The Irish School of Animation, with support from the Irish Film Board, Enterprise Ireland and Animation Ireland, announces details of the upcoming animation/VFX event: ISA CON 2013.

Modus FX VFX Supervisor Wayne Brinton brings human relationships to the feature film, “Parker,” starring Jennifer Lopez and Jason Statham.

LightWave 11.5 enhances 3D creativity with new Soft Body Bullet Dynamics, After Effects integration, Interactive Modeling Tools, Genoma character rigging system and much more.

B2FX creates SFX Make-up for NBC’s “Grimm.”

SilhouetteFX releases Silhouette V5 which incorporates hundreds of upgrades as well as brand new features.

FMX 2013, Europe's most renowned conference on digital entertainment, adopts the slogan, “lean, smart and agile,” and focuses on the ongoing paradigm shift in the animation, effects, games and transmedia industries.

LOGAN teams up with Conscious Minds, the creative agency who directed, wrote and produced NIKE FUEL MISSIONS, to design a pair of animated games for Nike+.

Framestore’s New York office creates 35 minutes of effects, opening titles for Alex Gibney’s Wikileaks documentary, “We Steal Secrets.”

Leading developer Shotgun hires Rob Blau as Head of Pipeline Engineering.

The Visual Effects Society announces the 2013 Board of Director officers, who were elected at the January 2013 board meeting.

MPC collaborates with Spike Lee on a trio of NBA spots.

Framestore’s VFX work on “Lincoln” is all about assisting the filmmakers in an invisible way by recreating America as it was in 1865, ripped in two by civil war.

Framestore announces the opening of its Montreal office, which will accommodate confirmed film VFX work for 2013.

Visual effects and animation studio Atomic Fiction taps Shotgun Software’s Shotgun production management tool for Robert Zemeckis’ aviation drama “Flight.”

BigStar creates an all new promotion teaser for HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”

Ogilvy launches new commercial starring dragon character for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor; new campaign with global reach shows consumers why they should care about what’s inside their mobile devices.

Bringing Jack Kerouac’s classic to life on the big screen.

Park Road Post taps the power of SGO’s Mistika for the DI workflow for Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.”

The Motion Capture Society and Motion Analysis Studios host an evening mixer featuring technology demos from Motion Analysis, Faceware, and Pixomondo on Thursday, January 24.

Visual effects facility LOOK Effects teams with director Jonathan Levine to create elements of horror, teen angst, humor and the power of love for Summit Entertainment’s “Warm Bodies.”