Poetica announces the signing of director Douglas Purver to its roster of artists.

Day 3 of our LA tour began at Sony Pictures in Culver City.

Animation legends discuss the lasting effects of winning Best Short.

Day 2 in LA concludes with a screening at the Motion Picture Academy hosted and moderated by Jason Schwartzman.

Brett Ratner joins with Six Eleven Media to produce a TV version of the successful online game “FarmVille.”

Flying Bark Productions announces that Alexs Stadermann has been confirmed as Director, Barbara Stephen will be the movie’s Producer and Alexia Gates-Foale will be Line Producer on the 3D stereoscopic production, “Maya the Bee.”

Petro Vlahos, the visual effects pioneer who developed the blue-screen and green-screen process, died on February 10 in Los Angeles at the age of 89.

Day 2 in Los Angeles continues at Disney Feature Animation, highlighted by a studio tour with John Musker.

The head of 20th Century Fox TV‘s animation department leaves the studio to pursue additional opportunities.

Day two in LA continues at Disney's immense Animation Research Library - the ARL.

The SoCal leg of Oscar® Showcase Tour kicked off with a screening Monday night at Woodbury University, sponsored and organized by ASIFA-Hollywood.

William Watts Biggers, the co-creator of the cartoon “Underdog,” dies at the age of 85.

Reel FX announces that Shane Acker will direct their upcoming untitled CG-animated feature based on the comic series “Beasts of Burden.”

Kent Pritchett joins Colorflow as Lead Colorist.

UtopiaPeople announces the launch of UtopiaBook, cloud-based system that works simultaneously as a booking tool, as well as a management and organizational hub.

Hornet mixed-media director and stop-motion specialist Peter Sluszka is tapped to direct a music video for “Lilies,” the fourth single from Bat for Lashes from the acclaimed album, “The Haunted Man.”

Fox Broadcasting restructures its current programming team and adds new event series & multi-platform programming department. James Oh is promoted to SVP, Current Programming; Shana C. Waterman is named SVP, Event Series & Multi-Platform Programming; Kiliaen Van Rensselaer joins network as SVP, Multi-Platform Programming.

The 16th edition of the Holland Animation Film Festival opens with the premiere of the animated feature, “Monty Python: A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman.”

Method provides imaginative VFX environments for the new supernatural fantasy.

Creative studio/production company LOGAN hires Alex Gorodetzki as Director of Business Development.