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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

VFX notes from the ICG 'Mandalorian' s2 panel

December 22, 2020, 02:18 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/12/22/vfx-notes-...

Today, Local 600/ICG Magazine hosted an amazing panel on s2 of The Mandalorian, hosted by Executive Editor David Geffner, which dived into the LED Volume work and VFX from this season.

VFX Greats we Lost in 2020

December 21, 2020, 01:54 PM

https://www.animationmagazine.net/people/in-memori...

We had to bid farewell to an awfully large number of talented men and women who worked in the animation and visual effects business in 2020. We honor their memory on these pages and share our gratitude for the many artistic contributions they made to our world. A big thanks to animation veteran, author and educator Tom Sito, who is producing a virtual Afternoon of Remembrance on Saturday, January 30 at noon (PST) to honor these animation luminaries.

How MIDI files, Houdini and the art of animation m

December 11, 2020, 02:04 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/12/11/how-midi-f...

In Pixar’s upcoming Soul, directed by Pete Docter, one of the challenges the animation studio faced was depicting its main character Joe (Jamie Foxx) playing the piano, believably. That is, animating his fingers to hit the correct keys for the music he was playing.

Behind the VFX of 'The Christmas Chronicles 2'

December 10, 2020, 02:13 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/12/10/behind-the...

Working with director Chris Columbus, Weta Digital led an extensive effort to bring the world of Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles 2 to life. The film tells the story of how once-elf-now-human character Belsnickel (Julian Dennison) threatens to cancel Christmas, and how Santa Claus (Kurt Russell) and Mrs. Claus (Goldie Hawn) and their helpful elves and new-found human friends look to save the day.

In the LoUPE

December 2, 2020, 01:54 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/12/02/in-the-lou...

A new tool now available production and asset management is Tangent Labs’ LoUPE. It’s cloud-based and recently went live in the AWS Marketplace. LoUPE effectively offers an interface to aid in 3D content creation, and it came directly out of a real production—Tangent Animation’s animated Netflix film, Next Gen.

Animopus: The History of Visual Effects

November 26, 2020, 01:41 PM

https://www.spherevfx.com/thehistoryofvfx

Here is a fantastic reference of the history of VFX by Matt Leonard.

THE CROWN - Season 4: Andrew Scrase (VFX Superviso

November 24, 2020, 05:39 PM

https://www.artofvfx.com/the-crown-season-4-andrew...

Andrew Scrase started his career in visual effects in 2007 at DNEG. He then worked at One of Us before joining Framestore in 2019. He has worked on various shows including KICK-ASS, INTERSTELLAR, PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING and ALADDIN.

Multi-angle on ‘Jingle Jangle’: Part 2—Makin

November 23, 2020, 02:09 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/11/23/multi-angl...

The second part of befores & afters’ coverage of director David E. Talbert’s Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey looks at the creation of Don Juan Diego, a 12-inch matador who is invented by toymaker Jeronicus Jangle, but who does not want to be mass produced.

This year's b’Ars VFX event includes a Weta Digi

November 20, 2020, 01:48 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/11/20/this-years...

b’Ars, the Barcelona International Arts & VFX Fair, is happening November 27-28, all virtually. There are sessions with Framestore on Project Power, on the Godzilla vs Kong short that did the rounds recently, and on the future of filmmaking with a number of virtual production pros.

Dennis Muren on the origins of ‘Stained Glass Ma

November 2, 2020, 01:25 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/11/02/dennis-mur...

The VIEW Conference 2020 On-Demand Edition is now available—it features more than 100 sessions from the online VIEW Conference this year.

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