Industry veteran Everett Burrell joins Los Angeles-based VFX house as visual effects supervisor.

The deadline for submissions to the Holland Animation Film Festival is January 1, 2013.

“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” surpasses the $500 million benchmark at the worldwide box office, with the film earning $179.7 million domestically.

Self-taught filmmaker Joey Shanks teams up with PBS Digital Studios to produce a weekly series that explains how to produce DIY special effects for low-budget productions.

Pixologic releases ZBrush 4R5, which includes usability upgrades such as Dynamic Brush Size control, Mouse Wheel support and Quick/Auto Save functions.

MPC and 4Creative create an enigmatic labyrinth world for new series "Utopia".

eyeon Software’s Generation AM, a visual effects and post production workflow management system, is now shipping.

Noise Industries introduces Tokyo PiPinator, which brings advanced but simple-to-use Picture-in-Picture functionality to FCP X, without the need for keyframes.

Evil Eye Pictures serves as lead visual effects house for the 3D feature produced by James Cameron, “Cirque Du Soleil Worlds Away.”

Valhalla Entertainment and Toei Animation team with All Nippon Entertainment Works (ANEW) to develop Toei’s iconic anime property “Gaiking.”

Loyalkaspar adds Creative Director Darryl Mascarenhas; scares up co-branded assignment for AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and Windows 8.

Publisher Mirye Software and e frontier announce the immediate availability of the free 3D content modeler and animator tool for Windows.

Luma Pictures brings aboard creative director/VFX supervisor Simon Mowbray, formerly of Zoic Studios.

e-on software announces the availability of Carbon Scatter 2, the company's advanced instancing plugin for 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema 4D.

Digital production studio Brickyard VFX winterizes the hero car reveal for the GMC Sierra holiday campaign, turning a desert landscape into a seasonally snow-covered expanse.

New extension release integrates customer feedback into product development to optimize high-end visual effects and editing workflow.

Syfy acquires the U.S. rights for the "Doctor Who" spinoff, “K9”, to premiere on Christmas Day.

Buffalo Gal Pictures and Entremedia Digital Films merge talents and services to create a full media production studio, Buffalo Media Group.

Autodesk, Inc. announces that the new Autodesk Smoke 2013, professional video editing software is now shipping.

Spiral Graphics announces the latest version of its seamless texture, animation, and HDRI environment map editor, Genetica.