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

LookFX folds; staff and projects move to Mass Mark

August 13, 2014, 04:21 PM

http://variety.com/2014/artisans/news/lookfx-folds...

Vancouver, Canada — LookFX, a highly regarded small vfx studio with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Vancouver, has closed its doors — but its staff is not disbanding.

Avid Nears Completion of Accounting Audit

August 13, 2014, 04:21 PM

http://blog.devoncroft.com/2014/08/13/avid-nears-c...

Avid, which since February 2013 has been conducting an internal investigation into its current and historical accounting treatment related to software updates, said in a regulatory filing that in approximately four weeks, it expects to have completed its accounting audit and filed its annual report (Form 10-K) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013.

'Survivor' editors walk off the job in labor dispu

August 13, 2014, 04:21 PM

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/coto...

The post-production crew of "Survivor" has halted work on the hit reality TV series because of a labor dispute.

Edit Fest LA 2014 Excerpt

August 13, 2014, 03:03 PM

http://www.aotg.com/index.php?page=cuttingroom_148

In this episode we pull an excerpt from EditFest LA 2014's Panel with Moderator Norman Hollyn, Editor Kate Amend, ACE (The Case Against 8, Farm Midwives), Rob Ashe Jr. (Conan O'Brien), Jason Ballantine, ASE (The Great Gatsby, Battle Creek, and Fury Road), and Kelley Dixon, ACE (Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead).

7 marvels of motion capture

August 13, 2014, 01:31 PM

http://www.creativebloq.com/audiovisual/7-marvels-...

We pay tribute to the biggest motion-capture movies of the past decade.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Concept Art is Nightm

August 13, 2014, 01:28 PM

http://collider.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-c...

Personally, I had no problem with the design of the Turtles in Jonathan Liebesman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I enjoyed the detail and think the darker, more realistic look is what helped make them feel natural (or at least as natural as possible) in the New York City environment. The preliminary Turtle design that just surfaced, however?

The VFX of Guardians of the Galaxy

August 13, 2014, 01:27 PM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-vfx-of-guardia...

Strong characters, immersive environments and a ripping 80s soundtrack – that’s Marvel’s latest film Guardians of the Galaxy in a nutshell. With two main characters that would be realized entirely in CG, and with vast space and earth-like environments to create, the visual effects crew were once again crucial to completing the film.

How to Grow Your Own Monster-WIRED

August 13, 2014, 04:48 AM

https://www.aotg.com/how-to-grow-your-own-monster-wired/

It took nearly 4,000 hours to grow the Giant Creature pieces that were created using 3-D printing. Find out how Stratasys—the company behind the expert rapid...

2001: A Space Odyssey Typography

August 13, 2014, 04:48 AM

http://typesetinthefuture.com/2001-a-space-odyssey...

2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi masterpiece – seems an appropriate place to start a blog about typography in sci-fi. Amongst other delights, it offers a zero-gravity toilet, emergency resuscitations, exploding bolts, and product placement aplenty. It's also the Ur Example of Eurostile Bold Extended's regular appearance in spacecraft user interfaces.

How Robin Williams became 'Aladdin's' Genie

August 13, 2014, 04:46 AM

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/movies...

In 1991, directors John Clements and Ron Musker gave Disney animator Eric Goldberg an unusual assignment: listen to Robin Williams' stand-up albums and draw the comic, as a genie.

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