PlayTales announce interactive tales for tablets and smartphones featuring “Super Abby.”

Leviathan wins the FITC Best Animation Award for “Wooden Toy,” and the WorldFest Platinum Remi Award for Visual/Special Effects for the short film “Lilith.”

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.

“Iron Man 3” opens to a massive $198.4 million overseas, bigger than “Avengers.”

The Boston Festival of Indie Games launches a Kickstarter for the second annual event and offers Figgie Bundle, a special one-time-only Boston Festival of Indie Games indie game bundle, as part of the Kickstarter reward levels.

Disney announces a Special Preview Screening at Airventure Oshkosh 2013 on August 2, one week before the movie opens in theaters nationwide.

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.

The ninth season of animated series “The Fairly OddParents” premieres May 9 on Nickelodeon.

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

To usher in the new app from the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission, Click 3X teams up with Cooke&Co CD/Copywriter Marty Cooke to create the spot “Variations on a Hail.”

Disney updates their iOS app “Fish Hooks” with new characters, game mechanics, and play levels.

Aniplex of America launches a new online channel powered by HULU.

Brain Zoo Studios wins the Platinum Remi Award at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival for its CG short film “Pepe & Lucas.”

PipelineFX’s Qube! helps to rewire Qvisten Animation’s render pipeline for increased efficiency while working on film and commercial projects.

Alpha provides post services for the feature length documentary, “Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans Of My Little Pony,” which follows the cultural phenomenon of “Bronies” around the world.

Technology developer KO GmbH announces support services for professional paint application Krita.