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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

Use Blender’s Cycles renderer inside Houdini wit

August 25, 2020, 01:13 PM

http://www.cgchannel.com/2020/08/tangent-animation...

Tangent Animation’s open-source hdCycles plugin lets VFX artists use Blender’s Cycles render engine as a viewport renderer within Houdini. Video posted by Tangent Animation technical director Ben Skinner.

Pixar Celebrates Voting and the 19th Amendment

August 19, 2020, 01:07 PM

https://www.pixarpost.com/2020/08/Pixar-Celebrates...

Pixar's internal communities, thePalette (people of color) and PixPride (LGBTQ) have collaborated to reflect, celebrate and share stories of voting.

Retro RenderMan: shading on Finding Nemo

July 31, 2020, 01:18 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/07/31/retro-rend...

If you’ve been following along with our retro RenderMan series – where we’ve been featuring previously published RenderMan materials – you’ll know that we recently dived into Pixar’s work behind Ratatouille. Now we’re jumping to Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo from 2003.

Retro RenderMan: shading food for 'Ratatouille'

July 22, 2020, 01:27 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/07/22/retro-rend...

In the past few weeks, befores & afters has been going retro with RenderMan, publishing previously published Pixar materials from days gone by that highlight some of the rendering highlights from Brad Bird’s Ratatouille. Our next piece on that film now covers the fine art of shading of food; preserving the required stylization of the film while also making the food particularly appealing.

JangaFX releases EmberGen 0.5.5

July 17, 2020, 01:05 PM

http://www.cgchannel.com/2020/07/jangafx-ships-emb...

The release adds a work-in-progress GPU particle system to the software, making it possible to generate finer details in smoke and fire simulations than the existing voxel-based simulation.

Framestore's tips for animating character tics

June 23, 2020, 01:29 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/06/23/we-used-th...

When Framestore was working on Charlie Bean’s Lady and the Tramp, a re-imagining of the classic Disney 2D-animated film, the VFX studio was called upon to animate several photoreal CG dogs.

10 Top Animation Presets and Templates for Premier

June 2, 2020, 07:29 PM

https://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/top-anim...

Historically, most animation has been created in After Effects. Not anymore. Premiere Pro now has a ton of new features and added integration with After Effects, making simple animation a breeze. Here are some of our favorite animation presets and motion graphics template packs for Premiere Pro that are sure to make your process more efficient and your animations stand out.

See the new features in Maya 2020.2 and Maya LT 20

May 28, 2020, 12:37 PM

http://www.cgchannel.com/2020/05/see-the-new-featu...

Autodesk has posted lists of new features in Maya 2020.2 and Maya LT 2020.2 in the online documentation for the 3D modelling and animation software.

10 Animated Features, 7 VR Project Selected to Com

May 18, 2020, 06:05 PM

https://www.awn.com/news/10-animated-features-7-vr...

Organizers of the 2020 Annecy International Animation Film Festival have announced the feature films and VR projects selected to screen in and out of official competition at this year’s first ever online edition. Running June 15-30, Annecy 2020 will bring together online many of the activities normally experienced during the event, including meetings, screenings, presentations, and business development opportunities.

Submit Your Technical Papers to SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

May 15, 2020, 04:54 PM

https://www.awn.com/news/submit-your-technical-pap...

The deadline for submissions to SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Papers program is closing in only one week's time! Here are the key dates / times...

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