Animal Logic breaks down their holographic effects for the film Insurgent, just out on DVD and download.

Watch how Base FX made the cute and cuddly and sometimes crazy creatures for the Chinese hit film Monster Hunt.

The VFX behind the five key characters of the Fantastic Four reboot, plus a look at the previs.

Maxon announced Cinema 4D Release 17, with an anticipated release sometime in September. The release contains Houdini Engine Integration as well as a host of new features and improvements. Click through to check out the press release.

How Animal Logic crafted a new 360 experience for a new Data Arena in Sydney.

The 67th Emmy Award nominations were announced this morning, here are the Visual Effects nominees.

fxguide recently covered the work done by The Mill for “HELP” – the 360-degree Google Spotlight film directed by Justin Lin. The Mill’s custom VR Shader within the RV player is now available for Shotgun users.

In a surprise move, Cinesite and Image Engine will join forces in visual effects and animation.

How Milk crafted effects for the final two episodes of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

HDR 360 Bracket Pro is an app that converts the Theta 360 Camera into a VFX bracketing 360 HDR camera.

Come along during SMPTE in Sydney to hear from Adobe’s principal scientist on DCP and other color science tips (free for fxguide readers).

There’s a ton of new games and announcements happening right now at E3 2015 – here’s just a few that caught our eye at fxguide.

Our preview of the great presentations and talks at DigiPro 2015 which takes place just before SIGGRAPH in LA this year.

Behind the scenes of the day for night shots and practical guitar flying and steering wheel crash in Mad Max: Fury Road.

The researcher behind BabyX, Mark Sagar, and the new Auckland Face Simulator.

The Foundry sells, and we speak directly with Bill Collis.

Continuing the discussion about new business models for the VFX industry – FMX hosted an illuminating look at how studios see vfx and how VFX should look at animation companies.

ILM’s realtime Star Wars iPad controlled demo, 40 years of ILM, DNeg’s Interstellar, and light field research from Paul Debevec and OTOY. It’s day 3 at FMX.

All the latest from FMX in Stuttgart – our day 2 coverage discusses VR and the incredible 20th anniversary celebration of Pixar’s Toy Story.

A breakdown of all the great rendering talks from day 1 of FMX 2015, plus 20 years of Weta Digital.

GoPro has announced that they are acquiring Kolor, developers of software which helps create and display spherical VR content.

A round up of new camera tech and tools announced at NAB in Las Vegas – with more to come from fxguide.

ftrack has announced that they will be releasing version 3.2 of its software this summer. New features include Nuke Studio integration, Actions, chat features, and release of their updated API.

MODO 901 will be released in a few months but fxguide visited The Foundry yesterday in LA for an exclusive sneak peek of new Render Tech (*this is on top of The Foundry’s own feature leaks today!)

The Frame.io team talk to fxguide about their new video review and collaboration tool.