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

I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!

October 20, 2014, 04:49 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/10/ive-fallen-and-...

VFX artist Dave Fothergill (Nova, Stephen Hawking's Universe) rendered this short but hilarious demo with Arnold to show off the "servo force" simulation in the free Miarmy crowd-simulation toolkit for Maya, which allows "struggling" animations in place of simple rag-doll physics.

Midpoint free After Effects Preset

October 20, 2014, 12:44 PM

https://www.aotg.com/midpoint-free-after-effects-preset/

Have you ever wanted find the midpoint between 2 layers? well, now you can, and its a simple preset, check it out.

llama nation comp, questions and more

October 20, 2014, 12:43 PM

https://www.aotg.com/llama-nation-comp-questions-and-more/

Thanks to all who entered the llama nation logo challenge, Also I have some questions and am looking for some feedback on some possible new directions for th...

A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST: VFX Breakdown

October 20, 2014, 09:29 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=9671

Iloura have just released a VFX Breakdown about their work on A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (click on the picture below to watch it)

Marvel VFX Promotes Story and Female Empowerment

October 20, 2014, 09:29 AM

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/mar...

Alonso told me afterward that the Marvel method is to emphasize character and theme, not superhero convention, and that's how Marvel has managed to thrive and stay ahead of the curve and avoid superhero fatigue. It began with the off-beat hiring of Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. But Alonso's lone female point of view has been pivotal. She implored the VFX community to employ more women to counteract the predominant male points of view.

George Lucas says studios don’t have any imagina

October 20, 2014, 09:29 AM

http://thedissolve.com/news/3658-lucas-studios/

Those are the words of George Lucas to CBS’ Charlie Rose, during a public inteview at Chicago Ideas Week. Lucas created Star Wars for a film studio, 20th Century Fox, but negotiated to own the property (and all of its incredibly lucrative merchandising rights), and as soon as he was capable, he essentially operated as the biggest and wealthiest independent filmmaker in the world. Lucas financed his own movies, made them to his own specifications, and then only used the studios as distributors.

Motion Magic in Under 5 Minutes - Create Deadly Te

October 20, 2014, 09:28 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ2Ufvqfakc

Link to Living Hell Font: http://www.1001fonts.com/living-hell-font.html Download the project file: https://s3.amazonaws.com/mark-spencer/5-minute+Motion/10-...

Breaking Down the VFX of Brett Ratner's Hercules

October 20, 2014, 04:38 AM

https://fstoppers.com/other/breaking-down-visual-e...

Earlier this summer we saw the release of Brett Ratner's "Hercules". The movie was a mild success despite critics' anticipations. Recently Milk VFX and Double Negative VFX houses have both released breakdowns of how they created the visual effects for the movie. Mike Seymour of Wired walks you through a detailed featurette on how Double Negative created the numerous creature effects for the film. In the second breakdown we get to see how Milk expanded the world in the movie with set expansions, ...

Font Styles Library Demo

October 19, 2014, 12:45 PM

https://www.aotg.com/font-styles-library-demo/

A dockable panel to save font styles for easy use...

Department Heads Should Start and Finish at the Sa

October 19, 2014, 08:13 AM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/ves...

It's not unusual for department heads to be hired onto features at different times, but these productions can benefit — creatively and likely with cost savings — if they join forces at the same time so that they can get involved, plan and collaborate, starting in prepro. That was the message of a panel at the Visual Effects Society Production Summit.

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