Mothership director David Rosenbaum teamed with OgilvyWest for “Robotarm” for Cisco that broke during the NFC Championship broadcast on January 22.
Preparations for FMX 2012: Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia are underway.
ShootersNYC provided editorial, visual effects and postproduction for a television spot in multiple lengths for the AICPA and Ad Council Campaign, Feed the Pig.
The first season of the award-winning CGI animated series Transformers Prime arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on March 6, 2012.
10th Ave announced six 2D and 3D animation feature length projects are in preparation at the regional production house in Saint-Augustin-De-Desmaures, near Quebec City.
AMPAS has entered into an agreement with Everyone Counts Inc. to exclusively develop an electronic voting system for the 85th Academy Awards, to be held in 2013.
Following on Double Negative's Oscar win for Inception in 2011, Dneg's work has again been nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar, this year for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.
Artists from international VFX company Pixomondo have earned the company's first-ever Academy Award nomination garnered for work on Martin Scorsese's 3D epic adventure, Hugo.
DreamWorks Animation announced that Alex Schwartz has been named Head of Development.
ABC has ordered a pilot for Beauty and the Beast, written by Jon Steinberg and executive-produced by Gary Fleder and Mary Beth Basile for Mojo Films.
Women In Animation International is buying the first round of wine, courtesy of Toon Boom, the leader in animation technology, at KidScreen Summit in New York on Friday February 10.
The American Cinematheque at the Egyptian and Aero Theatres is the exclusive Los Angeles venue for the G-Kids tour of a 20-year retrospective of the work of Japan's Studio Ghibli, renowned for their masterpieces of animation. The retrospective runs Thursday, January 26 to Sunday, February 12.
Days after settling a lawsuit regarding the long-gestating remake of The Crow, Relativity has closed a deal with F. Javier Gutierrez to direct the comic book adaptation. Jesse Wigutow has been signed to write the script.
THQ announced its updated business strategy as the company exits traditional kids’ licensed video games and focuses on its core video game franchises and digital initiatives for the future.
Digital Domain had two of the feature films it worked on nominated for the visual effects Academy Award: Real Steel and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Patton Oswalt (Young Adult, Ratatouille) will host the 10th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Tuesday, February 7, 2012.
The IFTA announced independent films captured 60 nominations in feature categories for the 84th Academy Awards.
The Oscar-nominated Rango saddles up for a one-week limited engagement at the ArcLight Hollywood beginning this Friday, January 27.
CoreCG announced the release of MentalCore -- a cross-platform, standalone plugin designed to help artists achieve maximum creativity and efficiency while using NVIDIA mental ray with Autodesk® Maya.
3D animated feature Hugo leads the field with 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume Design, Directing, Film Editing, Music (Original Score), Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects and Writing.
