Introducing Episode for Windows

Episode, the powerful, easy-to-use desktop media encoding application for the Mac, has come to the PC. Episode offers the highest quality and fastest encoding for content repurposing and distribution to new media channels; Web, DVD and portable devices in more...

AJA Io HD - HD/SD Editing in One Portable Box

Io HD provides broadcast-level HD editing in the studio or on the road via FireWire. With full-resolution 10-bit HD and SD video, powerful ProRes 422 codec in hardware, 10-bit up/down/cross conversion, and unmatched video and audio connectivity, Io HD let more...

Sony makes Blu-ray affordable

In its latest blu-ray campaign effort, Sony is releasing one of two players that makes moving to the next gen of HD viewing affordable. more...

I've Loved You So Long

Thanks to Palace Films we have 15 double preview passes to giveaway to the new French film 'I've Loved You So Long' starring Kristen Scott Thomas (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The English Patient). more...

Possible Worlds presents: My Daughter My Angel (Ma fille Mon Ange)

Thanks to Possible Worlds Film Festival presents we have 10 double passes to give away to their screening of My Daughter My Angel (Ma fille Mon Ange). Half thriller half family melodrama, this suspenseful film will keep you guessing more...

Black Water

What you can't see can hurt you.. We have 8 DVDs of the chilling Aussie croc flick Black Water up for grabs. more...

Oceans doco reveals dangers to sea creatures

Oceans is a French documentary, currently in production, that showcases the wonder and spectacle of life in the all the world's oceans. It also tells the story of how man is wantonly destroying the ocean ecosystem by overfishing, whaling and pumping sewag more...

[Fri 21/11/2008 11:56:43]

Behind the scenes of Dying Breed

The Director of Dying Breed, Jody Dwyer, provides us with an insight into the challenges he faced during the production of this interesting new Australian thriller. more...

[Mon 10/11/2008 06:43:23]

Harrison Ford on Indiana Jones

20 years later, Harrison Ford is back as the legendary Indiana Jones. Smoke and Mirrors sat down recently with the 65-year-old star in Santa Monica, California, not far from his Brentwood home, to find out more about how he felt about working on his lates more...

[Wed 22/10/2008 02:23:02]

iloura creates charming new TVC character

The VFX team at iloura is responsible for bringing to life a charming new animated character called 'Sensible' for the latest Cadbury Spring Valley TVCs. We look at how they created the effects for this entertaining commercial. more...

[Tue 14/10/2008 01:13:38]

Flying ninjas take centre stage in The Laundry Warrior

Following on from our recent story in the latest issue of Smoke & Mirrors about The Laundry Warrior, which is currently in post-production in New Zealand, we talk to Dale Duguid, the creative director for Photon, about the effects created for the movie. more...

[Fri 26/09/2008 11:05:40]

Visual Effects Society Announces Launch of Australian Sectio

The Visual Effects Society (VES) has welcomed Australia on board as an official Section to the Society that represents more than 1700 visual effects and computer graphics professionals internationally. more...

[Thu 25/09/2008 11:55:59]

Unwrapping the VFX inside The Mummy

Check out the latest issue of Smoke & Mirrors, featuring an exclusive story on how the VFX were created for the latest Mummy movie, a set report from Spielberg's The Pacific and much more. more...

[Wed 24/09/2008 09:57:52]

Francis Ford Coppola looks back on his youth

I thought if I had a life of an older director when I was young, maybe I can have a life of a younger director when I'm old - says Francis Ford Coppola, at Rome Film Festival, where his film Youth Without Youth had it's world premiere, and marked the dir more...

[Wed 17/09/2008 02:04:35]

Ridley Scott reflects on his finest work

When I met up with Ridley Scott to discuss Blade Runner: Final Cut marking the 25th Anniversary of the Blade Runner legacy, I expected Ridley Scott to be celebrating with one of his trademark cigars, but when I joined him in a London hotel to discuss the more...

[Tue 09/09/2008 09:45:16]

More to Hellboy than meets the eye

In the past, Cristina Ceret has created amazing contact lenses for some of Hollywood's most famous actors, such as Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and she most recently applied her talents to a number of actors who performed in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. more...

[Thu 04/09/2008 04:29:31]