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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

SFX - Making Rain, 3D Printing and Blow Up Greensc

April 2, 2014, 09:02 PM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/special-effects-ma...

Here at fxguide we don’t always get the opportunity to discuss the incredible advancements in practical special effects, but lately we’ve come across a number of innovations in special fx that interested us. Here’s a look at just a few – from the practical rain in Noah that was controlled by an iPad app, to how New Deal Studios incorporates 3D printing for its miniature work, to the ‘rise’ of inflatable greenscreens, and award winning car flipping tech.

A Simple Trick for Creating Pie Charts in After Ef

April 2, 2014, 03:41 PM

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/how-to-create-easy...

Charts and graphs can sometime be a pain to create and animate in After Effects, especially pie charts. This very simple, quick method gets the numbers exact while allowing huge flexibly.

The 5 greatest CG spaceships ever

April 1, 2014, 04:17 PM

http://www.creativebloq.com/audiovisual/5-greatest...

From the earliest days of cinema, film-makers and audiences have had a mutual fascination with the cosmos. Inspired by the 19th century works of Jules Verne and H.G Wells, cinema came along in a period where ‘scientific romance’ was in the ascendance.

ISOTONER: VFX breakdown by Plug Effects

April 1, 2014, 12:47 PM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=6529

Here is a cool VFX breakdown of Plug Effects work on this Isotoner commercial...

I Am Legend Making of Shots and Alternate Ending

April 1, 2014, 07:47 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/i-am-legend-making-of...

How Manhattan was made to look aging and abandoned, with shot-by-shot comparisons...

Digital Dimension VFX Reel 2014

April 1, 2014, 07:46 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/digital-dimension-vfx...

Digital Dimension:- Six-time Emmy Award® and four-time Visual Effects Society (VES) Award winner Digital Dimension specializes in visual effects and animation for the film, television, and interactive entertainment industry. Having worked on more than 200 titles over the last 17 years.

Halftone techniques for After Effects

April 1, 2014, 12:21 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/ryoung/story/halftone...

A halftone is an image or printing technique that "simulates continuous tone through the use of dots, varying either in size, in shape or in spacing." For Illustrator and Photoshop, there's a long list of halftone filters, swatches, and compositing techniques used for printing and newsprint, comic, retro, and other effects. But the fun of After Effects is the ability to play with scale and other properties in time, and some techniques may not be immediately apparent without built-in effects.

300 – RISE OF AN EMPIRE - VFX

March 31, 2014, 01:36 PM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=6333

In 2011, Danielle Plantec had detailed to us the work of Scanline VFX on IMMORTALS. She then worked on films such as IRON MAN 3, MAN OF STEEL or THE WOLF OF WALL STREET. In 2012, Byan Hirota talked about his work on SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN at Pixomondo. He has moved then to Scanline VFX. Today, they explain in detail their work on the sequel of 300.

5 astonishing examples of VFX from BUF

March 31, 2014, 01:36 PM

http://www.creativebloq.com/audiovisual/examples-v...

Founded in 1984 as one of the pioneers of computer generated imagery, Paris-based company BUF is one of the most established VFX studios in the world. It's created stunning visual effects for more than 100 films and 850 commercials, attracted repeat clients such as Christopher Nolan and the Wachowski brothers, and is widely known for the 'bullet time effect' seen in The Matrix, originally developed for Michel Gondry's video clips.

MOVING OUT: The Making of by Guerilla Wanderers

March 31, 2014, 07:54 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=6504

Guerilla Wanderers purpose an interesting making of about the creation of the various mix of effects for the music video MOVING OUT...

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