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

R.I.P. Oscar-Winning VFX Artist Joe Viskocil

August 12, 2014, 09:18 AM

http://deadline.com/2014/08/joe-viskocil-death-sta...

Oscar-winning special effects artist Joe Viskocil, who blew up the Death Star at the end of Star Wars: A New Hope, died Monday from complications of liver and kidney failure. He was 61. Viskocil began working for George Lucas in 1975 and a year later produced the memorable blast that enabled Luke Skywalker to destroy the Death Star.

method studios Transformers VFX Breakdown

August 12, 2014, 04:38 AM

http://www.methodstudios.com/work/transformers-age...

The fourth entry in the Transformers franchise stars none of the established human characters but plenty of robots fans will recognize. Director Michael Bay delivers an action packed movie full of flashy moving parts thanks to a host of VFX vendors, Method included.

The New Mexico Post Alliance Annual Event Nov 8th

August 11, 2014, 03:47 PM

http://nmpost.org/events

First, VFX Supervisor Louis Morin will discuss coordinating on-set visual effects for postproduction. Then Foley Artist Lara Dale and Audio Engineer Josh Reinhardt will demo a live-on-stage foley recording session using a scene from "Drunktown's Finest." And last, but not least, Lara will be joined for an open discussion by the film's Writer and Director, Sydney Freeland.

#vfx#new mexico#albuquerque#louis morin#foley#lara dale
The New Mexico Post Alliance ANNUAL EVENT Nov 8th

August 11, 2014, 03:44 PM

https://www.aotg.com/the-new-mexico-post-alliance-annual-event-nov-8th-2/

The New Mexico Post Alliance is pleased to announce four incredible presenters for our Q3 Membership Meeting August 23rd.

#vfx#louis morin#foley#lara dale
Paper Folding Animation

August 10, 2014, 10:45 AM

http://www.angietaylor.co.uk/2014/08/10/paper-fold...

Approaches like this are really useful as they allow you to create footage and a quirky paper folding animation from very few source files. All I’ve used here are five images of these models – and one audio track. Here's a three-part tutorial series that I've created at the Digital Arts website. Click on the links below to go to the Digital Arts website. Following these links is the movie showing the effect that you will create. The post Paper Folding Animation appeared first on Angie...

Interviews of the Week #31

August 10, 2014, 10:43 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=8863

Here the recap of my interviews of the week #31. So you won’t miss any of them.

Double Negative ShowReel

August 9, 2014, 10:23 AM

http://dneg.com/home/showreel/

With their new website Double negative has released a new Show Reel. 

Weta Delivers VFX for Dawn of the Planet of Apes

August 8, 2014, 10:26 AM

http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/weta-deliv...

It’s been quite the summer for bar-raising in the visual effects arena. Guardians of the Galaxy makes a racoon and a tree convincingly human characters – in space – while the unsung Snowpiercer shows an effectively rendered apocalypse-in-motion on a non-studio budget. Among the seasonal entrants boasting convincing otherworldly visuals, is the latest installment in Fox’s rebooted Planet of the Apes series, Dawn of the Planet of Apes.

Webinar Replay: Boris RED 5.5 with Kevin P. McAuli

August 8, 2014, 10:23 AM

https://www.aotg.com/webinar-replay-boris-red-5-5-with-kevin-p-mcauli/

Kevin P. McAuliffe gives you a run-down of why he turns to RED 5.5 for quick and easy title creation, stylized looks, and custom transition creation in Avid ...

How 3D Printing Is Making Better Movie Monsters

August 8, 2014, 05:38 AM

http://gizmodo.com/how-3d-printing-is-making-bette...

Cinematic special effects have come a long way since Jason and the Argonauts. What once required dedicated and labor-intensive filming sessions can now easily be generated in near-lifelike quality by modern CGI. But Luma Pictures, an animation studio responsible for some of the biggest blockbuster movie effects of the last decade, has come full circle and incorporated 3D printed analog modeling into its design process.

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