Event management company Unicomm and The Bob Dowling Group announce an all-star line-up of exclusive footage and content to be showcased at the fifth annual 3D Entertainment Summit.

The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces scientific and technical achievements selected for further awards consideration.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 announces its first two featured speakers.

Pacific Post will integrate FotoKem’s award-winning nextLAB software into their editorial offerings.

The famed element family grows with a new offering designed to play nice with 3ds Max, Adobe After Effects, Lightwave and other visual production software.

HP announced that industry research firm IDC reported that, for the first time, HP leads U.S. market share in the desktop workstation category, and was the global share leader during the second quarter of 2012.

Former Gaikai chief product officer and Scaleform CEO Brendan Iribe joins virtual reality technology developer Oculus.

Massive Software announces Massive 5.0 at SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles, and also announces the surprise 3DS Max Massive Plugin.

A few hundred Chaos Group friends gathered together at Smog Shoppe to celebrate V-Ray’s 10th Anniversary

A group of graphics experts led by computer scientists at Harvard have created an add-on software tool that translates video game characters into fully articulated action figures, with the help of a 3D printer.

AMD FirePro A300 series Accelerated Processors deliver performance and unbeatable value for entry-level and mainstream CAD and Media and Entertainment (M&E) design professionals.

Imagination Technologies announced its ground-breaking Caustic Visualizer viewport plug-in for Autodesk Maya 2013.

TeamUp announced its Multi-Optics renderer and real-time 3D collaboration.

Southpaw Technology announced that it has released its technology under the Eclipse Public License, an OSI (Open Source Initiative) approved open source license.

Geomerics announced the release of a major upgrade to its award-winning Enlighten software.

Emmy Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. announced the release of Toon Boom Harmony 10 at SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles.

Smith Micro Software Productivity and Graphics Group previewed the fourth edition of Poser’s most popular 3D figure, Miki and will unveil Tyler GND, the first male GND (Girl/Guy Next Door) from Poser artist Blackhearted, at the SIGGRAPH 2012 conference in Los Angeles, Calif.

New AMD FirePro W9000, W8000, W7000 and W5000 Workstation Graphics Cards are optimized and certified for leading professional software applications to deliver exceptional graphics experiences to the workstation market.

Xsens, the creator of Xsens MVN, announced the release of the MVN Live Plug-in for Maya 2013.

Indian animation and visual effects powerhouse Visual Computing Labs leveraged Digital Entertainment Creation software from Autodesk, Inc. to produce its second mainstream animated Bollywood film — “Arjun: The Warrior Prince”.