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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

VES Awards predictions

February 3, 2015, 10:35 AM

http://www.goldderby.com/news/8393/visual-effects-...

This year's clear frontrunner for Best Visual Effects at the Oscars -- "Interstellar" -- is is also way ahead in our predictions for the winners of the Visual Effects Society Awards. It is all but certain to win the VES equivalent of the Best Picture race -- visual effects in a visual effects-driven feature motion picture.

The Art of VFX year 5

February 3, 2015, 10:34 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=10896

Happy to announce the 5th year of The Art of VFX.

Motion Graphics for Business - Part 2: Beyond Holl

February 3, 2015, 06:26 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/czwar/story/motion-gr...

As the interest in motion graphics rapidly expanded following the release of Seven, Hollywood embraced innovative title design, and many Hollywood title sequences helped define the look of motion graphics for years to come.  As I noted in Part 1, the early books on motion graphics design...

The Use of VFX to Stitch Birdman Together

February 2, 2015, 05:27 PM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/the-use-of-vfx-to-st...

In 1941, cinematographer Gregg Toland approached Orson Welles, asking the director to let him shoot Citizen Kane. Toland wanted to experiment with some techniques he knew the studios would not allow him to use on any other film and guessed, rightly, that first-time director Welles would be open to letting him try. The most important of these innovative techniques was deep focus cinematography, made possible by developments in lens technology and high speed film that allowed an entire set to ...

Workflow de photogrammétrie pour les VFX

February 2, 2015, 10:41 AM

http://www.3dvf.com/actualite-12040-workflow-photo...

Yvan Galtié of Collectif21 present a video on photogrammetry (3D scanning from photos) for visual effects. The aim, conform the model from a conventional photogrammetry VFX pipeline. Establishment of a classical topology used UVs

How they did it - The Superbowl Spots

February 2, 2015, 06:24 AM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/how-they-did-it-be...

And just like that, Super Bowl XLIX is over, and with it the famous yearly run of Super Bowl commercials. We've picked two of the most popular spots to break down - Snickers' 'Brady Bunch' ad starring Danny Trejo and Mercedes-Benz's creature-filled 'Fable'.

Computer graphics: It took just seventeen years to

February 2, 2015, 06:21 AM

http://www.redsharknews.com/technology/item/2329-c...

With computer graphics power increasing faster than Moore's Law, we've come a long way in seventeen years... Tomb RaiderLara CroftVirtual Realityimproving graphicscomputer graphicsCGI

Interviews of the Week #5

February 1, 2015, 10:06 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=10869

Here is the recap of my interviews of the week #5. So you won’t miss any of them.

The best VFX breakdown reels: January 2015

January 31, 2015, 01:24 PM

http://www.cgchannel.com/2015/01/the-best-vfx-brea...

Honorable mention: matte painter Anthony Eftekhari‘s latest demo reel was uploaded to Vimeo in December, but it’s a stunning collection of work from Blizzard’s recent cinematics, with some beautiful breakdowns.

PROJECT ALMANAC: Making of by Method Studios

January 31, 2015, 01:23 PM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=10857

Method Studios have published a dedicated page about their work on PROJECT ALMANAC (click on the picture below to watch it):

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