Disney Channel promotes Adam Bonnett to the newly created position of executive vice president, Original Programming, Disney Channels Worldwide.

Buster signs Joseph Kiely as the company’s new Executive Creative Director for motion graphics, and Neville Burtis as Executive Creative Director of the agency’s print, outdoor and digital division.

SCORE Concert Productions, the Malmo Symphony Orchestra and Bandai Namco Partners Sweden announce Jason Graves as the guest conductor for Joystick 5.0.

Designer of famed title sequences for Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese gets elaborate animated tribute.

Animation and visual effects company Worker Studio secures the option to produce an animated property based on the comedy album, “Phil Hartman’s Flat TV.”

Jason Bateman is in talks to voice a starring role in a new Walt Disney Animation feature project that will be directed by “Tangled” director Byron Howard.

Sony Pictures Entertainment closes its deal with Shane Black to co-write and direct “Doc Savage,” which Black is eyeing as his next film.

A TV show starring “the first modern family” is reportedly in the works.

Stop-motion legend developed many of the techniques that have become today's industry standards.

The Library of Congress appoints David R. Strickler and Jesse Feder copyright royalty judges.

Phosphene adds Vance Miller, Eddie Porter, and Scott Winston to its core creative team.

Paulus Bannink joins Zoic’s game division as Creative & Technical Director.

Dark Planet Comics digitally releases Silver #1, the comic debut from animation veteran Stephan Franck.

Ntropic utilizes Autdoesk’s Flame and Maya to create extraordinary visual effects for the newest stereoscopic 3D video installation, “Creation,” from artist Marco Brambilla.

shade VFX announces its expansion to Bergamot Station in Santa Monica and the appointment of Lisa Maher as Business Development Executive.

Benjamin Bratt steps in to voice the villain Eduardo in “Despicable Me 2.”

Animated in the style of a retro video game, “RPG OKC” tells the story of two minor video game characters who go on a perilous first date after meeting each other on an internet dating website.

Athena Studios creates the stop-motion animated short film, “Peanut Butter.”

Producer Tim Dillon joins MPC New York from Nexus Interactive Arts.

The Academy hosts the final event in its three-week VFX Convergence craft series, “From Matte Paintings to Full Environments and Set Extensions,” moderated by visual effects branch governor Craig Barron and visual effects branch member Theresa Rygiel.