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

emPolygonizer Plugin for Maya

January 9, 2014, 12:51 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/maya-empolygonizer-...

The popular plugin for Softimage has been brought over to Autodesk Maya. Eric Mootz has been bringing some of his plugins originally created for Softimage exclusively over to other applications such as Modo, and now we see his first offering for Autodesk Maya, bringing emPolygonizer4 to Maya’s environment.

DreamWorks Animation Builds a Firm Foundation

January 9, 2014, 09:59 AM

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dreamworks...

GLENDALE, Calif., Jan. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- DreamWorks Animation and Plumzi today released the groundbreaking interactive appisode VeggieTales Appisode: 3 Builders on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Based on the popular TV episode "The Little House that Stood", this appisode showcases an emerging form of story-driven entertainment that delights and challenges kids by putting them in control. By using voice, tap, tilt and more, children will participate in the episode and learn ...

'Frozen' Becomes Box Office Star

January 8, 2014, 02:19 PM

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/frozen-becomes-shi...

Frozen, the animated musical from Walt Disney Studios Animation, has slid past the $300M mark domestically, according to estimates Tuesday night. The film is on its way to becoming the highest-grossing Disney Animation release in history. This, of course, begs the question — will Frozen‘s huge success take it all the way to the Great White Way? It a natural for Disney.

Frozen soundtrack chills at No. 1 in top chart

January 8, 2014, 02:19 PM

http://www.hitfix.com/news/frozen-soundtrack-chill...

The soundtrack to Disney's "Frozen" freezes out the competition on the Billboard 200 this week, selling 165,000 copies and rising to No. 1 from No. 4 last week (+55%). "Frozen" is the first soundtrack to earn the top spot since exactly a year ago when the soundtrack to "Les Misérables" went No. 1.

Using the Tracer in Cinema 4D

January 8, 2014, 09:58 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/cinema-4d-using-the...

Creating an interesting transition between moving objects, Audio Visual Designer Miquel Rodriguez Estany shares how to use the Tracer Object in Cinema 4D that can yield an easy and varied way to create transitions.

MEL Tip 003: Randomize Positions

January 7, 2014, 02:10 PM

http://www.tdhendrix.com/mel-tip-003-randomize-pos...

In this third MEL Tip I'm going to show you a very easy script that will randomize the positions of whatever you have selected. Here's the source

Previs Camera - Maya

January 6, 2014, 10:57 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/maya-previs-camera-...

The Previs Camera tools for Autodesk Maya automated building cameras using preset definitions of popular real life cameras. Recently taking advantage of the holiday break, Cinematographer Matt Workman updated the Previs Camera Tools to version 2 adding many more camera presets, as well as a smoother and mor functional user interface for the tool.

Rigging Characters Hair in AE

January 4, 2014, 02:46 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/after-effects-riggi...

This actually represents part six in David Legion’s adventures into rigging and animating lip sync for a character in After Effects. In this installment, David shows a pretty clever solution for creating hair for the character that can swing with the movement of the puppet’s head.

Create and Animate a Wind-Blown Dandelion

January 4, 2014, 08:16 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/maya-create-and-ani...

Animation filmmaker and CG Artist Qing Sheng provides a walkthrough for creating a dandelion spreading its seeds blown by the wind, usig some sculpting in ZBrush and creating and animating the scene in Autodesk Maya.

Adding External Compositing - Cinema 4D

January 3, 2014, 01:27 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/cinema-4d-adding-ex...

If you are just starting out in Cinema 4D and After Effects, you may find it confusing when trying to get nulls for individual cloner objects from Cinema 4D into After Effects. Here, The Pixel Lab’s Joren Kandel shows an easy way by adding an external compositing tag to the cloner itself.

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