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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

Designing Anime-Stylized Lightning with Trapcode M

May 6, 2014, 09:43 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/05/anime-stylized-ligh...

Trapcode MIR user BaKaAfter posts a quick settings run-though for creating Anime style animated lighting. Trapcode MIR is one of those “specialty” type of products where it can be easy to fall into the experimentation phase and never really get out of it, into creating deliberate and useful content.

New/Tutorial: Video Copilot Heat Distortion

April 29, 2014, 07:46 AM

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

If you have used Video Copilot’s Flight Kit or JetStrike you might be familiar with the Heat Distortion tool. Now you can purchase it on its own… ya know, if you have a fear of heights or flying and are trying to stay away from the planes.

HDR Prepper Gizmo for Nuke Assists

April 28, 2014, 07:35 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/04/hdr-prepper-gizmo-n...

Julius Ihle recently updated his HDR Prepper gizmo for Nuke, making some interface and workflow improvements to the HDR light extraction tool.

The Foundry Crushes Another Modo Release

April 26, 2014, 12:04 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/04/modo-801-new-featur...

The Foundry and Luxology have taken the wraps off of modo 801 not only adding great new features, but also have expanded mod workflows as well as integrated it into more of the Foundry’s Pipeline applications.

Parametrically Wrap Splines Around Objects in C4D

April 22, 2014, 12:46 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/04/parametrically-wrap...

The C4DZone have posted an update to Matteo Porchedda’s Spline Wrapper plugin for Cinema 4D. With Spline Wrapper, you can basically take any spline in C4D and wrap it around an existing object. Working in realtime, you can experiment and create some interesting effects easily. It is probably something that you will not use very often, but it is pretty cool when you need it.

Two Easy Tricks for Improving Green Screen in AE

April 21, 2014, 03:43 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/04/two-easy-tricks-imp...

Laurence Grayson shares a quick tip for pulling a great key from less than perfect footage in After Effects. We have all had problematic green screen footage at one point. Typically not shooting proper lighting will give rise to a dull green screen, uneven color, and lots of noise in the image to contend with.

Creating a Digital Wipe Effect in AE

April 16, 2014, 12:57 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/04/creating-digital-wi...

Ben Watts has a look at creating a wipe effect in After Effects that has a digital look and feel to it, using only Ae’s native plugins and effects.

Triangulator Script for AE

April 15, 2014, 12:51 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/04/triangulator-script...

Alex White posts an After Effects Script for creating highly stylized triangulated images and clips. aw_Triangulator can animate masks in After Effects using the Ae Built in tracker, creates Nulls from those mask vertices, then builds a triangulation effect using After Effects Shape Layers.

Rigging for Rag Doll Physics in Cinema 4D

April 14, 2014, 12:39 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/04/rag-doll-physics-ci...

Ratemyfuneral’s Rory Martin has a look at using the wooden figure in Cinema 4D and rigging it with rag doll physics, so that it can be thrown around and affected by other objects in the scene.

Quick Tip: High Pass Sharpening in AE

April 11, 2014, 09:39 AM

http://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-high-p...

In After Effects, I will show you how to use high pass sharpening just like in Photoshop. We will essentially be selective sharpening our footage without tracking a single mask. By finding the edges in our shot, we can use that as a matte to determine which sections should be sharpened.

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