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

VFX Contenders Fight 'Gravity's Pull

January 4, 2014, 02:47 PM

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/oscars-2014-visual...

Expect Gravity to be as powerful and inevitable a force in the visual-effects category at this year’s Oscars as, well, gravity. Offering more than just snazzy visuals — about 95% of what’s on screen is digital — Gravity’s visual-effects supervisor Tim Webber fulfilled many artists’ dreams by working from the start with director Alfonso Cuaron and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki to completely embed the effects into the storytelling and filmmaking process.

Using Transfer Attributes - Maya

January 4, 2014, 02:46 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/maya-using-transfer...

Starting out by saying “The more you know the more you realize how much you don’t know” Jimmy Gunawan proves this a bit by showing that you can use the Maya Transfer Attributes Tool to transfer more than just UV’s, colors, or sets. Maya’s Transfer Attributes will also be used to project one object on another, much like how a shrink wrap deformer would work.

Planar Tracking in Mocha

January 4, 2014, 02:46 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/mocha-planar-tracki...

In a recording of a previously run webinar, Imagineer Systems product specialist Mary Poplin takes a look at using mocha aE, and mocha Pro for stabilizing shots for After Effects and Nuke, showing how to creatively use mocha for reframing your shots, creating set extensions, and more.

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.

The Sweet Science of a Punch Sound

January 4, 2014, 08:16 AM

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB100014240527...

In the making of films like 'Out of the Furnace' with Casey Affleck and 'Grudge Match' with Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone, violence is unleashed against turkeys, pasta shells and actual human body parts to capture that perfect ka-pow.

2014 Anti-Resolutions

January 4, 2014, 08:16 AM

http://www.raindance.org/2014-anti-resoutions/

Here we are – a brand new year staring at you like a blank canvas. Everything you accomplish (or don’t) in the next year will forever have that date stamp: 2014 tattooed in the corner – for all your fans, friends and people important to you.The fresh perspective the New Year brings is a great time for reflection and renewal.

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.

Apple Mac Pro: Unboxing, detailed overview, benchm

January 4, 2014, 08:16 AM

http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/04/apple-mac-pro-unboxi...

We’ve already seen a lot of the Mac Pro including the review roundup, iFixit teardown, Environmental Improvements, manufacturing woes, pricing and even black Thunderbolt cables and stickers. But, we’re big fans of Michael Kukielka’s videos and the Mac Pro does not disappoint.

Affordable, Desirable, Admirable (feat. Ron Dawson

January 4, 2014, 08:15 AM

http://digitalcinemacafe.com/2014/01/03/fcg011-aff...

The origin of FCPX Grill can be traced back to a discussion that Ron Dawson of Dare Dreamer Mag and I had in late 2013. I called him up and asked HIM if he’d have me on HIS podcast, Crossing the 180. From that discussion I decided that I really enjoyed talking about Final Cut Pro X and so a show was born. Ron and Chris also go into the difference between our backup policies.

State of the Union

January 3, 2014, 06:27 PM

https://vimeo.com/62961750

The last ever Presidential address is the wake up call for ongoing alien invasion. This is a short teaser for an upcoming feature project by Bruce Branit who is known as the co-creator of 405 and World Builder. Branit FX also contributes VFX work to shows like Fringe, Breaking Bad, Person of Interest.

#vfx#cgi#premiere#fusion#max#fume#lightwave#teaser#alien invasion

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