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 Supe John Heller Joins FuseFX

October 26, 2016, 05:08 AM

http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/vfx-supe-j...

Accomplished VFX supervisor John Heller has joined the staff of FuseFX at its Los Angeles studio. His credits include feature films Big Miracle, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief and The Bourne Legacy, and TV series CSI: Cyber, The Outsiders and Rush Hour.

mocha Pro 5 Top 3 Features

October 25, 2016, 06:43 PM

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mocha is the Academy Award-winning planar motion tracking software that helps make quick work out of time-consuming visual effects challenges. mocha follows “pixel patterns” through the most difficult conditions including objects that go off-screen, objects that are partially obscured, and even out of focus footage. mocha has made its mark on Hollywood blockbusters such as Read More The post mocha Pro 5 Top 3 Features appeared first on Videoguys Blog.

Changing Careers Late in Life

October 25, 2016, 06:42 PM

http://www.allanmckay.com/episode-67-changing-care...

An overview of the process to safely switch careers down the road. Some of us are in careers that we aren’t 100% satisfied and want to make the change over to a creative industry. However there is so much risk that we face that it’s almost a gamble this late in our career.

Now Showing – Cinefex 149

October 25, 2016, 06:42 PM

http://cinefex.com/blog/cinefex-149/

We’re big fans of Steven Spielberg here at Cinefex. So, with the whizzpopping fizzog of Roald Dahl’s Big Friendly Giant fronting our brand new issue Cinefex 149, we wondered: “How many Cinefex covers have featured a movie directed by Spielberg?”

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: Making of

October 25, 2016, 05:50 AM

https://www.aotg.com/alice-through-the-looking-glass-making-of/

Another interesting making of by Sony Pictures Imageworks, this time it’s about the creation of the Seconds, Minutes and Hours characters for ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS...

VFX Summit Reveals 2016 Hall of Fame Awardees

October 25, 2016, 05:49 AM

http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/world-anim...

Animation Magazine has announced its list of 2016 Animation Hall of Fame inductees, who will be celebrated with an Awards Gala held Tuesday, November 1 from 6:30 to 10 p.m. at the beachside Hotel Casa del Mar in Santa Monica, California as part of the World Animation & VFX Summit.

FuseFX Adds Veteran VFX Supervisor John Heller

October 24, 2016, 12:15 PM

http://www.broadcastbeat.com/fusefx-adds-veteran-v...

Leads VFX teams on shows including “CSI: Cyber” and “The Outsiders”. LOS ANGELES— John Heller, a highly accomplished visual effects supervisor whose credits include such films as Big Miracle, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief and The Bourne Legacy, has joined the staff of FuseFX. Heller, based at the company’s Los Angeles studio, ...

VFX Artist Sean Devereaux on Landing Every Punch i

October 23, 2016, 09:31 AM

https://www.aotg.com/vfx-artist-sean-devereaux-on-landing-every-punch-i/

Sean Devereaux tells stories with moving images and creates the art and technology that powers them. He co-founded ZERO VFX in 2010, which has grown from his basement into studios in both Boston and Los Angeles. Sean has worked with some of today’s most influential filmmakers including Antoine Fuqua, David Ayers, Peter Berg, David O. Russell and has created visual e...

20 Min Video of Movie Magic Tricks

October 22, 2016, 07:29 AM

https://www.aotg.com/20-min-video-of-movie-magic-tricks/

At its very core, cinema is an illusion—an illusion of movement—so it follows that much of what has been accomplished in films is nothing short of magical. From the double exposure techniques of Georges Méliès (who was an actual magician) to Peter Jackson using forced perspective, there are plenty of methods filmmakers use to sell the illusion that what's up on screen is actually happening.

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