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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

Benoit Leveau of Milk VFX talks Shotgun at SIGGRAP

August 26, 2015, 12:31 PM

https://www.aotg.com/benoit-leveau-of-milk-vfx-talks-shotgun-at-siggrap/

Benoit Leveau, Head of Pipeline at Milk VFX and 2015 Pipeline Shotty Award Winner, talks about the Smart Publish tool he created with Shotgun, and how Shotgun helps teams at Milk based around the world work together efficiently.

5 Baffling Uses of CGI in Movies

August 26, 2015, 05:18 AM

https://www.aotg.com/5-baffling-uses-of-cgi-in-movies/

CGI isn't just for robots anymore, it's also for poop and boobs!

THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF VIZUALIZATION

August 25, 2015, 05:08 AM

https://www.aotg.com/the-past-present-and-future-of-vizualization/

Chris Edwards, CEO of The Third Floor, described the humble beginnings of previsualization, a digital form of storyboarding that renders lighting, camera placement and movement to allow filmmakers to visually experiment and conceptualize complex effects.

CGI & VFX Showreels HD:

August 25, 2015, 05:07 AM

https://www.aotg.com/cgi-vfx-showreels-hd/

Check out this awesome and inspiring Character/ Creature TD Reel by the talented Drago Avdalovic! Drago is currently Character TD at PDI/DreamWorks, and specializes in Character Facial and Body Setups and Deformation.

OptiTrack @ SIGGRAPH 2015 - Half-Court Mocap

August 24, 2015, 03:11 PM

https://www.aotg.com/optitrack-siggraph-2015-half-court-mocap/

Motion capture is an incredible production tool with increasingly varied applications, as OptiTrack recently demonstrated while tracking basketball players on a half court. Players went head-to-head, shot hoops and performed various tricks in an authentic setup with a scoreboard, buzzer and court paint. The players’ positional and orientation data was then retargeted onto animated characters and displayed on monitors in real-time.

#motion capture#mocap#optitrack#siggraph
Ambient Occlusion Baking

August 24, 2015, 09:13 AM

https://www.aotg.com/ambient-occlusion-baking/

This video covers two major new improvements to AO baking in 3D Coat 4.5. OpenCL acceleration and Normal Map utilization

GAME OF THRONES: Dragons by Rhythm & Hues

August 24, 2015, 05:04 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=13109

The team of Rhythm & Hues talks about his Dragon work on GAME OF THRONES...

Scrolling hacker text for FUI in After Effects

August 21, 2015, 09:35 AM

https://www.aotg.com/scrolling-hacker-text-for-fui-in-after-effects/

Create this scrolling hacker text for any FUI (fictional user interface) or for any project really, some cool tricks in this one. Also, check out these products i'm reviewing, and let me know if you have any questions you want me to go over.

NUKE and MARI @ SIGGRAPH 2015

August 20, 2015, 04:24 PM

https://www.aotg.com/nuke-and-mari-siggraph-2015/

CGS-TV talks to Mariana Acuna from The Foundry about the benefits of using NUKE, the industry standard for compositing. She also reveals exciting innovations in creating 360 environments. As a big bonus, CGS-TV also caught up with Jack Greasley, The Foundry’s Head of Technology, who talks about the newly released MARI 3.

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