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Many of you know Angie as the host of fxguidetv, but do you know her other role in one of Australia's most successful reality TV shows?

fxguide goes in-depth with the team at ILM on The Force Awakens. Plus a peek at the January 2016 term at fxphd.com.

The industry's venerable software Flame has been unchained from its hardware purchase requirement. We check out the latest 2016 release from the team in Montreal.

Follow the fxguide team from SIGGRAPH 2015 and hear from Weta Digital's head of rendering research Luca Fascione.

Inside stories from ILM's supervisors as the revered VFX studio celebrates its 40th anniversary.

Our report from FMX in Stuttgart, featuring Weta Digital's Joe Letteri, and VR studios Felix & Paul and Nozon.

We visit Lola VFX to explore their incredible digital beauty and facial work on films such as Benjamin Button, The Social Network and the Captain America movies.

We get the details on the new Flame 2016 release from Autodesk's Philippe Soeiro.

Our 200th episode of fxguidetv celebrates animation with interviews from Animal Logic and Weta Digital. Plus the new January 2015 term at fxphd.com.

fxguide visits Weta Digital in New Zealand to discuss their visual effects for Peter Jackson's last film in the Hobbit series - The Battle of Five Armies.

From SIGGRAPH Asia we look at realtime facial tracking, Flowbox's new take on compositing and Disney Research's insight on eyes. Plus there's details on the new fxphd Academy.

We talk to Patrick Osborne, director of the Walt Disney Animation Studios' new short film Feast, which is playing in front of Big Hero 6.

Veteran VFX supervisor Richard Edlund sits down with fxguide to discuss his distinguished career. Plus a preview of the October fxphd term.

The full Maze Runner interview with Method's vfx supervisor Sue Rowe on how to solving the Buggin' Maze !

Solid Angle's Marcos Fajardo discusses Arnold, one of the world's most powerful renderers. Covering 4.2 speed ups, GPU R&D, SSS, & will it go bi-directional? Plus, exclusive videos.

We highlight presentations and tech from SIGGRAPH 2014 in Vancouver - including ILM's work on Turtles, recruitment info and a look at a bunch of new tools and apps.

Weta Digital senior VFX supervisor Joe Letteri and VFX supervisor Erik Winquist discuss Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Plus we run down the new July term at fxphd.com.

We discuss video game narratives with Ubisoft, focusing on their new releases Watch Dogs and Child of Light.

An interview with Flame artist/owner Sam Edwards, who spent eight months working as part of the production on the new series "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" - creating 38,357 frames of vfx!

We cover the new release of Flame 2015 in an exclusive interview with Product Designer Philippe Soeiro.

This week on fxguidetv we're at ILM to discuss their incredible visual effects for Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, looking in-depth at the Helicarriers and Falcon.

We're at ILM to discuss their visual effects for Noah. Plus a preview of the vfx training on offer for the April term of fxphd.

fxguide visits Animal Logic's studios in Sydney to find out how they created the CG bricks and animation for The LEGO Movie.

NVIDIA's Wil Braithwaite takes us through a decade of GPU use in visual effects and post production, in this presentation from CVMP 2013 in London.

We break down the ten films being presented at the Oscars VFX bake-off with making of and behind the scenes clips, and we also preview the new January 2014 term at fxphd.com.

This week on fxguidetv we visit The Embassy VFX in Vancouver and discuss several of their recent commercials projects and the pipeline they use at the studio.

We talk to the film makers from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, and look at their use of FLIX to make and manage the film.

From films such as Avatar to Star Trek (1&2), Oblivion, Prometheus & more, Character Designer Neville Page is a powerhouse. We sit down in his LA studios to discuss his work and approach to his craft with Modo.

Coverage of the Flame Award from IBC and an interview with Philippe Soeiro about the upcoming Flame 2014 Release.

How Image Engine leveraged Shotgun to help them manage the visual effects production for Elysium, not only in their facility but also across other VFX houses on the show.

Director David Karlak and visual effects supervisor Scott Metzger discuss their collaboration and use of Mari and Modo on the short film Rise.

fxguide visits DreamWorks Animation to see how their latest animated feature, Turbo, was made, including how the studio leveraged Side Effects Software's Houdini and the OpenVDB library.

From SIGGRAPH 2013, we look at the computer animation festival Best in Show winner 'a la Francaise' and talk to Academy Award winner Chris Landreth about his new short 'Subconscious Password'.

We visit ILM to discuss the Pacific Rim production pipeline with John Knoll, Eddie Pasquarello, Lindy De Quattro and Hal Hickel. The pipeline uses NUKE, Houdini, KATANA, Modo, Alembic, Arnold/RenderMan and ILM's 3D and fluid destruction and muscle sim tools.

We visit Weta Digital to discuss the liquid geo displays and Krypton comm systems from Man of Steel. Plus, we preview the new term of VFX training courses at fxphd.com.

This week we sit down with two of the filmmakers behind A Cautionary Tail, a hybrid animated short starring Cate Blanchett, David Wenham and Barry Otto.

This week we visit ILM to talk to ILM's Roger Guyett (vfx supervisor), Pat Tubach (co-visual effects supervisor) and Paul Kavanagh (animation supervisor) about Star Trek: Into Darkness.

This week we report from the FMX animation and effects conference in Stuttgart where we look at Pixar's new short The Blue Umbrella, MPC's fx tools and see the upcoming releases of Shotgun and RealFlow.

This week with the help of Lemac (Sydney) we talk about LED lights with Dedo Weigert, the founder of film, television and still lighting system maker Dedolight. In this episode we also highlight the new April 2013 term of visual effects courses over at fxphd.

This week on fxguidetv we talk to Upside Down assistant director and 2nd unit director Mario Janelle about his work on the film.

In this insightful CVMP presentation, Fredo Durand from MIT reveals visual content that is invisible to the naked eye, looking at, for example, recent computational techniques that can extract faint visual information from digital sensors, analyze it, amplify it and visualize it.

This week we feature a presentation made at CVMP in London by John Zubrzycki from BBC R&D on the use of ultra high definition cameras at the London Olympics.

We sit down with two Weta Digital artists who will this year be the recipients of a Sci-Tech award for Weta's Tissue physically-based character sim framework used on such films as Avatar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Prometheus and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

VFX Scott Metzger demonstrates how he used a special build of The Foundry's MARI tool to project HDR set-captured environment data onto geometry. The work was done for director Richard LaGravenese's Beautiful Creatures, coming out in 2013.

Hot on the heels of the VFX Oscar bake-off, we talk to The Avengers ILM visual effects supervisor Jeff White and animation supervisor Marc Chu about the film, one of the 10 in consideration. And we also showcase the new January 2013 term of effects training courses at fxphd.

fxguide is in New Zealand to sit down with Weta Digital's senior VFX supervisor Joe Letteri to discuss The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - visiting Gollum and the world of Middle-earth, this time in stereo and at 48fps.

This week we report from SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 in Singapore. The guys see how EA Sports use Side Effects Houdini in their game creation, and go behind the scenes at the fun Emerging Tech exhibition.

We visit CBS Digital in Los Angeles to check out their restoration work on the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" TV series, all completed on Flame, Flare, Smoke, Lustre, and Inferno.

This week on fxguidetv we're at Atomic Fiction to discuss Robert Zemeckis' Flight with vfx sup. Kevin Baillie. The film's dramatic crash sequence relied on live action backgrounds captured with a three-RED EPIC rig, multiple cockpit + fuselage gimbals and a CG airplane !

This week we go behind the scenes of our fx2012 practical and digital effects workshop at 32TEN Studios in San Rafael, and we preview the October 2012 vfx training courses available at fxphd.