In this podcast, Reynante and I talk about some of the events that happened over Christmas (both the good and the bad) as well as something very important... a change to the podcast frequency. In a recent survey, I asked you "What posts do you like most?" and 2,378 of your responded! Not surprisingly, the #1 response was Tutorials, with #6 being Podcasts. Now as much as I'd like to do both, there simply isn't enough time to do regular podcasts and tutorials. So based on the results from the survey, I'm making the decision to switch to doing monthly podcasts. In this episode we discuss: -Thoughts on V-Ray and Blender -Best practices for sending developers your ideas -Thoughts on NVIDIA's PhysX -Blender's green screen keying features -Optimizing animations rendered with cycles -Tips on matching your scene's lighting with a footage -Free normal map generator alternatives The next podcast will be the first week of February. Got a question for the next podcast? Use #bgpod.