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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

R.I.P. British Animator Harold Whitaker

January 6, 2014, 05:46 AM

http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/r-p-britis...

Animator and author Harold Whitaker passed away on Christmas Day in the U.K. The London animation veteran, who worked on acclaimed movies such as Animal Farm and Where the Wind Blows, also contributed to the 1981 Timing for Animation primer (co-written by John Halas and updated by Tom Sito in 2009) for Focal Press.

Pushing Back

January 3, 2014, 05:35 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2014/01/push...

Hollywood stakeholders are calling on California to bolster its film and TV tax credit to keep its homegrown industry from permanently leaving the state.

Actualité Des Adhérents

December 31, 2013, 11:48 AM

http://www.monteursassocies.com/2013/12/31/le-mont...

The collective agreement of film production was particularly neglected the mounting arm for both wages and the rights and working conditions.

TV Editor Marco Zappia, Dies at 76

December 30, 2013, 06:20 PM

http://variety.com/2013/tv/people-news/tv-editor-m...

Emmy-winning TV editor Marco Natale Zappia, who worked on shows including “All in the Family,” “Maude,” “The Jeffersons,” “The Sonny and Cher Show,” “Who’s the Boss?,” “Roseanne,” “Home Improvement” and “Boy Meets World,” died Sunday, December 22, in Ventura, Calif. He was 76.

R.I.P. Emmy-Winning Editor Marco Zappia

December 30, 2013, 05:39 AM

http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/emmy-winning-tv-ed...

Marco Zappia, award-winning TV editor of Hee-Haw, All In The Family, Home Improvement and dozens of additional TV series and specials, died December 22 in Ventura, CA. He was 76. Los Angeles-born Zappia went from owning a TV repair shop to an award-winning career in editing that spanned four decades when he joined CBS in 1968 as an engineer in the videotape department, where he helped install the network’s first electronic editing system.

Pianist composer Wojciech Kilar dies aged 81

December 29, 2013, 02:24 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25542...

Polish pianist and composer Wojciech Kilar, who was Bafta-nominated for his score to Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film The Pianist, has died aged 81.

NAB Acquires CCW, SATCON

December 26, 2013, 11:12 AM

http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/nab-acquires-c...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The National Association of Broadcasters has purchased the assets of the Content and Communications World (CCW) and Satellite Communications Conference and Expo (SATCON) events from JD Events, a New York based trade show organizer. CCW and SATCON, held annually in November, are co-located at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. NAB says the two events will complement the association’s existing trade shows and events, including NAB Show, held in Las Vegas annually ...

Frederic Back has Passed

December 25, 2013, 05:47 AM

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/movies...

Frédéric Back, 89, who won two Oscars for his poignant animated short films, died Tuesday morning at home in Montreal, said his daughter, Suzel Back-Drapeau. The cause was cancer.

VES to Present Cuarón with Visionary Award

December 25, 2013, 05:47 AM

http://news.creativecow.net/story/874024

(Los Angeles, California--December 24, 2013) Today, the Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s professional honorary society, named acclaimed filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón as the recipient of its Visionary Award in recognition of his extraordinary career, most recently including his landmark achievement on this year’s hugely acclaimed “Gravity.” The award will be presented at the 12th Annual VES Awards on February 12, 2014 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Blender Institute to oversee full-length animation

December 24, 2013, 06:28 AM

http://www.cgchannel.com/2013/12/blender-institute...

The Blender Foundation has officially unveiled Project Gooseberry: its sixth, and most ambitious, ‘open movie’ project, in development since early 2011.

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