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Charlie is convinced Noisy Boy can take on the top bot despite Max's protest.

Bailey needs Charlie's rent money in order to keep her gym.

Bella's pregnancy causes a rift between the vampires and werewolves of Forks.

Sebastian, CTO at Weta Digital, discusses the challenges of stereoscopic 3-D, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and what got him started in the industry. Part 2 of 2.

Richie, Animation Supervisor and Dan, Pipeline Supervisor at Lightstorm Entertainment discuss Avatar's impact on filmmaking today, pipeline advances they'd like to see, how flexibility in pipeline technology is needed to support the creative process and what they like most about their jobs. Part 2 of 2.

Ben, VFX Supervisor at ILM, discusses vfx production on Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, including specific challenges in lighting, workflow and stereoscopic 3-D. Part 2 of 3.

Carlos, Co-Founder of AnimationMentor.com, talks about how the school was founded, what he felt was lacking in contemporary animation education and what roles "mentors" play in their program. Part 1 of 2.

The thing escapes from a block of ice.

Chris, an Oscar-winning animation director, talks about the use of technology in film as well as his hopes for more risk-taking in future films. Part 2 of 4.

Chris, an Oscar-winning animation director, describes the satisfaction he gets from teaching and hints about projects that he may soon be working on. Part 4 of 4.

Kevin, an executive producer and Enrico, a director and story artist at Pixar, explain the origins of the short film La Luna as well as how the decision was made to produce this particular story. Part 2 of 3.

Marc, SVP of Media & Entertainment at Autodesk, discusses the challenges the company faces as it grows and evolves to meet customer needs for more enabling and cost-effective tools and production technologies.

Brad, partner and senior previs supervisor at Halon Entertainment, talks about how previs enables better filmmaking, how directors are embracing previs more and more and what are some of the key previs tools being used today. Part 2 of 4.

Brad, partner and senior previs supervisor at Halon Entertainment, explains why preproduction can take such a long time, why he's excited about the future use of real-time game engines in previs and how he first got into the business. Part 4 of 4.

Chris, CEO of The Third Floor, talks about the impact of stereoscopic 3-D on previs, how previs efforts are perceived by other key members of a film crew and some of the main tools being used by previs artists. Part 2 or 3.

Rob, CTO at Sony Pictures Imageworks, talks about advances in the creation of digital entertainment as well as their joint announcement with ILM of Alembic 1.0. Part 1 of 3.

Rob, CTO at Sony Pictures Imageworks, talks about recent technological advances at the studio, what innovations he'd like to see in the future as well as what he likes most about his job as CTO. Part 3 of 3.

Justin, Previs Supervisor at Halon Entertainment, talks about the impact of previs on filmmaking, CG, visual effects and data integration with production vendors. Part 2 of 2.

Marc, CEO of Uncharted Territory, talks about the challenges of building vfx crews for each new project and integrating their work with various vendor pipelines. Part 1 of 2.