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The industry's venerable software Flame has been unchained from its hardware purchase requirement. We check out the latest 2016 release from the team in Montreal.
We visit Lola VFX to explore their incredible digital beauty and facial work on films such as Benjamin Button, The Social Network and the Captain America movies.
fxguide visits Weta Digital in New Zealand to discuss their visual effects for Peter Jackson's last film in the Hobbit series - The Battle of Five Armies.
From SIGGRAPH Asia we look at realtime facial tracking, Flowbox's new take on compositing and Disney Research's insight on eyes. Plus there's details on the new fxphd Academy.
Solid Angle's Marcos Fajardo discusses Arnold, one of the world's most powerful renderers. Covering 4.2 speed ups, GPU R&D, SSS, & will it go bi-directional? Plus, exclusive videos.
We highlight presentations and tech from SIGGRAPH 2014 in Vancouver - including ILM's work on Turtles, recruitment info and a look at a bunch of new tools and apps.
Weta Digital senior VFX supervisor Joe Letteri and VFX supervisor Erik Winquist discuss Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Plus we run down the new July term at fxphd.com.
An interview with Flame artist/owner Sam Edwards, who spent eight months working as part of the production on the new series "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" - creating 38,357 frames of vfx!