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

Turning Type into Falling Sand

December 31, 2013, 05:14 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/12/cinema-4d-turning-t...

Using the X-Particles 2.5 release, Ben Watts takes a look at turning objects into sand, walking through creating the entire project.

Co-Director

December 31, 2013, 11:49 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/co-d...

... Chris Williams has joined Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Big Hero 6 as director, alongside helmer Don Hall. Additionally, Roy Conli has boarded the project as producer.

Getting Started Using the Sketch and toon Effect

December 30, 2013, 04:34 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/12/cinema-4d-getting-s...

Cinema 4D has a really strong foot in non-photorealisitc rendering with the help of the Sketch and Toon effect, and here Noah Witchel offers a brief overview by looking at how he created one of his projects.

The Mouse Expands

December 30, 2013, 04:33 PM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-...

Consumer demand for entertainment and media (E&M) services is projected to grow 5.6% annually over the next five years, to $2.2 trillion by 2017. Digital entertainment will be among the fastest growing media with growth rates of 11.9%. By region, there are eight markets of China, Brazil, India, Russia, Middle East and North Africa, Mexico, Indonesia, and Argentina that are projected to see the most growth, with their share rising from 12% in 2008 to 22% of the global E&M market by 2017.

Animated Winners in 2014

December 29, 2013, 09:15 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/anim...

Motley Fool does an analysis of top-tier movie releases in the next twelve months, and comes up with the following...

#winners#awards#animation
One More Lesson on Leverage

December 28, 2013, 08:25 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/one-...

Nothing to do with animation, but it does have Disney in the mix, and ducks.

Blockbuster

December 27, 2013, 05:38 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/bloc...

26 films costing more than $100m each were released by the major Hollywood studios - more than ever before. They are likely to have raked in tens of billions of dollars in worldwide box office revenues as a result - close to the record $35bn delivered in 2012.

Frederic Back has Passed

December 25, 2013, 05:47 AM

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/movies...

Frédéric Back, 89, who won two Oscars for his poignant animated short films, died Tuesday morning at home in Montreal, said his daughter, Suzel Back-Drapeau. The cause was cancer.

3rd Powers ships five new LightWave plugins

December 24, 2013, 10:50 AM

http://www.cgchannel.com/2013/12/3rd-powers-ships-...

Japanese developer 3rd Powers has released five new LightWave power modelling tools: Cage Deformer, Lattice Deformer, Meta Mesh, Boolean Tool and Heat Shrink Plus.

Animated? Or Something Else

December 24, 2013, 06:31 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/anim...

I get asked from time to time, "Why is TAG blog tracking Gravity? You think it's an animated feature?"

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