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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

Why the Gridlock Scene in 'Sicario' Unbearably Ten

August 31, 2016, 05:57 AM

http://nofilmschool.com/2016/08/how-denis-villeneu...

How Villeneuve Made the Gridlock Scene in 'Sicario' Unbearably Tense.

How to Chroma Key in AE

August 31, 2016, 05:57 AM

https://www.rocketstock.com/blog/how-to-chroma-key...

Chroma key effects have more or less been used in filmmaking since the 1930s. While early technologies (and even computerized blue screen effects) might not have the same effect on us now as they did on audiences at the time, the process has basically remained the same. Now, in the age of digital workflows, the chroma key process has become accessible to anyone with a digital camera, some lights, a green or blue backdrop, and an editing software like After Effects.

6 Ways 'Sausage Party' Got Away With Screwing Its

August 27, 2016, 06:12 AM

http://www.cracked.com/blog/how-sausage-party-scre...

If you are reading this, you may be familiar with Sausage Party, which at the time of this writing is on its way to becoming one of the most successful talking-food movies of all time. You might have read some stuff about how raunchy or funny it is or isn't. I don't care about any of that. Whether they made a masterpiece or a turd, they apparently did it by treating their animators like trash.

Colour Grading with a Tangent Ripple

August 26, 2016, 04:53 AM

http://jonnyelwyn.co.uk/film-and-video-editing/col...

Learn how to set up and customise the new Tangent Ripple in DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro, FCPX. Plus check out early user reviews for more insights and tips!

#colour grading#tangent ripple
Peter Jackson's The Frighteners' VFX

August 25, 2016, 05:01 PM

http://oneperfectshotdb.com/news/peter-jacksons-th...

Just last month, The Frighteners celebrated its 20 year anniversary. While not a blockbuster success, the film cemented Peter Jackson’s directing chops even before he went on to make the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Frighteners, now instantly recognizable as a classic cult hit, also introduced many to the talents of Weta Ltd (as it was then known) and the studio’s practical and CG capabilities – until then, the abilities of Jackson’s New Zealand effects facilities had been relatively u...

Seeing more

August 25, 2016, 04:27 AM

https://vfxblog.com/2016/08/25/seeing-more/

It isn’t that long ago that the visual effects and animation industries were concentrated mostly in Los Angeles. For lots of reasons (ask me again sometime) the work is now spread throughout the globe.

IPHONE 4S LOOKS SO GOOD. ALL POST?

August 23, 2016, 07:23 AM

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/dreamstates-review-...

DIY Filmmaking - 'Dreamstates's' Anisia Uzeyman shoots her first effort with iPhone 4 and 4s.

Sausage Party and Nitrogen - an open letter

August 23, 2016, 06:38 AM

http://vfxforum.org/2016/08/sausage-party-nitrogen...

Many of you will have heard in the last week about working conditions on the recently-released “Sausage Party”. What started in the comments section on Cartoon Brew has now been reported by The Washington Post, The LA Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and many more besides. It’s sad to say, but stories of poor working conditions are becoming an embarrassingly regular occurrence in our industry.

5 Major Innovations in Stop-Motion Animation

August 23, 2016, 06:38 AM

https://www.inverse.com/article/20056-5-major-inno...

stop-motion animator can spend a week manipulating a small puppet around frame-by-frame for a total of just three seconds of footage. Why would anyone want to do that?

The Ire of Dr. Monreau - On-set tales from the FX

August 22, 2016, 04:54 AM

https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/the-ire-of-dr-m...

It is widely acknowledged that the 1996 film The Island of Dr. Moreau was a deeply troubled production. Richard Stanley was the original director on the project, but after four years in development he was fired by New Line only three days into filming in northern Queensland, Australia. Stanley was replaced by John Frankenheimer, who inherited a myriad of challenges - from the demanding and oftentimes eccentric stars Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer, to the former director Stanley sneaking back on se...

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