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100

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Aug 2026

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fxguide covers the visual effects industry and software from a high-end professional vfx artists’ perspective.

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August 3, 202649 min

Vecna, Demogorgons and Young Will: Inside the VFX of Stranger Things S5

VFX Supervisor Betsy Paterson breaks down Stranger Things season 5. The best visual effects don’t replace reality, they convince reality to play along.

July 13, 202627 min

Jamie Hearing on how Clear Angle is scanning the future of VFX

From LiDAR to Gaussian splats, Clear Angle is capturing the real world so the best VFX teams, in the world, can rebuild it: one scan, one face and one lava field at a time.

July 7, 202630 min

The VFX power of lens metadata

Cooke’s Jordan Thistlewood joins us to explain why lens /i Tech may be the missing link between what was shot on set and what VFX needs to finish the shot, and we should now be demanding it.

June 25, 202643 min

John Knoll and the handmade Star Wars of The Mandalorian and Grogu

Our latest fxpodcast with ILM's John Knoll on miniatures in a tiny LED cube, the Star Wars style, and why the practical and the digital still need each other.

June 22, 20261 hr 5 min

Geriatric parkour: ILM’s creature work for The Boroughs

From brain-sucking horror to heartbreaking empathy, for this fxpodcast we go inside the creature work of The Boroughs with VFX Supervisor Tara DiMarco and ILM’s Steve Ellis.

June 16, 202642 min

Man on Fire: Kevin Lingenfelser on collapse, chaos and invisible VFX

We talk with Man on Fire VFX Supervisor Kevin Lingenfelser about the explosive building collapse, chaotic rubble aftermath, and high-octane Learjet sequence.

June 1, 202628 min

Union VFX on production-ready Gaussian splat crowds

Union VFX and Clear Angle are turning Gaussian splats from a tech demo into a crowd-pleasing production pipeline. Literally. We speak with David Schneider, VFX and Technical Supervisor at Union, in this fxpodcast episode.

May 28, 20261 hr 1 min

Paul Debevec: a history of lighting the future of VFX

We talk with Academy Technical Achievement Award recipient Paul Debevec about HDR image-based lighting, Fiat Lux, virtual production, NeRFs, 3DGS, machine learning, and why now is a great time to do research.

May 6, 202624 min

ComfyUI with co-founder Yannik Marek (ComfyAnonymous)

From hacky Stable Diffusion experiments to production-ready pipelines, ComfyUI is shaping how AI fits into VFX.

April 30, 202627 min

Jordan Nounnan – Visualization Supervisor on Stranger Things S5

Find out how Stranger Things season five deployed previs and real-time storytelling using Unreal Engine & splats, from Proof's VFX Supervisor Jordan Nounnan.