Channel 4 creates 'home for animation' (Guardian Unlimited)
Channel 4 has created what it hopes will be an online home for the UK's animation community. By Jemima Kiss

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. and Releases Annual Digital Media ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CHICAGO----William Blair & Company initiated research coverage of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. with a Market Perform rating and an Aggressive Growth company profile and released its third annual report on the future of the digital media industry.

Autodesk Maya Software Serves as Animation Platform for New Star Wars: The Clone Wars Animated Feature Film and TV ... (Broadcast Newsroom)
Lucasfilm Ltd. and Lucasfilm Animation are using Autodesk, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: ADSK) Autodesk Maya software to create the upcoming television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, just as they did to create the feature-length animated film that is now in theaters.

Pausch prize goes to Disney-Pixar animation president Catmull (East Bay Business Times)
The first annual award honoring late Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Randy Pausch will go to Ed Catmull, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios.

SONY 4K PROJECTORS POWER COMPUTER ANIMATION FESTIVAL (Post Magazine)
LOS ANGELES – Sony's projection technology was recently used during the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival in Los Angeles. The festival aimed to explore the expanding horizons of visual representation from entertainment to science and presented animations on a 70-foot screen and the downtown Nokia Theater.