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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

BREAKING: DreamWorks Animation Closing PDI

January 23, 2015, 05:17 AM

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News broke late today that DreamWorks Animation will formally close the doors of Pacific Data Images (PDI) after thirty years of producing such animated hits as Shrek 1-3, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and providing visual effects for films like Minority Report, AI Artificial Intelligence, and Mission Impossible II. PDI will bear the brunt of the layoffs of more than 500 employees, with some DreamWorks Animation workers also getting their pink slips. The move will be effective immediately.

DreamWorks Animation Reducing Output Following Lay

January 22, 2015, 05:21 PM

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Once upon a time, Jeffrey Katzenberg added a new shade to the genre of animated films with a movie called Shrek. The “anti-Disney” film was borne out of Katzenberg being shoved out of Disney (where he spearheaded films like The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast as chairman), with an aim to poke fun at the cutesy nature of the Mouse House’s output.

BREAKING: DreamWorks Will Shut Down PDI/DreamWorks

January 22, 2015, 05:21 PM

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BREAKING! DreamWorks just announced to it staff that it will shut down one of its main studios, PDI DreamWorks, in Redwood City, California. The closing of that studio will begin immediately. The beleaguered animation studio also announced that 500 jobs will be eliminated, far more than the previously expected number of layoffs. The studio is cutting back its slate to two DreamWorks-produced films per year: one original film and one sequel.

At DisneyToon Studios

January 22, 2015, 06:02 AM

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But "At Walt Disney Animation Studios In A New Location" would be closer to the truth.

Lego Movie snub signals Oscar is growing old

January 21, 2015, 05:05 AM

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Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s flamboyant tale should have made the Academy’s shortlist ahead of the likes of How to Train Your Dragon 2. Is the animation award becoming too conservative?

#246 January 2015

January 21, 2015, 05:04 AM

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Animation Magazine issue #246 - January 2015

Q&A: Archer’s Matt Thompson

January 21, 2015, 05:04 AM

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When last we saw spy Sterling Archer, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, trying to sell cocaine after the agency he worked for, ISIS, was disbanded. Dubbed Archer: Vice, the fifth season also saw Archer and Lana Kane, voiced by Aisha Tyler, had become the parents to a baby girl.

Exclusive Peek at Animating 'Madea'

January 20, 2015, 08:23 PM

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Having conquered the big screen, filmmaker Tyler Perry and his most famous creation, Madea, have come to animation.

Making of 'Lego Movie': 7 Years, a Trip to Denmark

January 20, 2015, 01:42 PM

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When Dan Lin visited Lego's headquarters in Denmark in 2008 to pitch his idea for a movie based on the colorful plastic bricks, the producer was given the grand tour. He was shown the Lego archives, where samples of every Lego toy produced over the past 57 years (all 4,720 of them) are preserved for posterity. He visited a factory where some 19 billion blocks are manufactured each year. He even got a peek into Lego's top-secret design lab, secured behind a reinforced steel door and guarded by 24...

Short Stuff: Animation/Live Action Oscar Noms.

January 20, 2015, 10:55 AM

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One of the delicious joys of Oscar season — beyond dissecting the nominations and speculating on who will win, of course — is the opportunity to catch up on the short form nominees all in one sitting. This year marks the tenth anniversary that the shorts in each category — animation, live action, and documentary — will each be grouped together and have their own theatrical release courtesy of ShortsHD.

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