Complete show notes (with links) available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/026 (coming soon) We explore the fascinating history of sound in films — the trial and error that led from silent f…

Complete show notes (with links) available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/025 Star Trek Beyond is currently playing in a new immersive super-widescreen theatrical format called Barco Escape. For details about the presentation format, we chat with T

Complete show notes (with links) available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/024 We talk with Jenn Bentz, IMAX Projectionist at Pacific Science Center, about the IMAX projection experience, the move from film to DLP to LASER, and her experience runnin

Complete show notes (with links) available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/023 In a special edition of the podcast, remastered audio of our 2014 interview with Howie Weed, long time artist at ILM, who tells us about blowing up the Enterprise, a reci

Complete show notes (with links) available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/022 We talk about The Right Stuff with Joel Page, where at the height of excellent motion control camera work, the USFX team took the shots of supersonic jets and crashing ca

Complete show notes (with links) available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/021 Cinefex Editor Jody Duncan comes on to discuss the evolution of digital VFX technology from the original Jurassic Park to the new Jurassic World, including her time on th

Complete show notes (with links) available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/020 We chat about the effects of Return of the Jedi with Filmumentaries creator Jamie Benning, covering advances in motion tracking, Steadicam, and what life was like inside

Complete show notes (with links) available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/019 We chat with animator and VFX artist Robert Swarthe about his work on One From the Heart, The Outsiders, a short film test with an early HD video camera, and his unproduc

Complete show notes (with links) available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/018 We chat with animator and VFX artist Robert Swarthe about his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind — both the original and Special Edition, Star Trek: The Motion

Complete show notes (with links) available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/017 We chat with matte painter Jesse Silver about his work on Tron, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Labyrinth, moving from real paint to digital for Super Mario Bros., and o