This year's Northern California tour includes Pixar, PDI/Dreamworks, Lucas Animation, The Walt Disney Family Museum and an evening with ASIFA San Francisco. Nominees on hand are Patrick Doyon and Marc Bertrand, the director and producer of Sunday/Dimanche; directors William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg and producer Lampton Enochs of The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore; and Bonnie Thompson, the producer of Wild Life, a film by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis. They have traveled from Shreveport, Louisiana, Montreal and Ontario Canada.

UK-based animations producer Aardman Digital (“Wallace and Gromit”) has launched a website for the new CBeebies wildlife-based TV series “Andy’s Wild Adventures.”

Syfy Films has acquired the rights to ‘The Paranormalists’ from Rob Letterman.

MPC was given the BAFTA award for Special Visual Effects for its contributions to "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2."

NVIDIA announced that registration is now open for its third GPU Technology Conference -- GTC 2012 -- to be held in San Jose, California from May 14-17, 2012.

Fans and friends of animation are invited to the 11th International Festival of Animated Films AniFest (April 26 – May 1, 2012). Accreditation passes are now available online at www.anifest.cz through April 20, 2012.

GenArts has released the new Monsters GT v7, withmore than 50 exceptional effects that enrich every artist’s VFX portfolio.

Award-winning director at Independent, Cary Fukunaga, has created the epic new trailer for 180 Amsterdam and the European launch of the Sony PS Vita console.

Industry veteran Sal Maniaci is headed back to Nickelodeon as the company’s new SVP of event and original programming.

The Gnomon School of Visual Effects presents “The Making of The Muppets” on Thursday, February 23, 2012.