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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

VFX Artists to Protest Obama’s Visit

November 23, 2013, 10:08 AM

http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/visual-effects-ar...

As President Obama visits DreamWorks Animation’s Glendale campus on Tuesday, visual effects artists, frustrated by the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries that offer generous subsidies, are planning a rally outside the DreamWorks Animation campus in Glendale.

VFX Community Planning Green-Shirt Protest

November 23, 2013, 09:09 AM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/oba...

In an effort to raise awareness of the struggling visual effects business, five hundred T-shirts in green -- the color of the screen synonymous with visual effects, and that has become symbolic of the industry's troubles -- have been purchased in the hopes that artists will wear them next week when President Obama visits Los Angeles, The Hollyw

Autodesk Labs Site Is Down

November 22, 2013, 05:36 AM

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItsAliveInTheLab/~3...

The Autodesk Labs site is down. Our vendors, Noble Studios and Cognizant, have been notified. (...)

Jason Statham Calls for Stunt-Actor Oscar

November 21, 2013, 10:59 AM

http://www.thewrap.com/jason-statham-calls-stunt-a...

British action star often does his own stunts and knows how hard the job truly is, Jason Statham hopes to stoke a growing fire under the Academy of motion picture Arts and Sciences...

First 3D Experience to Reveal Animal Vision

November 20, 2013, 11:59 AM

http://www.tgdaily.com/augmented-reality/81936-the...

This real-time 3D Internet experience lets people see through the eyes of several animals including rats, bees, cats, dogs and hawks, as they wonder the streets of Paris.

Rodeo FX Turns To iPi Motion Capture

November 20, 2013, 05:37 AM

http://news.creativecow.net/story/873637

(Moscow, Russia--November 19, 2013) The summer blockbuster “Now You See Me”, which has grossed more than $350 million USD worldwide since Summit Entertainment, a LIONSGATE (NYSE: LGF) company, released the film in the US, features several complex visual effects sequences created by Montreal-based studio Rodeo VFX. But none proved more challenging than a key scene set at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas – aided immeasurably by iPi Soft’s markerless motion capture solution iPi Motion Capture.