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 the Chemical Brothers video was made

February 1, 2016, 06:38 AM

https://www.fxguide.com/featured/so-just-how-was-t...

As far as VFX challenges go, the latest Chemical Brothers promo Wide Open (feat. Beck) is a doozy - a woman dances around a warehouse space as parts of her body are revealed as 3D-printed lattice constructions - in one four and a half minute shot.

Weta Workshop talks to astronaut Kjell Lindgren

February 1, 2016, 06:37 AM

https://www.aotg.com/weta-workshop-talks-to-astronaut-kjell-lindgren/

For Weta Workshop's most enthusiastic space fans, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; a chance for a group of artists and technicians so often tasked with bringing imaginary Science-fiction and fantasy worlds to life to ask all of their burning questions to Kjell Lindgren aboard the International Space Station...

Tomorrowland Vfx Breakdown

February 1, 2016, 06:37 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/tomorrowland-vfx-brea...

Industrial Light & Magic: The Visual Effects of Brad Bird’s ‘Tomorrowland’ – Here we revisit the effects work that ILM’s global team contributed to the film. As the first-ever film finished and released in 4K high dynamic range, the work on the film presented numerous challenges not the least of which was creating the city of Tomorrowland itself in a manner that would match into a much broader palette provided by the Dolby Vision HDR format.

Kelowna's Immersive Media sold to Hollywood for $1

January 29, 2016, 02:27 PM

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbi...

An Okanagan company specializing in spherical immersive video experiences has been bought by a Hollywood FX firm for $100 million.

Behind the Magic: The VFX of Tomorrowland

January 29, 2016, 02:24 PM

https://www.aotg.com/behind-the-magic-the-vfx-of-tomorrowland/

Behind the Magic: The Visual Effects of Brad Bird's 'Tomorrowland' – Here we revisit the effects work that ILM's global team contributed to the film. As the first-ever film finished and released in 4K high dynamic range, the work on the film presented numerous challenges not the least of which was creating the city of Tomorrowland itself in a manner that would match into a much broader palette provided by the Dolby Vision HDR format.

Behind the Magic: The VFX of Jurassic World

January 29, 2016, 02:23 PM

https://www.aotg.com/behind-the-magic-the-vfx-of-jurassic-world/

We are pleased to share a sample of the visual effects work created for Colin Trevorrow's 'Jurassic World.' ILM has a long and storied history with the Jurassic series and this film, like each film that has come before it, breaks new ground in character animation and visual effects.

8K Enviroment Maps Tutorial

January 28, 2016, 05:14 PM

https://www.aotg.com/8k-enviroment-maps-tutorial/

In this tutorial I'll show you how to create an 8K environment map—entirely in After Effects—using the plugin Skybox by Mettle. These custom environment maps can then be used with various 3D plugins and software.

Ring of Fire creates VFX for new season of 'It's

January 28, 2016, 10:50 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Press-Center/Daily-New...

LOS ANGELES — It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia returned to FXX in early January and Ring of Fire (www.ringoffire.com), here, helped take the gang to places they had never gone before for the show’s 11th season. From creating an 'attack bird' to taking out the opposing attorney in the Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Day Massacre trial, to exploding Danny Devito’s head in a drug induced haze, this season makes use of numerous visual effects.

In the Heart of the Sea VFX Breakdown

January 28, 2016, 10:47 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/in-the-heart-of-the-s...

Rodeo FX is thrilled to present some of the beautiful VFX work completed for Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea. Our team recreated 19th-century Nantucket, including concept art, seamlessly interwoven set extensions, and evocative matte painting for a total of over 260 visual effects shots.

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