Tom Sherak was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tonight (8/3) by the organization’s Board of Governors.

Read an exclusive interview about Tron Legacy in our post SIGGRAPH coverage.

Award winners of Animation Block Party 2010 announced.

Digital broadcast network Babelgum announced today the first tri-platform (online, mobile and offline) competition for animation and anime, the Babelgum Animatron Film Festival.

The winners of the Rushes Awards for short format work (www.sohoshorts.com) were announced last night.

Matt O'Callaghan tells us about directing the newest Road Runner and Coyote theatrical short.

International Awards for Animation Students at Filmakademie

At the end of the two hour presentation my viewing partner kept muttering to me about “sensory overload” as we shuffled out the door. It’s one of the dangers of today’s world. The big Hollywood movie was well represented by The Last Airbender, Iron Man 2, Alice in Wonderland, 2012 and Avatar. The digital work on these films is, of course, excellent but overwrought compared to the smaller films and shorts. Simple stories told using the computer took the day.

EXPOTOONS is an annual international animation festival taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, dedicated to companies, artists, producers, students and professionals. In its 4th edition, it continues to build a bridge between Latin America and the world. The festival presents three days of conferences with international animation icons, meetings with Latin American animation professionals, feature premieres, workshops, animation market, special programmes and exhibitions, and a competition for feature films, short films, advertising, TV series and graduation shorts from all over the world.

The computer animated graduate film "Loom" by Ilija Brunck, Jan Bitzer, Csaba Letay, Fabian Pross and Regina Welker - all of which are students at the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg - has received the Best in Show Award at the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival in Los Angeles.