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
Category: Blog
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Behind the Title: Lobo Animation Director and CD Isabela Littger
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https://postperspective.com/behind-the-title-lobo-...
Brazilian filmmaker Isabela Littger, a graduate of Ringling College of Art, is an animation and creative director at Lobo, a creative design studio based in São Paulo and New York. She is responsible for creating animated films that successfully encompass clients’ concepts or ideas, then making sure that the concepts remain consistent until the final delivery. Continue reading → March 3, 2022 The post Behind the Title: Lobo Animation Director and CD Isabela Littger appeared first on postPer...
Spire Animation Adds Pixar Alums Nierva and Makarewicz
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LA’s Spire Animation Studios has hired Pixar alumni Ricky Nierva as production designer and Michal Makarewicz as head of character animation. Nierva, a Filipino-American animation production designer, started his acclaimed career at Pixar in the Story Department on Toy Story 2 in 1997, and is best known for his work on Monsters, Continue reading → February 25, 2022 The post Spire Animation Adds Pixar Alums Nierva and Makarewicz appeared first on postPerspective.
10 Apple Motion Tutorials Every Motion Designer Should Watch
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Douglas Trumbull and how slit-scan changed SFX
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https://www.redsharknews.com/douglas-trumbull-and-...
Award-winning visual effects artist Douglas Trumbull died recently, leaving behind a body of memorable work including the slit-scan ‘Stargate’ sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey. But what is slit-scan and where else has it been used?
How to Bank Animation With Xpresso
February 18, 2022, 09:00 AM
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Expresso Mechanic TV shows how to bank animation using Xpresso in Cinema 4D. This new tutorial from Expresso Mechanic TV covers how to tilt something automatically while it’s in motion. Julian’s example is creating a system where a train
Super Bowl: Helping Animals Come Alive for Frito Lay
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Untold Studios provided 44 visual effects shots for a Frito Lay Super Bowl spot. Working closely with agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners and director Tom Kuntz from MJZ, the team at Untold Studios created a chorus of singing and breakdancing CGI creatures. Those characters range from a beat-boxing fox (voiced by Charlie Puth) to a songbird that emerges from the mouth of a crocodile (Megan Thee Stallion). Continue reading → February 11, 2022 The post Super Bowl: Helping Animals Come Alive for...
Using Video Blending Modes to Remove Black Backgrounds
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Need to remove black background from your VFX footage? Often with overlay video effects such as snow, fog, glitch and flash fx the files will have black backgrounds. This is due to pre-keyed video formats (which include transparency) having incredibly large file sizes and issues with software compatibility. Sometimes you might have green screen backgrounds, where you would need to use keying effects to create transparency, but in cases where you want to remove a black background the simplest way...
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