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

Lord and Miller

November 9, 2016, 06:34 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2016/11/lord...

Two animation (and live-action) creators make a new deal.

Frame.io Now Seamlessly Integrates in Ae

November 8, 2016, 02:07 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2016/11/frame-io-integrates...

Frame.io is an online video collaboration tool. It solves the problem of reviewing and sharing media with a teams anywhere around the world. frame.io is a browser based environment, although advancements have made it available in Premiere pro. Now you can have that same functionality in Ae. Now, the Frame.io team have made the platform The Post Frame.io Now Seamlessly Integrates in Ae originally appeared and published on %%BLOGLINK%,by lesterbanks

A Quote from Chuck Jones

November 6, 2016, 01:34 PM

http://directedbychuckjones.tumblr.com/post/152822...

“Today, we cannot envisage a protected world that does not include them all, and so [my] hope this year to all people everywhere is for a future–sheltered by the stars, sweetened by clean air, and above all fostering a climate in which no man can be commanded to stand up and be counted–but where every man can be counted on to stand up.” –Chuck Jones

Making Sausage Party

November 6, 2016, 07:45 AM

http://deadline.com/2016/11/sausage-party-seth-rog...

When it comes to a bawdy, R-rated animated film, don’t count it out of Oscar season. As a refresher: 1999’s South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated in the best song category for “Blame Canada”, which wound up being an unforgettable musical number during the awards telecast with Robin Williams.

Making the Movie Trolls

November 6, 2016, 07:45 AM

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/trolls-direc...

What would the story be? Who were the characters? None of these aspects existed in the franchise, which was based on a hugely popular decades-old line of toys. So Mitchell and Dohrn and the team at DreamWorks had to work it out, while also seeking to avoid obvious toy tie-ins and preserving a handmade look to the film despite it being rendered in cg.

QuatTwist Updates for More Animation Stability

November 4, 2016, 09:20 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2016/11/quattwist-stability...

Brave Rabbit’s free Maya plugin, QuatTwist updates with some stability improvements for animation. The plugin features true quaternion based twisting that avoids the common flipping issues found in other methods. It wasn’t that long ago when version 1.0 was released. Version 2.0 sees some improvements for animation and better stability. Version 2 holds a setting for The Post QuatTwist Updates for More Animation Stability originally appeared and published on %%BLOGLINK%,by lesterbanks

VFX Giant Framestore Scores $187M Takeover

November 4, 2016, 06:05 AM

http://deadline.com/2016/11/framestore-harry-potte...

British VFX company Framestore, which worked on films such as Gravity, the Harry Potter franchise and Doctor Strange, has agreed to a takeover by Chinese conglomerate Cultural Investment Holdings Co., in a deal that values it at nearly £150M ($187M).

Hair Parts Dynamics Using Ornatrix in Maya

November 4, 2016, 06:05 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/hair-parts-dynamics-u...

Hair is often divided into parts which are visually distinct. When simulating hair dynamics it is desired that these parts of hair behave as groups so that strands stick and simulate together instead of acting independently. In this quick tutorial we learn how to achieve this with Ornatrix Maya dynamics operator. Use this technique to better preserve your hair grooms during simulation.

Hitting the Bricks

November 4, 2016, 06:04 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2016/11/hitt...

SAG-AFTRA continues its job action against video game companies.

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