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

favorite features in CC versions of After Effects:

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http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2015/08/favori...

We have talked for a long time on the After Effects team about adding a feature for “instancing” of effects, meaning that you would be able to drive multiple instances of an effect from one master controller. The more we talked about this, the more we realized that the right thing to do for maximum flexibility and power would be to not limit such a feature to just whole effects, but to create a system whereby any set of properties could be linked across layers and compositions. This is h...

Tako Faito! // Making of

August 21, 2015, 05:05 AM

https://www.aotg.com/tako-faito-making-of/

Armed with a sliver of downtime, we decided to make something for ourselves. We wanted to push our cel character animation in a character-driven piece—in this case, a story about a dreamer who battles to the death with his lunch. Cel animation works its way into most of our projects, but we’ve never relied on it as the sole animation method through the entirety of a piece. Tako Faito was a chance to do it!

Cinema 4D: Siggraph 2015 Rewind

August 21, 2015, 05:05 AM

http://motionworks.net/cinema-4d-at-siggraph-2015/

Thanks to Maxon US and Cineversity.com, for recording and publishing the 2015 Siggraph Live Cinema 4D Presentations. They’ve just released presentations on Cinema 4D R17 in Real-World Production plus a number of other great presentations. You can watch the full lineup of presentations here.

Where's OUR Toy Story?

August 21, 2015, 05:05 AM

http://www.skwigly.co.uk/wheres-our-toy-story/?utm...

Pixar just announced that they are making a FOURTH Toy Story which if nothing else is a testament that when they started their journey of creating CG animated feature films, it would still be paying off 20 years later.

Recording the Raw Sound You Need for Post

August 21, 2015, 05:05 AM

http://www.moviemaker.com/archives/news/quiet-on-t...

Why audiences accept inferior visuals but reject low-quality audio may actually have Darwinian roots: Survival favors the hearing blind over the seeing deaf. But that’s an essay for another Guide. So, for now, take me at my word when I say you need good sound.

Who the Hell am I Talking to?

August 21, 2015, 05:04 AM

http://www.moviemaker.com/archives/moviemaking/dir...

“We’re ready for another take,” Kimmy said. “Do you have any notes?” Gerri looked up from her script (she’d been staring blankly at the first page of the scene) and said, “Yeah. Just act… better.” The actors looked at each other briefly, exchanging expressions of thinly-masked dismay. “Uh… OK!” said Kimmy, as brightly as she could manage.

Studio Market Share so Far this Year

August 21, 2015, 05:04 AM

http://i.imgur.com/krxXdhW.jpg

This year was going to be bang or bust with a major release every weekend and some weekends having two major releases. Here's a pie chart for who's winning and losing...

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August 21, 2015, 05:04 AM

http://lifehacker.com/5905835/top-10-highly-desire...

We’re all about do-it-yourself here at Lifehacker. But just because you don’t have the skills to do something doesn’t mean you can’t learn them. In the next installment of Lifehacker’s 10th anniversary celebration, we’re revisiting some guides we’ve written on learning some highly-desired skills.

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