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

Animation Roundtable and Sequels are Killing the I

November 26, 2014, 02:54 PM

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/watch-oscar-animation...

We have already had the writers, the studio executives, and the actresses Oscar roundtables from The Hollywood Reporter. Today, I bring you a discussion about films that have not gotten much of say in the previous ones: animated films. I thought this was a pretty down year for animated films. Even the very popular and well regarded ones like The Lego Movie did nothing for me. That does not mean the creators talking is not interesting, and this roundtable features directors and producers of some ...

Animators and Mirrors

November 26, 2014, 02:54 PM

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/animators-and...

Though the work that animators create is often exhilarating, the actual process of animating, which involves sitting at a desk for hours at a stretch, is not particularly interesting to the general public. In the past, when studio publicity departments were tasked with creating promotional stills of animators, they often posed animators making an expression in front of their mirror while drawing a character with a similar expression.

Tips for Working with nHair Inside of Maya

November 26, 2014, 02:50 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/11/tips-working-nhair-...

Daryl Obert shares some useful tips for using nHair and nHair attributes within Autodesk Maya which can be used for ropes, dynamics or integrating with Maya Xgen

Early Disney Pencil Tests

November 26, 2014, 12:31 PM

http://sneerkat.com/the-very-first-pencil-tests-fo...

Feeling nostalgic when thinking about the first Disney cartoons ever made? Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi, Cinderella, Mary Poppins? Anyone? Even the latest cartoons produced by Disney embody a certain kind of magic and longing, and I believe this is what make them so freakin’ special.

Our Interconnected World

November 25, 2014, 03:56 PM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2014/11/our-...

And (sometimes) not in a good way. From yesterday's Deadline:

Tutorial: RealFlow 2014 - The Enhanced UI

November 25, 2014, 03:56 PM

http://www.toolfarm.com/blog/entry/tutorial_realfl...

Check out this webinar led by Victor Sanchez from November 2014 on the new and improved UI in Next Limit RealFlow. The webinar explains how to create your own scene assets, how to customize the UI for your own needs and preferences and how to speed up workflow.

"What’s Opera, Doc?" the first short cartoon...

November 25, 2014, 03:56 PM

http://directedbychuckjones.tumblr.com/post/103564...

"What’s Opera, Doc?" the first short cartoon inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1992.

Seamlessly Integrating 3D Models in HDR Scenes in

November 25, 2014, 12:38 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/11/3d-models-hdr-scene...

Kamel Khezri shows how use HDR images not only for lighting the scene, but also as the scene itself using VRAYforC4D and the cinema 4d physical renderer

Tech Wage-fixing Scandal Crosses into Animation

November 24, 2014, 03:30 PM

http://www.rotoscopers.com/2014/11/24/tech-wage-fi...

Silicon Valley news headlines are full of a wage-fixing and anti-poaching agreement that was used by big names such as Google, Apple, and a few more. According to Bloomberg news in “Evidence of Alleged Apple-Google No-Poaching Deal Triggers More Lawsuits,” all of these companies agreed to not “steal” employees from each other and there was even a no-call list to prevent solicitation.

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