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fxguide article on The Mill LA's AMF Caterpillar spot.

Oblique FX (formerly the Film division of Buzz Image Group) has some nice making-of clips on its website.

Making 'G-Force' 3-D, at LA Times.

A list of the VFX/Production panels, talks, sessions and courses at SIGGRAPH '09. Here are a few highlights:

• Building Benjamin Button: A Blending of "Technique-ologies"
• Robots, Cyborgs, and the Final Frontier: An Inside Look at "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", "Terminator Salvation", and "Star Trek"
• "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs": Making Mouthwatering 3D
• Monsters vs Stereo: How Stereo Affected Production on "Monsters vs Aliens"
• Two Bolts and a Button
• G-Force 3D: Guinea Pigs, Gadgets, and Post-Production Stereoscopic Filmmaking
• "Coraline": The Changing Face of Animation
• Making Pixar's "Partly Cloudy": A Director's Vision
• "The Spine" and Psychologically Driven Animation

Loren Carpenter (now Pixar's Chief Scientist) made this amazing CG fractals film, Vol Libre, for SIGGRAPH 1980. Here's some more background info from Michael Rubin's droidMAKER blog.

Yeatman Gets His G-Force, at VFXWorld.

fxguide interview with Digital Domain's Matthew Butler and Paul George Palop on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Kerner reel and details of Asylum and RSP's vfx for Terminator: Salvation, at fxguide.

fxguide podcast with ILM's Jeff White on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

How Effects Wizards Transformed G-Force From 2D to 3D, at Popular Mechanics.

AWN interviews Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

AMPAS is hosting When Worlds Collide: The Science of Movies on August 6, featuring VFX practitioners Robert Legato, Scott Stokdyk, Shane Mahan and Matt Sweeney, and stunt coordinator and 2nd-unit director Dan Bradley.

Harry Potter Goes Naturalistic: Part 1, at VFXWorld.

Here's Part 2.

The Foundry has a Nuke case study on Svengali's visual effects for Star Trek.

CGSociety profiles ILM model maker John Goodson.

Behind the Scenes of Terminator: Imaginary Forces, at fxguide, looks at the titles and machine vision work in the film.

IE Effects has a Drag Me To Hell breakdown clip on its website of the heroine being thrown about in the house.

Comic-Con 2009: 15 VFX Events You Must See, at VFXWorld.

The Mill Does VFX Magic for Merlin, at VFXWorld.

Lots of great break-down pics in this CGSociety article about the VFX in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

Inside the New Harry Potter Movie's VFX Tech, at Popular Mechanics.

Making of The Mill's 'Caterpillar' spot for AMC.

Zoic Fuels Mountain Dew’s New Game Spot, at fxguide.

The July 2009 issue of Post magazine has an article on ILM's vfx for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and an interview with Sam Raimi on Drag Me To Hell.

droidMAKER: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution by Michael Rubin is currently available as free PDF download from the author.

MPC's website has some making-of clips of the vfx studio's work for two Wrigley’s 5 gum spots.

The Dawning of a New Ice Age and Saldanha Talks Ice Age, at AWN.

Public Enemies: Fast and Loose VFX, at VFXWorld.

Scientific American podcast with Blue Sky Studios' Carl Ludwig, Eugene Troubetzkoy and Hugo Ayala on Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

Animatronics 'whiz' John Cox tells news.com.au about giant puppet fx for Allens lollies ad shot in Brisbane.

Ed Ulbrich: Behind the extraordinary visual effects of Benjamin Button, at Den of Geek.

Painting Practice has some nice pics and clips on its website of previs and digital artwork for films like Quantum of Solace and Hitchhiker's Guide and other projects.

Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete, at Gizmodo.

The Art of Tiling in Public Enemies, at Digital Content Producer.

Making of Big Lazy Robot's Nike spec spot 'Exploit Yourself'.

SyFy has a making-of website for its House of Imagination film (with vfx by MPC).

CGSociety's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen coverage of Digital Domain's vfx for the film.

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine has a tonne of vfxblog content dating back to 2004, including a bunch of old interviews I thought had been lost, albeit without most of the original images.

Here are some of the more interesting ones from the old days (my current interviews and articles are at fxguide.com):

R+H's Bill Westenhofer on 'Narnia'
ILM's Pablo Helman on 'Jarhead'
Imageworks' Pete Travers on 'Zathura'
Double Negative's John Moffatt & Andy Taylor on 'Pride & Prejudice'
Imageworks' Sheena Duggal on 'The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio'
Mr. X's Aaron Weintraub on 'A History of Violence'
Rhythm & Hues' Bud Myrick on 'Serenity'
Yann Blondel on 'Lord of War'
Sassoon Film Design on 'Magnificent Desolation'
Zoic's Loni Peristere on 'Serenity'
Digital Domain's Joel Hynek on 'Stealth'
Captive Audience's Michael Shelton on 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose'
Illusion Arts' Bill Taylor on 'Serenity'
Troublemaker Digital Studios on 'Sin City'
Cinefex editor Jody Duncan

Showtime video featurette about C.O.R.E.'s visual effects for The Tudors.

Step by step breakdown of Digital Domain's Microcon bot for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, at millimeter magazine.

G-Force: The Men Behind The Guinea Pigs, at Resource 411.

fxguide covers Cinesite's vfx for Moon and Guerilla FX's animation for Earth 2100.

fxguidetv interviews concept designer Feng Zhu and gets a Nuke demo of the HUD (Heads Up Display) design for Iron Man with Dav Rauch.

Some information about the Evian 'Skating Babies' spot at MPC and shots.

Updated: Some behind the scenes vfx stuff in this CBS report.

Scott Farrar “Transformers 2″ Video Interview, at The Inside Reel.

Escalating VFX for New Transformers, at VFXWorld.