fxguide: fxguidetv

On this 'vocal' episode of the VFXShow, we discuss how Disclosure Day works as a Spielberg UFO film, how its visual effects support both spectacle and invisible effects - all with some surprising reactions from the guys.

We talk with Man on Fire VFX Supervisor Kevin Lingenfelser about the explosive building collapse, chaotic rubble aftermath, and high-octane Learjet sequence.

Union VFX and Clear Angle are turning Gaussian splats from a tech demo into a crowd-pleasing production pipeline. Literally. We speak with David Schneider, VFX and Technical Supervisor at Union, in this fxpodcast episode.

We talk with Academy Technical Achievement Award recipient Paul Debevec about HDR image-based lighting, Fiat Lux, virtual production, NeRFs, 3DGS, machine learning, and why now is a great time to do research.

From hacky Stable Diffusion experiments to production-ready pipelines, ComfyUI is shaping how AI fits into VFX.

Many of you know Angie as the host of fxguidetv, but do you know her other role in one of Australia's most successful reality TV shows?

fxguide goes in-depth with the team at ILM on The Force Awakens. Plus a peek at the January 2016 term at fxphd.com.

The industry's venerable software Flame has been unchained from its hardware purchase requirement. We check out the latest 2016 release from the team in Montreal.

Follow the fxguide team from SIGGRAPH 2015 and hear from Weta Digital's head of rendering research Luca Fascione.

Inside stories from ILM's supervisors as the revered VFX studio celebrates its 40th anniversary.