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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

The Enduring Power of Stop-Motion Animation

April 6, 2020, 07:12 PM

https://filmschoolrejects.com/rebooted-short-film/

When it comes to creature effects, trends come and go in Hollywood. From latex suits to CGI, at any given time, the silver screen has its favorites. And falls from grace can hurt something awful. Just ask Phil. In the 1960s, he was hot shit. But now, in an era of motion capture, no one wants to hire a stop-motion animated skeleton monster.

Pixar did some greenscreen experiments for 'Onward

April 6, 2020, 01:10 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/04/06/pixar-did-...

Pixar’s Onward is out soon on home entertainment release, and one of the featurettes that will be included is about how the team ‘conjured’ Dad, the character which is initially just a pair of pants.

Stan Winston's Monster Magic Is on Full Display in

April 5, 2020, 03:57 PM

https://filmschoolrejects.com/gargoyles-1972-revie...

Welcome to 4:3 & Forgotten — a weekly column in which Rob Hunter and I get to look back at TV terrors that scared adults (and the kids they let watch) across the limited airwaves of the ’70s.

VFX studios share shots of their crews working fro

April 4, 2020, 02:56 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/04/04/vfx-studio...

I started seeing, too, a bunch of fun Zoom captures or other ‘home set-up’ images from the studios, so I’d thought I’d embed some here. Note, there’s of course a whole lot of VFX studios who have successfully implemented remote working – many of which have been operating like this for a number of weeks already – that might not appear here. This listing below is only where I found pics of the crew (or, in some cases, pics of the crew’s cats).

1917 Editor Interview: Lee Smith on Being Invsible

April 3, 2020, 08:06 PM

https://www.slashfilm.com/1917-editor-interview/

The “hidden man” is how editor Lee Smith sees himself in 1917. Not for a second did Smith want audiences paying attention to his cuts or tricks, but to instead immerse themselves in director Sam Mendes‘ World War I story, which is constructed to take place in one seemingly unbroken take. Despite the obvious technical wizardry and razzle-dazzle, they pulled it off. Audiences were caught up in the feeling and exhilaration of 1917, not the craft of 1917.

The Perfect Time to Learn FCPX

April 1, 2020, 12:58 PM

https://www.cinema5d.com/final-cut-pro-x-90-days-f...

Let’s face it, there are a lot of great NLE’s out there. We all have our favorites and many of us use more than one. If Final Cut Pro X is not one of them, now is the perfect time to learn. If you’re stuck working from home with time on your hands, head over to the Apple FCPX web page and download a 90 day trial.

The Coolest Effect in 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'

March 31, 2020, 06:13 PM

https://filmschoolrejects.com/nightmare-on-elm-str...

Thanks to the creative carte-blanche of its villain, the original A Nightmare on Elm Street is full of surreal practical effects. When you’re a demonic wise-guy who hunts victims in their dreams, you’re able to pull some freaky, nightmarish shit. From body bags erupting with eels to clawed hands emerging from bathtubs and stairs turning to mush, when it comes to terrorizing teens, Freddy Krueger likes to dream big.

Resolve Editor Pro Online Course - Switch Easily t

March 31, 2020, 12:09 PM

https://www.cinema5d.com/resolve-editor-pro-online...

Resolve Editor Pro is a compact online course specifically designed for editors who want to switch to Resolve for editing. It covers every step of editing and also features introductory lessons to the effects & compositing section, the audio section, and the color grading section. Members also receive the course keyboard layout, a free LUT pack containing 13 creative grading LUTs, and 6 custom made zoom transitions.

Will the Television and Video Industry Be Differen

March 27, 2020, 12:29 PM

https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/2253-wil...

We are in a very different and testing time at the moment. A lot of freelance editors are at home having had their work cancelled, some right up to September. They will be back at their keyboards hopefully some time this year, but the industry has changed.

Get to know destruction FX in Unreal Engine

March 27, 2020, 12:28 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/03/27/get-to-kno...

Readers of befores & afters would certainly have seen and read here about some of the big-budget destruction in the latest film and television projects.

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