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 King Kong Changed Film

March 1, 2017, 05:53 PM

https://www.inverse.com/article/28410-king-kong-vi...

owadays, when we see giant creatures stomping across our screens, it goes without saying that there’s some nifty computer graphics behind the action. And that’s certainly the case in Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island, which features incredible visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.

Swedish post/VFX company Chimney opens in LA

March 1, 2017, 05:47 PM

http://postperspective.com/swedish-postvfx-company...

Swedish post company Chimney has opened a Los Angeles facility, its first in the US, but one of their 12 offices in eight countries. Founded in Stockholm in 1995, as a whole, Chimney produces over 6,000 pieces for more than 60 countries each year, averaging 1,000 projects and 10,000 VFX shots. Continue reading → March 1, 2017 The post Swedish post/VFX company Chimney opens in LA appeared first on Randi Altman's postPerspective.

Framestore Deploys Pixstor in London

March 1, 2017, 05:45 PM

https://news.creativecow.net/story/887388

(Surrey, EN--February 27, 2017) Pixit Media, the leader in storage solutions built specifically for media workflows, today announced that Oscar-, Emmy-, and British Academy Film Award-winning creative studio Framestore has deployed Pixit Media's PixStor software-defined scale-out storage solution at its Los Angeles, London, and New York sites as central production storage for the advertising part of its business. The deployment gives Framestore guaranteed performance and consistency across all t...

Miller Features arrowFX at NAB 2017

March 1, 2017, 11:12 AM

https://www.aotg.com/miller-features-arrowfx-at-nab-2017/

Miller Camera Support, LLC, a leader in the production of innovating camera support solutions, will start shipping its new range of arrowFX Fluid Heads at NAB 2017 (Booth C7920). The series, including the arrowFX 3, arrowFX 5 and arrowFX 7, is an extension of Miller’s new arrowX line of fluid heads, providing the latest solution for high-definition live television productions where augmented reality effects are inserted into the picture.

#miller camera support#arrowfx#nab 2017
BTS of The Jungle Book’s Character Development

March 1, 2017, 08:49 AM

http://theangryvideoguy.com/index.php/2017/03/01/b...

MPC's featurette discusses the creation of the absolutely mind blowing realistic talking animals they created for The Jungle Book. They discuss the strategy of their character creation pipeline and show off R&D shots with the main passes of skeletal, muscle, skin & fur.

#vfx#vfx breakdown#featurette#the jungle book
Worldwide FX Film Reel

March 1, 2017, 06:41 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/worldwide-fx-film-ree...

Here is a taste of Worldwide FX’s artistry during the years, featured in movies such as “London Has Fallen”, “Criminal”, ” The Expendables” franchise, “Automata”, “Septembers of Shiraz” and many more.

Weta Digital's Tissue System - Horse

March 1, 2017, 06:40 AM

https://www.aotg.com/weta-digitals-tissue-system-horse/

The horse turntable was created to showcase how our creatures and animals are built from the inside out. A skeleton, muscle fibers, fascia, fatty tissue, skin and hair are all combined to create a model that is anatomically plausible. We use our Academy Award® winning Tissue software to simulate muscle jiggle and to contract each muscle based on the horse’s movements.

New RE:Vision Effects Plugin RE:Lens Available For

February 28, 2017, 07:59 PM

http://hdslrshooter.com/new-revision-effects-plugi...

RE:Vision Effects has announced the RE:Lens plug-in, a “new set of tools for projection conversion and lens distortion correction”, is now available for Blackmagic Design’s Fusion Studio and The Foundry’s Nuke post effects programs.

LOL: This Manchester by the Sea VFX Reel Is Unbeli

February 28, 2017, 07:59 PM

https://www.aotg.com/lol-this-manchester-by-the-sea-vfx-reel-is-unbeli/

Manchester by the Sea was nominated for six Oscars and took home two on Sunday night: Best Original Screenplay for Kenneth Lonergan and Best Actor for Casey Affleck. But there’s one category in which it was completely overlooked, perhaps because it was too good. A behind-the-scenes reel highlights the film’s unbelievable visual effects — and by unbelievable, I mean literally unbelievable. Because this isn’t an actual Manchester by the Sea VFX reel, but a Funny or Die video.

Doctor Strange VFX Breakdown

February 28, 2017, 07:23 AM

https://www.aotg.com/doctor-strange-vfx-breakdown/

Framestore worked on over 365 shots on Marvel's Doctor Strange, encapsulating a range of VFX and animation work including environments, the complex ‘Mandelbrotting’ of sets, incredibly high resolution digi-doubles of key characters, and the creation of the astral form, a key technique used throughout the film.

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