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

Will Disney and Pixar Ever Dive Headfirst Into TV?

January 19, 2014, 02:02 PM

http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillbarr/2014/01/17...

The success of the company's recent special raises a question: why has Pixar remained hesitant to produce series television?

10 Maya quick tips

January 19, 2014, 02:02 PM

http://therenderblog.com/10-maya-quick-tips/

In this post I will share a few more maya tips that can help you to work faster inside maya. Simple python scripts and some “not-so-obvious” maya options that will make your life easier.

Watch Simulated Bipedal Animation

January 18, 2014, 08:40 AM

http://filmmakeriq.com/2014/01/watch-simulated-bip...

Okay, that title is a mouthful but this demonstration shows how Muscle simulators can be used to create realistic gaits in animated characters – adding realism to CGI characters

Monsters University Animation test

January 17, 2014, 04:35 PM

http://www.carlosbaena.com/animation/animation_mis...

Had a really fun time on Monsters University pre-production. Fantastic crew. Most of the time was spent testing character rigs as they were being built so it was great to take a break to animate this rough animation test. Found the audio of some dude from Spain somewhere. The animation was also used to test early hair/cloth simulation.

How an Action Scene from 'Archer' Gets Made

January 16, 2014, 04:48 PM

http://nofilmschool.com/2014/01/animation-how-acti...

Chances are if you’re between the ages of 16 to 35, you’ve watched the FX animated hit, Archer. It’s one of those shows that appeals ever so perfectly to our inner man-child sensibilities. But I digress.

How to Overlap a Tail – Animation Tutorial

January 16, 2014, 10:59 AM

http://graphite9.com/blog/?p=140

This video explores two contrasting workflows for animating a tail with appealing overlapping motion. I guess you could say one method is more technical and the other is more artistic. Both are valid of course, the end result is what counts most!

Five Animated Pics Nominated for Academy Awards

January 16, 2014, 10:59 AM

http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/five-anima...

This morning (Jan. 19), the nominations for the 86th Annual Academy Awards were announced at a news conference at the Samuel Goldwyn theater in Beverly Hills. Here are the animation and vfx nominees:

Animation Projects and Release Dates

January 16, 2014, 05:51 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2014/01/proj...

This original animated comedy event about courage, competition and carrying a tune will be written and directed by Garth Jennings (Son of Rambow, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). The film will be produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy.

Cinema 4D Quick Tip: Track Xpresso Node

January 15, 2014, 02:08 PM

http://www.mographcandy.com/blog/track-xpresso-nod...

In this Cinema 4D Quick Tip, I will go over the basic use of the Track Xpresso node in Cinema 4D. The Track node allows you to use Animation tracks to drive other objects animation.

Creating a simple Rig - Maya

January 15, 2014, 11:01 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/maya-creating-a-sim...

There are many ways to rig one thing in 3D, and here Rigging Artist Arun Lingasamy shares one technique for creating a rig for a spring in Autodesk Maya. Quite often something will look simple, as in the case of rigging a spring, what you want is a scaling action along one axis, but doing so will also scale the form of the swept shape that makes up the spring.

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