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

Using Normal Maps in 3ds Max

January 12, 2016, 05:29 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/using-normal-maps-in-...

In this tutorial, you learn about the benefits of using normal maps to provide detail without the overhead of added geometry. It’s a technique used mostly for gaming but can also be applied to architectural visualization or in any situation where interactive playback is required.

BAFTA Nominations Announced for Best Animated Film

January 12, 2016, 05:29 AM

http://www.rotoscopers.com/2016/01/12/bafta-nomina...

The BAFTA nominations have been chosen for the Best Animated Film and Best Animated Short category. Who do you think should win?

Animated Storyboards Opens Toronto Office

January 11, 2016, 06:05 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2016/01/animated-storyb...

Animatics studio Animated Storyboards opened its tenth office, and its first Canadian location, in Toronto. The new 4,300-square-foot location will feature three edit suites, an audio studio, conference room and lobby area. The Toronto office will be led by Managing … more » The post Animated Storyboards Opens Toronto Office appeared first on Studio Daily.

On Investing

January 10, 2016, 09:47 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2016/01/on-i...

Various stock market has been choppy of late, which is usually when Animation Guild artists and others commence getting nervous. (Oh Gawd! I gotta put everything in the stable value fund! Quick!)

Jungle Book Too

January 10, 2016, 09:47 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2016/01/jung...

There are people who don't like the old Disney classics getting tampered with. But I say, why the hell not? Walt's gone to his reward. And he tampered with Rudyard Kipling's book, didn't he?

3ds Max Applink PBR Material Presets

January 10, 2016, 09:47 AM

https://www.aotg.com/3ds-max-applink-pbr-material-presets/

This video covers the usage of some new 3ds Max Material presets that facilitate the importing of PBR maps from 3D Coat

Animating Horror: An Interview with Robert Morgan

January 9, 2016, 09:28 AM

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/art-animatin...

Influenced by the horror of Francis Bacon, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Brothers Quay, Morgan’s animated shorts like The Cat with Hands and The Separation are disorienting trips into the subconscious. His uncompromisingly confusing 2011 short, Bobby Yeah, was rewarded with a BAFTA nomination, among numerous other honors.

Golden Globe Nominees for Best Animated Film

January 8, 2016, 10:37 AM

http://www.wheretowatch.com/2016/01/get-know-your-...

Yesterday we delighted and thrilled you with two Golden Globe primers to make you the toast/scourge of your friends and/or family. Our primer for the Best Motion Picture, Drama and Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy categories were designed to give you the tools (in the form of interviews we've done with the below-the-line artists who helped make those films great) to sound like a cinematic savant.

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