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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

3D CAMERATRACKER Plug-in Tutorial

June 10, 2014, 09:42 AM

http://www.toolfarm.com/blog/entry/tutorial_3d_cam...

Joren from The Pixel Lab shows the workflow of working with footage tracked with The Foundry’s CAMERATRACKER in After Effects and then bringing that footage into MAXON CINEMA 4D.

Fixing soft edges & number counters with automatic

June 9, 2014, 04:19 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/ryoung/story/soft-edg...

A few years ago, Stu Maschwitz noted the utility of the Math.round method, which rounds a number to the nearest integer. If you're repositioning or animating an object in AE, you'll often run into AE's sub-pixel positioning in Best Quality, which as noted long before expressions were a feature by Trish Meyer as the source of many a bad render. But you can use an expression to force rounding to scale/position as integers to avoid softening on anti-aliased text or other layers. It's much e...

VFX Breakdown of JC Le Roux

June 6, 2014, 10:20 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/vfx-breakdown-of-jc-l...

The camera move, cork path, actors positioning and amount of furniture and people was planned in the weeks leading up to the shoot.

Movie VFX expert on combining physical with digita

June 6, 2014, 10:20 AM

http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/movie-vfx-expert-co...

The motto of LA-based studio MastersFX is 'Art Imitating Life'. For over 30 years, the MastersFX team has been creating creatures and practical effects for the entertainment industry. We spoke to lead digital makeup designer Johnathan Banta to find out more about the studio's effective techniques.

The Foundry lance Ocula 4

June 6, 2014, 03:49 AM

http://www.3dvf.com/actualite-9830-the-foundry-lan...

The Foundry announces the launch of version 4 Ocula his NUKE plugin for the treatment and correction projects in relief. This new version has the opportunity to rewrite much of the product for speed and accuracy . The GPU acceleration is now available, and redesigned workflows for greater speed.

Rebuilding Robocop

June 5, 2014, 09:30 AM

http://www.redsharknews.com/post/item/1739-rebuild...

The story is familiar and even some of the catchphrases are the same. But José Padilha’s reworking of the iconic 1987 action movie is an altogether sleeker affair RobocopCGIJosé PadilhaTotal RecallStarship TroopersFramestore

'Fault in Our Stars' Visual Effects: Tumblr-Esque

June 4, 2014, 02:13 PM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fault-stars-...

Throughout the film adaptation of John Green's best-selling novel, white boxes with rounded corners and contrasting fonts appear onscreen whenever Shailene Woodley's Hazel Grace Lancaster and Ansel Elgort's Augustus Waters are flirtatiously texting about the books they've recommended to each other. The scene seems familiar not only because of the "young love" feelings that fly between them with every scribbled word, but also because of the visual design to bring their texts to the big screen in ...

VFX Breakdown of Mutant: År Noll Release Trailer

June 4, 2014, 03:47 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/vfx-breakdown-mutant-...

VFX Breakdown for the Release Trailer of Fria Ligans pen & paper RPG Mutant: År Noll.

The Strange Maths of After Effects Timecode

June 1, 2014, 02:45 PM

http://www.creativeimpatience.com/the-strange-math...

For past few weeks I’ve been developing for That Studio a number of scripts for After Effects which are supposed to make one’s life easier, when dealing with an edit in Premiere that requires handling of more than a couple of VFX shots. One thing that surprised me is that … see more →

Hone Your VFX Skills for Free with the Non-Commerc

May 31, 2014, 09:51 AM

http://nofilmschool.com/2014/05/hone-vex-skills-fo...

If you admire the animation of Pixar and are interested in getting your hands on the same software that they use to create all of those adorable characters (and not so adorable ones too, I guess), you are in luck, my friend. Due to a pricing restructure, the powerful VFX/3D rendering program RenderMan will be available for non-commercial use — for free — containing literally every single feature and capability of the commercial version, giving users (mostly) free rein to cut their teeth on t...

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