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The official Shrek 3 website has a couple of scene progressions from the film. There's also an article ('Merry Tales') in the April 2007 Computer Graphics World by Barbara Robertson about PDI/DreamWorks' technical efforts, with some behind the scenes pics.

update: CGSociety now has a Shrek 3 article ('Green and Lean') online by Renee Dunlop, with more scene progressions.

Here's a 'Technical Ingredients' podcast for Pixar's Ratatouille, featuring a look at some of the animation and CG requirements of the film.

Digital Domain's 2007 montage reel features shots and break-downs from Flags of our Fathers, I, Robot, The Day After Tomorrow, Stealth, the Halo 3 ad and other commercials, film and music video visual effects. The DD site also has some great behind the scenes clips of the studio's work.

Here's an interesting promo video for Cartoon Network Latin America in which a police chase has been doctored to include the characters Tom and Jerry. The video shows the original clip, the characters removed and the final shot, with post work by Magick Lantern.

Spotted at Cartoon Brew.

Zoic Studios' website features a number of reels of the company's visual effects work. In particular, there are before and after reels for 2005 and 2006 breaking down some commercials.

Film & Video magazine and VFXWorld have articles about Rainmaker's face replacement and environment visual effects for Blades of Glory. Both articles include befores-and-afters shots.

Cutting-Edge Face Replacement...on Ice

Blades of Glory: A CG Ice Capades

update: Millimeter magazine also has an article by Ellen Wolff about the film, with a animated gif breaking down a face replacement shot.

Step By Step: Blades of Glory

The Mill has some great podcasts on its website featuring QuickTime break-downs of the studio's visual effects commercials work, including this Johnnie Walker "Human" ad.

VFXWorld has some animated gif break-downs of Grindhouse visual effects shots by Troublemaker Digital and The Orphanage, as part of an article by Alain Bielik.

Grindhouse: Pistol-Packing VFX

Intelligent Creatures break-downs for Number 23 can be found on the visual effects studio's website and in this interview with vfx supe Raymond Gieringer on fxguide.