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Second Screen Event Kicks Off Aug 23
2nd Screen Global Con presents “Everything Small Screen,” a family-friendly expo and conference featuring kids’ entertainment, animation, second-screen, tech, and CGI.
SIGGRAPH Previews 2013 Production Sessions
SIGGRAPH 2013 releases an early preview of its schedule of production sessions to be featured at this year’s conference and as part of the Computer Animation Festival.
LOOK Effects Helps Secure Funding for Wes Anderson Feature
VFX company LOOK Effects helps “The Grand Budapest Hotel” find financial support from Baden-Württemberg’s regional funding agency.
Spot Welders Launches VFX Company Shipping + Handling
Editorial house Spot Welders launches Shipping + Handling, headed up by VFX supervisor Casey Price and executive producer J. Patrick McElroy.
Holbrooks Animates Red Cross PSA
Blacklist’s Holbrooks, Y&R New Zealand and Flying Fish team up to create the spot, “Parcel,” for Red Cross New Zealand.
Seth MacFarlane Guest Voices 'The Simpsons'
SVA Announces 2013 Dusty Festival Winners
Winners are announced for the 2013 edition of the New York School of Visual Art’s Dusty Film & Animation Festival and Awards.
Method Studios Announces New Top Animation Hires
Beyoncé Records New Song for 'Epic'
Recording star Beyoncé creates an original song, “Rise Up,” for the upcoming Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios motion picture, “Epic,” for which she also voices one of the lead characters.
Framestore Creates CG Audrey Hepburn for Galaxy
London-based visual effects company uses pioneering VFX techniques to bring Audrey Hepburn back to the screen in a commercial campaign for AMV BBDO and Galaxy chocolate.
Disney Channel Promotes Adam Bonnett
Disney Channel promotes Adam Bonnett to the newly created position of executive vice president, Original Programming, Disney Channels Worldwide.
Buster Beefs Up Creative Talent Roster
Buster signs Joseph Kiely as the company’s new Executive Creative Director for motion graphics, and Neville Burtis as Executive Creative Director of the agency’s print, outdoor and digital division.
Jason Graves to Conduct Joystick 5.0 Symphony Concerts
SCORE Concert Productions, the Malmo Symphony Orchestra and Bandai Namco Partners Sweden announce Jason Graves as the guest conductor for Joystick 5.0.
Google Doodle Celebrates Saul Bass
Designer of famed title sequences for Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese gets elaborate animated tribute.
Worker Studio Announces 'Phil Hartman’s Flat TV' Feature
Animation and visual effects company Worker Studio secures the option to produce an animated property based on the comedy album, “Phil Hartman’s Flat TV.”
Byron Howard to Helm New Disney Film
Jason Bateman is in talks to voice a starring role in a new Walt Disney Animation feature project that will be directed by “Tangled” director Byron Howard.
Sony Taps Shane Black for 'Doc Savage'
Sony Pictures Entertainment closes its deal with Shane Black to co-write and direct “Doc Savage,” which Black is eyeing as his next film.