Franklin is back and better than ever in the brand-new CG-animated preschool series, Franklin and Friends, premiering Monday, Feb. 13, at 9:30 a.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon.

Image Metrics Inc., a leading developer of 3D facial animation technology, today announced the availability of its Live Driver Software Development Kit (SDK).

The Grunge Collection, available now on FxFactory 3, features four new visual effects products to add a grungy feel through gritty textures and transitions, lighting, film burns, and more

Syfy announces that its critically acclaimed reality competition series Face Off will return for a 10-episode third season.

Spin VFX provided 66 stereo cityscape shots and 54 stereo character enhancement shots for the next installment of the “Underworld” franchise, “Underworld: Awakening.”

Absolute provided visual effects, including CG, for CTIA “Your Mind is a Wireless Place.”

Peter Jackson's New Zealand-based Weta Digital studio used Autodesk software to take the virtual production process to new levels of real-time performance capture for the animated feature film "The Adventures of Tintin.”

The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) is pleased to announce its worldwide call for entries for its 2012 festival, taking place September 19-23.

The submission deadline for the Animated Com Award at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film is February 15, 2012.

Prime Focus World, an industry-leading 2D to 3D conversion and VFX studio, announced that Emmy Award winner Chris Del Conte has joined the company as Managing Director, Los Angeles.

Russian animation studio Wizart Animation opens international sales of the stereoscopic 3D feature film “The Snow Queen,” based on the fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen, at the EFM in Berlin, February 9 – 17, 2012.

Animation studio LAIKA has purchased a site license of Shotgun to manage production and enhance collaboration for stop-motion and VFX work throughout its Portland, Oregon studio.

Weta Digital’s CTO talks about the technological challenges of producing some of the most compelling and captivating performances in cinema today.

CRASH+SUES, the hybrid VFX, animation, color correction and creative editing company, has signed executive producer Sven Shelgren.

SPY, a FotoKem company offering creative finishing services for commercials and feature films, has opened a new studio in Santa Monica, Calif.

Pixomondo has hired Steve Pugh as an Executive Producer to help oversee projects from the Burbank office.

Recent projects from NYC VFX studio Light of Day include “The Official Someday by Justin Bieber” for Give Back Brands, John Varvatos “Star USA,” and Hugo Boss “Something Different.”

Call for entries to the fifth edition of the International Animated Film Competition in Poland.

The deadline for registration for the European Animation Masterclass, to be held in Helsinki, Finland February 23-24, is February 10, 2012.

Digieffects Damage and Delirium Phenomena plug-ins now work within Final Cut Pro X, with more effects coming soon.