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In this week's episode we are at the 2012 Scientific and Technical Oscars in Hollywood. We have an in-depth discussion with industry veteran Douglas Trumbull about the technical possibilities of future cinema, and catch up with ARRI to talk Master Primes and the new Alexa Studio and Alexa M cameras.

We report from the 10th Annual VES Awards hosted by Patton Oswalt this week in Los Angeles and speak to many of the award winners, plus Rob Legato, Stan Lee and Douglas Trumbull.

We talk to Pixar director Enrico Casarosa and producer Kevin Reher about their Oscar-nominated animated short La Luna.

Mike Seymour sits down with Animation Supervisor Paul Kavanagh to talk about ILM's work on Red Tails.

In this killer episode, we speak to MI4 director Brad Bird and ILM vfx supervisors John Knoll and Mohen Leo. We discuss risking Tom Cruise, blowing up Moscow without any cast, and wrecking one-off BMW concept cars. Plus, we preview the January term at fxphd.com.

In our second fxguidetv ep from SIGGRAPH Asia in Hong Kong, we talk to vfx artists from ILM and Lucasfilm Singapore, explore video face replacement tech and check out the emerging technologies exhibit.

From SIGGRAPH Asia 2011, we look at rendering CG objects into legacy photos and get a demo of a panoramic ball camera.

New Deal Studios discuss their miniature train crash effects for Martin Scorsese's latest film 'Hugo'.

We go behind the scenes of Arthur Christmas with the team at Sony Pictures Imageworks.

We talk to Image Engine about their work on Immortals.

Uncharted Territory discuss their impressive visual effects work for Roland Emmerich's 'Anonymous', including great before/after shots, their OGEL system, deep compositing, Fusion, Alexa and massive greenscreen work.

Complete coverage of the November 3rd Canon and RED announcements. Details on the new Canon EOS C300 and RED Scarlet .

We talk to Image Engine about their creature and environment VFX for director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.'s The Thing.

This episode we look at a Nuke promo breakdown by MPC's VFX Supervisor Michael Gregory for Channel 4 "Street Summer" plus a look at the new term at fxphd.com

We talk to Engine who recently completed a fun spot for local telco Telstra. Increasingly we have seen a shift to improving productivity in lighting by speeding up the responses to the artist, rather than just trying to speed up renders. Enter The Bakery, which has an end-to-end solution for interactive lighting design. We also have a further Q&A with The Bakery's CTO Arnauld Lamorlette.