fxguide: fxpodcast
Summary: fxguide covers the visual effects industry and software from a high-end professional vfx artists’ perspective.
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Podcasts:
Casey Steffen, founder of Steffen Vfx, talks about his company's work on scientific graphics for the medical, health, and entertainment industries.
VFX Supervisor Ben Snow details some of the work ILM did for Iron Man 2, including some hardcore cgi lighting techniques.
We talk to the team at Scoundrel FX about their effects work on the mini series The Pacific. Scoundrel did over 600 shots and helped bring to life one of the most hard fought battles and periods of the Second World War.
Our annual lively discussion of what grabbed our attention at NAB. Mike, John and Jeff are joined by Jason Wingrove, Dave Edgar and Mat Graham. Also, interviews with Red Giant and Assimilate.
We continue our labor series talking with Tom Walsh, president of the Art Directors Guild.
Bruno Nicoletti, co-founder of the Foundry, on the tech behind their program of accelerating plugins for GPUs.
Andy Hendrickson, Brent Burley and Dan Candela join us for a technical discussion about Ptex, a high quality, optimized texture format and filtering library that Disney has made Open Source.
We talk with Paul Debevec who along with Tim Hawkins, John Monos and Mark Sagar were presented a Scientific and Engineering Oscar for the Light Stage.
Lee Stranahan has ignited a serious conversation about the treatment of visual effects workers with an open letter to James Cameron in the Huffington Post. We talk to him about the reaction.
Steve Hulett of The Animation Guild joins us again to discuss visual effects and labor issues.
In part 3 of our series on Avatar we talk with Dana Batali from the Pixar Renderman team and Christian Kaestner, compositing supervisor from Framestore.
John Knoll, ILM vfx supervisor, on collaborating with Weta and stereoscopic for "Avatar".
Joe Letteri, senior vfx supervisor for Weta Digital, details their mocap/facial capture tech and other aspects of their work on Avatar.
We talk with Michael Taylor about visual effects and the global marketplace as he moves from Los Angeles to Adelaide and Rising Sun Pictures.
Industry pioneer Scott Ross is our guest as we talk about visual effects history and the future of the business.
