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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

Controlling Subdivision - Cinema 4D

December 24, 2013, 10:50 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/12/cinema-4d-controlli...

Offering a simple solution to speed up dynamics in Cinema 4D by using proxy objects and altering the resolution of objects in the scene, Ben Keating shows how to using Xpresso to create a subdivision control and a proxy switch.

Arnold Render - Edit Scene Source Files

December 20, 2013, 01:29 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/12/arnold-render-edit-...

Visual effects artist Andrew Hazelden shares syntax highlighting modules will make it easier for technical directors and vfx artists to edit the Arnold Scene Source files by providing simple syntax highlighting.

Exploring VRay's Paint Material

December 5, 2013, 10:49 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/12/cinema-4d-exploring...

With the latest update in VRayforC4D 1.8 which incorporates some of the latest features in V-Ray 2.0 in Cinema 4D, Josef Bsharah adds another addition to his “what’s new” series, this time offering a look and an exploration through the V-Ray Car Paint Material.

Smokestrings Dynamic Smoke Generator

November 28, 2013, 01:39 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/maya-smokestrings-d...

What started out as a crowed sourced research project in finding out how to create a NURBS curve based on on a steady string of particles, later became the SmokeStrings Generator, which will allow you to recreate a smoke trail effect as an animated mesh ribbon.

VFX Artists to Protest Obama Visit

November 26, 2013, 11:11 AM

http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-fea...

Early this year, FX artists faced a bitter irony. Life of Pi won Best Director and Best Visual FX at the Academy Awards, but the FX company that created the incredible visuals, Rhythm and Hues, had just gone bankrupt. It’s hard to imagine FX companies going out of business, but they’ve been going through a hard time lately, which is thanks to studios underbidding movies, and outsourcing jobs.

AE/Creating a Character Head Using Displacement

November 24, 2013, 07:45 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/after-effects-creat...

Sharing his character animation techniques and workflow, David Legion starts a nine part tutorial series which focuses on the character’s face including lip-sync, rigging and animation.

7 Bonus Transformation Tools

November 23, 2013, 01:27 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/maya-7-bonus-tool-t...

Transformations which may include move, scale and rotate are ubiquitously taken for granted, being commonplace not only in Maya, but everywhere else. What if you want to do some unique transforming?

SynthEyes Adds a Robust 3D Tracker

November 20, 2013, 12:00 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/syntheyes-adds-a-ro...

Andersson Technologies LLC released SynthEyes 1311, adding 3D Planar Tracking capabilities to its already impressive suite of tracking and match moving tools, making it simple to track shots, using even a single planar tracker to define a camera or object path.

New hologram tech created with Tiny Nanoantennas

November 18, 2013, 05:37 AM

http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/8...

Researchers have created tiny holograms using a "metasurface" capable of the ultra-efficient control of light, representing a potential new technology for advanced sensors, high-resolution displays and information processing.

Prime Focus Blasts Off With Gravity

November 15, 2013, 07:17 PM

http://3droundabout.com/2013/11/10617/prime-focus-...

The film opens like a 3D IMAX documentary. Astronauts floating in the largest void possible, space. The 3D draws us into an incredibly immersive 13 minute opening scene that culminates in the most intense destruction imaginable.

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