Mike Seymour talks with Dr. Bill Collis, Head of Research at the London-based Founrdy. The Foundry develop the Furnace, Keylight, Tinder, and Anvil plugins.

We talk with Steve Kilisky and David Simons of Adobe about the recent release of After Effects 7.

Examining the art and beauty of matte painting with senior matte painter Wayne Hagg

We speak with matte painter Gerhard Mozsi about his craft and his use of Adobe Photoshop to create both photoreal as well as concept art.

Discussion of credits, shows, awards, and the growing importance of the VES

This week, we speak with Mark Ruff, a photographer who specialises in frozen moment multi-camera time splices. After many years with a film rig and then a digital rig, Mark has developed a near real-time system.

As it is almost Christmas we figured we’d explore a different side of visual effects and talk to someone who creates the scripts and characters that we daily need to film and composite. We decided to talk to an entremely successful writer and producer. Doug Naylor is a funny guy, he writes funny comedy, but the business of writing for visual effects – especially for a tight budget, cult classic – with global appeal is a tough job. This week, Doug Naylor k

Nuke 4.5 in production. In this week’s podcast we talk to Jonathan Egstad, visual effects supervisor for the Paramount release “Aeon Flux” starring Charlize Theron. For our online story we chatted to Gary Meyer, Nuke Product Specialist about the details of the 4.5 release.

In this week’s podcast, we check in for an update on Toxik with Autodesk’s Chris Vienneau, who is the product manager for the application.

We interview Scott Gross of IMAGICA Corporation of America, developers of the Primatte keying plug-in.

We speak with Bill Roberts of Autodesk about he recent Linux product announcements.

After more than a year of development, Eyeon Software’s Fusion 5 began shipping over the last several weeks. The new version boasts numerous improvements, the highlight of which is a new 3D compositing environment in the procedural workflow. In this week’s fxpodcast we speak with Isaac Guenard, Senior Product Manager for Eyeon, about the new features in the software and how they have been received by the users.

We speak with Aaron Weintraub from Mr. X in Toronto, Canada. The facility completed over 150 visual effects shots for the film.

A look at the Apple 4.0 Shake SDK with Dion Scoppettuolo, Senior Product Marketing Manager of Shake and Motion.

In this week’s podcast we talk to Don Shay, the publisher of the world’s leading authority and publication of record for the visual effects industry: Cinefex.