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

MPC Advertising CG Reel 2014

January 28, 2014, 11:01 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=5924

Here is a beautiful advertising reel by MPC that focus on their CG work...

FACT: Government Pays 60% of BC VFX Salaries

January 28, 2014, 05:35 AM

http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/fact-go...

In my last post many commenters were surprised by the fact that 60% (58.42% to be exact) of the salaries of BC resident VFX artists were paid by the government. Quickly after that post, commenters accused me a lying and all kinds of wacky outrage.

BBC WINTER OLYMPICS – NATURE

January 28, 2014, 05:32 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=5928

Here is the beautiful trailer for BBC WINTER OLYMPICS – NATURE created by the teams of Platige Image...

ZYNC used to render VFX work in the cloud

January 27, 2014, 01:32 PM

http://news.creativecow.net/story/874271

(Boston, Massachusetts--January 27, 2014) ZYNC, the Visual Effects industry leading cloud rendering and storage platform congratulates customers who worked on 3 films nominated for Oscars. Best Picture Nominee "American Hustle" had numerous visual effects shots rendered on the cloud by studio Zero VFX while client Atomic Fiction contributed work on two films nominated for best visual effects, "Star Trek: Into Darkness" and "The Lone Ranger."

Part 7/8: Character Animation in AE

January 27, 2014, 01:31 PM

http://www.mettle.com/part-7-8-character-animation...

How to create a controller for the Puppet head and eyes.

ZBrush Working with and Designing Material

January 27, 2014, 01:31 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/working-designing-m...

Eric Keller posts a 4 part series covering working with materials in ZBrush, starting with the basics and showing how to create your own standard materials, MatCap Materials, and Layering shaders, as well as LightCap and materials.

RUGBYBUGS: FMX Trailer 2014

January 27, 2014, 01:31 PM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=5913

Here is the beautiful short RUGBYBUGS directed by Carl Schröter, Martin Lapp, Emanuel Fuchs, Fabian Fricke and Matthias Bäuerle and produced by Alexandra Stautmeister and Anica Maruhn:

Jigglebox Tool Automates Animations in Maya

January 23, 2014, 02:51 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/jigglebox-tool-auto...

As part of his MFA thesis at Savannah College of Art and Design, Ayan Akbar developed Jiggle Box, a python driven tool for Autodesk Maya that automates much of the process of creating secondary animation for tails, fins, hair, fish bodies, and character rigs.

New VFX Firm Magnopus Sets Up in Downtown L.A.

January 23, 2014, 02:49 PM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/new-vfx-firm...

A version of this story first appeared in the Jan. 31 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Magnopus, a newly created company founded by Oscar-winning visual effects artists Ben Grossman and Alex Henning (Hugo), along with Rodrigo Teixeira, has just signed a five-year lease for creative offices in downtown L.A.'s PacMutual building.

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