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

Houdini Engine Gets Free Public Preview

November 21, 2013, 10:59 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/houdini-engine-gets...

Big news this past summer saw SideFX announce the Houdini Engine, which has recently been made available for public preview. The Houdini Engine will allow you to access Houdini’s core and leverage its procedural strengths in other applications such as Autodesk Maya, Unity, and any other content creation platform through a compact API.

SFX to Acquire German Promoter i-Motion

November 20, 2013, 08:32 PM

http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2013/11/20/sfx-to-acq...

DigitalMusicNews reports that SFX Entertainment has added one more company to its acquisition spree; this time it is i-Motion from Germany. Recently, the company had purchased Totem OneLove, the organizer of StereoSonic festival. By purchasing i-Motion, the company has taken one more step towards its vision of dominating the EDM domain.

HZBS Custom Blend Shape Tool

November 20, 2013, 02:56 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/maya-hzbs-custom-bl...

John HuangZhen offers up his freely available blendShape Management Tool for Maya, HZBS, which provides the tools to allow you to add corrective targets into Maya’s blendShapes with support for most geometry types including lattices.

After Effects: Detail-Preserving Upscale

November 20, 2013, 12:01 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2013/11/after-effects-d...

For AE Tuts+, trainer Mikey Borup looks at a new feature in After Effects that promises better upscaling. Visit the original page for a downloadable video file (153 MB).

SynthEyes Adds a Robust 3D Tracker

November 20, 2013, 12:00 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/syntheyes-adds-a-ro...

Andersson Technologies LLC released SynthEyes 1311, adding 3D Planar Tracking capabilities to its already impressive suite of tracking and match moving tools, making it simple to track shots, using even a single planar tracker to define a camera or object path.

Upping the HUD Ante with Adobe AE

November 20, 2013, 12:00 PM

http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/adobe/adobe/u...

Stephen Lawes, creative director and co-owner of Cantina Creative and Cantina VFX Supervisor Venti Hristova raised the bar once again on the heads-up displays (HUDs) for Marvel’s Iron Man 3, which premiered in May and released on DVD in September. The film features Robert Downey Jr. as superhero Tony Stark, along with Gwyneth Paltrow...

First 3D Experience to Reveal Animal Vision

November 20, 2013, 11:59 AM

http://www.tgdaily.com/augmented-reality/81936-the...

This real-time 3D Internet experience lets people see through the eyes of several animals including rats, bees, cats, dogs and hawks, as they wonder the streets of Paris.

Creating Rendering Dynamic Ice

November 20, 2013, 08:50 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/cinema-4d-creating-...

Taking a page from his past project, Marco Holland shows how to create an animation of ice dropping into a glass in Cinema 4D using a simple dynamics setup so they will fill up the glass.

Rodeo FX Turns To iPi Motion Capture

November 20, 2013, 05:37 AM

http://news.creativecow.net/story/873637

(Moscow, Russia--November 19, 2013) The summer blockbuster “Now You See Me”, which has grossed more than $350 million USD worldwide since Summit Entertainment, a LIONSGATE (NYSE: LGF) company, released the film in the US, features several complex visual effects sequences created by Montreal-based studio Rodeo VFX. But none proved more challenging than a key scene set at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas – aided immeasurably by iPi Soft’s markerless motion capture solution iPi Motion Capture.

Muse VFX opens in Hollywood

November 19, 2013, 08:04 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Press-Center/Daily-New...

HOLLYWOOD — Visual effects and design group Muse VFX has opened its doors in the heart of Hollywood, providing services for television, feature films, commercials, special venues and online content. Muse is led by founder/creative director/senior VFX supervisor, John Gross, who was formerly senior executive of Eden FX at Point.360.

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