fxguide: fxpodcast

We catch up with Steve Roberts, CEO of eyeon, for a state of the union update on their flagship Fusion compositor, as well as discuss image tech issues facing the industry.

We speak with Kelly Port, Digital Domain VFX Supervisor, about their work on the ice giants in Thor

We talk to Lou Levinson from Laser Pacific about Saving Private Ryan being restored via Baselight.

A mobile version of our annual NAB podcast as Mike Seymour, Jeff Heusser and Jason Wingrove invite you into their post NAB chat.

A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility. Each of these 'retreats' was pretty much handled by a different effects house. We speak to Animal Logic about their role.

With the release of Rango, Industrial Light & Magic embarks on its first full-length animated feature. We talk to animation director Hal Hickel about bringing the film to life.

This week in the lead up to the Oscar Weekend, we speak with Shaun Tan, co-director of The Lost Thing which has been nominated for Best Short Animated Film. This film is an act of love, taking a small team 9 years to complete.

In the last of our series on the tech behind the major studios, we switch gear to facial animation and Dr. Mark Sagar of Weta Digital. Mark is a back to back 2010 and 2011 winner of the Sci-Tech Award (Scientific and Engineering Award) from the Academy. At Weta Digital he has directed the development of the performance driven facial animation system for Avatar and King Kong.

We speak with Ken Ralston, Senior Visual Effects Supervisor of the Oscar-nominated Alice in Wonderland, about the movie, Sony Pictures Imageworks' tech and creative resources, and his career in general.

We talk with Tom Sito about the history of animation unions and how that history applies to efforts to organize Visual Effects artists. Sito is an animator and the author of DRAWING THE LINE: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson.

We talk with Robert Neuman, Stereo Supervisor from Disney, about the in house tools they use to achieve their award winning Stereo Feature films. Part of our fxpodcast "Tech behind the films" series.

Continuing the technical tools behind the big companies series that we started last week, we talk to Ben Snow of ILM about his career and the development of the energy conservation lighting model - as most recently used on Iron Man 2.

We talk with Paul Franklin, vfx supervisor from Double Negative, about the in house tools they use to enhance their pipeline.

We talk with Steven Poster, National President of the International Cinematographers Guild, about the cinematographers relationship with visual effects, color correction, digital cinema, unions and more.

Brian Green, Character Supervisor from Pixar, joins Mike Seymour at Siggraph Asia to talk about Toy Story 3