We recently visited Rhythm & Hues in LA to talk to visual effects supervisor Raymond Chen about the flying scenes in Chronicle.

The Foundry is holding launch events for HIERO, their vfx shot management and conform tool, in LA (Feb 23rd), Toronto (Feb 28th), and NYC (Mar 1st). Click through for signup info and a link to our fxguidetv ep covering the software.

The BAFTA Film Awards winners have been announced, with Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 winning Best Special Visual Effects.

fxguide’s own Mike Seymour recently sat down at the VES Awards with Stan Lee of Marvel.

With only one day to go until on-line voting closes for the 10th Annual VES Awards, we thought we’d take a look at one of the companies who helped make the awards possible on a global scale – Sohonet.

Pixar has now formally announced RenderMan on Demand, a new cloud based rendering service that was developed in collaboration with GreenButton.

We talk to Scott Smith about the advent of the new practical and digital FX studio 32Ten created by former ILM and Kerner Optical employees.

Godfrey Pye passsed away in LA at 68. He was a giant in our industry. Speaking for myself, even in Australia, as I worked hard in TVC post and VFX in the 80s and 90s, Godfrey was a legend in the industry worldwide, – but for my business partner Jeff Heusser – he was a […]

We take a quick look at Kodak’s restructuring in light of rumors of a possible Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. UPDATED: Kodak has now filed for bankruptcy protection.

Adobe today released Lightroom 4 as a public beta, and we stumbled upon it opening (and sort of grading) EPIC r3d files.

Here’s the longlist of BAFTA nominations for the visual effects and animated film categories.

The nominees for the 10th Annual VES Awards are….

Nikon comes back to the DSLR Video race. Is the D4 the 5DMK III Canon has yet to release? Or is it too little too late to catch up to the much larger and now film-maker committed Canon? The D4 scheduled for next month (Feb Shipping) offers a lot of features that you might hope […]

Skywalker Sound’s Gary Rydstrom discusses the sound design for Steven Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’.

Take a look back at some of the big visual effects films of 2011, courtesy of our media partners at The Daily.

Mike Seymour will be doing another Assimilate Webinar on Scratch. Working With Scratch in a Pipeline. Webinar is 10th of January at 10:00 am PST To register for this event, please visit this link We will look at the challenges of working in a multi-suite, modern day workflow. Rather than just using Scratch to complete […]