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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

4Wheel Vehicle Autorig Offers Great Setup

May 12, 2014, 02:33 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/05/4wheel-vehicle-auto...

If you need to rig up a 4 wheeled automobile in Maya, there are plenty of great tools that can automate the process and save you some time. Few however provide the detailed control that you can get by using the new 4Wheel Vehicle Autorig for Maya.

Procedural Image Based Deformations

May 12, 2014, 02:32 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/05/procedural-image-ba...

Sergio Mucino has been covering some great stuff in Modo, especially in helping the nearly abandoned Softimage users find a new home in Modo.

A Simple Example of Clean Control-Less Rig

May 12, 2014, 09:39 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/05/building-simple-con...

Clean rig controls for animatable assets might be where things are moving. Traditional control objects in an animatable rig, although effective, they can get in the way of interacting with the digital character. If you have seen how Pixar handles the problem, they provide control surfaces based on the actual rig geometry.

Using Expresso Freeze

May 12, 2014, 09:38 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/05/using-xpresso-freez...

The “Expresso Mechanic” Julian Field has a look at employing the Xpresso Freeze Node in Cinema 4D in larger Xpresso setups. The Freeze Node will be used to stop an object from moving.

Macrostructure

May 11, 2014, 02:05 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/05/macrostructure/?utm...

Eric Schockmel presents MacroStructure. Inspired by science and video games, Macrostructure is the first episode in a micro-series and story world entitled “What If You Created Artificial Life And It Started Worshipping You”.

Boing C4D Python Preset

May 10, 2014, 02:31 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/05/boing-c4d-python-pr...

Patrick Gerke shares his freely available Boing C4D Python preset. Boing will allow you to “materialize” any editable mesh or spline, and animate it out from an origin. Boing C4D gives you all kinds of control, allowing you to add various amounts of bounce and random motion.

Try Out Octane Render for Blender

May 9, 2014, 12:13 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/05/try-octane-render-b...

Recently Otoy has announced the GPU accelerated Octane render’s availability for Blender, rounding out the product’s host applications. Otoy has also made available the demo version for Octane render in Blender, so you can now kick the tires and take it out for a spin.

Physically Based Rendering in Substance

May 8, 2014, 12:25 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/05/physically-based-re...

Physically Based Rendering is seeping in to virtually everything. With more and more renderers, tools and authoring environments offer physically plausible shaders and rending, it is becoming essential for content creation tools to incorporate PBR workflows.

Playing Animations on an Object or Character in Un

May 8, 2014, 09:45 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/05/playing-one-animati...

Tejas Jasani, founder the Mobile Development company The APP Guruz authors an look at how to play multiple animations on a character in the Unity Game Engine, covering and explaining all the components and what they do.

Create and Manage Real World Cameras For Maya

May 8, 2014, 09:45 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/05/create-manage-real-...

Cinematographer Matt Workman posts a sneak look at his latest tool, Virtual Cinematography Tools for Maya which aims to be an all in one solution for creating and managing real world cameras.

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