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

Free MagicSwitch Plugin for C4D

February 5, 2014, 10:58 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/magicswitch-plugin-...

Nitro4D posts MagicSwitch as another freebie tool for Cinema 4D. MagicSwitch will let you create a toggle for an objects attributes easily, so you can go back and forth between your two object states. A great example is creating and setting a toggle for object resolution. One click will display a low resolution version of the object, and you can snap back to the high resolution version easily.

Building Dynamic Joint Chains with Maya Hair

February 4, 2014, 01:51 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/building-dynamic-jo...

John Zilka covers the basic of creating joint chains in Autodesk Maya, using the nHair properties for control. Autodesk Maya makes it pretty easy to set up a dynamic joint chain, but it does involve a few steps. First you need to create an Spline IK through the joint chain.

Boinx Labs Solves Suborbital Spaceflight, Global W

February 4, 2014, 11:32 AM

http://feeds.boinx.com/~r/boinx/~3/kizVKPBMXiU/

Another day, another science demo from Dr. Term T. Bowman Ph.D. of Boinx Labs. This time, the Doctor is taking a closer look at the strange phenomenon that is American Football. "We were watching the...

Maya Tutorial on The Set Driven Keys

February 4, 2014, 11:29 AM

http://www.3dvf.com/actualite-8704-maya-tutoriel-s...

Daryl Obert provides a video tutorial on the Maya set driven keys. After introducing the feature, it shows how to use it to set up a facial rig.

VES Announces 2014 Board of Directors

February 3, 2014, 11:11 AM

http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/ves-...

The Visual Effects Society (VES), announced its 2014 board of directors officers. The officers, who comprise the VES Board Executive Committee, were elected at the January 2014 board meeting.

Busing Nuke Premultiplication Myths

February 1, 2014, 02:17 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/busting-nuke-premul...

Quite often if an image is using an alpha channel, to save on additional multiplications during compositing, the color of the image is multiplied by the alpha value. This is what a premultiplied alpha is, and it needs to be treated differently than a regular alpha channel when compositing.

Solving the Disappearing boolean problem in Maya

February 1, 2014, 02:16 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/solving-disappearin...

The latest version of Maya, which is the 2014 extension release has added a new and robust library for faster and more reliable booleans on polygons. The extension release makes use of the Carve library which is a fast and reliable constructive solid geometry library, Making the Boolean operations in Maya work well – work very well.

known issues and workarounds for After Effects CC

January 31, 2014, 06:17 PM

http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2014/01/known-...

Since we released After Effects CC (12.2), we have found some bugs. We are working on fixing these bugs, of course, and we’ll be releasing a bug-fix update soon (within a couple of weeks if all goes well) that addresses many of them. Stay tuned to this blog for details of the upcoming bug-fix update. In the meantime, we wanted to make sure that you knew of these issues and how to work around them. Dragging a folder of source items into the Project panel does not import the source items. T...

Linear Exterior Setup + FREE 3D Scene

January 31, 2014, 01:37 PM

http://vrayart.com/wp/vray-tutorials/linear-exteri...

Getting more requests for demonstrating some exterior techniques, and there’s no better way for using pre-made 3Ds Max VRay presets. The are verity of different ways for setting up your Exterior lighting, however I have found quite few times, that the “basics” can deliver the “message” in better way by bribing “focus” on the architectural object and not the environment.

MAXON CINEMA 4D Helps Savannah College of Art

January 31, 2014, 01:37 PM

http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/the_wire/2014...

Newbury Park, CA – January 31, 2014 – MAXON, the leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, announced that a group of Savannah College of Art and Design® (SCAD) students, relied on CINEMA 4D, its industry-leading motion graphics software, to help develop and design the animated opening concepts for the FOX Sports Super Bowl XLVIII game-day broadcast on February 2, 2014.

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