fxguide: fxpodcast

This week Jeff Heusser talks to Andy Beach, a specialist in digital video, streaming media and video compression who has worked at companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Adobe.

We speak with Autodesk lead product designer Philippe Soeiro about the brand new 20th Anniversary Edition release of Flame.

This week we talk to Rise FX visual effects supervisor Florian Gellinger about his studio's work for Cloud Atlas, including the Lidar scanning services provided by sister company pointcloud9

This week we talk to Richard Chuang, one of the co-founders of pioneering graphics, VFX and animation studio PDI. Chuang is now a founder of media collaboration company Cloudpic Global. He'll also presenting on the rise of computer graphics in Asia at SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 in Singapore.

We speak in depth with VFX supervisor Paul Franklin from Double Negative about the effects in Chris Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. Paul will be presenting the visual effects of the film at SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 on Friday 30th November.

We gather experts from the VFX and gaming fields to discuss the possible implications of The Foundry and Luxology merger. Mike Seymour talks to Kim Libreri (Senior ILM and LucasArts VFX supervisor), Rob Bredow (CTO, Sony Pictures Imageworks), Sebastian Sylwan (CTO, Weta Digital) and Tim Crowson (lead CG artist, Magnetic Dreams).

This week we talk to Abhijeet Ghosh from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies about a range of issues relating to polarized light, surface normals, Brewster's angle and the reproduction of human skin, which he spoke about recently at SIGGRAPH 2012 in LA.

This week, a special re-broadcast of an interview with renowned Effects DOP Marty Rosenberg. This ep coincides with the announcement of our fxphd live practical fx & digital integration workshop at 32TEN Studios in California. (Recorded just after Kerner had become separate from ILM).

This week we talk to Paul Debevec from the USC ICT about a SIGGRAPH paper on a single-shot light probe - a new light probe with both diffuse and specular materials that can capture the full dynamic range of complex lighting conditions in one standard digital photograph.

Philippe Leprince, Head of Lighting & Rendering at Double Negative, talks to Mike Seymour about Dneg's new lighting and rendering pipeline, which came into play for Total Recall.

Here is the audio interview with Jim Blinn (see also our fxguide story for images and more background).

This week we speak to Alejandro Garcia, a professor at San Jose State University, about how an understanding of physics can help achieve believable animation.

It is a real pleasure & honor to offer you this in-depth interview with Dr Alvy Ray Smith, the man who jointly or personally: Invented Paint, Alpha, Dir. the Genesis seq., worked at XEROX PARC, NYIT, Lucasfilm, PIXAR, Microsoft and a multiple tech Ocsar winner.

This week on the fxpodcast we speak to Pixar's Claudia Chung, simulation supervisor on Brave. In this in-depth and engaging discussion we look at the complex ground breaking simulation work in Pixar's newest animated feature. Warning: this podcast contains plot spoilers.

This week we speak to Martin Hill, Weta's VFX Supervisor about the advances in Weta's Sub-Surface Scattering algorithms, the development of the Engineers, the map room, and THAT med-bed scene.