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

How to create 3D hair and fur

October 25, 2016, 05:50 AM

http://www.creativebloq.com/how-to/how-to-create-3...

You can easily get overwhelmed the first time you work with fur in any 3D art software. In this tutorial I will take you step-by-step through the different options and techniques that Modo has to offer. Modo’s Fur tool is great, since it can also be used for creating other types of materials, such as feathers and tree leaves.

New Blender add-on makes UV packing like playing T

October 25, 2016, 05:49 AM

http://www.cgchannel.com/2016/10/blender-add-on-ma...

Tools developer Vilem Novak has released GPack, an amazing free Blender add-on that makes it possible to pack the UVs of a model by allowing them to fall under gravity, a bit like playing Tetris.

Creating Realistic Wispy Smoke in C4D With TFD

October 24, 2016, 12:15 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2016/10/creating-realistic-...

There are a lot of tools out there that can create smoke effect in Cinema 4D. X-Particles, to TFD (Turbulence FD), to Krakatoa, just to name a few. It’s not necessary to have some type of fluid simulation drive the effort, but it does help. Watch Bob Walmsley show his method for realistic wispy smoke The Post Creating Realistic Wispy Smoke in C4D With TFD originally appeared and published on %%BLOGLINK%,by lesterbanks

Virtual Lenses With Pixar in a Box

October 23, 2016, 09:27 AM

https://www.aotg.com/virtual-lenses-with-pixar-in-a-box/

If you have a question about how to tell stories, whether through screenwriting or cinematography, Pixar is always a great place to start. Luckily for us, Pixar has teamed up with Khan Academy to produce a bunch of great filmmaking lessons and tutorials for their teaching series "Pixar in a Box," and in this video, DP Patrick Lin and camera lead Adam Habib, both of who worked on Inside Out, explain how to approach and create a crucial concept in storytelling: perspective.

Eep, omigosh, urk, smerp, and other Archie epithet

October 22, 2016, 03:15 PM

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2016/10/22/eep-o...

DB here: Not all cinephiles are comics fans, but quite a few are. I guess it’s partly a matter of the Adolescent Window, and partly an intuition that both are forms of what Will Eisner calls “sequential art.” For my part, a Boomer childhood spent with Nancy and Little Lulu and Scrooge McDuck was followed […]

Ken Ralston Receiving VES Lifetime Achievement Awa

October 22, 2016, 03:14 PM

http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/vfx-pionee...

The Visual Effects Society has named multiple Academy Award-winning visual effects pioneer Ken Ralston as the recipient of the VES Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented at the 15th annual VES Awards, to be held February 7, 2017 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

VFX Pioneer Ralston to Receive VES Lifetime Achiev

October 20, 2016, 07:03 PM

http://www.awn.com/news/vfx-pioneer-ken-ralston-re...

Five-time Academy Award recipient -- including a Special Achievement Oscar for the visual effects ‘Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi’ -- served as VFX supervisor on the revolutionary ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit.’

Work With All Maya Constraints in One Place

October 20, 2016, 12:25 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2016/10/work-maya-constrain...

If you work with Maya constraints a lot, you might want to have a look at Mehdi Farrokhtala’s Master Constraint tool. Written in Python, Master Constraint Tool offers a way to streamline your workflow, housing all of the Maya constraints and their most used Flags all in one place. The tool also comes with 2 The Post Work With All Maya Constraints in One Place originally appeared and published on %%BLOGLINK%,by lesterbanks

Matthew Merkovich Says to Stop With the Crazy Trac

October 20, 2016, 06:53 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2016/10/stop-crazy-tracking...

You probably have seen some behind the scenes reveals where there are crew and talent alike huddled around huge green screens that will eventually be turned into some amazing visual effect. Have you paid attention to the tracking markers that are on that high-budget shot though? Matthew Merkovich has. Matthew is a highly skilled and seasoned The Post Matthew Merkovich Says to Stop With the Crazy Tracking Markers originally appeared and published on %%BLOGLINK%,by lesterbanks

Animation Continues to Bust Out

October 19, 2016, 05:13 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2016/10/anim...

... all over. In different formats and directions.

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