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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

Hollywood 'nomads' question need for film tax cred

January 6, 2014, 05:42 PM

http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2014/01/06/3...

Three years ago, 33-year-old hair and clothing special effects director Daniel Lay started the blog VFX Soldier.

Accurate Displacement Workflow

January 6, 2014, 02:28 PM

http://cggallery.com/tutorials/displacement/

In this tutorial we'll attempt to cover and clarify the process of generating and applying accurate displacement maps from either ZBrush or Mudbox, to V-Ray for Maya, V-Ray for 3ds Max, or Arnold for Maya.

10 Maya tips to boost your workflow

January 6, 2014, 02:27 PM

http://therenderblog.com/10-maya-tips-to-boost-you...

The Render Blog posts a look at boosting your maya prowess with 10 varied tips that will speed things up the next time you are working inside of Maya – ranging from simple shortcuts to scripting with python to resize 4k images to something more manageable for preview renders.

Hardware firm swaps in 8-core Intel CPU on Mac Pro

January 6, 2014, 02:27 PM

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57616574-37/hard...

OWC swaps in an 8-core Intel CPU on the Mac Pro in place of the stock 6-core chip and cites up to a 30 percent performance boost. Read this article by Brooke Crothers on CNET News.

ProMax’s Platform server adds cross-platform Aft

January 6, 2014, 02:27 PM

http://postperspective.com/2014/01/promaxs-platfor...

Santa Ana, California — ProMax Systems, a manufacturer of shared storage servers and video editing workstations, has added another significant feature set to the Platform shared storage server line. This new functionality allows both Windows and Mac clients running Adobe After Effects to submit render jobs to the Platform. This capability eliminates running time-consuming renders on workstations, […]

The Making of Wolf of Wall Street

January 6, 2014, 10:58 AM

http://www.behindvfx.com/post/72371332961/behind-v...

The Making of The Wolf of Wall Street Behind VFX ACCESS...

YouTube 4K demo to launch Google play

January 6, 2014, 10:57 AM

http://www.slashgear.com/youtube-4k-demo-to-launch...

YouTube will demonstrate 4K Ultra HD video using a new codec Google hopes will corner the streaming market, VP9, at CES 2014 next week. The royalty-free codec

From Sound To Light - Dolby's Coming Change

January 6, 2014, 10:57 AM

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3024335/from-sound-to-...

Audio technology innovator Dolby Laboratories is expanding its brand to pictures. After 10 years of development, Dolby has produced a new imaging system that the company says delivers brighter, higher contrast, more realistic pictures.

SanDisk X110 SSD Brings Speed and Responsiveness

January 6, 2014, 10:56 AM

http://www.legitreviews.com/sandisk-x110-ssd-bring...

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced that the ASUS ZENBOOK™ UX301LA Ultrabook™ relies on the incredibly compact SanDisk X110 Solid State Drives (SSD) for intelligent, blazing-fast flash storage.

Contender – VFX Supervisor Joe Letteri, The Hobb

January 6, 2014, 10:55 AM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios...

If doing a prequel film to a wildly popular trilogy from 10 years past seems as easy as dusting off old artwork, sets and rebooting computer files, think again. “The technology has changed pretty much completely from what we did on Lord of The Rings,” said visual effects supervisor for the new Hobbit trilogy, Joe Letteri. “What we got mostly came through in the first Hobbit film – bringing Gollum and Rivendell back – we based it on those designs.”

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