A look at Pixar’s new website for RenderMan ahead of the RPS17 release. Also, RenderMan for Maya is to be combined with RenderMan Studio.

This weekend, Saturday, June 16, 2012, in Los Angeles, New York and London there is the second annual VES Career Fair & Tech Expo. fxguide has spoken to many of the VFX studios attending – here’s a quick guide to the Fair and Expo.

fxguide will be covering Prometheus in-depth, with articles, an fxpodcast and fxguidetv all this week. To get an idea of what to expect, check out this excerpt including a breakdown of Fuel’s star map orrery sequence.

We preview Achtel’s Deep X underwater RED Epic camera rig, which will be launched at this weekend’s Cine Gear Expo in LA.

We take a look at Mikros Image’s CG and compositing VFX for Ghost Recon Alpha, a short promo for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Includes a breakdown video and bts images.

We speak with the 3D and 2D artists behind a fully CG Ribena spot created by MPC, and feature behind the scenes videos from the TVC.

We take a look at Baselight’s new Filmlight and FLIP products for on-set through to post color management and grading.

Robot vfx has just made a funny short film, FUGU & TAKO, that follows the story of two Japanese salary men whose lives radically change when one of them eats a puffer fish in a sushi bar. The film was written and directed by Ben West who we caught up with to discuss the work.

A new models and miniature doco, Sense of Scale, is screening this weekend in London. We have a deleted scene about the models for the never-made 1987 version of Total Recall.

Autodesk’sFlame/Smoke product designer Philippe Soeiro shows off the new features of the 2013 releases in a series of overview videos.

On Tuesday, April 17th, fxguide will be streaming live at The Foundry booth (#SL9724) from 1700GMT – 2300GMT (1800 London). This was made possible thanks to the generous support of fxinsider members as well as leading sponsorship from The Foundry.

With the help of Tony Gardiner, co-founder of 3rd Gear, we have one of the first serious test drives of the Sony F65 camera.

Find out more about the exciting FMX 2012 program with presentations from all the major VFX and animation houses, and how you can support fxguide as the official FMX podcast.

We take a test drive of Gamma & Density’s 3cP / Image Control Pro app for the iPad and iPhone.

The Foundry announced that they have begun shipping HIERO, their shot management, conform and review tool for VFX. Click through for the press release and links to other coverage here at fxguide.

Immersive design consortium 5D | Institute is holding series of integrated workshop discussions and panel presentations, spanning three evenings in Los Angeles starting March 13, 2012. “5D | FLUX’ will consist of 120-minute interactive sessions aimed at encouraging in-depth conversations about world-building across disciplines.

We remember Jean-Luc Bouchard who sadly passed away recently after a long battle with cancer. Jean-Luc worked at Discreet Logic, Nothing Real and Apple.

fxguide’s Mike Seymour recently got the chance to sit down with Blur Studio creative director and co-founder Tim Miller to discuss game cinematics, in cooperation with our media partners at The Daily.

The 5D Mark III is launched – here’s what we know.

New release of Houdini from Side Effects includes enhanced Pyro FX and FLIP fluids, Bullet integration, production-ready Cloth, and Alembic export.

Imageworks says it is leaving Albuquerque, Blizzard to lay off 600 workers, while Pixomondo will open new facility in Baton Rouge.

We take a quick look at Luxology’s latest release of its modo software for modeling, sculpting, 3D painting, animation and rendering.