We speak to Weta about the use of deep color on Rise of Planet of the Apes and Peregrine Labs about their cool Nuke production plugins.

We round out our Siggraph coverage with interviews talking to Cinesync, Shotgun, and Thinkbox.

From Siggraph 2011 in Vancouver we get a technology preview from Adobe and cover two major open source initiatives, Alembic and OpenColorIO

We travel to Montreal to get an exclusive look at the new features in the upcoming releases of Flame and Smoke 2012 Ext 1.

A tour of the new features in Nuke 6.3 with Jon Wadelton, Nuke Product Manager for The Foundry. We'll look at Particles, the Planar Tracker, new Denoise, improved Warpers, Deep Compositing tools and more.

Another in our popular series of vfx breakdowns done in NUKE, with Union VFX's Mervyn New showing their work on 127 Hours. Also, a look at the new July11 term at fxphd.

We review and test the new Technicolor CineStyle looks and judge them for their relevance to work intended for heavy post production. We also speak with Technicolor's Joshua Pines about CineStyle.

From FMX2011, Sebastian Sylwan, Weta CTO, on open source software and their deep opacity tech which will be part of OpenEXR 2.0. Also, a KATANA primer with Sony Pictures Imageworks' Jeremy Selan and The Foundry's Andy Lomas.

A look at two car spots that both use Flame to provide immense levels of polishing and color grading.

We take a look at the Adobe CS5.5 with a focus on After Effects and the tech behind the new tools.