For her Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, Beyoncé collaborated with ThinkBreathLive to create an animated backdrop.
Culver City/Vancouver-based visual effects house Zoic Studios bolsters its Gaming Division with the addition of CG Supervisor Derek Crosby.
Render farm management software gives a speed boost to content creation firm’s architectural, branding, film, and large image projects.
Saban’s new animated preschool series inspired by the Paul Frank family of characters will air on Nick Jr. in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand in 2013.
Saban Brands announces Nickelodeon as the U.S. broadcast partner for brand-new “Digimon Fusion” series.
Vancouver studio continues to build stable of talent with addition of Jason Dowdeswell as VP, Vancouver Production Operations, and Senior Animation Supervisor Steve Nichols.
Director Timothy Reckart launches his own production company, Reckart Productions, with two stop-motion feature projects in development: “Super Special Ed” and “I Lost My Mind.”
Glowfrog's VFX department recruits VES award nominee Hasraf “Haz” Dulull as VFX Supervisor/Producer.
Focus Features and Laika reunite for October 2014’s “The Boxtrolls,” based on Alan Snow’s bestseller “Here Be Monsters,” and starring the voices of Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Elle Fanning, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Jared Harris, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade and Tracy Morgan.
An unspecified reduction in staff is planned in the wake of an expected write-down on the November release "Rise of the Guardians."
K5 International will begin pre-selling the animation project, which began life at Disney, to buyers at the European Film Market.
HIT Entertainment welcomes Michael Carrington as of Head of Content and Production, HIT Global Brands.
Southpaw develops an open-source version of its production asset management system, TACTIC TEAM, for the Mac.
HUSH welcomes the art director and design and concept development artist Andre Salyer.
DreamWorks Animation announces the new release date for “Mr. Peabody & Sherman.”
Blacklist and Tendril team up to create a video for the debut of Nike’s Mercurial Vapor IX.
The Foundry and partner Luxology announce the addition of Mike Ephraim and Shane Griffith to the Sales and Marketing team.
CBBC orders a second season of the television series, “Strange Hill High” to air in 2014.
Bardel Entertainment forms a strategic alliance with Frank Saperstein’s Surprise Bag Inc. to produce and distribute animated content for the global market.
Top global animation studio deploys Aspera Sync software to manage increasing big data requirements and enable a faster, more efficient global pipeline.
Visual effects company Rhythm & Hues takes an emergency $20 million capital infusion from Universal, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros.
Tim Godsall, Mike Maguire, Noam Murro, Aaron Stoller, Clay Weiner and Andreas Nilsson direct spots for top brands.
Allegorithmic opens two new subsidiary branches in China and North America.
Brickyard animates Adobe “Animals,” a tongue-in-cheek reflection on huge Super Bowl ad spends that premiered exclusively online.
Cinelicious expands to Santa Monica in a joint venture with Big Block, signing signed award-winning short form colorist Robert Curreri.
