Wizart closes sales for its 3D-animated film, “The Snow Queen,” across multiple territories, including South Korea, Indonesia, Brazil, Israel, the Middle East, Baltic States and Ukraine.

MPC receives BAFTA's Special Visual Effects award for its work on Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi.”

On Sunday February 10, 2013, the EE British Academy Film Awards look place at London's Royal Opera House with “Les Misérables,” “Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Life of Pi” and “Amour” among the winners.

Prime Focus London’s commercials division is poised to go into administration, saying that its commercials operations in London “continue to suffer from low volumes and suppressed margins” and “continued to be a drag on performance.”

Germany’s INDAC hosts a Masterclass, “Producing Independent Animated Film,” with animation producer Max Howard February 14 & 15 at the Games Academy in Berlin.

Render farm management software gives a speed boost to content creation firm’s architectural, branding, film, and large image projects.

Glowfrog's VFX department recruits VES award nominee Hasraf “Haz” Dulull as VFX Supervisor/Producer.

K5 International will begin pre-selling the animation project, which began life at Disney, to buyers at the European Film Market.

The Foundry and partner Luxology announce the addition of Mike Ephraim and Shane Griffith to the Sales and Marketing team.

“Natalis,” created at the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg and directed by Daniel Brkovic and Jan-Marcel Kuehn, receives a VES Award for “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project.”

MPC took honors at this year’s VES Awards for its contribution to Ang Lee’s critically acclaimed “Life of Pi,” winning Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Motion Picture, Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Feature Motion Picture, and Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture.

Director Timothy Reckart’s Oscar-nominated “Head Over Heels” wins 2013 Annie Award.

Top global animation studio deploys Aspera Sync software to manage increasing big data requirements and enable a faster, more efficient global pipeline.

Allegorithmic opens two new subsidiary branches in China and North America.

ITV Studios and Pukeko Pictures to re-invent the classic “Thunderbirds” series.

Alphanim signs Lizenzwerft GmbH as the licensing agent for the animated series, “The Green Squad.”

Union VFX supplies the visual effects for the new BBC miniseries “Dancing on the Edge.”

The BBC launches a competition calling for for budding animators, illustrators and creatives to create a vision of the future.

The Irish School of Animation, with support from the Irish Film Board, Enterprise Ireland and Animation Ireland, announces details of the upcoming animation/VFX event: ISA CON 2013.

“Vic the Viking,” the 78 x 11 minute Australian/French animated co-production between ASE Studios Pty Limited and Studio 100 Animation in association with Flying Bark Productions, has been commissioned by ABC TV in Australia.