We talk to Image Engine about their creature and environment VFX for director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.'s The Thing.

In this episode we look at a Nuke promo breakdown by MPC's VFX Supervisor Michael Gregory for

Channel 4 "Street Summer" plus a look at the new term at fxphd.com

We talk to Engine who recently completed a fun spot for local telco Telstra. Increasingly we have seen a shift to improving productivity in lighting by speeding up the responses to the artist, rather than just trying to speed up renders. Enter The Bakery, which has an end-to-end solution for interactive lighting design.

We also have a further Q&A with The Bakery's CTO Arnauld Lamorlette.

Our second IBC 2011 episode covers Eyeon's announcement, the Adobe acquisition of IRIDAS, and an intro to SGO Mistika.

IBC 2011 Episode #1 - An exclusive look at The Foundry's new vfx workflow and conform tool, HIERO.

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.