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

Soundtrack Synergy

January 7, 2014, 05:45 AM

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

Disney's Frozen soundtrack is aiming for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart...

Previs Camera - Maya

January 6, 2014, 10:57 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/maya-previs-camera-...

The Previs Camera tools for Autodesk Maya automated building cameras using preset definitions of popular real life cameras. Recently taking advantage of the holiday break, Cinematographer Matt Workman updated the Previs Camera Tools to version 2 adding many more camera presets, as well as a smoother and mor functional user interface for the tool.

The lighting of "The Incredibles" Part 3

January 6, 2014, 05:51 AM

http://floobynooby.blogspot.ca/2014/01/the-cinemat...

Cinematography is the art of composing the scenes of the film so they can visually tell the story in a functional and creative way. The purpose of composition is to direct the viewer's eye to the central point or "story" in your scene. Regardless of the particular subject, composition of the frame is important.

R.I.P. British Animator Harold Whitaker

January 6, 2014, 05:46 AM

http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/r-p-britis...

Animator and author Harold Whitaker passed away on Christmas Day in the U.K. The London animation veteran, who worked on acclaimed movies such as Animal Farm and Where the Wind Blows, also contributed to the 1981 Timing for Animation primer (co-written by John Halas and updated by Tom Sito in 2009) for Focal Press.

Cinematheque Plans Adult Animation Series

January 6, 2014, 05:45 AM

http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/american-c...

The American Cinematheque is planning an "Animation for Adults" series, beginning this Thursday (Jan. 9) and running through Jan. 25 at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.

Unretired

January 5, 2014, 06:34 AM

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

The one constant of animation is that a lot of artists in the biz keep working until they're into the eighth and ninth decades. Joe Grant was still working at 97, when he died with a pencil in his hand. Chuck Jones was in his eighties when gravity finally took its toll. My old boss Woolie Reitherman stopped working in his seventies because he was shown the door by Disney management. Left to his own devices, he would have kept at the job until his pulse stopped.

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.

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.

Adding External Compositing - Cinema 4D

January 3, 2014, 01:27 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/cinema-4d-adding-ex...

If you are just starting out in Cinema 4D and After Effects, you may find it confusing when trying to get nulls for individual cloner objects from Cinema 4D into After Effects. Here, The Pixel Lab’s Joren Kandel shows an easy way by adding an external compositing tag to the cloner itself.

The 11 best Maya plugins

January 3, 2014, 01:26 PM

http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/maya-plugins-101349...

Working on a Maya-based project and need some help? Check out this selection of free and paid-for plugins, which are guaranteed to create a smoother, more efficient workflow.

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