In the latest excerpt from The Magic of Houdini, Will Cunningham discusses developing 3D concepts.

VFXWorld begins its new excerpt series from Will Cunningham’s book, The Magic of Houdini.

Sarah Baisley reports on her experiences at Annecy 2006 where the MIFA market showcased more excitement than the festival.

AWN and VFXWorld editors Bill Desowitz, Sarah Baisley and Rick DeMott attended the VES Festival of Visual Effects, reporting back on secrets to the magic that were on display.

Joe Strike looks into the art and artists behind classic and contemporary movie posters.

Orlando Luna stirs up Apple’s advanced composting tool, Shake 4.1, which is now priced for the masses.

In the final part of our Superman Returns coverage, Bill Desowitz reports on the challenges and accomplishments met by several participating vfx studios.

Marisa Materna chats with director Richard Linklater on the production of A Scanner Darkly, which utilizes interpolated rotoscoping to bring live-action footage into an animated dream world.

J. Paul Peszko talks with the recruiters at top animation and visual effects studios regarding the intangibles that will help land you your dream job.

In part two of AWN’s in-depth Cars coverage, Bill Desowitz discovers the roots of Route 66 in creating the highly detailed, luscious and complex world.

Alain Bielik recounts how Cinesite (Europe) recreated the legendary death scenes in the remake of The Omen using state-of-the-art digital technology.

Alain Bielik discovers how Mainframe altered its design process to achieve more realistic MoCap for Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage.

Philippe Moins turns the pages on Astérix film production history to offer perspective for the latest animated feature, Astérix et les Vikings, moving across European theaters.

Alain Bielik dives into latest state-of-the-art fluid simulation advances and other CG modeling breakthroughs for Poseidon.

Rick DeMott reviews the second version of the previsualization software FrameForge 3D, and reports that Innoventive Software is giving users what they want.

In the latest excerpt from Learning Maya 7 | Foundation, Marc-André Guindon and Cathy McGinnis finish mapping the orb.

Christopher Harz attends the biggest and baddest GDC ever and tells us what he found with contributions from Dominic Cianciolo.

In this month’s “Mind Your Business,” Mark Simon tackles the ins and outs of a freelancers dreaded necessity — invoicing.

Mary Ann Skweres looks into an essential part of the animation production process — sound.

Alain Bielik wraps himself around the CG creatures and other creepy vfx that inhabit Slither.