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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

Jar Jar Binks was nearly a practical suit and a CG

May 24, 2019, 05:54 AM

https://beforesandafters.com/2019/05/24/jar-jar-bi...

Whatever you think of Jar Jar Binks – the fully computer-generated Gungan played by Ahmed Best and crafted by ILM for The Phantom Menace – he was a game-changer in visual effects. It was, essentially, the first main CG character in a feature film, one brought to life by Best performing on set with the other actors and via motion capture.

Channeling Back to the Future for Endgame's VFX

May 18, 2019, 03:35 AM

https://beforesandafters.com/2019/05/18/how-vfx-ch...

One of Avengers: Endgame’s big spoilers is the fact that several main characters go back in time to New York during the major clash that occurred there during The Avengers (2012). Staging scenes that offered glimpses of the past battle, but also other ‘angles’ or characters within that past world was a huge logistical challenge, including for the visual effects artists on the film.

Burbank-based Barnstorm VFX Studio Expands to Vanc

May 11, 2019, 07:12 AM

https://variety.com/2019/artisans/news/silicon-val...

Barnstorm VFX, the company behind the visual effects on Amazon Studios’ “The Man in the High Castle” (pictured above), “HBO’s Silicon Valley” and CBS’ “Strange Angel,” has opened a new facility in Vancouver, British Columbia. The move positions the boutique digital effects, design and production shop to take advantage of expanding work north of the border as well as British Columbia’s highly competitive tax incentives.

Lost Boys graduates enter into VFX workforce

April 24, 2019, 05:28 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Press-Center/Daily-New...

MONTREAL — Lost Boys Studios’ Montreal School of Visual Effects (Campus D’Effets Visuels), which recently marked its first full year in operation, has successfully placed a number of students into VFX industry positions. The Montreal School’s (https://lostboys-studios.com) first group of students – those who graduated in October 2018 - are now working at studios that include Meduzart, Mill Film and MPC. The School’s second group of students, who began training in November, will g...

Going back to 'Pleasantville': when doing a DI was

April 22, 2019, 06:23 AM

https://beforesandafters.com/2019/04/22/going-back...

PLEASANTVILLE VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR CHRIS WATTS ON BRINGING THROUGH A REVOLUTION IN SCANNING/FILM-OUTS, THE UNEXPECTED USE OF SHAKE, AND THE FILM’S HARDEST SHOTS (THEY’RE NOT WHAT YOU THINK).

How do you make VFX for a history that didn’t ex

April 15, 2019, 06:28 AM

https://beforesandafters.com/2019/04/15/how-do-you...

Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle is the story of an alternative early 1960’s in which World War II ended differently, and the United States has been divided into the Greater Nazi Reich and the Japanese Pacific States. For the show’s visual effects team, that premise created the need to help devise imagery – such as locations, vehicles and events – that appeared to be of historical accuracy.

The small VFX details in ‘Game of Thrones’

April 14, 2019, 06:11 AM

https://beforesandafters.com/2019/04/14/the-small-...

We are SO close to the final season of Game of Thrones that I thought I’d re-publish this short story from vfxblog back from season 7.

How stop-motion and VFX meet in Laika's Missing Li

April 12, 2019, 06:33 AM

https://beforesandafters.com/2019/04/12/how-stop-m...

When you think of stop-motion animated films, you think of artists meticulously hand-animating a puppet, snapping a frame, and doing that for hours or even days for a shot that might only last seconds on screen. But with films from Laika, that can often be just the start of the process of bringing a shot to life. This is because the studio also makes significant use of visual effects in the form of CG characters, set extensions and clean-up work in creating the final frames.

ILM's Rob Bredow on making the Solo

April 12, 2019, 06:33 AM

https://beforesandafters.com/2019/04/12/ilms-rob-b...

It’s not every day that the visual effects supervisor for a film is also the author AND the photographer of that film’s ‘making of’ book. But that’s exactly the case with Industrial Light & Magic Presents: Making Solo: A Star Wars Story, for which VFX supe and co-producer Rob Bredow documented the process of making the Ron Howard film with rare first-hand access.

ProRes RAW vs Blackmagic RAW

April 9, 2019, 06:03 AM

https://www.cinema5d.com/prores-raw-vs-blackmagic-...

ProRes RAW was announced a year ago at NAB 2018. While this format is impressive, the actual camera and NLE support have been very slow. At NAB 2019, we got a chance to talk about the future of it with Atomos’ CEO Jeromy Young.

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