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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

Avengers 2 VFX Videos Showcase Movie's Incredible

May 13, 2015, 09:24 AM

http://collider.com/avengers-2-vfx-videos/

I don’t know how we could make the modern superhero movie without advanced CGI effects. There’s no way Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man could have been even moderately believable without CG, and superhero movies have been topping it ever since.

How Tudor London was rebuilt in CG

May 13, 2015, 04:54 AM

http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/how-tudor-london-wa...

Attracting critical acclaim around the world, the six-part BBC drama series Wolf Hall transports viewers to 16th-century London, where an implacable Thomas Cromwell must seek a way to annul the 20-year marriage between King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

VFX on a Shoestring

May 13, 2015, 04:54 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2015/05/vfx-...

The big L.A. visual effects studios -- Digital Domain, Rhythm and Hues -- are history now, and the big ticket action features now get their effects created someplace else. But what's often overlooked is a lot of vfx is now done in Los Angeles County on small budgets and tight schedules. For example:

The VFX of “Bad Land: Road to Fury”

May 12, 2015, 12:21 PM

http://cinefex.com/blog/bad-land/

Science fiction films aren’t always set in the future. Nor are they always packed full of exotic hardware. Sometimes, science fiction exists in the cracks, walking that fine line between the everyday world and a subtly different reality.

SIGGRAPH 2015 — Magnus Wrenninge

May 12, 2015, 04:59 AM

http://magnuswrenninge.com/visualeffects/siggraph-...

I will be presenting a technique for production-friendly volumetric multiple scattering this year at SIGGRAPH.

Zhong Kui Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal VFX Break

May 12, 2015, 04:58 AM

http://cgvilla.com/2015/05/12/zhong-kui-snow-girl-...

Here’s some shots PIXOMONDO completed from our full CG sequence for the Chinese feature Zhong Kui – Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal. The film was directed by Peter Pau and Tianyu Zhao.

The Reality of Virtual Reality

May 11, 2015, 07:36 PM

http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/the-reality-of...

has some very real companies championing its merits and promoting the technology in the marketplace. Last year, social media behemoth Facebook purchased VR startup Oculus VR for $2 billion, while other players continue to push the bounds of what it means as a developing medium.

AVENGERS – AGE OF ULTRON: Ben Snow – VFX Super

May 11, 2015, 09:52 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=11867

Ben Snow joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1994. He has worked on films such as TWISTER, JURASSIC PARK: THE LOST WORLD or THE MUMMY. He then became VFX Supervisor and take care of the visual effects of movies like STAR WARS EPISODE II – ATTACK OF THE CLONES, IRON MAN, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES or NOAH.

What CGI Can't Do

May 11, 2015, 09:51 AM

http://filmschoolrejects.com/opinions/what-cgi-can...

Within the past two weeks, I’ve seen two large-scale, effects-driven adventure movies, and neither looked anything like the other. The first was Avengers: Age of Ultron, which looks like all Marvel movies do. The second was Time Bandits, Terry Gilliam’s time-tested cult fantasy that’s worthy of worship. You’d never mistake one for the other.

GLYPH - MattePainting Toolkit

May 11, 2015, 09:49 AM

http://www.glyphfx.com/

The Mattepainting Toolkit (gs_mptk) is a plugin suite for Autodesk Maya that helps artists build photorealistic 3D environments with minimal rendering overhead. It offers an extensive toolset for working with digital paintings as well as datasets sourced from photographs.

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