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.

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.

International Awards for Animation Students at Filmakademie

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.

DEATH ROW DIET, starring Jonathan Katz and Tom Leopold, will be screened at the San Diego Comic Con on Thursday, July 22.

Coming up July 21-25 is the BIG annual San Diego Comic-Con, and once again Bill will have a booth to sell his DVDs, books and CD's.

Five short films from France, UK, Norway, Sweden and Estonia, will compete for the *Cartoon d'Or 2010*, the pan-European award for the best animated short film of the year.

Acme Filmworks has released the four, fifth and sixth box sets of its Animation Show of Shows DVD collection.