This week, a special double episode going behind the scenes of The Foundry-Luxology merger and behind the scenes of Sony Pictures Animation's new film Hotel Transylvania.

This week we have a tutorial from Image Engine lead texture painter Justin Holt about his work on Battleship using The Foundry's Mari tool. This session was recorded at SIGGRAPH 2012 in LA.

At IBC, Autodesk is showing a dramatically redesigned Flame, which will be the next version which ships to customers. We visited Montreal and spoke with lead product designer Philippe Soeiro about the changes and got a first hand look at the new workflow.

This week we celebrate 20 years of Sony Pictures Imageworks, and 10 years of Sony Pictures Animation. Mike Seymour talks to SPI visual effects supervisors Ken Ralston and Jay Redd, and CTO Rob Bredow, about some of their key projects over the past two decades.

In part 2 of our SIGGRAPH LA 2012 coverage, we look at a hands-on robotic emerging tech shown at the conference, iKinema's LiveAction real-time software and we get a sneak-peek at the next release of The Foundry's NUKE.

John and Mike are in LA for SIGGRAPH 2012, and in this episode they take a look at what's on at the computer graphics conference, and talk to Thinkbox Software and Shotgun Software about their recent releases.

This week we chat to Electronic Arts development director TJ Galda about the design behind the latest incarnation of winter sport game SSX.

This week we chat to Pixomondo VFX supe Juri Stannosek about the Emmy nominated effects in Game of Thrones - Season Two. And we look at a killer reel from The Marmalade with their high-speed robotic motion control slo-mo camera rig called SPIKE.

This week on our 150th ep we're at SPI to discuss their incredible visual effects for The Amazing Spider-Man, and we preview the July 2012 vfx training courses available at fxphd.

The last of our Prometheus coverage - and some may say the best! We visually breakdown the film with VFX sup. Richard Stammers, and VFX supes from MPC, Fuel & Weta Digital. This ep also includes exclusive VFX breakdowns of the spacecrafts, holograms, star map room and the Engineers.