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

360 VR Filmmaking

December 10, 2016, 12:00 PM

https://www.cinema5d.com/magic-behind-360-video-go...

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Magic Leap responds to grumpy mouse tech bloggers

December 10, 2016, 07:20 AM

https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/09/magic-leap-ceo...

Despite yesterday's report, Rony Abovitz claims we'll all play 'Dr. Grordborts Invaders.'

The Harry Potter Universe Gets a VFX Overhaul

December 10, 2016, 07:20 AM

https://www.aotg.com/the-harry-potter-universe-gets-a-vfx-overhaul/

The Harry Potter prequel, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, finds Eddie Redmayne performing a mating ritual in front of a massive computer-generated beast. Using a combination of puppets and CGI, a slew of effects houses were able to craft convincing monsters to populate J.K. Rowling's imaginative world.

Magic Leap’s CEO just defended the secretive sta

December 9, 2016, 05:53 PM

https://www.slashgear.com/magic-leaps-ceo-just-def...

Magic Leap’s CEO has come out fighting after reports suggested the company’s augmented reality was more movie-style FX trickery than anything else. Rony Abovitz, chief executive at the clandestine startup, took to Twitter to respond to claims earlier this week that, far from the seamless blending of digital and real content its demonstrations suggested, Magic Leap was in fact an underwhelming experience.

How to Create a 360 video using Plexus 3

December 9, 2016, 01:49 PM

http://www.mettle.com/how-to-create-a-360-video-us...

Chris Bobotis (Co-Founder www.mettle.com) shows how to take an existing Plexus project file in After Effects, and make it into a 360° Video. He uses the latest version of SkyBox Studio V2. The new “SkyBox Composer” module introduces an easier way to work with 3D plugins in a 360 environment.

5 AE Tutorials for Your Next Star Wars Fan Film

December 9, 2016, 05:51 AM

https://www.rocketstock.com/blog/after-effects-tut...

As the release of Rogue One looms like the Death Star over Endor, let’s take a look at some of the best After Effects tutorials for learning how to recreate Star Wars VFX.

Oscars 2017: The 10 VFX Oscar Contenders

December 8, 2016, 07:59 PM

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/12/oscars-2017-vfx-o...

It’s been a VFX season dominated by giants in a range of superhero, sci-fi and action-adventures. They include Mark Rylance’s 25-foot dream catcher in “The BFG,” Christopher Walken’s King Louie in “The Jungle Book,” the heptapods from “Arrival,” the 7-foot K-2SO droid from “Rogue One” and the Moon Beast and Skeleton from “Kubo and the Two Strings.”

Solve Difficult Green Screens with Chroma Key Stud

December 8, 2016, 10:40 AM

http://www.avidblogs.com/solve-difficult-green-scr...

Keying poorly lit green screen footage can be a challenging task! In this tutorial, we show how to salvage a nasty green screen shot with BCC Chroma Key Studio inside of Avid Media Composer. The article Solve Difficult Green Screens with Chroma Key Studio from Boris FX by Ross Shain appeared first on Avid Blogs - The media industry is changing fast. Get the insight you need to succeed—read Avid Blogs..

Lucasfilm's Force - Exec team 50 Percent Female

December 8, 2016, 10:39 AM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lucasfilms-f...

"When you have a balance of men and women, there are all sorts of things that enter into the discussion," says the president of the company behind the female-led 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' and upcoming 'Rogue One.'

Efficient Rendering of Heterogeneous Poly Disperse

December 8, 2016, 10:39 AM

https://www.aotg.com/efficient-rendering-of-heterogeneous-poly-disperse/

We address the challenge of efficiently rendering massive assemblies of grains within a forward path-tracing framework. Previous approaches exist for accelerating high-order scattering for a limited, and static, set of granular materials, often requiring scene-dependent pre-computation. We significantly expand the admissible regime of granular materials by considering heterogeneous and dynamic granular mixtures with spatially varying grain concentrations, pack rates, and sizes.

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