THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE recently opened and Tom McLean talks to VFX Supervisor Mat Beck about the particular challenges of generating CG snowfall, of all things, using a new program called -- you guessed it -- Frosty. Meanwhile, with SIGGRAPH 2008 just around the corner, Eric Post provides a sneak peek of the redesigned art galleries devoted to Design and Computation and Slow Art.

Bill Desowitz
Editor