The animated project centers on a handsome yet moronic undercover detective who does everything in his power to avoid solving crimes.

Veteran animated feature film executive Tito Ortiz returns to Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment as the company’s new VP of development.

As the final night of its VFX Convergence craft series, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents a panel discussion on how matte paintings and set extensions allow films to be enriched by creating entire worlds never built or seen before.

Coolabi appoints Naomi Dare to Head of Digital.

Production Pipeline Expo will showcase a DreamWorks Animation session on the Art of “The Croods” and “Turbo” and a Pixomondo session about the FX work included within Universal Pictures’ hit film “Oblivion.”

The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film announces the award recipients at the 2013 edition of the festival, with the International Competition Grand Prix 
going to Belguim/France/Netherlands co-production “Oh, Willy.”

Europe's most influential conference on digital entertainment concludes with more than 3,200 professionals, students and journalists in attendance.

Over 200 representatives of the German and international animation industry attend the "Financing & Brands" conference on Thursday afternoon in Stuttgart's Haus der Wirtschaft.

Aardman, with Stephen Fry and Alistair McGowan, creates “The Lonely Dodo,” a short film for the international conservation charity Durell.

The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film announces winners for the 2013 Animated Com Awards.

LOOK Effects hires visual effects industry veteran Wendy Lanning as executive visual effects producer.

Guillermo del Toro temas with HBO on the development of a new series, “Monster,” based on the manga comic by Naoki Urasawa.

Mirada Studios gives bestselling author Cornelia Funke’s dark, lush worlds a new dimension with an interactive app.

Rhythm & Hues alumni Thom Burkhart is named Senior Producer at Steele Studios.

StudioCanal and Aardman Animations team up for a “Shaun the Sheep” stop-motion feature.

Technical papers are previewed for the SIGGRAPH 2013 Technical Papers program, the premier international forum for disseminating new scholarly work in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Photographer and film editor Jay Lawton dies at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 23, after a brief battle with cancer.

Steve Buscemi joins the voice cast of Triggerfish’s 3D Animated feature “Khumba.”

Blacklist director Pistachios launches HeyHeyButton, a new creation which allows users to create sound effect buttons that can be sent, shared or embedded in blogs.

The COLLIDER Conference announces the master class instructors and schedule, which consists of eight career-boosting classes led by animation and visual effects masters from top studios including Weta Digital, Psyop, Blue Sky Studios, and more.