Krakatoa and Deadline

November 26, 2010

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

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Skyline

November 13, 2010

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.

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An Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Primer

November 6, 2010

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

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The Making of ‘Monsters’

October 15, 2010

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

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Drench Cubehead

October 9, 2010

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

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IBC2010

September 15, 2010

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

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Kong 360 3D: The Ride

September 9, 2010

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

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Inception

July 31, 2010

Our Inception coverage is in two parts. Click through for a detailed discussion with the team at New Deal Studios by Ian Failes. And also to access our in depth podcast with Visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin of Double Negative in London. We have delayed publishing both as they contain heavy spoilers on what must be one of the year’s best films.

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Checking in with Scott Ross

July 20, 2010

We revisit Scott Ross and put him in charge of the global Visual Effects Industry, at least for the duration of the podcast.

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Pixar Moving Pictures Group – Michael Johnson

July 13, 2010

A technical chat about Pixar film production along with some history dating back to the MIT Media Lab and Thinking Machines.

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Sex and the City2

June 22, 2010

We speak to one of the most successful female vfx supervisors, Sheena Duggal, about the Sex and the City 2

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Dashing Creative

June 14, 2010

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

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Scientific Storytelling by Steffen Vfx

May 30, 2010

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

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Iron Man 2 and ILM

May 14, 2010

VFX Supervisor Ben Snow details some of the work ILM did for Iron Man 2, including some hardcore cgi lighting techniques.

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Scoundrel fx on Pacific

May 2, 2010

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.

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NAB 2010 Roundtable

April 16, 2010

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.

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Tom Walsh, President of the Art Directors Guild

April 7, 2010

We continue our labor series talking with Tom Walsh, president of the Art Directors Guild.

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The Foundry: New “Blink” Tech for Plugins

March 29, 2010

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

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Ptex Open Source from Disney Animation Studios

March 17, 2010

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.

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Light Stage Scientific and Engineering Academy Award

February 20, 2010

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.

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Open Letter to James Cameron

February 18, 2010

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.

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The Animation Guild

February 5, 2010

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

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Avatar: Framestore and Renderman

January 28, 2010

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.

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Avatar: ILM

January 15, 2010

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

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Avatar: Weta Digital

January 9, 2010

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

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Michael Taylor – CEO Rising Sun Pictures

December 18, 2009

We talk with Michael Taylor about visual effects and the global marketplace as he moves from Los Angeles to Adelaide and Rising Sun Pictures.

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Scott Ross

December 11, 2009

Industry pioneer Scott Ross is our guest as we talk about visual effects history and the future of the business.

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Color Management with Technicolor

December 4, 2009

An in-depth discussion about color management workflow with Brian Gaffney and Dan Lion from Technicolor Creative Bridge

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Sapphire v5 for Autodesk Systems

November 25, 2009

We speak with GenArts’ CMO Steve Bannerman and VP of Engineering/Chief Scientist Gary Oberbrunner about the upcoming release of Sapphire version 5.

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2012

November 13, 2009

Alex Wuttke, Double Negative visual effects supervisor, about two main sequences from 2012.

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