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.

We take a look at recent music video effects nominees from the MTV VMAs, and some newer clips by Bjork, The Wombats and Linkin Park. Updated with befores and afters for the winning Katy Perry video.

eyeon Software announced this week at IBC in Amsterdam the release of Generation AM, a visual effects asset management front end that is integrated into the company’s Generation set of effects tools.

RED Digital Cinema company has been very active in pushing a cinema quality experience. We speak to RED founder Jim Jannard about what drives him and we share a video piece we produced interviewing Ted Schilowitz discussing the move to Stereo 48 fps filmmaking, which we made for our partners at The Daily (News Corp).

BREAKING NEWS: In light of the advances that RED has engineered with their free professional REDCINE-X PRO, The Foundry has decided to bow out and leave them to it. We can report that The Foundry has decided to discontinue development of their Storm product with STORM 1.0v4 (the current release – being the last version). […]

In the lead up to IBC this weekend, Marquise Technologies have been making a splash with their RAIN, OCEAN and MIST products.
RAIN is a workflow and grading station, with the smaller MIST being an on set version and the bigger OCEAN being a full telecine controller (essentially sold through Cintel, DFT, etc). There is also a software only version, SoftRAIN.

Steve Jobs leaves Apple, and thus ends an era. Apple, and therefore Steve Jobs, have had a huge influence on the film and television industry, especially in the area of post-production.

Maxon has announced CINEMA 4D Release 13, the next version of the 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting, and rendering software application. Scheduled to ship in September, the release includes all new character tools, stereographic capabilities, streamlined multi-artist collaboration and physical rendering. More from SIGGRAPH next week, but click through for new feature highlights.