These days it is not enough to just post a video on Kickstarter if you are hoping to get funding… you need to really kick it up a notch. Nick Nicolaou has certainly done that, sending a Zombie into space!

An interview with J.W. Rinzler, the author of The Making of Return of the Jedi, what to expect from the enhanced ‘making of’ Star Wars e-books and an exclusive hi-res image of the Death Star miniature.

The CG modeling video that recently swept the web will be presented in depth at SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 in Hong Kong. Here’s our sneak peek at the tech.

Find out about the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) taking place in Melbourne this week. Paul Debevec is one of the key speakers.

Game of Thrones and Banshee take out the visual effects gongs at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Arri has just launched its new AMIRA camera.

Find out all about the changes in NUKE 8, plus an exclusive interview with The Foundry’s NUKE Product Manager Jon Wadelton.

Making camera tracking easier – Cooke, Codex and The Pixel Farm partner to launch new /i Squared Technology system to record key lens data, including inertial tracking data.

In a move that will provide a lot more flexibility for facilities, Autodesk announced that they have introduced monthly, quarterly, and annual rental licenses for several of their products.

Find out what updates Adobe is making to its video tools including Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC and Anywhere.

An exclusive behind the scenes breakdown of Pixomondo’s CG dragons for season 3 of Game of Thrones, thanks to our media partners WIRED.

fxguide goes behind the scenes of some recent spots and idents for Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag, Infiniti’s Q90 and the CCTV Documentary Channel.

We talk to WEWORK in Madrid, & how they’re dealing with the tough times in VFX. Spain is suffering but at the same time it’s produced tools like Arnold, Maxwell, RealFlow & Mistika. WEWORK now also looks internationally.

AVID DS is end of life and eyeon Software courts the Avid users with special offers.

We take a look at two spots with VFX by a52 and Framestore that caught our eye for their innovative crowd replication work.

A first look at NVIDIA’s new Quadro K6000 graphics card being announced at SIGGRAPH 2013, and why NVIDIA says it’s fully invested the media and entertainment market.

Find out about the Kickstarter campaign aimed at getting all back issues of Cinefex onto the iPad.