“Sofia the First” season premiere June 10 kicks off Disney Junior’s multi-platform summer event, Pirate and Princess Programming.

Blacklist director, Flying V, wins ADC Gold Award for Havas Worldwide’s new title sequence.

Imagineer Systems teams up with CoreMelt to release SliceX powered by mocha, a new Final Cut Pro X masking plug-in.

Right Stuf signs a DVD distribution deal with Sunrise for “Mobile Suit Gundam UC (Unicorn).”

oston FIG announces Robin Hunicke, executive producer of the award-winning downloadable game Journey on Sony’s PlayStation Network, as the keynote speaker.

Psyop partners with David and Goliath to create the imaginative campaign, “More Luck For Your Buck” for the California Lottery’s Fortune 55 Scratchers game.

e-on announces the availability of LumenRT 4.1 Studio, which features extended capabilities for large microstation models and Revit.

Universal Pictures debuts the first trailer for “Riddick,” the upcoming epic action-adventure starring Vin Diesel and written and directed by David Twohy.

Chaos Group announces the open beta for V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp with significant enhancements to rendering speed, workflow, visualization and lighting features.

In one of most high-profile deals of the year, Sony Pictures Entertainment wins the exclusive worldwide distribution rights to the eagerly anticipated “Angry Birds” animated film.

Disney pulls makeover for Princess Merida of “Brave” amid controversy.

Hornet releases a new trailer for “Caveirão,” a short film directed by Guilherme Marcondes utilizing live-action, 2D animation and 3D VFX.

ABC announces “Toy Story of Terror” special from Pixar, based on the hit film and starring the original cast.

Digital Domain Co-Founder Scott Ross headlines panel of industry experts at live NYC event slated for June 10. Online viewers and onsite attendees can take part in real-time polling on key issues.

Thirteen students from nine U.S. colleges and universities, along with three students from foreign universities, are selected as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Student Academy Awards competition.

The UK’s NFTS launches three-month training certificate in Character Animation to be taught at Aardman by industry professionals.

Shotgun 5.0 features simplified access to essential tasks and updates on top of powerful project management, review and asset tracking toolset.

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announces its Key Dates for the upcoming awards season, with the 41st Annual Annie Awards ceremony set for Saturday, February 1, 2014.

DHX Media announces the launch of three dedicated paid YouTube family entertainment channels.

Nathan Love’s Jim McKenzie draws on 80s nostalgia in a spot for NatGeo’s new miniseries “The 80s: The Decade That Made Us.”