With a weekend opening of over $120US million, Shrek the Third continues the box office success of the franchise. In this fxpodcast, we speak with Larry Cutler and Matt Baer from PDI/Dreamworks including their insights into how working on a series of films changes the workflow. Our online story also contains a large gallery of images.

This week, we speak with Stu Maschwitz, author of “The DV Rebel’s Guide” and one of the co-founders of The Orphanage.

This week, we speak with colourist Asa Shoul and Executive Producer Jan Hogevold of Framestore CFC

Wrap up of the week at NAB, including news from the Foundry about Nuke, the search for non-CRT broadcast monitors, After Effects CS3, and more

For today’s podcast we invited various guests as well a fxphd professors and postgrads to join us in a sort of bar camp where everyone reports back on what they saw on the show floor and discusses. We then collected the best of this exercise and bring you the results.

Our second podcast from NAB, with guests Emery Wells and Scott Brook. We cover lots of items including Apple, Motor, the Red Camera, and a new joint venture between fxguide, Wells, and Brook.

Wrap up of Sunday’s user group and our first NAB 2007 podcast, a “Live” podcast from the Autodesk Pool Party at Caesar’s Palace. Let me tease you with these words – Standard Filesystem Volume. Not enough? How about batch in Smoke… or multilayer timeline in batch?

A roundtable with Mike, John, Tahl Niran, and Rose Draper about fxguide, fxphd, and what’s coming at NAB

Fox presents a new TV show “Drive” featuring visual effects by Zoic Studios. We spoke to co-founder Loni Peristere about work on this and the companies amazing run in cutting edge episodic television effects from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Buffy to Battlestar Gallactica, 24 and now Drive.

We speak to Ted Schilowitz, Leader of the Rebellion at the RED Digital Cinema Company about NAB, RED CODE RAW, the various options you can buy for the camera.

Dan Curry pioneered high volume, high quality episodic television visual effects and as a result has been nominated for a visual effects Emmy fifteen times and won seven times.

We speak to Hydraulx co-founder Greg Strause about their amazing 3D work on 300 and his first impressions of Alien vs Predator 2, having just come off set from co-directing the film.

In this podcast we talk to two of the companies behind some of the shots in Night at the Museum. When we heard that Dick Van Dyke was a not only a fan but VFX hobbyist, we could not resist asking the guys about what it was like to work with someone who started by dancing through a cartoon with Walt, and recently diced with death with a T REX, we also cover bubble gum rocks and ‘real’ miniatures !