Pixomondo utilizes NVIDIA’s Quadro K4000 to boost their Star Trek Into Darkness pipeline.

Creative studio MPC takes home the prize for visual effects from last week’s 2103 AICP Awards for Dell’s “Thomas.”

Tracey Taylor joins Digital Pulse as Executive Producer.

Motion design and production studio Royale completes a series of station IDs for “Pulse,” MTV France’s block of rock video programming, in a cinematic package that combines CG and live-action.

Psyop partners with TBWA Paris and Quad’s Wizzdesign to create ‘Le Manege,’ a whimsical spot for McDonald’s McFlurry.

Nelvana begins production on a new CGI animated series, Trucktown.

Zoic Studios creates a new sneaky teaser, Clear Gaze, for the new season of TNT’s Falling Skies.

Visual effects company Framestore wins the 2013 London Design Week award for Best Broadcast Design for its work on the main title sequence for James Bond feature, Skyfall.

Relativity and Reel FX round out flock on Free Birds; Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo, Danny Carey and Josh Lawson join voice cast of animated comedy.

Imagineer and Curious Turtle launch their latest training course, “Master mocha Volume 1; Production Effects with mocha and After Effects.”

MassMarket partners with Ogilvy & Mather Chicago to create a spot to help raise awareness for wildlife conservation for APES, a branch of The Conservation Trust

Thinkbox launches the latest version of their render farm management solution, Deadline 6.0.

Pixar celebrates the 25th anniversary of its pioneering computer graphics software, RenderMan.

DIVE provides 250 VFX shots for M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth.

Modus FX provides 227 visual effects shots for Summit Entertainment’s Now You See Me.

SIGGRAPH 2013 announces the initial list of sessions for the 2013 Business Symposium.

Milk founders behind VFX on Doctor Who and Mirror Man in Snow White and the Huntsman.

Leading visualization house Proof Inc. provides previs and postvis services to Universal Pictures’ Fast & Furious 6, as well as the production of 200 visual effects shots.

While everyone waits to see MPC's work on Man of Steel, World War Z and The Lone Ranger, the London-based visual effects company releases a breakdown of the effects it handled for the Oscar-winning Life of Pi.

John Fragomeni is appointed President of the creative studio, Mirada.