We talk to director (and fxphd Prof) Wes Ball, about the creation of his hit film The Maze Runner. As you will hear Wes is just days away from filming the sequel.

We talk to Scott Ross who will be a keynote speaker at SIGGRAPH Asia 2014, discussing 'Can Asia become Hollywood?'.

We catch up with Philippe Soeiro, lead product designer of Flame, about the next version that will be released this fall. It includes new Shotgun support with python hooks as well as various workflow improvements.

In this week's fxpodcast we speak to Milk VFX about the effects work in the new series of Doctor Who.

We talk to DD's Doug Roble, MPC's Rob Pieké & Side Effects' Mark Elendt on what they're looking forward to at SIGGRAPH 2014.

We preview the Real-Time Live! sessions at SIGGRAPH 2014 in Vancouver, talking to Real-Time Live! Chair Nico Gonzalez and jury member Ari Shapiro from USC ICT.

This week, fxguide's Mike Seymour talks to ILM vfx supe Scott Farrar and ILM associate vfx supe Pat Tubach about the making of Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Key Shotgun users - Ben Grossmann, Zoic's Mike Romey and DreamWorks Animation's Lincoln Wallen - discuss their reactions to the Autodesk acquisition.

This week we have Godzilla director Gareth Edwards on the fxpodcast for an in-depth chat about his journey while making a new version of the famous Japanese monster film.

This week we speak to Robh Ruppel, an art director at Naughty Dog, about the role of art direction and production design in computer games.