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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 Art of Digital Faces

November 27, 2013, 05:30 AM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-art-of-digital...

Faces are the most recognized conduit of emotion. To quote John Cleese’s BBC documentary Faces, ‘We don’t put photos of our loved one’s feet on our walls and desks, we put pictures of their faces.” For a long time it has therefore been the target of computer graphics research to solve being able to produce CG photoreal faces. In this article we will explore the area of digital faces, focusing primarily on the work done by the team at USC ICT and the various companies and films they ha...

'VFX Soldier' Reveals Identity

November 26, 2013, 08:04 PM

http://www.awn.com/news/people/vfx-soldier-reveals...

The anonymous blogger behind the VFX Soldier blog revealed his identity today to lead the visual effects protest outside DreamWorks Animation in conjunction with President Obama’s visit.

Remembering Autodesk’s Stig Gruman

November 26, 2013, 02:02 PM

http://postperspective.com/2013/11/remembering-aut...

Autodesk VP Stig Gruman died this past Saturday. He was 51 years old. To say losing him is shocking would be a profound understatement. He leaves behind a wife and two sons. I have known Stig for years, meeting at different events and trade shows in various cities around the world. This goes back many […]

Autodesk’s Stig-Eric Gruman Dies at 51

November 26, 2013, 01:59 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2013/11/autodesks-stig-...

Autodesk VP of Media and Entertainment Sales Stig-Eric Gruman passed away on Saturday at the age of 51. Gruman had been with Autodesk's entertainment solutions division for nearly 15 years, holding positions in sales, finance, product development, product management, customer service, support and operations, the company said in a statement today. In addition to his work at Autodesk, Gruman led efforts to create the Visual Effects Society Student Award, said VES Executive Director Eric Roth, who ...

B is for Bullet Time

November 26, 2013, 01:59 PM

http://cinefex.com/blog/b-is-for-bullet-time/

Bullet time famously hit the big screen in The Matrix. It was the technique behind the movie’s iconic slow motion shots, like the famous one where the camera spins around Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving as they grapple while floating in mid-air.

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November 26, 2013, 11:14 AM

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THE WORLD’S END: Frazer Chruchill

November 26, 2013, 11:13 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=5452

In 2010, Frazer Churchill had explained to us the work of Double Negative on SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD. He’s back on The Art of VFX at the occasion of his new collaboration with director Edgar Wright for THE WORLD’S END.

Katzenberg and Obama Not Target Of protest

November 25, 2013, 05:13 PM

http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/vfx-president-obam...

Barack Obama's visit to DreamWorks Animation tomorrow will be matched by a protest by the VFX professionals behind an anti-subsidy tariff campaign, but the

The Dark Side - Behind the VFX of Thor

November 25, 2013, 05:32 AM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-dark-side-behi...

With Thor: The Dark World, Marvel continues to cement its incredible reputation in bringing the studio’s Cinematic Universe to life, as well as continuing to broadening the worlds and characters that we see with inventive visual effects.

Dave Rand on Green Shirts Protest

November 24, 2013, 07:47 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/11/dave...

As was discussed in an earlier post, we've been informed that members at Dreamworks Animation are being urged to wear green shirts on Tuesday during President Obama's visit to the studio. The goal is to bring awareness of the plight of visual effects artists caused by the global prevalence and market distorting effects of entertainment tax subsidies.

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