Superman Returns thanks to director Bryan Singer, Visual Effects Supervisor Mark Stetson, and a large number of visual effects artists around the globe who worked to make the man of steel fly, see through walls, repel bullets and save the world. We cover this summer blockbuster in our one-year anniversary fxpodcast as well as in detail with our online story.

fxguide, in partnership with Stan Winston Productions, is proud to announce that we will now blog an entire visual effects film, from start to finish. In an unprecedented move, we have been given full access to cover The Death’s of Ian from inception to completion: from concept art to final print. If you think you’re having a bad day, consider Ian Stone, an all-American kid who is murdered by horrifying pursuers only to wake up in a slightly diffe

Alien Smackdown was the title of a recent lecture by Grady Cofer from ILM, we caught up with him in Sydney and asked “Just what the heck is a Sabre ?” And how does it differ from a discreet flame? We got to hear first hand how the team at ILM use the 3D compositing environment of Flame and Inferno to comp shots such as the opening of Star Wars Ep 3 and War of the Worlds. Grady showed us indepth how ILM uses Flame and especially how they use imported 3D g

The Da Vinci Code found the box office glory, opening at US$77 million (USA) and a record US$147 million overseas. To be successful the Da Vinci code required both seamless visual effects and detailed visualisations. This week we speak to the team at Double Negative in London about their work on the film and how they solved the visual effects.

Rarely is a vfx team called upon to so faithfully recreate something so significant to so many people, and so vividly recalled by so many of the film’s audience. United flight 93 was hand crafted back to life by the team at Double Negative in London.

UPDATE: Digital Domain has been sold to Michael Bay. We first heard rumours from equipment suppliers on Monday. For those who follow Nuke and D2 Software, this is especially good news! Carl Stork, Digital Domain’s new CEO, has a 20 year history as a technology innovator, and one of the things he’s looking forward to is continued expansion of Digital Domain’s software offerings. We have Carl Stork’s initial comment on D2, with more to follow soon.

In this week’s fxpodcast we talk to Evan Jacobs about his role — on set and off — for the feature filmSilent Hill. In the companion story we focus on the issue of camera tracking on this film, and applying bugs.