Krakatoa and Deadline
Chris Bond of Thinkbox Software gets us up to date on their Krakatoa and Deadline products, and discusses some of the underlying tech.
ListenAn Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Primer
We speak with Geoff Mark, former Special Visual Effects Governor for the Academy, about the organization and its reach.
ListenThe Making of ‘Monsters’
We chat with Gareth Edwards, director, DOP and sole vfx artist of the indie film “Monsters”.
ListenDrench Cubehead
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
ListenKong 360 3D: The Ride
We speak with Matt Aitken, Visual Effects Supervisor Weta Digital, about the Universal Studios Hollywood 3D attraction.
ListenInception
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.
ListenChecking in with Scott Ross
We revisit Scott Ross and put him in charge of the global Visual Effects Industry, at least for the duration of the podcast.
ListenPixar Moving Pictures Group – Michael Johnson
A technical chat about Pixar film production along with some history dating back to the MIT Media Lab and Thinking Machines.
ListenSex and the City2
We speak to one of the most successful female vfx supervisors, Sheena Duggal, about the Sex and the City 2
ListenDashing Creative
Jeff and Mike talk about commercial post with Rob Moggach, creative director at Dashing Creative Collective.
ListenScientific Storytelling by Steffen Vfx
Casey Steffen, founder of Steffen Vfx, talks about his company’s work on scientific graphics for the medical, health, and entertainment industries.
ListenIron Man 2 and ILM
VFX Supervisor Ben Snow details some of the work ILM did for Iron Man 2, including some hardcore cgi lighting techniques.
ListenScoundrel fx on Pacific
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.
ListenNAB 2010 Roundtable
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.
ListenTom Walsh, President of the Art Directors Guild
We continue our labor series talking with Tom Walsh, president of the Art Directors Guild.
ListenThe Foundry: New “Blink” Tech for Plugins
Bruno Nicoletti, co-founder of the Foundry, on the tech behind their program of accelerating plugins for GPUs.
ListenPtex Open Source from Disney Animation Studios
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.
ListenLight Stage Scientific and Engineering Academy Award
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.
ListenOpen Letter to James Cameron
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.
ListenThe Animation Guild
Steve Hulett of The Animation Guild joins us again to discuss visual effects and labor issues.
ListenAvatar: Framestore and Renderman
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.
ListenAvatar: ILM
John Knoll, ILM vfx supervisor, on collaborating with Weta and stereoscopic for “Avatar”.
ListenAvatar: Weta Digital
Joe Letteri, senior vfx supervisor for Weta Digital, details their mocap/facial capture tech and other aspects of their work on Avatar.
ListenMichael Taylor – CEO Rising Sun Pictures
We talk with Michael Taylor about visual effects and the global marketplace as he moves from Los Angeles to Adelaide and Rising Sun Pictures.
ListenScott Ross
Industry pioneer Scott Ross is our guest as we talk about visual effects history and the future of the business.
ListenColor Management with Technicolor
An in-depth discussion about color management workflow with Brian Gaffney and Dan Lion from Technicolor Creative Bridge
ListenSapphire v5 for Autodesk Systems
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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