In one of most high-profile deals of the year, Sony Pictures Entertainment wins the exclusive worldwide distribution rights to the eagerly anticipated “Angry Birds” animated film.

ABC announces “Toy Story of Terror” special from Pixar, based on the hit film and starring the original cast.

Shotgun 5.0 features simplified access to essential tasks and updates on top of powerful project management, review and asset tracking toolset.

Supervisor Nick Markel takes us inside The Third Floor’s previs work on Joe Kosinski's sci-fi thriller.

Nathan Love’s Jim McKenzie draws on 80s nostalgia in a spot for NatGeo’s new miniseries “The 80s: The Decade That Made Us.”

2nd Screen Global Con presents “Everything Small Screen,” a family-friendly expo and conference featuring kids’ entertainment, animation, second-screen, tech, and CGI.

SIGGRAPH 2013 releases an early preview of its schedule of production sessions to be featured at this year’s conference and as part of the Computer Animation Festival.

Editorial house Spot Welders launches Shipping + Handling, headed up by VFX supervisor Casey Price and executive producer J. Patrick McElroy.

Visual effects house Zoic Studios delivers a dose of spine-tingling transformations from human to beast in the new Netflix original murder mystery series “Hemlock Grove.”

VFX company Luma Pictures recently contributed to Marvel Studios' new Iron Man 3 film, creating full-body CG armor replacements for both Iron Man and Iron Patriot.

Global VFX house welcomes Erik-Jan de Boer, James Jacobs and Keith Roberts.

Recording star Beyoncé creates an original song, “Rise Up,” for the upcoming Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios motion picture, “Epic,” for which she also voices one of the lead characters.

Disney officially announces “Big Hero 6,” the first Disney animated feature based on a Marvel Comics property.

London-based visual effects company uses pioneering VFX techniques to bring Audrey Hepburn back to the screen in a commercial campaign for AMV BBDO and Galaxy chocolate.

Adobe delivers “sneak peeks” of ground-breaking creative innovation at MAX 2013, including spotlights on “Perspective Warp” in Photoshop and “Video Color Grading” in After Effects.

Southpaw launches TACTIC 4.0, which adds more advanced data connection technology and greater configurability to help organizations design their own unique digital workflows.

The Jedi master returns in “LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles.” A 30-minute special premieres Wednesday, May 29, at 8:00 p.m. (ET, PT), with two additional specials to air in 2013.

HP partners with Adobe to offer workstation solutions designed to maximize performance using Adobe's newly announced Creative Cloud.

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A TV show starring “the first modern family” is reportedly in the works.