Roundtable and interviews covering: The Red Camera, Apple developments and SDK DVD produced by fxphd, Plug-ins, Filmlight, Gum…

Coverage of the annual Autodesk user group meeting and information about our new sister site, fxphd.

Mike Seymour covers the ins and outs of digital grading with colourist Warren Lynch.

We speak with Jake Parker and Michael Ruzicka about their presentations at the flame and smoke master classes being held at NAB this year.

We speak with Teresa Hall of Muse recruitment about how vfx artists can best present themselves to prospective employers.

A conversation with Stu Maschwitz of the Orphanage about using a 32-bit linear color workflow in AE. Maschwitz has been an evangelist for using After Effects for high end projects.

A conversation with Alp Altiner.

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.