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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

Some VFX nostalgia: 'Harry Potter' quidditch and t

May 8, 2020, 01:27 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/05/08/some-vfx-n...

A couple of effects-related videos have surfaced on Warner Bros. Entertainment’s YouTube page that showcase how Quidditch was brought to life over the original Harry Potter series, and what Nick Dudman’s creature shop involved for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Framestore's film division makes key hires

May 7, 2020, 05:09 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Press-Center/Daily-New...

LONDON — Framestore (framestore.com) made three key hires across its film division. Two-time VES Award-winner Graham Page joins the company as VFX supervisor after 14 years with Dneg. There, he supervised the company’s work on blockbuster titles such as Avengers: Endgame,  Captain Marvel and  Avengers: Infinity War. He brings Framestore’s tally of VFX supervisors to 24.

Crafting the Sound of 'Contagion' - with Sound Sup

May 6, 2020, 07:21 PM

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and washing, social distancing, remote working, and staying at home unless absolutely necessary — this is our current reality in the COVID-19 pandemic. But nearly a decade ago, it’s a scenario that director Steven Soderbergh and writer Scott Z. Burns presented in Contagion (2011), which is considered to be one of the most scientifically accurate pandemic films out there.

How 'The Willoughbys' used 2D effects in a 3D worl

April 22, 2020, 12:49 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/04/22/how-the-wi...

“The thing is,” The Willoughbys head of effects H​elén Ahlberg detailed to me during our discussion about Bron Animation’s new animated feature, “we were trying to avoid simulations for this project. Which is interesting, because that’s mainly what you do with effects! What we were trying to do was get it to look hand-made and not CG.”

'Empire Strikes Back' at 40: The iconic matte pain

April 15, 2020, 01:07 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/04/15/empire-str...

The art of matte painting has captivated audiences since the dawn of cinema. And if you ever needed to find a film to showcase so many different matte paintings – and varied techniques behind them – that certainly could be The Empire Strikes Back, which is on the verge of celebrating its 40th anniversary.

How They Did The Chest Chomp Scene in 'The Thing'

April 14, 2020, 05:25 PM

https://filmschoolrejects.com/the-thing-chest-chom...

As far as gobsmacking creature effects are concerned, John Carpenter‘s The Thing is in a league of its own. It is the holy, gore-soaked church of sci-fi horror. And you can’t properly praise The Thing‘s FX makeup without paying dues to Rob Bottin, the wiz-kid heir apparent to the mentor-mentee lineage of Dick Smith and Rick Baker, whose abrupt exit from the industry in the early 2000s remains one of Hollywood’s great mysteries.

The 'Look' of Flo and the Machine

April 9, 2020, 12:11 PM

https://icolorist.com/2020/04/09/the-look-of-flo-a...

I first met Daniel Scalzo in Chicago when he attended my ICA training class in 2018. As a DP he had fantastic tour stories of working with notable artists like Pearl Jam, Peter Gabriel, Sting and Florence and the Machine. My parting comment was if you ever get down to Australia on a tour I’d love to see your workflow.

5 Tips for Project Managing a Video Edit Remotely

April 8, 2020, 01:00 PM

https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/project-managing-...

From planning your storyboard to collaborative editing apps, here’s a guide to navigating the challenges of managing a video editing project remotely.

Walter Murch, ACE by Steve Hullfish

April 8, 2020, 01:00 PM

https://www.provideocoalition.com/aotc-murch-bcpc/

In December of 2019, Walter Murch extended me a generous invitation to come see a screening of his documentary, Coup 53, in San Francisco. Shortly before I went – armed with a ton of questions of my own – I asked the Facebook group of Blue Collar Post Collective if there was anything they’d like to ask Murch. I took their questions with me and presented them in this interview.

Force Awakens Editors "Last Jedi tried to undo the

April 8, 2020, 01:00 PM

https://www.cbr.com/star-wars-force-awakens-editor...

Two editors close to Disney's Star Wars trilogy have spoken out against Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi, claiming the 2017 movie was designed to "undo" the franchise's arc.

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