Coverage from CVMP, a conference that brings together image science researchers and creatives in production and post. Excerpts from papers on Automatic Object Segmentation from Calibrated Images and HD Stereoscopic Free Viewpoint Video.

This week we're at Method Studios in LA talking to VFX supe Mitchell Drain and Flame artist Ian Holland about their work for This Means War. Some of the 400 shots included full 3D rendering of effects objects and props - and a car - in Flame.

In this week's episode we are at ILM talking to John Knoll about stereo. John supervised the conversion of Star Wars - Episode One: The Phantom Menace, and Mike sits down with him to discuss this and stereo 3D in general.

In this week's episode we are at the 2012 Scientific and Technical Oscars in Hollywood. We have an in-depth discussion with industry veteran Douglas Trumbull about the technical possibilities of future cinema, and catch up with ARRI to talk Master Primes and the new Alexa Studio and Alexa M cameras.

We report from the 10th Annual VES Awards hosted by Patton Oswalt this week in Los Angeles and speak to many of the award winners, plus Rob Legato, Stan Lee and Douglas Trumbull.

We talk to Pixar director Enrico Casarosa and producer Kevin Reher about their Oscar-nominated animated short La Luna.

Mike Seymour sits down with Animation Supervisor Paul Kavanagh to talk about ILM's work on Red Tails.

In this killer episode, we speak to MI4 director Brad Bird and ILM vfx supervisors John Knoll and Mohen Leo. We discuss risking Tom Cruise, blowing up Moscow without any cast, and wrecking one-off BMW concept cars. Plus, we preview the January term at fxphd.com.

In our second fxguidetv ep from SIGGRAPH Asia in Hong Kong, we talk to vfx artists from ILM and Lucasfilm Singapore, explore video face replacement tech and check out the emerging technologies exhibit.

From SIGGRAPH Asia 2011, we look at rendering CG objects into legacy photos and get a demo of a panoramic ball camera.