Director David Karlak and visual effects supervisor Scott Metzger discuss their collaboration and use of Mari and Modo on the short film Rise.

fxguide visits DreamWorks Animation to see how their latest animated feature, Turbo, was made, including how the studio leveraged Side Effects Software's Houdini and the OpenVDB library.

From SIGGRAPH 2013, we look at the computer animation festival Best in Show winner 'a la Francaise' and talk to Academy Award winner Chris Landreth about his new short 'Subconscious Password'.

We visit ILM to discuss the Pacific Rim production pipeline with John Knoll, Eddie Pasquarello, Lindy De Quattro and Hal Hickel. The pipeline uses NUKE, Houdini, KATANA, Modo, Alembic, Arnold/RenderMan and ILM's 3D and fluid destruction and muscle sim tools.

We visit Weta Digital to discuss the liquid geo displays and Krypton comm systems from Man of Steel. Plus, we preview the new term of VFX training courses at fxphd.com.

This week we sit down with two of the filmmakers behind A Cautionary Tail, a hybrid animated short starring Cate Blanchett, David Wenham and Barry Otto.

This week we visit ILM to talk to ILM's Roger Guyett (vfx supervisor), Pat Tubach (co-visual effects supervisor) and Paul Kavanagh (animation supervisor) about Star Trek: Into Darkness.

This week we report from the FMX animation and effects conference in Stuttgart where we look at Pixar's new short The Blue Umbrella, MPC's fx tools and see the upcoming releases of Shotgun and RealFlow.

This week with the help of Lemac (Sydney) we talk about LED lights with Dedo Weigert, the founder of film, television and still lighting system maker Dedolight. In this episode we also highlight the new April 2013 term of visual effects courses over at fxphd.

This week on fxguidetv we talk to Upside Down assistant director and 2nd unit director Mario Janelle about his work on the film.