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More Beowulf coverage at CGSociety.

Fantastic Reality: the magic and mystery of movie matte painting, hosted by Craig Barron. Plus, a matte painting exhibit.

Rob Legato advances motion-capture technique at Variety.

Latimes scene stealer on Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

fxguide article on Beowulf.

Before and after matte painting pics and clips for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Hatch.

Raising the VFX Bar In-House on Battlestar Galactica: Razor at VFXWorld.

CGSociety covers Mr. X's Resident Evil: Extinction effects.

Digital Dimension's demo reel has break-down shots from Die Hard 4.0, Norbit, Pursuit of Happyness, Talladega Nights, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and others. Also, here's a PDF about the studio's work for Norbit.

VFXWorld's Enchanted coverage: Conjuring Fairytale VFX.

Just for fun, I'm going back through my Cinefex collection, reading an article and then watching the movie (or maybe the other way around). See the right-hand sidebar, 'Cinefex Challenge'.

CGSociety has break-down clips of Digipost's Cascade beer ad visual effects.

Updated: CGTalk thread discussing the spot.

Cinefex 112 features articles on The Golden Compass, I am Legend, Beowulf, Enchanted, The Mist and an interview with Mr. X's Dennis Berardi.

VFXWorld has some in-depth coverage of Beowulf, with an article by Bill Desowitz accompanied by befores and afters pics and a shot build clip.

Below the Line interviews vfx supe Everett Burrell about The Mist.

Step by step millimeter article on Beowulf.

A couple of Beowulf articles from The Hollywood Reporter and The New York Times:

'Beowulf' ushers in hybrid filmmaking technique
Duplicate Motion, Then Capture Emotion

Mokko Studio's demo reel has shot breakdowns from The Fountain, Stranger Than Fiction, Cursed and Silent Hill.

Check out barXseven's Stranger Than Fiction befores and afters reel.

Film & Video magazine on the visual effects of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, with befores and afters pics.

Updated: VFXWorld article: Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium: More Magic Than Magic

latimes.com has a scene stealer slideshow about Fred Claus.

Variety's David S. Cohen looks at the visual effects Oscars contenders in Effects films compete in crowded field.

(Via fxguide)

Premiere's 20 Benchmark Films in Computer Animation History.

Imageworks has production info and some shot progression images on its Beowulf page.

CafeFX's montage reel is available at The Syndicate's website (under Portfolio / Feature Films).

VFXWorld's Fred Claus: Putting Christmas in Jeopardy With VFX

Mike Seymour and Alex Lindsay are The VFX Show.

Waxing poetically on Bee Movie at CGSociety.

Creative Review interview with Framestore CFC's Ben Cronin on the vfx in The Chemical Brothers' 'Salmon Dance'.

The 2-disc Transformers Special Edition DVD has a visual effects showcase featurette called 'Inside the All Spark' focusing on ILM's contribution. It includes animatics, early renderings, fight scene reference and plenty of befores and afters shots. Also worth checking out are 'From Script to Sand: The Skorponok Desert Attack', Michael Bay's commentary and the other featurettes covering the special effects and stunts work.

The Mill podcast for Comfort Creme Lounge spot.

Some useful articles in the October 2007 issue of Computer Graphics World:

Big Buzz (Bee Movie)
Viewpoint - State-of-the-Art Compositing (Ryan Smolarek from Digital Dimension)
Preconceived Motions (Previz by ILM, Proof, PLF and POV)

Video of Keegen Douglas from Artifex Studios breaking down a Painkiller Jane shot.

IGN interview with ILM's Scott Farrar on Transformers.

Animation World Network article: Bee Movie: A Seinfeldian Society.

Post magazine interview with Imageworks' Jerome Chen on Beowulf.

The Australian Effects and Animation Festival is on in Sydney from 13 to 15 November 2007. Presentations on Transformers, Spider-Man 3, Rogue, 300, The Seeker: The Dark is Rising, Beowulf, Surf's Up, Resident Evil: Extinction.