fxguide podcasts update

fxguidetv #131: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - we speak to director Brad Bird and ILM vfx sups John Knoll and Mohen Leo. We discuss risking Tom Cruise's life and wrecking one-off BMW concept cars! Plus we preview the Jan term at fxphd.com.

fxpodcast: Giant Studios - We talk with Matt Madden, Vice President of Production & Development and performance capture supervisor at Giant Studios about motion capture.

the rc #104 The year in review - Our final podcast for 2011: The year in review (plus anti-aliasing reviews, gear and scandals).

fxpodcast: SIGGRAPH Asia rendering and rigging - This week we are at SIGGRAPH Asia. In part one, we examine renderers and renderfarm management including V-Ray 2.0, MI, RenderMan, Maxwell and 3delight in Nuke. In the second half of the show we focus on rigging with Seema Gopalakrishnan from Lucasfilm Animation Singapore on Clone Wars.

the vfx show #139: Tree of Life/Melancholia - Mike Seymour, TyRuben Ellingson and Matt Wallin discuss the visual effects in two films this week, Tree of Life and Melancholia.

fxguidetv #130: SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 – Pt 2 - In our second fxguidetv ep from SIGGRAPH Asia in Hong Kong, we talk to vfx artists from ILM and Lucasfilm Singapore, explore video face replacement tech and check out the emerging technologies exhibit.