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

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You might have heard or read over the years about the very fun Phantom Menace factoid that salt was used to make the waterfalls seen spilling out underneath the city of Theed. And…it’s of course true; salt was filmed by ILM for waterfall elements and then composited along with Theed building and landscape miniatures and CG and matte painted elements to form the final shots.

How to Create a Bacteria Animation in Cinema 4D

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Telly Awards Recognize CBS Interactive as First-Ev

May 22, 2019, 04:56 AM

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Everything You Need to Know to Get Started With Ma

May 22, 2019, 04:55 AM

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A Look at 3D Coat’s New Contextual Retopo Menus

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Getting Started With PhysicsNow! for After Effects

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SIGGRAPH 2019 Bringing Immersive Art Exhibit to L.

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VFX Study shows how to create DOF, Fog, and other Z-Channel effects with Fusion and Resolve. Z-depth and Z-Channel stuff is something that is a reoccurring technique in CG, especially with compositing. Z-channel effects can

Quick and Dirty Tracking in SynthEyes

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