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
February 3, 2014, 01:02 PM
http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/effects-shape-layer...
Mt. Mograph shows how to use After Effects shape layers to create an animation that has the shape layers look like they fuse into one another. If you have seen the effects of “metaballs” in 3d, it is a similar effect in 2d, where the shapes look like they will bleed into each other with a bit of surface tension...
January 31, 2014, 01:39 PM
http://www.borisfx.com/borisfxnews/2014/01/31/free...
Prep for the big game with your own ESPN-inspired animated lower third. Available for Adobe After Effects and BCC 8 AE users. Download yours today!
January 31, 2014, 10:58 AM
https://www.aotg.com/welcome-to-legacy-effects-special-effects-reel/
Subscribe to Legacy Effects on YouTube: http://bit.ly/15mkX9A A whirlwind look at Legacy's creatures, robots, animals, monsters, and suits. Ever wonder what ...
January 31, 2014, 05:23 AM
http://www.toolfarm.com/blog/entry/freebie_toolmem...
It’s Freebie Friday! Fabian Rosenkranz shares his free plug-in ToolMemory, is a workflow helper which remembers the tool you last used with an object.
January 30, 2014, 06:36 PM
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2014/01/macbook-t...
OK, one last punditesque post before I return to the usual crap. I read Jason Snell’s interview with Apple executives and this bit by Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi stood out:
January 30, 2014, 06:35 PM
http://postperspective.com/quick-chat-sleepy-hollo...
BURBANK — The first season of Fox’s Sleepy Hollow, which recently had its season finale, averaged anywhere from 30 to 300 visual effects shots. The show’s VFX supervisor, Jason Zimmerman, had three go-to houses — Synaptic VFX, Pixomondo (www.pixomondo.com) and Fuse (www.fusefx.com) — to create what the producers wanted: feature-film-level visual effects to help illustrate its re-telling of the […]The post Quick chat: ‘Sleepy Hollow’ VFX supervisor Jason Zimmerman appeared...
January 30, 2014, 01:25 PM
http://postperspective.com/cloud-rendering-helps-v...
Three films nominated for Oscars this year feature visual effects that were rendered in the cloud via Zync’s VFX cloud rendering and storage platform. Best Picture nominee American Hustle featured a number of visual effects shots, created by Boston studio Zero VFX (www.zerovfx.com). SF-based Atomic Fiction (www.atomicfiction.com), which contributed work on two films nominated for […]The post Cloud rendering helps VFX shine in Oscar-nominated films appeared first on postPerspective - Rand...
January 30, 2014, 01:22 PM
http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/compositing-painted...
Showing how simple it can be to create painted type on a background image, Rich Aguilar walks through creating the effect in After Effects with a bit of compositing and no special plugins. This can be an adventure in blend modes and workflow. You want to have the type look like it is actually painted on without destructively distressing the type in Ae so that the characters can no longer be edited or changed easily.
January 30, 2014, 01:21 PM
http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/solving-common-issu...
A IK Spline in Autodesk Maya lends itself well to being used as the underlying structure in character rigs for tails, spines or anything that has lots of small joints that need to move in the same direction.
January 28, 2014, 08:11 PM
http://fxrant.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/the-vfx-pred...
Now that the Academy Award nominations have been announced, it’s time to fire up The VFX Predictinator. This year’s predicted winner may not surprise you. But first, here's some background for those of you just joining us.
Daniel George McDonald sits down to discuss creating the finale for Cheer Season 2.
Gordon sits down with the editorial team of The Black Lady Sketch Show to discuss their approach to ...
Gordon sits down with Philip to discuss his work with Tyler Perry and his latest film A Madea Homeco...
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