300 is the latest Frank Miller graphical novel to be translated to the screen. In this fxpodcast we talk to Jeremy Hunt who first came to fame with the web’s first breakthrough viral short, 405. He is the founder of Screaming Death Monkey, one of the effects houses who helped those actors recreate the story of the 300 Spartans.

We spoke to two of the groups honored with Academy Awards for their technical achivements. First, ILM who are honored for developing OpenEXR and their image modeling tool. Then, the Foundry who are being honored for their Furnace tools. To win such an honor means your work significantly advances the art and science of film making.

In this week’s fxpodcast we talk to Dario Piana, the director of the upcoming film The Deaths of Ian on set. We hear first hand about his issues with the special effects film – during a break in filming. This is part of our continuing series profiling the whole film making process of The Deaths of Ian.

Congrats to all the Winners of the 2007 VES awards. We choose to profile the work of just one of the many winners, to show the detailed work that goes into winning a VES award. Zoic won for their work on the series Battlestar Galactica. Article Contains complete list of winners

This week we talk to legendary London FX artist and director Jon Hollis of Nice Shirt Films, who was a co-founder of Smoke and Mirrors. In almost all respects his career has been a statement as of the current state of the art. Hollis once lead the boutique post house movement – he now shines the light on a new path for senior artists.

The hype is over and the commercials have aired. We’re curious what you think about the spots in the Super Bowl, so we’re conducting a poll. Pick your favorite and we’ll get the details of the making of the spot straight from the vfx artists themselves. This includes a home page story and podcast about the creation here at fxguide.

We looked back at the last ten or so years and came up with our top 10 TV spots of all time from around the world..ones that involved vfx anyway. With some great spots shown during Super Bowl 2007, we ask… were any of this years spots worthy of being one of the best visual effects based spots we’ve seen in the last ten years?

MPC London has produced two campaigns for Channel 4 in the UK –the first 9 spots, the second with 7 — which have won numerous awards in the industry. They are simply some of the most engaging and brilliant station identifications in recent years. We spoke with Russell Appleford of MPC about how they were made.

In this fxpodcast, we interview key members of the newly reorganized systems team from Autodesk in Montreal. Thanks to the fxguide listeners who submitted questions for the panel – we had a great response and hope to involve you more in the future. Click on the read more link for information on the participants as well as links to the podcast.