Cubic Motion boosts facial mocap with a new service supplying advanced facial tracking for rapid and efficient analysis of facial video capture or other data.
The Levitow family gifts the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences with animation art and related production material from the career of animator Abe Levitow.
Antoine Erligmann and Andrew Kerr are appointed Co-Heads of Nelvana.
Autodesk releases Autodesk FBX Review, a free, animation tool to conduct detailed reviews of a wide range of 3D assets.
Sony Pictures Imageworks and Industrial Light & Magic release the jointly-developed open-source project that facilitates the sharing scenes across software applications, Alembic 1.5.
HP announces the new Z Display family and new entry-level Z Workstations at SIGGRAPH 2013.
The Foundry and Pixar Animation Studios announce a concerted technical collaboration to bring KATANA and RenderMan together.
NVIDIA announces the new Quadro K6000 GPU, as well as a new line of professional graphics GPUs for mobile workstations.
Industrial Light & Magic signs a license deal with Solid Angle, making Arnold the primary renderer for films such as Pacific Rim and Star Trek Into Darkness.
Aardman Animations partners with Trunki to create the family friendly PaddlePak app, available now on the App Store.
Autodesk announces the availability of Media & Entertainment support and learning content for its 2014 product line under Creative Commons licensing.
Luxion introduces KeyShot and Pixologic ZBrush integration at SIGGRAPH 2013.
LightWave 3D Group unveils NevronMotion, a new motion capture software for LightWave 11.6.
Thinkbox Software announces new plug-in offerings for Autodesk Maya at SIGGRAPH 2013, including the latest version of the company’s popular volumetric particle renderer, Krakatoa MY, XMesh MY for geometry caching, and Frost MY for point cloud meshing.
Visual production company BiG MACHiNE promotes Executive Producer Sean Owolo to company partner alongside Co-Founders/Creative Directors Steve Petersen and Ken Carlson.
International visual effects house Method Studios and previsualization company HALON Entertainment announce a strategic alliance to jointly provide previs and VFX services to feature film and commercial clients.
A third season of Disney XD's number-one animated series Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man spins onto Marvel Universe on Disney XD.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy commences principal photography in the UK in preparation for August 1, 2014 film release.
Lightworks signs a deal with NVIDIA to become the exclusive reseller of Iray+.
Rainbow is partnering with Lucky Punch and March Entertainment on a second season of the CGI animated series, Mia and me.
Cartoon Network and the Lego Group unveil the new Mixels franchise, which will feature animated content (primarily shorts), a rich digital gaming experience, a collectible building toy concept, plus much more, and is set to launch in 2014.
Christie launches Christie’s HoloStation, a fully self-contained, personal visualization system, at SIGGRAPH.
Legend3D Inc. taps eyeon Software’s Generation for their VFX pipeline.
Mirada teams with Guillermo del Toro for the prologue sequence for Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Pacific Rim.
Bron Animation begins production this fall on the full-length CG animated feature film, Henchmen, based on an original script by Jay D. Waxman directed by Adam Wood.
