Franklin is back and better than ever in the brand-new CG-animated preschool series, Franklin and Friends, premiering Monday, Feb. 13, at 9:30 a.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon.

Absolute provided visual effects, including CG, for CTIA “Your Mind is a Wireless Place.”

Peter Jackson's New Zealand-based Weta Digital studio used Autodesk software to take the virtual production process to new levels of real-time performance capture for the animated feature film "The Adventures of Tintin.”

Russian animation studio Wizart Animation opens international sales of the stereoscopic 3D feature film “The Snow Queen,” based on the fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen, at the EFM in Berlin, February 9 – 17, 2012.

Animation studio LAIKA has purchased a site license of Shotgun to manage production and enhance collaboration for stop-motion and VFX work throughout its Portland, Oregon studio.

Framestore provided visual effects for the new Tom Kuntz-directed Cadbury “Joyville.”

Visual effects house MPC provided visual effects for Hyundai “Cheetah” for Super Bowl XLVI.

PorchLight Entertainment announced the acquisition for worldwide distribution of two animated feature films currently in production by animation and film production studio Media Factory.

HIT Entertainment announced that Arc Productions has been appointed the new animation studio for the popular CG-animated television program, Thomas & Friends.

One Fine Day, the creative design/animation boutique – proved the old adage that “less is more” true with a new show open for the popular romantic comedy “Hart of Dixie”