This week Alain Bielik finds out how Logan becomes Wolverine in the new X-MEN ORIGINS spinoff, in which 17 vendors assisted with the vfx challenges. Among the highlights: Hydraulx recreating and then partially destroying the Three Mile Island nuclear plant for the finale, Rising Sun's infamous adamantium injection sequence and a some nifty slashing with the powerful claws themselves. And in the latest MAYA PLUGIN POWER excerpt, author Mark Jennings Smith shows us how to use RenderMan with Maya.

Bill Desowitz
Editor