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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

VFX Breakdown of JC Le Roux

June 6, 2014, 10:20 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/vfx-breakdown-of-jc-l...

The camera move, cork path, actors positioning and amount of furniture and people was planned in the weeks leading up to the shoot.

Movie VFX expert on combining physical with digita

June 6, 2014, 10:20 AM

http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/movie-vfx-expert-co...

The motto of LA-based studio MastersFX is 'Art Imitating Life'. For over 30 years, the MastersFX team has been creating creatures and practical effects for the entertainment industry. We spoke to lead digital makeup designer Johnathan Banta to find out more about the studio's effective techniques.

VFX Expert Looks At State Of The Industry

June 6, 2014, 03:50 AM

http://news.doddleme.com/equipment/visual-effects-...

It’s been a little over a year since visual effects artists picketed the Oscars to bring the growing crisis in the industry to light. So, after one year of crisis, where is the industry? Since then, we’ve seen numerous high profile effects houses go under, and some simply moving out of the country. Is there a strategy to not only combat it, but to move forward and thrive? One effects artist thinks he’s hit on it.

The Foundry lance Ocula 4

June 6, 2014, 03:49 AM

http://www.3dvf.com/actualite-9830-the-foundry-lan...

The Foundry announces the launch of version 4 Ocula his NUKE plugin for the treatment and correction projects in relief. This new version has the opportunity to rewrite much of the product for speed and accuracy . The GPU acceleration is now available, and redesigned workflows for greater speed.

Rebuilding Robocop

June 5, 2014, 09:30 AM

http://www.redsharknews.com/post/item/1739-rebuild...

The story is familiar and even some of the catchphrases are the same. But José Padilha’s reworking of the iconic 1987 action movie is an altogether sleeker affair RobocopCGIJosé PadilhaTotal RecallStarship TroopersFramestore

'Fault in Our Stars' Visual Effects: Tumblr-Esque

June 4, 2014, 02:13 PM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fault-stars-...

Throughout the film adaptation of John Green's best-selling novel, white boxes with rounded corners and contrasting fonts appear onscreen whenever Shailene Woodley's Hazel Grace Lancaster and Ansel Elgort's Augustus Waters are flirtatiously texting about the books they've recommended to each other. The scene seems familiar not only because of the "young love" feelings that fly between them with every scribbled word, but also because of the visual design to bring their texts to the big screen in ...

VFX Breakdown of Cadbury Crispello

June 4, 2014, 09:47 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/vfx-breakdown-of-cadb...

We created a full CG singing dog’s head for this hilarious spot for Cadbury Crispello. BlackGinger is a multi award winning talent driven animation and visual effects studio based in Cape Town, South Africa, servicing commercial, series and film clients locally and internationally.

Warner Bros. Executive on U.K. VFX, Production Boo

June 4, 2014, 09:47 AM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/warner-bros-...

LONDON – Britain continues to attract many film productions and do particularly well in the virtual effects space, Warner Bros. Entertainment U.K., Ireland and Spain president Josh Berger said here Wednesday.

The Many Faces of Maleficent

June 4, 2014, 03:54 AM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/maleficent/

In the new Disney film Maleficent, a once-good fairy becomes the ‘Mistress of All Evil’, and curses the infant Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty). The Robert Stromberg-directed film crosses between the human and ‘faerie’ worlds and employed complex facial capture and animation work, along with detailed digital characters and environments.

Digital Domain & The Many Layers of Maleficent

June 4, 2014, 03:50 AM

http://library.creativecow.net/wilson_tim/Malefice...

Digital Domain drew upon their decades of Academy Award-winning expertise to build realistic CG humans for Walt Disney's Maleficent -- including, in some scenes, Maleficent herself. VFX Supervisor Kelly Port took us inside the 2-year process of bringing it to the screen.

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