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To The Aotg.com Community,

It is with a heavy heart that we announce we will no longer be updating Aotg.com. Back in 2007, when we started, there was a lack of access to information about film, television, and commercial editing. We wanted to fix that by creating a central location for content about editing to be stored.

Since then, we've watched the amount of content about editing on the internet grow exponentially. We've also watched social media tools come and go with that growth. Does anyone remember Google Wave!? These social media tools changed how people access and search for media and information. People tend to turn to Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram for their news and information, and those are all great tools to promote your sites, but as a site that aggregates links to other sites for users, it just doesn't work for us.

We will keep the site live but archive the ability to add links and comments. We will keep our database live with the links for those who desire to use it to search for editing information and research.

Our podcast, The Cutting Room, will move over to the Filmmakeru.com website and will continue to be a place for interviews with editors and other film professionals.

Everyone who worked for Aotg.com loved what we created and are proud that we could help so many editors find content that spoke to them.

I look forward to seeing everyone at the various post events worldwide in the coming years!

Yours truly,
Gordon Burkell
Aotg.com Founder

Making Sped Up Footage look better in AE

April 3, 2014, 03:50 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/04/making-sped-footage...

Charles Yeager offers a couple of quick tips for getting footage that has been sped-up to look more believable and realistic. There are times when you would want to have some footage play back faster than it was shot, but simple chaining the speed at which the clip plays may give you more pronounced visual distractions that will loose the sale of the shot.

THE MONUMENTS MEN: Jon Neill – VFX Supervisor

April 3, 2014, 12:28 PM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=6462

He had a pretty hands off approach to the visual effects, relying on Angus to interpret what he wanted. Ultimately, the visual effects needed to be invisible and photorealistic, not interrupting the narrative in any way. We concentrated on being as subtle and historically accurate as possible.

Understanding and Using the Step effector

April 2, 2014, 12:40 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/04/understanding-using...

You most likely have seen the step effector in Action. Quite popular over the last few years, the step effector is responsible for objects that fold/unfold or build up in an animation. Animator Tyler Jordan offers a foundation look at creating an animation that “builds upwards” in Cinema 4D but using C4D’s Step Effector.

Create an Easy Halftone Effect

March 30, 2014, 10:35 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/create-easy-halfton...

Mikey Borup shows a clever little technique for creating a halftone effect in After Effects using a shape layer and a camera lens blur effect. As Mikey mentions in the tutorial, there are likely many ways to create one type of an effect, and this represents just one of them.

Boris FX delivers a Complete Library of Effects in

March 26, 2014, 07:16 PM

http://www.videomaker.com/videonews/2014/03/boris-...

Boris Continuum Complete 9 is the latest offering from Boris FX. Boris Continuum Complete 9 updates many of the vfx and transitions users are used to, and introduces plenty of new features as well.

‘Second Coming’ Scores in 3D

March 25, 2014, 10:16 PM

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/filmart-second-c...

Proving that 3D is still a concept with business legs in Asia, All Rights Entertainment has done brisk sales business on stereoscopic horror film “The Second Coming.”

The Suckers Bet

March 21, 2014, 07:33 AM

http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/the-suc...

Some in the VFX community are going starry-eyed over some potential carve out for VFX in the CA film subsidy bill. Some have been given the impression that if we continue support for the legal effort to place anti-subsidy duties on subsidized visual effects these provisions will be thrown out and it will be all ADAPT’s fault!

James Cameron on the Future of 3D for Films and Do

March 20, 2014, 07:47 AM

http://wolfcrow.com/blog/james-cameron-on-the-futu...

The Hollywood Reporter has two video interviews of James Cameron at the 3D Creative Summit. The first one, the keynote address, has Cameron urge filmmakers to “go nuts” and not be conservative when experimenting with 3D...

Buf at 30: VFX Studio Reshapes For the Future

March 19, 2014, 03:29 PM

http://variety.com/2014/film/features/buf-at-30-ra...

“When filmmakers want a shot that’s never been seen before and don’t know how to do it, they come to us,” says Pierre Buffin, CEO of Paris-based Buf Compagnie, neatly encapsulating the service behind the growth of his company, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

Thank You New York

March 17, 2014, 06:31 AM

http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/thank-y...

New York VFX professional Bradley Friedman wrote a guest post on The Wrap explaining why he feels our legal effort to place anti-subsidy duties on subsidized VFX is important. Dear Hollywood: Fix VFX, It Will Fix the Movie Biz for You...

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