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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

Animating a Transitioning Logo in AE

February 22, 2014, 02:14 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/animating-transitio...

Mikey Borup takes a look at creating a animation for a logo in After Effects. Creating a 3D spinning cube that will transition or turn into a 3D triangle shape, Mikey walks through the process of creating a complex animation with simple tools in After Effects.

Creating Chiseled Bevels in Cinema 4D

February 22, 2014, 02:14 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/creating-chiseled-b...

No truer than there are many ways to accomplish something, is that there are many, many ways to accomplish one task in any 3D application. With a breadth of tools that can be used in any combination, it opens up for plenty of different solutions for the same task.

Maya Water Drop Generator

February 21, 2014, 01:27 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/maya-water-drop-gen...

Zeno Pelgrims share a python script that he has been working on, which will place water drops on the surface of an object, or as he explains the scripts use… “it makes stuff wet”.

Rigging with Blend Shapes - Tuts+ 3D & Motion Grap

February 21, 2014, 05:47 AM

http://cgi.tutsplus.com/articles/game-character-cr...

In Part 7 of the Game Character Creation Series we introduced facial animation to Kila using a joint base system. This opened up the possibility for her to talk and also show a wide range of emotions, something which is key to any character animation.

Keeping PreComp AUdio in Sync

February 20, 2014, 10:26 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/keeping-audio-sync-...

Zack Lovatt posts a little writeup on how to hold a preComp’s audio channel in place while you are moving the layer around in After Effects, keeping it in sync with another layer.

Create a Swarm of Flies

February 20, 2014, 05:46 AM

http://www.mographcandy.com/blog/2014/2/17/cinema-...

Mograph Candy is a destination for learning motion graphics and 3D animation using After Effects, Cinema 4D, and Premiere.  We have tons of free Cinema 4D tutorials so you can learn tips and tricks to help speed up your motion graphics and broadcast editing workflow.  Tutorials hosted by Dan Conrad.

Getting Started with After Effects Expressions

February 20, 2014, 05:43 AM

http://www.angietaylor.co.uk/2014/02/20/getting-st...

Expressions are like little scripts that trigger changes to layer properties, and they can save you time, make your work more flexible, and open up new creative possibilities. In this course, motion graphic designer Angie Taylor shows you how to make Adobe After Effects expressions work for you, starting with building expressions with the pick whip. Then she introduces JavaScript-based math expressions, which allow you to adjust timing and movement, and her favorite "no brainer" expressions,...

3D Textures in AE

February 19, 2014, 06:02 PM

http://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2014/02...

It’s easy to create a video texture inside of 3D text within Adobe After Effects CC.

Setting Up Maya Style Viewport Navigation

February 19, 2014, 06:01 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/setting-maya-style-...

Marco Neumann shows how to set Blender’s viewport navigation to mimic Autodesk Maya’s, without creating any key shortcuts conflict. If you are new to blender, most likely the navigation and selections will seem really foreign to you. Selections in blender are they outlier for sure, in that every other program has a left mouse click to select, where Blender has a rough mouse click.

Compositing With IRay Light Path Expressions

February 18, 2014, 01:41 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/compositing-iray-li...

The Iray blog posts a look at using Nvidia Iray’s Light Path Expressions for creative compositing. Rüdiger has a look at a few compositing techniques that can take advantage of the Light Path Expressions feature in Iray.

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