Exploring Black Sea
Breaking down the effects in the Kevin Macdonald submarine film Black Sea.
Commercial break(down)
With special making of breakdown videos, we take a look at visual effects work in TVCs with alt.vfx, Method Studios and Mirada.
MARI and MODO for everyone
The Foundry is releasing ‘indie’ versions of MARI and MODO today on Steam.
Shotgun at Autodesk: the state of play
It’s been almost six months since Autodesk acquired Shotgun – so how have things gone so far?
87th Oscars – the ten VFX contenders
Find out which 10 films are in contention for the visual effects Oscar.
Digital Vision purchased by management team
Color grading, restoration and film scanning product provider Digital Vision has been bought out by its management team.
The top 10 effects of 2014
Our latest Design FX video with our media partners WIRED – breaking down the top 10 vfx moments for 2014.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2014: what to see in Shenzhen
SIGGRAPH Asia in Shenzhen starts next week and fxguide will be there – here’s a look at some of the key sessions.
Blackmagic ‘relaunches’ Fusion
It wasn’t a question of “if?”, but “when?” In move reminicent of Resolve, Blackmagic has released a free Windows version of Fusion and dropped the price of a more feature-rich version to $995.
Apes, Game of Thrones take major HPA vfx awards
The 9th annual HPA Awards have been announced – see the full list of winners here.
Techno Image’s Trojan trip
Find out how Techo Image made the Trojan Horse was a Unicorn ident.
A look at new tracking features in Flame 2015 Ext 2
Lead product designer Philippe Soeiro walks us through tew tracking capabilities coming in the new Flame Premium 2015 Extension 2.
fxinsider: full audio interview with Richard Edlund
For our valued fxinsider members we have a special full-length interview with Richard Edlund, who discusses Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Multiplicity and his current role at The Academy.
thinkingParticles v6 is released with new pricing
We talk to cebas CEO Edwin Braun about the release of thinkingParticles 6 and the new tech inside it.
Inside The Knick: Phosphene’s facial feature fx
Behind Phosphene’s nasal cavity visual effects for an episode of Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick.
Cinesite enters animated features arena
Cinesite has announced a new division and a new partnership to make and produce animated feature films.
Putting the maze in Maze Runner: an fxguide/WIRED exclusive
See how Method Studios created the vast maze and relentless mechanical creatures called Grievers for the upcoming feature film Maze Runner.
eyeon Software acquired by Blackmagic Design
In somewhat of a shake-up to the compositing world, Blackmagic Design has announced that it is acquiring eyeon Software.
RC IBC news: Sony new 4K FS7
As rumoured on the last RC podcast, here is the new Sony FS7 camera just announced at IBC, more than just an XDCAM this camera here is a first look…
COLORWAY now available for C4D
The Foundry has launched a COLORWAY kit for MAXON Cinema 4D.
OpenSubdiv 3.0 coming (Alpha update)
What’s new and all the news about the open source OpenSubdiv project.
NUKE 9, NUKEX and NUKE STUDIO Beta now available
The Foundry has made betas of NUKE 9 and NUKE STUDIO available to existing customers.