Podcast recapping IBC 2006, including sound bites from Ted Schilowitz and Graeme Natress of RED and Grant Petty of Blackmagic Design.

We speak with Alex Wuttke and Jody Johnson from Double Negative about the 3D and 2D approaches and solutions to the film.

We speak to Erik Rogers at Company 3 in Los Angeles about their use of DaVinci color correctors for transferring and DI.

We speak with Dan Tatu of CHROME Imaging about their MATRIX compositing product, which provides color grading, compositing, painting, and more

In this week’s podcast we take a look at our sister site fxphd.com, which provides online training for vfx artists.

We speak with Pete Bebb, CG Supervisor, and Ryan Cook, Dynamics Supervisor, about Double Negative’s work on the film.

PFTrack, already established as a great 3D tracker, moved to provide a new level of functionality when it provided added object tracking in version 3.0. Now with version 3.5 this is refined even further. With Version 3.5 is due out soon, fxguide sat down with Richard Spöhrer Managing Director of PixelFarm to discuss the product in this week’s podcast.

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.

Dion Scoppettuolo, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Apple’s Shake, talks about the rumours and reality regarding the recent Shake announcement.