Germany’s INDAC hosts a Masterclass, “Producing Independent Animated Film,” with animation producer Max Howard February 14 & 15 at the Games Academy in Berlin.

Great Guns teams with Artbox and agency AKQA create a new spot for Nike’s new Hypershield clothing and footwear line.

Nickelodeon and Activision sign a multi-year deal to develop new “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” video games.

Autodesk sponsors the award for "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project" at the 11th annual VES Awards.

New RTPT feature automates render farm path translation across platforms for film, broadcast, post, VFX, and education companies.

Culver City/Vancouver-based visual effects house Zoic Studios bolsters its Gaming Division with the addition of CG Supervisor Derek Crosby.

Render farm management software gives a speed boost to content creation firm’s architectural, branding, film, and large image projects.

Vancouver studio continues to build stable of talent with addition of Jason Dowdeswell as VP, Vancouver Production Operations, and Senior Animation Supervisor Steve Nichols.

Glowfrog's VFX department recruits VES award nominee Hasraf “Haz” Dulull as VFX Supervisor/Producer.

Focus Features and Laika reunite for October 2014’s “The Boxtrolls,” based on Alan Snow’s bestseller “Here Be Monsters,” and starring the voices of Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Elle Fanning, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Jared Harris, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade and Tracy Morgan.

An unspecified reduction in staff is planned in the wake of an expected write-down on the November release "Rise of the Guardians."

James Gartler takes us through key visual effects-driven films still waiting to hit theatres this winter.

Southpaw develops an open-source version of its production asset management system, TACTIC TEAM, for the Mac.

DreamWorks Animation announces the new release date for “Mr. Peabody & Sherman.”

“Natalis,” created at the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg and directed by Daniel Brkovic and Jan-Marcel Kuehn, receives a VES Award for “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project.”

MPC took honors at this year’s VES Awards for its contribution to Ang Lee’s critically acclaimed “Life of Pi,” winning Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Motion Picture, Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Feature Motion Picture, and Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture.

Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi” and Pixar’s "Brave" each take home four trophies at the 11th annual VES Awards.

Take a journey down the Yellow Brick Road with the “Find Your Way to Oz” Chrome experiment, developed in collaboration with Disney and UNIT9 in anticipation of the upcoming film, “Oz The Great and Powerful.”

Top global animation studio deploys Aspera Sync software to manage increasing big data requirements and enable a faster, more efficient global pipeline.

Visual effects company Rhythm & Hues takes an emergency $20 million capital infusion from Universal, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros.