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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.

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.