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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

Preparing for Cinema 4D Lite v2.0

September 30, 2014, 07:10 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/cmg_keyframes/story/p...

Adobe pre-announced many of the new features for the next version of After Effects CC 2014 at the just-passed IBC show. One of the big additions will be upgrading Cineware and Cinema 4D Lite - the 3D modeling and animation program that comes bundled with After Effects CC - to version 2.0, based on Maxon’s Cinema 4D R16 (Cinema 4D Lite is based on R14). This is mostly great news, as this means a ton of new features for us After Effects CC users (see the series of movies Maxon posted on ...

“Floating” an Animated Character with Cinema 4

September 30, 2014, 09:49 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/09/floating-an-ani...

Filmmaker Greg Jardin created a short film, "Floating," using Cinema 4D and SynthEyes to insert a CG balloon character into real-world situations. (Studio featured Jardin's Joey Ramone music video last year.) C4D maker Maxon and writer Meleah Maynard offered StudioDaily a behind-the-scenes look … more »

Maya Toon Shading Tutorial

September 30, 2014, 09:47 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/maya-toon-shading-tut...

How i create a toon effect on one of my uni projects so I’ve created this tutorial which covers the process. It covers how to set-up 2-tone light angled shaders, apply them to a character, and also how to add plug textures into them.

Ep53: Harddrive Down... I wonder if there's a less

September 29, 2014, 04:56 AM

http://www.blenderguru.com/podcasts/ep53-harddrive...

I’m not very smart. Just last week I was reading an article on why it’s important to backup your hard drive, and I disregarded it because I thought it wouldn’t happen to me.

Work for FREE!?!

September 26, 2014, 02:32 PM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2014/09/work...

And, at the same time, pay for some college course or other where you can earn course credit so that this scam is legal.

Freebie: The Pixel Lab Rigged Male 3D Model for C4

September 26, 2014, 04:29 AM

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

Check out this fully rigged male model for Maxon Cinema 4D that Joren at The Pixel Lab was able to round up!