Ticket sales open for the Los Angeles Children's Film Festival, which runs from Friday, April 26, through Sunday, May 5, 2013.

The Producers Guild of America honors nine Innovators, Visionaries and Producers (V.I.P.) who have made significant contributions to the advancement of digital entertainment and storytelling in the past year.

Nominees for the Animated Com Award -- in the fields of advertising, spatial communication and technology -- at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) are announced.

The Boston Festival of Indie Games opens registration for the 2nd annual festival, which will take place on Saturday, September 14, 2013.

Proof Inc. founder and creative director Ron Frankel is scheduled to speak on the role of Previs in filmmaking at three upcoming industry events, including the “Virtual Production” track at FMX, the inaugural edition of the Production Pipeline Expo, and the Academy’s “Pre and Post Visualization – Today’s Storyboarding” Craft Series panel.

Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto will be officially awarded the prestigious ASIFA Prize 2012 at this year’s Annecy Festival for outstanding achievements in the art of animation.

New focus for event explores the ideas, inspirations and technologies that push the boundaries of creative thinking.

The Foundry announces the release of the latest versions of HIERO and HIEROPLAYER, the company's family of shot management, conform and review tools, at the 2013 NAB Show.

Facilis announces the compatibility of TerraBlock shared storage and SyncBlock archiving solutions with popular tools from Cinedeck, Empress and axle Video.

Pretend announces previews their latest software, Pseudo, and demonstrations of Stereoid v1.1 at NAB 2013.

Boris FX unveils their new VFX browser, BCC Effects Library Browser.

The Foundry announces Assist for NUKEX, MODO 701 and MARI 2 releases, new HIERO 1.7 editing capabilities, and ftrack partnership.

LightWave demonstrates LightWave 11.5 3D modeling and animation software, including the new Adobe After Effects Interchange feature, at NAB 2013.

Frima partners with Image-In on the new animated series “Phoenix Park.”

Red Giant unveils their new video editing software BulletProof at NAB 2013.

Imagineer Systems and CoreMelt announce a new Final Cut plug-in, SliceX, at NAB 2013.

The Smoke community continues to grow after Autodesk launched a redesign of their professional video editing software, Autodesk Smoke.

Nelvana partners with Michael Eisner's Tornate and Topps to develop a brand new action series, “Mysticons.”

Fusion-io announces a collaboration with HP to integrate ioFX into HP Z workstations.

“Airside Andy,” a series co-developed by Greg Lynn’s Adrenalynn Entertainment and Technicolor Digital Productions, debuts at MIP-TV.