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July 2008

The X-Files: I Want to Believe in Frosty, at VFXWorld.

Weta Digital has a new website with clips from the studio's features and commercials work and a bunch of reels.

Hellboy II: Putting More Creatures in the Feature, at Film & Video mag.

Latest fxguidetv episode includes an interview with Anifex's Richard Chataway and a look at their stop-motion work.

CGSociety talks to Double Negative's Paul Franklin about The Dark Knight.

Transitioning from VFX to Directing, at VFXWorld, features comments from Tom McLean, Eric Brevig, Dean Wright, Stefen Fangmeier, Colin Strause and Rpin Suwannath.

Delivering 8K VFX Shots for The Dark Knight, at Film & Video Magazine.

VFXWorld's Dark Knight coverage:

The Dark Knight: Grounding Batman -- Part 1

The Dark Knight: Grounding Batman -- Part 2

fxguide podcast with Double Negative's Paul Franklin about The Dark Knight.

Talks by vfx supes Mike Fink, John Knoll and Jeffrey Okun at CineGear 2008, care of StudioDaily.

Animator Davis Wrangles Golden Bots in Hellboy II, at VFXWorld.

Schedule for 'The Conversation', an event focussed on the convergence of film, games, visual effects, CG animation, and Internet video being held at the Pacific Film Archive Theater in the San Francisco Bay Area on 17 October 2008. A number of visual effects practitioners including Phil Tippett, Jonathan Rothbart and Cliff Plummer are contributing.

Generation Kill: Recreating Iraq in Photoreal CG, at VFXWorld.

The Visual Effects Society has released its white paper called The State of Visual Effects In the Entertainment Industry.

The making of Radiohead's "House of Cards", using only 3D data from Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR.

Interview at Creativity Online with Blip Boutique creative director and Zoo director James Frost about the video.

A Golden Opportunity for Hellboy II, at VFXWorld.

Podcast interview with Motion Theory's Nick Losq and Matt Winkel, at fxguide.

Post Magazine The Incredible Hulk interviews with editor Rick Shaine and director Louis Leterrier.

Journey to the Center of the Earth: 3-D Coming at Ya!, at VFXWorld.

COVER STORY: 'JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH', at Post Magazine.

PODCAST: 'JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH' DIRECTOR ERIC BREVIG, at Post Magazine.

When the Movie is 3D, But the NLEs Are 2D, at Film & Video mag.

Various Journey to the Center of the Earth featurettes at MovieWeb.

Frantic Films Journey to the Center of the Earth press release with nice pics.

Mark Stetson Steps Up To Meet Dave, at VFXWorld.

Hydraulx has updated its website with project details and demo reels.

Hancock: Off-the-Cuff VFX, at VFXWorld.

South Park Studios has a number of making-of shorts about the 'Major Boobage' South Park episode.

Behind the Scenes of GE 'Cloud Factory', at The Mill Podcast.

Very cool Prince Caspian show and tell clip on Framestore's website.

June 2008 issue of Computer Graphics World covers Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Kung Fu Panda.

VFXWorld's Wanted coverage: Bending VFX for a Killing Machine.

fxguide podcast interview with New Deal Studios' co-founder Matthew Gratzner.

Indiana Jones and the Destroyed Miniatures, at fxguide.