The IBC Conference has just wrapped in Amsterdam – here’s our impression of the event, plus we highlight the way VFX could be made easier if the transcoding was just paid attention to!

Technicolor acquires The Mill, while producer Sam Mercer joins ILM as head of the VFX studio.

Congratulations to the VFX teams from Game of Thrones and American Horror Story.

Automatic Duck founders Wes and Harry Plate are effectively re-launching Automatic Duck after a four year hiatus, and have begun developing and selling new timeline translation products for Final Cut Pro X and Adobe® After Effects® CC.

Watch RealtimeUK’s making of for the famous Rare games studio launch of ‘Rare Replay’.

The Academy has announced the technologies being considered for Sci-Tech Awards for 2015.

How Shade crafted the Emmy nominated visual effects for Netflix’s Daredevil.

Animal Logic breaks down their holographic effects for the film Insurgent, just out on DVD and download.

Watch how Base FX made the cute and cuddly and sometimes crazy creatures for the Chinese hit film Monster Hunt.

The VFX behind the five key characters of the Fantastic Four reboot, plus a look at the previs.

Maxon announced Cinema 4D Release 17, with an anticipated release sometime in September. The release contains Houdini Engine Integration as well as a host of new features and improvements. Click through to check out the press release.

How Animal Logic crafted a new 360 experience for a new Data Arena in Sydney.

The 67th Emmy Award nominations were announced this morning, here are the Visual Effects nominees.

fxguide recently covered the work done by The Mill for “HELP” – the 360-degree Google Spotlight film directed by Justin Lin. The Mill’s custom VR Shader within the RV player is now available for Shotgun users.

In a surprise move, Cinesite and Image Engine will join forces in visual effects and animation.

How Milk crafted effects for the final two episodes of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

HDR 360 Bracket Pro is an app that converts the Theta 360 Camera into a VFX bracketing 360 HDR camera.

Come along during SMPTE in Sydney to hear from Adobe’s principal scientist on DCP and other color science tips (free for fxguide readers).

There’s a ton of new games and announcements happening right now at E3 2015 – here’s just a few that caught our eye at fxguide.

Our preview of the great presentations and talks at DigiPro 2015 which takes place just before SIGGRAPH in LA this year.

Behind the scenes of the day for night shots and practical guitar flying and steering wheel crash in Mad Max: Fury Road.