HIT Entertainment, one of the world's leading independent children's entertainment producers and rights-owners, today announced that the company’s President & CEO, Jeffrey Dunn, and Chief Operating Officer, Sangeeta Desai, will be leaving the company after the closing of HIT’s acquisition by Mattel.

Charlex is promoting Director/CD Ryan Dunn to Executive Creative Director.

Animation studio Kavaleer Productions announced the appointment of Timothy Björklund as Director of its Dublin-based studios.

Activision's Call of Duty continues its hot streak with the new campaign by 72andSunny for the game's Elite downloadable content subscription service.

PipelineFX’s render management solution, Qube!,is in use at Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television.

CRASH+SUES was tapped by mono to provide editing, color correction and graphics for SoundAffects, Parsons The New School for Design’s multi-platform exploration of the relationship between music, design and technology.

Trunk Animation completed work for Smile for London on “Word in Motion,” their new moving image exhibition that aims to uplift and inspire London commuters with poetry and moving images during January 2012.

International visual effects company Pixomondo completed 546 shots on Red Tails, about a third of the film’s 1524 total VFX shots.

Development, design and animation studio FlickerLab has created “Overpowering A Monster,” a :30 animated spot for the Lehigh Valley Health Network.

The application deadline for student volunteers at SIGGRAPH 2012 is February 13, 2012.