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Valkyrie: Achieving Digital Minimalism, at VFXWorld.

fxguidetv interviews George Miller, and Digital Domain artist Jason Van Der Lek shows some work from Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

The Day the Earth Stood Still: Creating Spheres and Particles: An interview with VFX Supervisor Jeffrey A. Okun, at CGSociety.

fxguide has a podcast interview with Fin Design's Richard Lambert about some of the studio's commercials work.

Getting into a New Spirit, at VFXWorld.

Actor Louis Lombardi and The Orphanage visual effects supe Stu Maschwitz discuss The Spirit, at Movie Geeks United.

CraveOnline is hosting two Spirit visual effects featurettes.

Bedtime Stories: Sandler-Style Spectacle, at VFXWorld.

Millimeter covers the plane leap from Quantum of Solace

The November 2008 issue of CGW magazine covers Bolt and 3D movie-making.

Millimeter has a step by step article about Blur's Warhammer cinematics.

Cinefex #116 covers The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Quantum of Solace, The Day the Earth Stood Still and City of Ember and includes a retrospective on Stuart Freeborn.

A More Scientific Day the Earth Stood Still, at VFXWorld.

CGSociety has an article on Sony Imageworks vfx supe Sheena Duggal.

How Weta Got a Great Gort, and Other VFX Challenges, at Film & Video mag.

Primeval: Monster Dinos for TV, at VFXWorld.

The 15 films currently in the running for the 2008 Visual Effects Oscar, as announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, are:

Australia
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Hancock
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Quantum of Solace
The Spiderwick Chronicles

Tickets and sponsorships for the 7th Annual VES Awards are now available. The Awards are to be held on 21 February 2009 at Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, Beverly Hills. Kennedy/Marshall and Phil Tippett will be honored at the event.

In f/x, practical aids digital, at Variety.

Motionographer has some info about how to view behind the scenes videos at the website for Henry Selick's Coraline.

Cinefex founder and publisher Don Shay has written a book, but it's not about visual effects. Endangered Liaisons is a collection of photographs and writings on the wildlife of Africa. The book's launch video is available here.

Making of City of Ember videos featuring vfx by Luma Pictures, at CG Channel.

Punisher: War Zone: A VFX Gore Fest, at VFXWorld.

Argapha's VFX library of visual effects docos and making-ofs on YouTube (via VFXhack).

Behind the scenes of PS3 'Mural', at The Mill Podcast.

A Quantum of VFX for James Bond, at VFXWorld.

Australia: Sweeping VFX for a Luhrmann Epic, at VFXWorld.