Mirada Studios gives bestselling author Cornelia Funke’s dark, lush worlds a new dimension with an interactive app.

From the folks who brought you “Plot Device” comes Red Giant's latest short film showcasing the company’s latest software.

Technical papers are previewed for the SIGGRAPH 2013 Technical Papers program, the premier international forum for disseminating new scholarly work in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

The venue for the first annual Production Pipeline Expo, which takes place May 3-4, 2013, is changed to Raleigh Studios in Hollywood.

New York-based pre-visualization boutique Edit 1 unveils state-of-the-art “inertial” motion capture, InMoCa.

British digital motion graphics company SquareZero updates its holographic representations of Bjorn, Agnetha, Benny and Frida for the ABBA museum, set to open in Stockholm in May.

FMX 2013 to include talks on “Iron Man 3,” “Oblivion,” “Despicable Me 2” and “Assassin's Creed 3” in addition to the “Virtual Production” and “Virtual Humans Forum” track highlights.

Chaos Group announces that they will demonstrate V-Ray, spotlight ILM’s production pipeline, and host a day of presentations and tutorials for 3D artists in training at FMX 2013.

The film will be shown with "fourth dimension" effects, including tilting seats, blowing wind and fog and odor effects, via technology that is expected to come to the U.S. later this year.

Disney releases a new "Toy Box" trailer for “Disney Infinity,” coming to the Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo 3DS, PS Vita, and PC on August 18.

Designed to serve as a full blown visual effects and animation event -- complete with expert panels, presentations, educational sessions, and speakers -- the Production Pipeline Expo is a two-day event to be held May 3 and 4 at the Barker Hanger in the Santa Monica Airport.

DreamWorks Animation releases Open VDB 1, open source framework developed by DWA engineers for sparse volume data.

emotion3D announces the release of stereoscopic plugins, The Stereoscopic Suite X3, for The Foundry’s Nuke.

Toon Boom Animation announces the use of Toon Boom Storyboard Pro and Harmony by Japanese animation studio HeARTBIT Digital Creation for its upcoming production, “Francesca.”

The Producers Guild of America honors nine Innovators, Visionaries and Producers (V.I.P.) who have made significant contributions to the advancement of digital entertainment and storytelling in the past year.

Golaem Crowd speeds up stadium & concert creation with free ready-to-use characters and motions.

Miranda teams up with Blast Radius Toronto and Nike Canada to create an interactive installation at Sport Chek’s flagship store in Toronto’s Eaton Centre.

New focus for event explores the ideas, inspirations and technologies that push the boundaries of creative thinking.

The Foundry announces the release of the latest versions of HIERO and HIEROPLAYER, the company's family of shot management, conform and review tools, at the 2013 NAB Show.

Facilis announces the compatibility of TerraBlock shared storage and SyncBlock archiving solutions with popular tools from Cinedeck, Empress and axle Video.