Adobe today released Lightroom 4 as a public beta, and we stumbled upon it opening (and sort of grading) EPIC r3d files.

Here’s the longlist of BAFTA nominations for the visual effects and animated film categories.

The nominees for the 10th Annual VES Awards are….

Nikon comes back to the DSLR Video race. Is the D4 the 5DMK III Canon has yet to release? Or is it too little too late to catch up to the much larger and now film-maker committed Canon? The D4 scheduled for next month (Feb Shipping) offers a lot of features that you might hope […]

Skywalker Sound’s Gary Rydstrom discusses the sound design for Steven Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’.

Take a look back at some of the big visual effects films of 2011, courtesy of our media partners at The Daily.

Mike Seymour will be doing another Assimilate Webinar on Scratch. Working With Scratch in a Pipeline. Webinar is 10th of January at 10:00 am PST To register for this event, please visit this link We will look at the challenges of working in a multi-suite, modern day workflow. Rather than just using Scratch to complete […]

In this video from our media partners at The Daily, the motion capture supervisors discuss their work on Happy Feet Two.

We talk to French vfx studio Digital District about two music vids they worked on that were finalists at the UK music video awards.

We look at MOTOR VFX’s breakdowns for its Rockland TVCs.

SPY Post executive producer Amy Wixson discusses the VFX and color grading work on Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Twixt’.

Joe Cornish’s suburban alien invasion flick, Attack the Block, is now available on DVD. Here’s a video we produced with our media partners at The Daily about Fido’s visual effects for the film.

You saw the video of the audience gasping as Dr. Jue Wang presented the deblurring tech demo at Adobe MAX 2011. Here is the full video, samples and the original research paper.

fxguide is excited to be a partner for the 8th annual Conference on Visual Media Production, which brings together post production pros with imaging and graphics researchers. The conference has grown since its inception and again this year there are some outstanding presentations.

On Saturday October 1st the Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) will present a full day session on reference monitors. Registration in advance is required.

On October 1, 2011 the Visual Effects Society will present their third Production Summit in Beverly Hills with the theme “Trending the Global Marketplace: You Are Here”.

In a development that echoes the UK phone hacking scandal, film and camera tech industry veteran Michael Bravin has pleaded guilty to hacking into the computers of Band Pro Film and Digital while he was working for ARRI.