Commercials director Nic Mathieu will make his directorial debut on the Warner Bros. sci-fi project, “The Wind,” scripted by "Men in Black 3" writer David Koepp.

VFX house Ntropic partnered with Venice, CA-based Wild Plum on an integrated interactive campaign for Ford via Team Detroit.

Phoenix Media Group created a high-energy animated motion graphic and commercial montage to kick off last week’s 2012 CLIO award ceremony at the American Museum of Natural History.

Following an extended run freelancing with the company, Erik Yang has joined HUSH's roster.

MPC recently teamed up with Skunk directing team Ne-O via DDB NY to conjure an army of magical little blue-suited folks for a New York Lottery spot.

jumP LA editor Patrick Griffin, working with Smuggler Director Filip Engstrom and The Mill, tackles “Better, Stronger, Smarter,” a humorous and engaging spot introducing Mazda's new CX-5 crossover.

Absolute, BBH and Pretty Bird joined forces to deliver “A Bottle of Togetherness,” creating a world where dogs and cats can resolve their differences over a bottle of Britvic J2O.

Ubisoft teamed up with Little Minx to create a live-action/CGI prequel film, “Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Alpha,” in anticipation of the upcoming release of the "Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon" video game.

Production company Hornet announced that it has signed 2011 BAFTA Award-winning director Mikey Please to its talent roster.

With a mission to connect high-end talent with awesome brands, iartists has launched in Los Angeles to represent directors, designers, animators, visual effects pros, storytellers and digital experts, working across platforms, devices and spaces.

Fabien Coupez has joined MassMarket as Senior Flame Artist and VFX Supervisor.

The world's best productions in the field of applied animation received their prizes in the Mercedes-Benz Museum at the Animated Com Award held at the 19th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.

ACME Filmworks directors David Wachtenheim and Robert Marianetti recently completed work on a campaign for Kraft’s Ritz Crackerfuls created by agency Euro RSCG Worldwide in New York.

Executive producer Leslie Sorrentino, formerly of Animal West and The Syndicate, has joined digital production and design studio Big Block. He brings with him his production team, Flame artist Gizmo Rivera and producer Cindy Chapman.

QuietMan recently flexed its concept-to-completion bona fides with an animated/live-action hybrid spot promoting The Topps Company's Baby Bottle Pops candy.

DUCK has sliced two birds with one stone, considerably escalating its presence in both the live-action and animation realms with the addition of versatile director Knife Party.

The winners of the 2012 CLIO Awards, one of the world's most recognized awards competitions honoring excellence in advertising, design and communications, were announced this week by Prometheus Global Media.

Gravity was tapped by Microsoft Advertising and Y&R New York to create and produce the CG-animated “Samurai,” an original, two-minute web video promoting Microsoft.

DUCK brought the full force of 10 of its best to bear on a monster 12-spot campaign for the United States Olympic Committee via Y&R.

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Click 3X does just that in a high-energy spot for the Maryland Lottery's MONOPOLY scratch-off ticket, bringing the board game's iconic dog to startling CGI life.