We speak to VFX Sup Angus Bickerton about the visual effects in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Chris Bond of Thinkbox Software gets us up to date on their Krakatoa and Deadline products, and discusses some of the underlying tech.

Many have talked about visual effects companies creating content, Greg and Colin Strause have done it with their film Skyline. We talk with them about the challenges and the technology that enabled them to do this.

We speak with Geoff Mark, former Special Visual Effects Governor for the Academy, about the organization and its reach.

We chat with Gareth Edwards, director, DOP and sole vfx artist of the indie film “Monsters”.

Matthew Unwin joins us to talk about a spot for Drench, he was on set and did the flame work on the spot that features a Rubik’s Cube like treatment on a human head

The crew is together in Amsterdam for IBC and go over stuff they saw at the show. Also simulcast as the fxphdod podcast.

We speak with Matt Aitken, Visual Effects Supervisor Weta Digital, about the Universal Studios Hollywood 3D attraction.

Jeff and Mike talk about commercial post with Rob Moggach, creative director at Dashing Creative Collective.

Casey Steffen, founder of Steffen Vfx, talks about his company’s work on scientific graphics for the medical, health, and entertainment industries.

We talk to the team at Scoundrel FX about their effects work on the mini series The Pacific. Scoundrel did over 600 shots and helped bring to life one of the most hard fought battles and periods of the Second World War.

Our annual lively discussion of what grabbed our attention at NAB. Mike, John and Jeff are joined by Jason Wingrove, Dave Edgar and Mat Graham. Also, interviews with Red Giant and Assimilate.

Bruno Nicoletti, co-founder of the Foundry, on the tech behind their program of accelerating plugins for GPUs.

Andy Hendrickson, Brent Burley and Dan Candela join us for a technical discussion about Ptex, a high quality, optimized texture format and filtering library that Disney has made Open Source.

We talk with Paul Debevec who along with Tim Hawkins, John Monos and Mark Sagar were presented a Scientific and Engineering Oscar for the Light Stage.

Lee Stranahan has ignited a serious conversation about the treatment of visual effects workers with an open letter to James Cameron in the Huffington Post. We talk to him about the reaction.

Steve Hulett of The Animation Guild joins us again to discuss visual effects and labor issues.

In part 3 of our series on Avatar we talk with Dana Batali from the Pixar Renderman team and Christian Kaestner, compositing supervisor from Framestore.

John Knoll, ILM vfx supervisor, on collaborating with Weta and stereoscopic for “Avatar”.

Joe Letteri, senior vfx supervisor for Weta Digital, details their mocap/facial capture tech and other aspects of their work on Avatar.