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

International 3D/Advanced Imaging Society Names Of

March 11, 2014, 07:35 PM

http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/international-3d-...

The Intl. 3D & Advanced Imaging Society has announced its 2014-15 officers and board of governors. Mike DeValue, director of advanced technology at the Walt Disney Studios, and Tom Cosgrove, CEO of 3net Studios, will serve as co-chairs.

Creating Trees in Blender

March 11, 2014, 07:34 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/creating-trees-sapl...

The Sapling generator Addon creates trees for blender based on the method that was developed by Jason Weber and Joseph Penn in their paper ”Creation and Rendering of Realistic Trees”. You can easily create a wide variety of tree models using a curve as the base element of construction. This also allows for dynamic geometry which can be used to change the level of detail for the tree models that are created.

MAXON 3D Software Solutions

March 11, 2014, 12:11 PM

http://news.creativecow.net/story/874748

(Newbury Park, California--March 11, 2014) MAXON invites convention attendees to stop by its exhibitor booth, #SL 8620, at the 2014 NAB Show®, “…the world's largest electronic media show covering filmed entertainment and the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums…”, April 7 – 10, 2014, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Using Zbrush to Create Hair

March 11, 2014, 12:11 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/using-zbrush-create...

Daniel Cahill provides a tutorial for using the new GMH2 Polygon to Maya Hair tool from Thunder Cloud Studio. As Daniel mentions, the GMH2 site has some great and in-depth tutorials on using the GMH2 plugin for Maya, so this tutorial is more about getting the kind of geometry you need for the GMH2 tools, and getting them ready to work with in Maya.

Turn an AE Composition into a Spritsheet

March 11, 2014, 09:57 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/turn-effects-compos...

You can now automatically generate a SpriteSheet in After Effects thanks to Sheetah. This new SpriteSheet tool can turn any After Effects composition into a SpriteSheet file, really quickly.

Pixar announces RenderMan for Katana

March 11, 2014, 09:56 AM

http://www.cgchannel.com/2014/03/pixar-announces-r...

The Foundry’s current ‘What is Katana?’ video. New free Linux plugin RenderMan for Katana makes shaders and other features from Pixar’s RenderMan Pro Server 18 accessible inside the lighting and look dev toolset.

DreamWorks Animation Losses Predicted

March 11, 2014, 04:33 AM

http://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-animation-losse...

Wall Street analysts are forecasting a loss for DreamWorks Animation after Mr. Peabody & Sherman took in a “lackluster” $32.5 million in estimated earnings over the weekend, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter. The news reportedly caused the company’s stock to drop 1.4 percent.

Sheetah Spritesheet Tools for AE

March 10, 2014, 02:04 PM

https://www.aotg.com/sheetah-spritesheet-tools-for-ae/

http://aescripts.com/sheetah-spritesheet-tools Sheetah turns your After Effects composition into a single spritesheet file blazingly fast. It also features t...

Animation Marketing Veteran David Sameth Upped at

March 10, 2014, 02:03 PM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/animation-ma...

David Sameth has been promoted to executive vice president of marketing at Walt Disney Studios, where he'll continue to head up campaigns for titles from Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, home of global blockbuster Frozen.

Focusing on Facial Animation

March 10, 2014, 09:48 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/nevronmotion-for-ligh...

In this tutorial you will learn how to properly setup the nodal controls for controlling a character’s head, as well as the facial expressions.

© 2007-2025 www.aotg.com Ver. 3.0 All Content created and posted by Art of the Guillotine users Art of the Guillotine graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Art of the Guillotine Inc. Use of this material outside of this site is strictly prohibited.