fxguide: fxguidetv

This week on our 150th ep we're at SPI to discuss their incredible visual effects for The Amazing Spider-Man, and we preview the July 2012 vfx training courses available at fxphd.

The last of our Prometheus coverage - and some may say the best! We visually breakdown the film with VFX sup. Richard Stammers, and VFX supes from MPC, Fuel & Weta Digital. This ep also includes exclusive VFX breakdowns of the spacecrafts, holograms, star map room and the Engineers.

This week we sit down with Sony Pictures Imageworks to discuss their impressive visual effects in the hit: Men In Black 3.

In our second fxguidetv report from FMX 2012, we talk to Autodesk's David Morin about the new wave in virtual production and to Digital Domain's Erik Nash on how it was used so successfully on Real Steel. And we speak with Glassworks Amsterdam's Rüdiger Kaltenhäuser about a CG origami commercial.

This week we are at FMX and we talk to Chris Edwards, CEO & creative director of The Third Floor and Gustavo Sanchez-Perez, RealFlow product manager, at Next Limit.

John Montgomery heads to Adobe HQ, where fxguide was given exclusive access to the After Effects development team in Seattle for the CS6 release.

This week we have a stereo shot correction tutorial on NUKE and OCULA from Mr. X visual effects supervisor Aaron Weintraub based on his studio's work for TRON: Legacy.

After 20 years, flame is still going strong. To celebrate the anniversary, we visit with Autodesk's Philippe Soeiro for a discussion on the renaissance of Flame, as well as highlight some of the new features in the 2013 release.

Continuing our popular series of artist breakdowns in NUKE, VFX Supervisor Alex Fry takes us through the pipeline used to create the skies for Happy Feet 2.

Cinesite production director Courtney Vanderslice discusses the moving mining city of Zodanga in 'John Carter' and Cinesite's stereo conversion work.

We go behind the scenes with Mirada on their work for the Wrigley's 5 Gum 'Choose Your Energy' TVC - a futuristic parkour-inspired piece directed by Jon Favreau.

We talk to COPA co-founder and VFX supervisor Alex Frisch about 'Turn Me On,' a music video for David Guetta and Nicki Minaj, and about how the new virtual studio used collaboration tools to complete the work across the globe.

Coverage from CVMP, a conference that brings together image science researchers and creatives in production and post. Excerpts from papers on Automatic Object Segmentation from Calibrated Images and HD Stereoscopic Free Viewpoint Video.

This week we're at Method Studios in LA talking to VFX supe Mitchell Drain and Flame artist Ian Holland about their work for This Means War. Some of the 400 shots included full 3D rendering of effects objects and props - and a car - in Flame.

In this week's episode we are at ILM talking to John Knoll about stereo. John supervised the conversion of Star Wars - Episode One: The Phantom Menace, and Mike sits down with him to discuss this and stereo 3D in general.