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

Getting started with Motion

March 26, 2014, 07:39 AM

http://www.fcp.co/motion/tutorials-for-apple-motio...

In this week's episode of MacBreak Studio, we leave Final Cut Pro X this time and return to Motion. We also start right back at the basics by building a simple graphic from scratch.

‘Second Coming’ Scores in 3D

March 25, 2014, 10:16 PM

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/filmart-second-c...

Proving that 3D is still a concept with business legs in Asia, All Rights Entertainment has done brisk sales business on stereoscopic horror film “The Second Coming.”

Shade VFX Opens NY Facility

March 25, 2014, 10:15 PM

http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/shade-vfx-...

Shade VFX has opened a new facility in New York, prompted by a favorable economic climate and client requests. The Park Avenue location will build up a medium sized staff over the coming months and is currently in production on a D.J. Caruso project (Shade previously worked on Caruso’s I Am Number Four). The new East Coast office will expand on the studio’s L.A. base, where Shade boasts a Bergamot Station studio including a greenscreen stage.

Houdini For Softimage ICE Users

March 25, 2014, 10:15 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/houdini-softimage-i...

In a post SoftImage world, Javier Meroño offers a Side FX Houdini orientation for Softimage ICE users. To me Houdini would be the most loci gal connection for the people left hanging by the news that SoftImage will no longer be made or supported After this latest version 2015. It would be the closest thing to SoftImage’s ICE environment, being that Houdini is a completely procedural application.

Industry Level Uneven Green Screen Issues

March 25, 2014, 03:40 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/instantly-level-une...

An uneven green screen due to poor lighting or a trashed backdrop can now be rectified with a bit of workflow automation. Jae Tools launches a new After Effects tool, Screen Equalizer, a tool that will help you with problematic green screen problems. Screen Equalizer for After Effects is a chromakey screen leveling plugin that can assist with uneven green screen lighting or with wrinkled backdrops.

Fast & Furious 7 will shoot scenes with doubles an

March 24, 2014, 03:35 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/co...

Shooting has now resumed for “Fast & Furious 7,” and Confidenti@l has learned exactly how Paul Walker will remain in the film. “They have hired four actors with bodies very similar to Paul’s physique and they will be used for movement and as a base,” one source close to production tells us. “Paul’s face and voice will be used on top using CGI.”

Considering VFX

March 21, 2014, 07:34 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2014/03/cons...

There's another report out about how California's entertainment industry is currently starved for oxygen and thus eating it.

Blender 2.70 ships

March 21, 2014, 07:34 AM

http://www.cgchannel.com/2014/03/blender-2-70-ship...

An early developer demo of the new volumetric rendering capability in Blender’s Cycles engine. The new functionality has been incorporated into Blender 2.70, which has just been officially released.

Cinesite Montreal Welcomes Chloe Grysole

March 21, 2014, 07:34 AM

http://www.cinesite.com/news

Cinesite is proud to announce that Chloë Grysole has joined as the General Manager of their newly opened Montréal studio, and with her the start of two major productions.

The Suckers Bet

March 21, 2014, 07:33 AM

http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/the-suc...

Some in the VFX community are going starry-eyed over some potential carve out for VFX in the CA film subsidy bill. Some have been given the impression that if we continue support for the legal effort to place anti-subsidy duties on subsidized visual effects these provisions will be thrown out and it will be all ADAPT’s fault!

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