Cinesite appoints Eamonn Butler as animation director to head up its expanding animation division.

The International VFX Hub announces BFX, the first annual festival celebrating British talent and creativity in animation and visual effects.

Method Studios, the main visual effects vendor on the current Warner Bros. release, “Cloud Atlas,” announces the completion of 398 shots for the film.

Komixx Entertainment appoints The7stars to launch integrated campaign for hit tv series "Toby’s Travelling Circus."

BAFTA issues its final call for entries for the Short Animation category.

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group companies Company 3, Deluxe 142, Deluxe Digital Cinema, Deluxe Laboratories, EFILM, and Method Studios come together for comedy feature “Seven Psychopaths.”

BabyTV’s brand new show “Billy Bam Bam” aims to get imaginations flowing and inspire creativity in every day play.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announces nominations for the 2012 British Academy Children's Awards.

British animator Run Wrake dies at the age of 47.

After more than 15 years of developing groundbreaking VFX and post-production work from its Warsaw bunker, Platige arrives in the U.S.

CreaCon Entertainment has extended its licensing deal with MEI to include ticketed live event and theatre shows, for its popular pre-school property, “City of Friends.”

BabyTV channel has concluded new programme sales agreements and contract renewals for its large catalogue of unique original programming for young children in Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia.

Atlantyca Entertainment signs a deal with Russian animation studio, Aeroplane Productions, to acquire the distribution rights for Russia’s #1 rated animated series “The Fixies.”

The Imaginarium secures the film rights to the highly anticipated book series “The Bone Season,” by Samantha Shannon, as well as the film rights to adapt George Orwell’s seminal novel “Animal Farm.”

Animation studio Persistent Peril helps animates the finale for the UK’s 2012 Camp Bestival.

Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products announces plans to launch new infant programs around Nickelodeon’s evergreen properties “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “Dora the Explorer.”

Toon Boom Animation and the iheed Institute announce a new partnership that builds on the launch of iheedCrowd.

The VIEW Conference announces 2012 VIEW Award winners, including Isaac King’s “Second Hand,” which won the prize for Best Short.

The Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart issues a call for entries for the Animated Com Award; the deadline for submissions is February 1, 2013.

Czech animator and puppeteer Bretislav Pojar, a two-time Cannes winner known for his short films starring a teddy bear duo, dies in Prague at the age of 89.