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.

Groundbreaking alliance marks digital content milestone.

Visual effects house Pixomondo announces plans to close its Berlin offices on May 31.

The One Club announces the addition of Parisfx to the Creative Week 2013 program in order to showcase the most creative and innovative French companies in digital arts and VFX.

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to develop animated “Bigfoot” series at FX; "American Dad" writer Matt McKenna is on board to develop the project, which is based on the faux autobiography books by Graham Roumieu.

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.”