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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

Workflow de photogrammétrie pour les VFX

February 2, 2015, 10:41 AM

http://www.3dvf.com/actualite-12040-workflow-photo...

Yvan Galtié of Collectif21 present a video on photogrammetry (3D scanning from photos) for visual effects. The aim, conform the model from a conventional photogrammetry VFX pipeline. Establishment of a classical topology used UVs

How they did it - The Superbowl Spots

February 2, 2015, 06:24 AM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/how-they-did-it-be...

And just like that, Super Bowl XLIX is over, and with it the famous yearly run of Super Bowl commercials. We've picked two of the most popular spots to break down - Snickers' 'Brady Bunch' ad starring Danny Trejo and Mercedes-Benz's creature-filled 'Fable'.

Computer graphics: It took just seventeen years to

February 2, 2015, 06:21 AM

http://www.redsharknews.com/technology/item/2329-c...

With computer graphics power increasing faster than Moore's Law, we've come a long way in seventeen years... Tomb RaiderLara CroftVirtual Realityimproving graphicscomputer graphicsCGI

Interviews of the Week #5

February 1, 2015, 10:06 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=10869

Here is the recap of my interviews of the week #5. So you won’t miss any of them.

The best VFX breakdown reels: January 2015

January 31, 2015, 01:24 PM

http://www.cgchannel.com/2015/01/the-best-vfx-brea...

Honorable mention: matte painter Anthony Eftekhari‘s latest demo reel was uploaded to Vimeo in December, but it’s a stunning collection of work from Blizzard’s recent cinematics, with some beautiful breakdowns.

FMX 2015 Looks to the Future

January 31, 2015, 07:10 AM

http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/fmx-2015-l...

The FMX conference on animation, effects, games and transmedia — set for May 5-8 in Stuttgart this year — will be looking at a broad range of topics related to the future of the industry as they relate to “Immersion and Virtual Realities.” The event will bring together numerous industry experts to explore the impact of these technologies on financing, content creation, distribution and viewing behavior across platforms. As in previous years, attendees can continue these conversations at ...

UNBROKEN: Philippe Theroux – VFX Supervisor –

January 30, 2015, 01:32 PM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=10826

Philippe Theroux started his career in the visual effects at Hybride in 1997. He has worked on all major projects of the studio such as SIN CITY, 300, THE HUNGER GAMES or AVATAR.

The Barbershop at Weta: Sci-Tech Winner Explained

January 30, 2015, 05:13 AM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/barbershop-at-weta...

Some of the most stunning recent digital hair and fur work on film - think Caesar, Maurice and hundreds of apes in the new Planet of the Apes films, Middle-earth creatures from the Hobbit trilogy, Snowy in Tintin - has come out of Weta Digital, owing in part to the studio’s Barbershop hair groom system. The toolset is receiving a Sci-tech Award, and fxguide spoke to the award recipients about how Barbershop is used and was developed at Weta Digital.

Marco Polo | Spin VFX - Breakdowns

January 29, 2015, 05:51 AM

http://www.spinvfx.com/work/marco-polo/

VFX Supervisor Kyle Menzies and Emmy nominated VFX Producer J.P. Giamos led the team to create digital environments to set the scene for the Venetian merchant’s travels, including the village of Karakorum, crowd duplication for Kublai Kahn’s troops, as well as 3D props and Wire/Rig removals to assist Kung-Fu stunts.

The Visual Effects of Black Sea

January 28, 2015, 09:50 AM

http://cinefex.com/blog/black-sea/

The submarine movie is a staple of cinema. You might even say it’s a classic sub-genre, with films like Run Silent, Run Deep, The Hunt for Red October, The Enemy Below and Das Boot ensuring its continuing appeal over the years.

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