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

Again, the retirement thing

February 10, 2014, 05:38 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2014/02/agai...

After actual investing for retirement (putting money away for your autumnal years) the next most important thing is this...

AE: Experimentation Assignment 13

February 9, 2014, 08:39 AM

http://motionworks.net/after-effects-experiment-as...

This After Effects Experiment is all about fire. There are plenty of ways to create realistic fire in After Effects. For my experiment I used the Ellipse effect to create the rings along with Turbulent Noise, Curves and Displacement Map to create the fire. Take a look at my project then give it a go yourself by either making mine look better or starting from scratch to create your own recipe.

Cinema 4D Tutorial | Xpresso Presets: Calculation

February 9, 2014, 08:38 AM

http://www.mographcandy.com/blog/2014/2/8/cinema-4...

In this Cinema 4D Tutorial we will go over the basic functions of the Xpresso Helper nodes Soft Target, Target, Vector Transition, Trigger Distance, and Angle Distance under X-Pool Calculations.

Cinema 4D Tutorial - Cool Looking Plastic and Glas

February 9, 2014, 08:38 AM

http://www.ratemyfuneral.com/cinema-4d-tutorial-co...

In this Cinema 4D tutorial we go through creating a cool text effect where the glass front is separate from the hollow plastic backing.

Mari Tools Offers An Energy Shader

February 8, 2014, 02:53 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/mari-tools-architec...

Digital Artist Nicholas Breslow shares his suite of tools for Mari that offer useful new physical shaders, normal map blending, and procedurals...

This Month in Animation History

February 8, 2014, 02:53 PM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2014/02/this...

The Animation Guild's President Emeritus Tom Sito has been good enough to dig through his massive archive of significant February dates in animation (and entertainment generally), and present them to members. We give you a preview here:

Using Newton2 for a Characters Secondary Animation

February 8, 2014, 08:21 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/newton2-character-a...

There have been plenty of tutorials on the topic of rigging and animating characters in After Effects using a mix of DUIK, puppet tools, and various scripts. There have also been some great tutorials showing how to create reactive and complex physical interactions in After Effects, using the Newton2 Physics engine, which is pretty much the only game in town as far as After Effects is concerned.

How to get Caption Text Over Your Realflow Preview

February 7, 2014, 06:33 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/get-caption-text-re...

Josh Clos posts a look at the standard method for creating Caption text over RealFlow previews, and then takes a look at a Python script (written by Mike Zugschwert) that will use RealFlow’s Show Preview Caption option, and can set the Caption automatically.

Managing V-Rays Sampler Architectural Renders

February 7, 2014, 12:48 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/managing-v-rays-sam...

Dublin based 3d and visual effects operator John O’Connell shares his approach and insights in V-Ray Sampling and quality settings for getting clean architectural visualization renders.

How The Lego Movie Got Its Stop-Motion Look

February 7, 2014, 10:23 AM

http://www.thecredits.org/2014/02/how-the-lego-mov...

When the trailer for The Lego Movie came out, the Internet was abuzz. The Lego characters had that signature stop-motion feel to them, moving in a slightly stilted manner. Was the movie filmed in stop-motion or CG animation?

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