fxguide: fxpodcast

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 a routine part of visual effects. We spoke previously with Tom Walsh in April 2010. That podcast covered a lot of the main questions one would have about unions and the history of the Art Directors Guild. If you'd like to catch up on that one you can find it here: www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/fxpodcast-with-tom-walsh-president-of-the-art-directors-guild/.

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

We talk to VFX supe. Michael Owens about 'J. Edgar' and his long history working with director Clint Eastwood.

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

For our 200th fxpodcast episode, sponsored by Sohonet, we are proud to explore the success and future of the four biggest effects houses in London: Double Negative, MPC, Framestore and Cinesite.

As part of our ongoing series talking to the world's best colorists, in this episode we have a discussion about color correction with Steven Scott from EFILM.

Recorded live at IBC 2011 in Amsterdam, a roundtable discussion about the show with John Montgomery, Simon Blackledge and Jeff Heusser.

Mike Seymour talks to Dr Kari Pulli at NVIDIA about the area of computational photography, what we have learnt from mobile device cameras and what we might expect if DSLRs embrace this new area of cutting edge research.

We discuss the bridge collapse sequence in Final Destination 5, with vfx by Prime Focus. Recorded in Vancouver, we talk first with VFX supervisor Chad Wiebe and then CG supervisor Todd Perry.

Dan Lemmon, vfx supervisor (WETA Digital) discusses their brilliant animation work on Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Ian Failes, John Montgomery, and Mike Seymour cover SIGGRAPH 2011. Plus, interviews covering Cinema 4D, 3DS Max, and the upcoming release of Houdini 12.

In this show we speak to NYU professor Ken Perlin, Oscar winner, researcher and educator about his development of Perlin Noise and about his work today in computer user interactions.

Mike Seymour has a frank discussion with Peter Doyle, Senior Supervising Colorist, about Harry Potter 7: Part 2. Mike had spoken to Peter in 2009 about his work on the Potter series, and it was one of our most popular fxpodcasts. This time Peter explains how he creatively created key looks.

To kick off Potter Week at fxguide, Mike Seymour has an in-depth discussion with Greg Butler, visual effects supervisor at MPC London, about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

We go in depth on the mermaid sequence in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides with Ben Snow from ILM.