The 16th annual D.I.C.E. Awards have been handed out in Las Vegas, with indie game Journey one of the major winners.

Behind the scenes of Mikros’ shape-shifting robot for a Total lubricants spot. Includes a befores and afters breakdown video.

Two of the commercials up for nomination tonight at the VES Awards are by Framestore. We take a look at Pepsi’s ‘Crowd Surfing’, featuring some unique crowd animation, and the Nissan Altima ‘Wouldn’t it be cool?’ spot which deconstructs a car.

We talk to Digital Domain visual effects supervisor Aladino Debert about ‘Biomorph’, a promo spot for Nike’s Flyknit tech that is nominated for a VES Award for both Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial and Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Commercial or Broadcast Program.

Industry website The Wrap is reporting that visual effects studio Rhythm & Hues is to receive an ’emergency $20 million capital infusion from three major Hollywood studios in order to keep its doors open through April’, citing three sources with knowledge of the situation.

Prime Focus London’s Commercials division is to be placed into administration, according to a ‘Company Update’ regulatory story posted on the London Stock Exchange’s website, and on Prime Focus London PLC’s corporate site.

We don’t normally publish press releases at fxguide, but the new version of Silhouette V5 deserves a callout. New features like Imagineer-licensed planar tracking, IK rotoscoping, and new shape-baed morphing make this a major release. Click through for full details…

House of Moves has developed a powerful game engine pipeline that is now being used internally on TV spots. This expansion by HOM is both extremely flexible with directors seeing their final imagery much earlier, but assets can move across almost all media, from games to print.

The nominees for the 17th annual Art Directors Guild awards have been announced, and with the cross-over now between production design and visual effects we list the films, shows and TVCs under consideration.

Marc Rienzo recently wrote, directed and vfx supervised spots for the New York Mets, one in particular took the Mets way into the future via motion capture.

The 7 things you need to know about Red Giants Magic Bullet Range, – for those lost but wanting to check out these great tools.

Bryce Bayer, the Eastman Kodak scientist who invented a now pivotal color filter for digital photography that bears his name, has passed away. Bayer, 83, died on November 13th in Bath, Maine.