fxguide: fxpodcast

This week we talk to The Hunger Games visual effects supervisor Sheena Duggal about the Gary Ross film, which looks set to become a blockbuster hit based on the Suzanne Collins novel.

This week we speak to Dashing Founder and Creative Director Robert Moggach about the effects and CG environments created for a group of Hyundai spots.

Our VFX supervisor Oscar special talking to nominees from all five VFX-nominated films for this Sunday night's Academy Awards - proudly sponsored by Side Effects Software.

We talk to Kimball Thurston from Reliance MediaWorks about Lowry Digital's Sci-Tech Oscar - and we pay tribute to film restoration pioneer John D. Lowry who sadly passed away this week.

We talk to Rhythm & Hues about their pioneering work on the popular Coca-Cola polar bears TVCs that began airing in the 90s.

We talk with Matt Madden, Vice President of Production & Development and performance capture supervisor at Giant Studios about motion capture.

This week we are at SIGGRAPH Asia. In part one, we examine renderers and renderfarm management including V-Ray 2.0, MI, RenderMan, Maxwell and 3delight in Nuke. In the second half of the show we focus on rigging with Seema Gopalakrishnan who was the rigging & pipeline lead on Clone Wars at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore.

In this week's fxpodcast we talk with the President of the Art Directors Guild, Tom Walsh. The Art Directors Guild recently announced a stepped up effort to represent previs artists and that they are now seeking to represent artists doing matte paintings. This announcement raised some eyebrows among visual effects people who see this as […]

VFX sup. Rob Legato joins us for a discussion of the visual effects in Martin Scorsese's Hugo.

Erik Nash, visual effects supervisor from Digital Domain, joins us to talk about work on the film Real Steel.