In this insightful CVMP presentation, Fredo Durand from MIT reveals visual content that is invisible to the naked eye, looking at, for example, recent computational techniques that can extract faint visual information from digital sensors, analyze it, amplify it and visualize it.

This week we feature a presentation made at CVMP in London by John Zubrzycki from BBC R&D on the use of ultra high definition cameras at the London Olympics.

We sit down with two Weta Digital artists who will this year be the recipients of a Sci-Tech award for Weta's Tissue physically-based character sim framework used on such films as Avatar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Prometheus and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

VFX Scott Metzger demonstrates how he used a special build of The Foundry's MARI tool to project HDR set-captured environment data onto geometry. The work was done for director Richard LaGravenese's Beautiful Creatures, coming out in 2013.

Hot on the heels of the VFX Oscar bake-off, we talk to The Avengers ILM visual effects supervisor Jeff White and animation supervisor Marc Chu about the film, one of the 10 in consideration. And we also showcase the new January 2013 term of effects training courses at fxphd.

fxguide is in New Zealand to sit down with Weta Digital's senior VFX supervisor Joe Letteri to discuss The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - visiting Gollum and the world of Middle-earth, this time in stereo and at 48fps.

This week we report from SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 in Singapore. The guys see how EA Sports use Side Effects Houdini in their game creation, and go behind the scenes at the fun Emerging Tech exhibition.

We visit CBS Digital in Los Angeles to check out their restoration work on the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" TV series, all completed on Flame, Flare, Smoke, Lustre, and Inferno.

This week on fxguidetv we're at Atomic Fiction to discuss Robert Zemeckis' Flight with vfx sup. Kevin Baillie. The film's dramatic crash sequence relied on live action backgrounds captured with a three-RED EPIC rig, multiple cockpit + fuselage gimbals and a CG airplane !

This week we go behind the scenes of our fx2012 practical and digital effects workshop at 32TEN Studios in San Rafael, and we preview the October 2012 vfx training courses available at fxphd.