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

Q&A – The Genius of Ub Iwerks

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Don Iwerks’ book, Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks, is a fascinating account of the decades-long collaboration between his father and Walt Disney, and the many technical and artistic innovations that arose from that partnership. It is a must-read for anyone with an interest in the ‘good old days’ of filmmaking and effects, when ingenuity, hands and gears, rather than strokes on a keyboard, put spectacular images on the big screen.

WATCHMEN: VFX Reel by HBO

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Four Visual Trends That Will Shape Content in 2020

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As each year comes to a close, creative professionals often reflect on the styles that dominated the past 12 months while looking ahead to what’s to come. As a stock media provider, Storyblocks has a unique insight into where content creators are headed next. We conduct annual research into topics, themes, and visuals our users […] The post Four Visual Trends That Will Shape Content in 2020 appeared first on Studio Daily.

Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 16.1.2 Released

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Blackmagic released new DaVinci Resolve 16.1.2 which improves performance and addresses a few issues based on customer feedback. For example, it now brings support for CUDA based R3D with the latest RED SDK on Windows and Linux (shortly after RED announced the release of the SDK). The update is free for existing customers and can be downloaded from the Blackmagic support center website.

Faking 3D in After Effects

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3D is ever present in the motion graphics world. It’s also hard to learn and, occasionally, overkill. That’s where moviola.com comes in. This week, we explore the different methods of creating 3D effects within After Effects to save you that extra bit of time and effort.

TERMINATOR - DARK FATE: VFX Breakdown

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344 films eligible for 92nd Academy Awards

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LOS ANGELES — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (www.oscars.org) has announced that 344 feature films are eligible for the 2019 Academy Awards. To be eligible for 92nd Academy Awards consideration, feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County by December 31th, and begin a minimum run of seven consecutive days. Under Academy rules, a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes and must have been exhibit...

Check out This Advanced Compositing Course

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David Longfield’s new Advanced Compositing is a mini master class in visual effects compositing. It was around a year ago when David Longfield released his  Fundamentals of VFX: The Complete Guide to Creating High-End Visual Effects course.

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