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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

TAG-Right in Mainstream

December 22, 2013, 09:43 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/tag-...

The end of last week, an officer of Women in Animation as for stats regarding how many women were working in cartoonland. I told her the guild didn't have extensive documentation, but gave her what we'd been able to track here, here and here.

Back At Dreamworks Animation TV

December 21, 2013, 08:27 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/back...

Unlike DreamWorks Animation, which sits inside a Renaissance-style Italian village beside the L.A. River, DreamWorks Animation TV is housed near the top of a skyscraper next to the 134 Freeway. I bopped through the facility today and found a few things out. (Emphasis on few.)

At Dreamworks Animation

December 20, 2013, 06:01 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/at-d...

I spent the middle of my Wednesday at DreamWorks Animation (Glendale). A supervisor told me the trailer directly above had just gone out far and wide -- theaters, the T.V., the internet. A supervisor who'd recently seen the picture informed me:

The Making Of Chef Eric by Esteban Pacheco

December 20, 2013, 05:59 AM

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Chef Eric is one of the 4 main characters of The Fine Diner, a final modeling project I did at school a few years ago. Since then, I've wanted to texture and render one of the characters and I decided to go with Chef Eric.

VES Releases Standardized Camera Report

December 17, 2013, 04:18 AM

http://www.awn.com/news/technology/ves-releases-st...

Los Angeles -- The Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s professional honorary society, has released a standardized interchange for camera reports, allowing essential visual effects information to be better captured and transferred through production into the post-production visual effects arena. The VES worked in collaboration with leading VFX companies for more than a year to standardize data fields and specify data transfer formats and create a new universal system for providing reli...

Robot Chicken’s Born Again Virgin Christmas Spec

December 14, 2013, 09:27 AM

http://www.awn.com/articles/television/faves-toyla...

Whether you’re been naughty or nice, there’s at least one good reason to rejoice this holiday season: Robot Chicken is back to deck the halls with the Born Again Virgin Christmas Special. For those who haven’t followed the last six seasons of the Emmy-winning stop motion series, that essentially means more parodies of pop culture and yuletide traditions, plus a couple of choke-on-your-cocoa moments of laugh-out-loud hilarity starring some of your favorite childhood toys brought to life.

Turmoil?

December 14, 2013, 09:26 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/turm...

... All may not be ... rosy in toonland. Next year, for the first time in almost a decade, there will be no new Pixar film: The company announced it’s pushing The Good Dinosaur, originally slated for May 2014, all the way back to November 2015.

John Lee Hancock Delves into Disney’s Past for S

December 13, 2013, 10:45 AM

http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/john-lee-hancock-del...

In Saving Mr. Banks John Lee Hancock interprets the world of author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), telling the story behind bringing the iconic novel, Mary Poppins and its titular character to the screen. Working from the script by Kelly Marcel, Hancock further developed the story with the writer as he prepared to direct the film. The original idea for the movie came from a portion of the screenplay on the life of P.L. Travers written by Australian scribe, Sue Smith.

Owning the Franchise

December 13, 2013, 05:24 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/owni...

... “Turbo FAST” and the DWA shows that follow have been designed to serve as a marketing template on how to build a franchise. A hit show will help sell more mobile games, toys and other merchandise — all of which can lead to the greenlight of a film sequel. While the $135 million-budgeted “Turbo” earned only $82 million Stateside and $282 million worldwide, DWA CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg says the film is profitable for the company when toy sales and homevideo results are factored in.

Pixar's 'Monsters University' And The Oscars

December 12, 2013, 08:05 PM

http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/oscars-monsters-un...

You gotta give Pixar credit — they never follow the easy path. Take Monsters University, the first prequel...

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