Special Guest: Dr. Janeann Dill On this epic-sode, Joel discovers the vast musical range of a rubber band; Alan discovers his lack of interest. Then, Dr. Janeann Dill, physician to the arts, discusses the breaking of art history, animation balm, the deep south, and legendary animation artist, educator, and innovator Jules Engel.

Leading developer of integrated VFX and workflow technology Boris FX announced that Boris Graffiti Version 6 is now available.

Leading developer of integrated VFX and workflow technology Boris FX announced that Boris Graffiti Version 6 is now available.

Conceptual design studio Buster has created and produced the brand identity for the recently launched FX Movie Channel(FXM).

Conceptual design studio Buster has created and produced the brand identity for the recently launched FX Movie Channel(FXM).

HUSH announced the addition of Designer Evan Anthony to its staff.

Visual production company BiG MACHiNE created the main titles for the FOX comedy series "Breaking In," starring Christian Slater.

Here, Rich Farley, creative director at Danger Close Games, talks about what’s in store for PC gamers and gives his take on the move to modern warfare in this exclusive interview from GDC 2012.

New York-based production house Cause & [Effect] created the music video/promo featuring Mexican pop sensation Thalia, “Canta Canta Canta” for “Dora the Explorer” on Nickelodeon’s Nick Jr.

FMX was initiated as an event for students labeled "Film and Media Exchange" (FMX) in 1994 and was supposed to take place every two years. As early as 1996 it became an annual event . When the first FMX took place in 1994, the industry did not even dare to dream about the creative possibilities within computer animation and digital effects that exist today. Throughout the past fifteen years of its existence, FMX kept up with the developments and trends and has grown to become an important networking platform for those working with digital imagery.

In 2012, FMX tracks are, among others, dedicated to Virtual Production, Cinema of the Future, Animation, Visual Effects, Games, Tech Talks, Focuses on Montreal and Vancouver, Poland, Estonia, Transmedia, Virtual Humans and Controlling Complexity.

Confirmed presentations include subjects such as Worldbuilding, Previsualization, Capture Space, Framerates, Stereo 3D, Animation Wild ‘n Strange, VES Exchange, Visual Effects in India, Germany and Europe, Visual Arts, Games made in Germany, Industrial CG, Cloud Computing, Siggraph and Eurographics Papers, Young Guns

Gui Marcondes took home the award for Excellence in Title Design at SXSW Film Design Awards for his “Bunraku” title sequence.

One of the things we like to do is talk to some of the top innovators in the industry to see what makes them tick. We’ve spoken to Matt Ployhar -- president of the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA) -- before, but he’s been up to a lot lately, so we followed up to get a closer look.

The 14th edition of Future Film Festival

Bologna, Italy.  March 27th to April 1st 2012.

During the last fourteen years, Future Film Festival has become the most significant Italian event dedicated to animation and special effects. Every year, the most important film-directors, art-directors and creative-producers come to Bologna to show their own films’ premiéres, backstages of their successes and exclusive pictures from new productions. A preview of the future, but not only: Future Film Festival dedicates retrospectives to the history of animated cinema and sci-fi, as well as meetings and events about new technologies applications to other fields, like web and videogames.

Future Film Festival 2012 main focus will be “the end of the world”, according to the prophecies that look at this year as the fateful one for Planet Earth, and proposing a huge roundup of catastrophic movies, monsters and many other disasters on 35mm. From the famous Airport (1970) to the spectaculars Twister and Titanic, many times mentioned in movies and that will turn 100 years in 2012. In collaboration with Università degli Studi di Bologna.

Minneapolis-based ad agency Carmichael Lynch recently tapped broadcast design and animation studio motion504 to help create an inspirational animated short for Fueling Good, a charitable giving program by CITGO.

Minneapolis-based ad agency Carmichael Lynch recently tapped broadcast design and animation studio motion504 to help create an inspirational animated short for Fueling Good, a charitable giving program by CITGO.

Gretel has just completed a rebrand of Nick Jr., coinciding with the retirement of animated hosts Moose and Zee.

iPi Soft, LLC, announced that iPi Motion Capture Version 2.0 -- the next generation in the company’s scalable line of markerless motion capture technology -- is scheduled for availability in Spring 2012.

London post facility Rushes provided VFX and the main title sequence for the BBC4’s “Dirk Gently” comedy series, based on the books by Douglas Adams.

London post facility Rushes provided VFX and the main title sequence for the BBC4’s “Dirk Gently” comedy series, based on the books by Douglas Adams.

Company unveils the iconic 3D image of a Pegasus created from thousands of tiny computer generated models of the latest mobile phone from global telecom provider Huawei.