vice President of Autodesk. We talk about NAB 2012 announcements and the wide range of Autodesk products.
fxpodcast: NAB 2012 roundup
The fxguide crew – Mike, John, Jeff and Jason – discuss the events, announcements and happenings from NAB 2012 on the drive home from Las Vegas.
fxpodcast: John Textor, One on One interview
John Textor caused an uproar with his comments about free student labor providing up to 30% of the workers in Digital Domain Florida. We speak with him about this and his view on our ‘broken’ industry in this exclusive interview.
fxpodcast: The Hunger Games
This week we talk to The Hunger Games visual effects supervisor Sheena Duggal about the Gary Ross film, which looks set to become a blockbuster hit based on the Suzanne Collins novel.
fxpodcast: Dashing’s Hyundai spots
This week we speak to Dashing Founder and Creative Director Robert Moggach about the effects and CG environments created for a group of Hyundai spots.
fxpodcast: VFX Oscar supervisor special
Our VFX supervisor Oscar special talking to nominees from all five VFX-nominated films for this Sunday night’s Academy Awards – proudly sponsored by Side Effects Software.
fxpodcast: The Lowry Process
We talk to Kimball Thurston from Reliance MediaWorks about Lowry Digital’s Sci-Tech Oscar – and we pay tribute to film restoration pioneer John D. Lowry who sadly passed away this week.
fxpodcast: Rhythm & Hues’ polar bears
We talk to Rhythm & Hues about their pioneering work on the popular Coca-Cola polar bears TVCs that began airing in the 90s.
fxpodcast: Giant Studios
We talk with Matt Madden, Vice President of Production & Development and performance capture supervisor at Giant Studios about motion capture.
fxpodcast: SIGGRAPH Asia rendering and rigging
This week we are at SIGGRAPH Asia. In part one, we examine renderers and renderfarm management including V-Ray 2.0, MI, RenderMan, Maxwell and 3delight in Nuke. In the second half of the show we focus on rigging with Seema Gopalakrishnan who was the rigging & pipeline lead on Clone Wars at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore.
fxpodcast: Another chat with Tom Walsh
https://media.fxguide.com/fxpodcast/fxg-1112011-TomWalsh2.mp3 Play in new window DownloadIn this week’s fxpodcast we talk with the President of the Art Directors Guild, Tom Walsh. The Art Directors Guild recently announced a stepped up effort to represent previs artists and that they are now seeking to represent artists doing matte paintings. This announcement raised some eyebrows among visual effects […]
fxpodcast: Rob Legato – Hugo
VFX sup. Rob Legato joins us for a discussion of the visual effects in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo.
fxpodcast: Real Steel
Erik Nash, visual effects supervisor from Digital Domain, joins us to talk about work on the film Real Steel.
fxpodcast: 200th episode – London Calling
For our 200th fxpodcast episode, sponsored by Sohonet, we are proud to explore the success and future of the four biggest effects houses in London: Double Negative, MPC, Framestore and Cinesite.
fxpodcast: Steven Scott – Cowboys & Aliens
As part of our ongoing series talking to the world’s best colorists, in this episode we have a discussion about color correction with Steven Scott from EFILM.
fxpodcast: IBC 2011 Roundtable
Recorded live at IBC 2011 in Amsterdam, a roundtable discussion about the show with John Montgomery, Simon Blackledge and Jeff Heusser.
fxpodcast: Computational photography
Mike Seymour talks to Dr Kari Pulli at NVIDIA about the area of computational photography, what we have learnt from mobile device cameras and what we might expect if DSLRs embrace this new area of cutting edge research.
fxpodcast: Final Destination 5
We discuss the bridge collapse sequence in Final Destination 5, with vfx by Prime Focus. Recorded in Vancouver, we talk first with VFX supervisor Chad Wiebe and then CG supervisor Todd Perry.
fxpodcast: Rise of the Planet of the Apes – The eyes have It
Dan Lemmon, vfx supervisor (WETA Digital) discusses their brilliant animation work on Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
fxpodcast: SIGGRAPH 2011 roundtable
Ian Failes, John Montgomery, and Mike Seymour cover SIGGRAPH 2011. Plus, interviews covering Cinema 4D, 3DS Max, and the upcoming release of Houdini 12.
fxpodcast: Ken Perlin Beyond the Noise
In this show we speak to NYU professor Ken Perlin, Oscar winner, researcher and educator about his development of Perlin Noise and about his work today in computer user interactions.
fxpodcast: The Art of Grading Harry Potter – Peter Doyle
Mike Seymour has a frank discussion with Peter Doyle, Senior Supervising Colorist, about Harry Potter 7: Part 2. Mike had spoken to Peter in 2009 about his work on the Potter series, and it was one of our most popular fxpodcasts. This time Peter explains how he creatively created key looks.
fxpodcast: Harry Potter 7 Part 2 – Killing ‘He who shall not be named’
To kick off Potter Week at fxguide, Mike Seymour has an in-depth discussion with Greg Butler, visual effects supervisor at MPC London, about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
fxpodcast: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
We go in depth on the mermaid sequence in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides with Ben Snow from ILM.
fxpodcast: Conversation with eyeon’s Steve Roberts
We catch up with Steve Roberts, CEO of eyeon, for a state of the union update on their flagship Fusion compositor, as well as discuss image tech issues facing the industry.
fxpodcast: Digital Domain’s ice giants from Thor
We speak with Kelly Port, Digital Domain VFX Supervisor, about their work on the ice giants in Thor
fxpodcast: Saving ‘Saving Private Ryan’
We talk to Lou Levinson from Laser Pacific about Saving Private Ryan being restored via Baselight.
fxpodast: NAB 2011 Wrap Up
A mobile version of our annual NAB podcast as Mike Seymour, Jeff Heusser and Jason Wingrove invite you into their post NAB chat.
fxpodcast: Sucker Punch
A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility. Each of these ‘retreats’ was pretty much handled by a different effects house. We speak to Animal Logic about their role.