August Trollbäck, son of Trollbäck + Company (T+Co) Executive Creative Director Jakob Trollbäck, wows TEDYouth attendees with his :30 animated opening.

Autodesk Kicks Off 14th Annual 3December Celebration on December 3 honoring 3D computer graphics and artists from around the world.

The Visual Effects Society hosts “Understanding Unions: The Good, The Bad & Unknown of Forming a Visual Effects Collective Bargaining Organization” at the L.A. Film School on Saturday, December 1, 2012.

Rushes announces it will be discontinuing its annual Rushes Soho Shorts Festival.

Imagination Technologies announces the availability of its Caustic Series2 OpenRL PC boards and accelerating Caustic Visualizer viewport plug-ins for Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max at Autodesk University.

Machinima and iam8bit announce the first ever Machinima Interactive Film Festival, a nine day online and offline exhibit.

The animated TV-series/sitcom “Ask Lara” is nominated for a prestigious Emmy Award in the animation category of the recently established International Emmy Kids Awards.

Coming Saturday, December 1, Gallery Nucleus is hosting an artist panel and book signing for DreamWorks Animation’s “Rise of the Guardians.”

Imira Entertainment heads to next month’s Asia Television Forum with a raft of new sales signed in the region.

This December the 9th annual CVMP Conference returns to London.

In advance of a national release in January, “The Rabbi’s Cat” opens Friday, December 7th in New York and Friday, December 14th in Los Angeles.

iPi Soft spotlights the best of what this growing animation art form, which uses video game technology to create 3D animated films in real time, has to offer at this week’s 2012 Machinima Expo.

Aubry Mintz and Ellen Bresen present “Ridiculously Great Animated Sequences and Insanely Fabulous Storytelling Techniques” at the upcoming CTN animation eXpo on Sunday, November 18.

Ross Shain of Imagineer Systems and Jeff Krebs of eyeon Software to give presentations and demos of mocha Pro and eyeon Fusion.

Kidscreen releases its agenda for iKids 2013, a conference for kids IP owners and digital media professionals taking place on Monday, February 4 at the Hilton NY.

For the first time ever, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will emerge from the sewers of Manhattan with their very own float and join some of Nickelodeon’s most popular stars in the 86th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) announces the recipients of the annual Thea Awards.

GKIDS is bringing its 25-year retrospective of animated films from Japan’s renowned Studio Ghibli back to the IFC Center in New York.

The Jim Henson Company’s “Pajanimals” are hitting the road to bring a brand new live musical production to theaters around the U.S.

Legendary makeup artist Rick Baker will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 30, 2012.