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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

Using Python on Workflows in NUKE

October 25, 2013, 12:52 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/10/using-python-to-scr...

Escape Studio’s Victor Perez provides some great tips and tricks for using and scripting Python from within Nuke taking a look at some of the possibilities for customizing the user interface, and scripting workflow assistants, and providing a great introduction to using simple Python within Nuke.

Creating a Freeze Frame Effect in AE

October 25, 2013, 10:04 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/10/creating-a-freeze-f...

Dan Jacobs takes a look at creating a freeze frame effect in After Effects, where the action gets frozen, and then stays frozen until it is out of the shot as the camera pans.

Using Cinema 4D's Team to Render

October 25, 2013, 10:03 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/10/using-cinema-4ds-te...

Dave Koss offers a quick look at Cinema 4D’s team Render capabilities, and show how you are able to use Team Render between Macs and PCs with some tips for monitoring renders from one workstation.

Exporting Animated Character from Blender

October 24, 2013, 07:23 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/10/exporting-animated-...

Hadi provides some important things to keep in mind when exporting Blender Animations to Unity 3D, including frame rate considerations, dealing with the scale factor, an shows how to apply the rig to legacy, and how to apply textures to the character.

Using Maya Layered Shader

October 24, 2013, 10:00 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/10/using-mayas-layered...

Parker Davidson gets you up and running with using UV Sets and the Layered Texture Node posting a quick-start basic tutorial showing how to use the two to create details, providing a good foundation for the basic technique.

Creating Stylized Cel Shading in AE

October 24, 2013, 09:59 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/10/creating-stylized-c...

Creating a cartoon style scene, Shawn Sheehan shows how to get a cel shaded look out for After Effects using Trapcode Particular to generate cartoon-like smoke.

Using Maya Trans;arency Maps

October 23, 2013, 04:51 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/10/using-transparency-...

Escape Studio’s Content Editor Ash Miles shows a technique for plugging transparency maps into SubSurface Scattering Shaders in Maya using mental ray’s miss_fast_shaer_x.

Custom Image Plane Tool in Maya

October 23, 2013, 12:48 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/10/building-a-custom-i...

Using Maya scripting, Shaun Keenan shows how to build your own custom image plane tool complete with its own user interface panel, that in the end, will make working with image planes in Maya a snap.

PuppetTools 3 - for AE

October 23, 2013, 09:13 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/10/puppettools-3-for-a...

Greg Gunn posts an update to his character rigging toolset for After Effects in Puppet Tools 3.0 adding a new Create IK features which will provide an easy way to use Inverse Kinematics in you After Effects Rigs.

Adobe Premiere Chroma Key

October 23, 2013, 09:13 AM

http://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2013/10...

Learn the basics of performing a chroma key function using Adobe Premiere.

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