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After 20 years, flame is still going strong. To celebrate the anniversary, we visit with Autodesk's Philippe Soeiro for a discussion on the renaissance of Flame, as well as highlight some of the new features in the 2013 release.

Continuing our popular series of artist breakdowns in NUKE, VFX Supervisor Alex Fry takes us through the pipeline used to create the skies for Happy Feet 2.

Cinesite production director Courtney Vanderslice discusses the moving mining city of Zodanga in 'John Carter' and Cinesite's stereo conversion work.

We go behind the scenes with Mirada on their work for the Wrigley's 5 Gum 'Choose Your Energy' TVC - a futuristic parkour-inspired piece directed by Jon Favreau.

We talk to COPA co-founder and VFX supervisor Alex Frisch about 'Turn Me On,' a music video for David Guetta and Nicki Minaj, and about how the new virtual studio used collaboration tools to complete the work across the globe.

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.