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Episodes

1. 20

   fxpodcast #224: Jim Blinn – the full interview

   Here is the audio interview with Jim Blinn (see also our fxguide story for images and more background).

   Jul 25, 2012

   1h 14m
2. 19

   fxpodcast: SIGGRAPH 2012 – Animation Physics

   This week we speak to Alejandro Garcia, a professor at San Jose State University, about how an understanding of physics can help achieve believable animation.

   Jul 18, 2012

   40m
3. 18

   fxpodcast: Alvy Ray Smith

   It is a real pleasure & honor to offer you this in-depth interview with Dr Alvy Ray Smith, the man who jointly or personally: Invented Paint, Alpha, Dir. the Genesis seq., worked at XEROX PARC, NYIT, Lucasfilm, PIXAR, Microsoft and a multiple tech Ocsar w

   Jul 6, 2012

   2h 05m
4. 17

   fxpodcast: Brave Simulations

   This week on the fxpodcast we speak to Pixar's Claudia Chung, simulation supervisor on Brave. In this in-depth and engaging discussion we look at the complex ground breaking simulation work in Pixar's newest animated feature. Warning: this podcast contain

   Jun 22, 2012

   31m
5. 16

   fxpodcast: Prometheus

   This week we speak to Martin Hill, Weta's VFX Supervisor about the advances in Weta's Sub-Surface Scattering algorithms, the development of the Engineers, the map room, and THAT med-bed scene.

   Jun 12, 2012

   49m
6. 15

   fxpodcast: colorist Aidan Farrell

   Aidan Farrell, co-founder of The Farm in London, recently won a BAFTA Special Award for his long career as a colorist. This is the third in our series highlighting the World's Greatest Colorists. Mike Seymour talks to him about 90's music videos, cutting

   Jun 3, 2012

   49m
7. 14

   fxpodcast: Battleship

   This week we talk to ILM visual effects supervisor Grady Cofer about the water sims required for the alien invasion feature Battleship.

   May 24, 2012

   56m
8. 13

   fxpodcast: Dark Shadows

   We talk with in depth Angus Bickerton about the new Tim Burton / Johnny Depp film Dark Shadows, and Angus's views on the industry.

   May 17, 2012

   1h 01m
9. 12

   fxpodcast: Visual Effects Guild – the IATSE interview

   Interview with Peter Marley, International Representative for IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees). The IA represents most of the below the line crew on a film, in this exclusive interview he makes the case for a Visual Effects Gui

   May 13, 2012

   54m
10. 11

    fxpodcast: The Avengers

    We talk with Jeff White from ILM about Hulk, digital New York and more in the mega blockbuster hit The Avengers.

    May 7, 2012

    46m
11. 10

    fxpodcast: Marc Petit from Autodesk

    A conversation with Marc Petit, Senior Vice President of Autodesk. We talk about NAB 2012 announcements and the wide range of Autodesk products.

    Apr 27, 2012

    43m
12. 9

    fxpodcast: NAB 2012 roundup

    The fxguide crew - Mike, John, Jeff and Jason - discuss the events, announcements and happenings from NAB 2012 on the drive home from Las Vegas.

    Apr 20, 2012

    1h 48m
13. 8

    fxpodcast: John Textor, One on One interview

    John Textor caused an uproar with his comments about free student labor providing up to 30% of the workers in Digital Domain Florida. We speak with him about this and his view on our 'broken' industry in this exclusive interview.

    Apr 12, 2012

    1h 16m
14. 7

    fxpodcast: The Hunger Games

    This week we talk to The Hunger Games visual effects supervisor Sheena Duggal about the Gary Ross film, which looks set to become a blockbuster hit based on the Suzanne Collins novel.

    Mar 23, 2012

    1h 02m
15. 6

    fxpodcast: Dashing’s Hyundai spots

    This week we speak to Dashing Founder and Creative Director Robert Moggach about the effects and CG environments created for a group of Hyundai spots.

    Mar 8, 2012

    30m
16. 5

    fxpodcast: VFX Oscar supervisor special

    Our VFX supervisor Oscar special talking to nominees from all five VFX-nominated films for this Sunday night's Academy Awards - proudly sponsored by Side Effects Software.

    Feb 22, 2012

    1h 12m
17. 4

    fxpodcast: The Lowry Process

    We talk to Kimball Thurston from Reliance MediaWorks about Lowry Digital's Sci-Tech Oscar - and we pay tribute to film restoration pioneer John D. Lowry who sadly passed away this week.

    Jan 27, 2012

    44m
18. 3

    fxpodcast: Rhythm & Hues’ polar bears

    We talk to Rhythm & Hues about their pioneering work on the popular Coca-Cola polar bears TVCs that began airing in the 90s.

    Jan 19, 2012

    1h 04m
19. 2

    fxpodcast: Giant Studios

    We talk with Matt Madden, Vice President of Production & Development and performance capture supervisor at Giant Studios about motion capture.

    Jan 6, 2012

    1h 06m
20. 1

    fxpodcast: SIGGRAPH Asia rendering and rigging

    This week we are at SIGGRAPH Asia. In part one, we examine renderers and renderfarm management including V-Ray 2.0, MI, RenderMan, Maxwell and 3delight in Nuke. In the second half of the show we focus on rigging with Seema Gopalakrishnan who was the riggi

    Dec 22, 2011

    1h 10m