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Today we launch the new fxguide. Since 1999, a small group of artists has proudly covered the production, post, and vfx industry. With the support of the community we have published thousands of articles, podcasts, videos, tips and other content. Since our inception, we have grown and yet we love servicing this industry we care so much about more than ever.

Thiago Costa’s Lagoa Multiphysics teaser simulation video caused somewhat of a sensation when it was released on the Internet last year. Costa talks to Mike Seymour about his physics simulation work.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the “long list” of 15 films eligible for the Achievement in Visual Effects for the 83rd Academy Awards® has been whittled down to the “short list” of seven films. The members of the Academy’s Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee decided which seven films will […]

In our most recent Red Centre podcast we talked with Mark L. Pederson from OffHollywood about receiving the very first EPIC camera to be shipped to a customer by RED, serial #00006. On REDuser.net today comes word that this camera was stolen from a chalet in the alps when thieves forced entry and took the […]

Steven Poster, ASC is the National President of the International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600 of I.A.T.S.E.. In this fxpodcast we discuss his background, the relationship between visual effects and cinematographers, color correction, digital cinematography and the recent efforts to organize visual effects. Visit the fxpodcast page for direct downloads and RSS feed links. To be […]

We received an email today from Jeff Barnes and David Ebner, announcing that CafeFX/ComputerCafe have decided to shut down. This comes after a downsizing earlier this year. It saddens us here at fxguide to hear the news of their closing and wish everyone the best. The outstanding company has worked on a number of visual […]

fxguide attended Siggraph Asia and caught up with Brian Green of Pixar (California). Brian has the unique distinction of being the character supervisor of the “most successful animated movie of all time” twice. The Academy Award-winning feature “Finding Nemo” broke all box office records in 2003, and “Toy Story 3” broke box office records in […]

The Foundry has just a new major release of its powerful compositing applications NUKE and NUKEX 6.2. Now shipping, this release encompasses artist feedback to deliver continued refinements to core operations whilst also incorporating the new technology. Most significantly the new image-based modeling and projection tools will advance artists’ ability to create and use scene […]

We have two new podcasts, The Red Centre podcast focused on digital cinematography and a new fxpodcast – both covering different aspects of the new film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. We speak in a frank and in-depth interview with Angus Bickerton, the VFX supervisor for the film. Part 1 […]

We’ve been fans of Imagineer’s mocha, mokey, and monet products and the planar tracking technology that forms the foundation of the offerings. But in the past we’ve also honestly been a bit confused with the lineup and what product did what. So at IBC when we learned that they were simplifying their lineup into three […]

Stop-motion photography and visual effects by Click 3X helped bring together Build Together, a :30 spot promoting the joys of LEGO construction. We take a look at how the commercial was created. Click here for the Quicktime The brief for Build Together centred around LEGO’s new online experience to share the building experience at home. […]

Tweak Software announces today that their image sequence viewer product RV is now integrated seamlessly within Nuke. This integration makes the player much more integrated to Nuke than just a flipbook, RV communicates with Nuke over a live connection. To be clear RV is still a separate product, requiring purchase from Tweak Software, there is […]

Ok we would not normally post about a free ap in the itunes Ap store, but this one is just so much fun and indicative of how in the last few years we have moved from multi-million dollar grading suites to free iphone aps. Our friends at Pixel Farm have posted Airgrade. Now unlike most […]

On twitter this week we posted that Assimilate had settled with Autodesk over the long running law suit. We also heard that Lucas Wilson – for many the public face of Assimilate – had moved on to 3alitydigital. Luckily, we also discovered that an old friend of fxguide – Steve Bannerman had left GenArts to […]

RED announced today that Spider-Man 4, to be directed by Marc Webb, will be shot in Stereo on the EPIC, with filming beginning today. EPIC is RED’s successor to the 4K RED ONE. It offers 60% more resolution by relying on a 5K sensor and can shoot at frame rates up to 120 fps. A […]