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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

Animators Unearthed - Raimund Krumme

January 2, 2017, 08:04 AM

http://www.awn.com/animationworld/animators-uneart...

Raimund Krumme – the man whose work opened my eyes to indie animation way back in 1992 - turns minimalist line drawings into complex, imaginative, and often humorous meditations on class, power, mass media, and with an ironic twist, animation itself. Structured around an allegorical journey, Krumme’s exiled Keatonesque ‘everymen’ travel through barren, absurd, and often cruel landscapes in a quest for self-knowledge. The landscape also functions as an equation of a character’s state of...

Animators Unearthed - Yoriko Mizushiri

December 26, 2016, 08:27 AM

http://www.awn.com/animationworld/animators-uneart...

You don’t see a lot of sensuality in animation, especially of the surreal type that involves everyday stuff like snow, futons, and strawberries, but such is the way of the work of Japanese animator, Yoriko Mizushiri. Although she’s only made three short films to date (Futon, 2012, Kamakura, 2013, Maku, 2014), they’ve all done well on the festival circuit and solidified Mizurshiri as an integral and unique voice in the animation world.

Hayao Miyazaki Not Impressed with AI-Programmed An

December 12, 2016, 05:48 PM

http://www.awn.com/news/hayao-miyazaki-not-impress...

A new video has been making the rounds on the internet showing the reaction of legendary filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki to a demonstration of experimental AI-created animation.

Zootopia and Kuba lead Annie Awards Noms

November 28, 2016, 10:31 AM

https://www.wheretowatch.com/2016/11/annie-awards-...

Walt Disney Animation’s rollicking Zootopia was a critical and commercial success, and now the film is feeling the love from the International Animated Film Society—Zootopia leads all the feature nominees for the 44th annual Annie Awards with 11 nominations. (You can read our interview with Zootopia's animator Darrin Butters here, and the animation supervisors here.) Right behind Disney's packed, exuberant smash is Laika's moving, deeply impressive Kubo and the Two Strings, which garndered t...

Making Sausage Party

November 6, 2016, 07:45 AM

http://deadline.com/2016/11/sausage-party-seth-rog...

When it comes to a bawdy, R-rated animated film, don’t count it out of Oscar season. As a refresher: 1999’s South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated in the best song category for “Blame Canada”, which wound up being an unforgettable musical number during the awards telecast with Robin Williams.

Bringing Jungle Animals to Life for Legend of Tarz

October 17, 2016, 05:50 AM

http://www.awn.com/news/rodeo-fx-brings-jungle-ani...

MONTREAL -- Rodeo FX completed nearly 200 visual effects shots for The Legend of Tarzan, including action sequences with CG hippos and crocodiles, where realistic water interaction was critical for the success of the shots. The studio’s VFX work helped lift these animal sequences to a level where they look like scenes from a nature documentary. This is the first major production on which Rodeo FX has created CG creatures, adding to its repertoire of VFX skills.

Character Animator Brings Live Animation to the Ma

October 14, 2016, 12:11 PM

https://www.aotg.com/character-animator-brings-live-animation-to-the-ma/

One of the most groundbreaking and mind-blowing presentations to come out of Adobe Video World was the new Character Animator demonstration. By tracking movements on your face, this new application can simulate a live animated figure mimicking your facial expressions and head movements. However, in recent months, the focus of the platform has shifted in a much more revolutionary direction.

Lucas Animation Makes Some Big Changes

September 26, 2016, 10:41 AM

http://www.slashfilm.com/new-lucasfilm-animation-p...

Just recently, Ben Sherwood, the President of Disney-ABC Television Group broke the hearts of Star Wars fans by saying that there were no plans to get a live-action Star Wars series off the ground. However, he did confirm that there was development at Lucasfilm Animation at Disney XD regarding the next animated series set in a galaxy far, far away. Now some shuffling behind the scenes further confirms that some new Lucasfilm Animation projects are on the way, and with that also comes big changes...

Loren Bouchard Speaks

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http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2016/09/lore...

The creator/showrunner of Bob's Burgers speaks...

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