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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

Using Advanced and Fur Support Cinema 4D

November 19, 2013, 10:54 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/cinema-4d-using-adv...

Recently the VRayforC4D update brought a ton of new features into Cinema 4D, and Josef Bsharah has been creating regular posts and videos showing off some of them. Here Josef Bsharah takes a look at the VRayforC4D 1.8 advanced hair and fur support and checks out the new BRDF Hair Material.

Animating a Quadruped Walk Cycle

November 17, 2013, 07:24 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/maya-animating-a-qu...

While teaching Animation with Quadrupeds at the Animation Workshop, Samy Fecih noticed students struggling with the technical and mathematical aspects of creating a walk cycle for a four legged character and created this tutorial showing how to get a strong base for the walk cycle using some math.

Cinema 4D | Using the New Rounded Edges Feature

November 13, 2013, 10:58 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/cinema-4d-using-the...

Taking a look into some of the new features that were added into VRayforC4D 1.8, Josef Bsharah shows how to use the round edges effect in V-Ray to create beveled edges and rounded corners as a post rendering effect, rather than facilitating bevels through geometry.

Creating Light from View in Maya

November 10, 2013, 09:46 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/maya-building-a-cre...

A new discovery in the Render Blog – who has been posting some great stuff with texture and rendering, as in this post showing how to create a little script that will build a light from a current camera view – very handy!

Create and animate Bullet Casings

November 9, 2013, 02:17 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/cinema-4d-create-an...

A muti-part look at creating and compositing hyper-real bullet casings falling on a concrete floor from Cyril Kotecky, who shows how to model a casing, match the 3D scene to background plate photography, add dynamics to create the animation, add lights and materials and render.

Setting Up Volumetric Caustics

November 3, 2013, 05:39 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/maya-setting-up-vol...

Escape Studio’s head of 3D, Mark Spevick demonstrates how to create volumetric caustics in Autodesk Maya, walking though all the settings required to render volumetrics from a spotlight with mental ray.

Rendering and Compositing a Rusted Truck

November 2, 2013, 07:56 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/11/cinema-4d-rendering...

Taking a look at the process for creating a CG element in a photograph, Dan Conrad walks through how he created a composite of a rusted and beat up old truck showing how he built the scene the materials, his approach to rendering and finally compositing in After Effects.

3D Swap Transition Demo

October 31, 2013, 06:06 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhVX3qqMHZY&feature...

3D Swap Transition Demo Upcoming Tutorial and Preset. From: NLE_Ninja Effects Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 00:05 More in Film & Animation

AE Creating an Animated Bursting Circle

October 31, 2013, 01:15 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/10/after-effects-creat...

Evan Abrams hosts another motion graphics tutorial over at PremiumBeat, showing how to create and animate the “flat look” vector circle having both the outward radial burst effect, followed by a sequential burst.

Composite a Frightening Halloween Monster Scene

October 31, 2013, 09:58 AM

http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/composite-a-f...

In this tutorial, we're going to quickly walk you through the set up used to create a powerful monster reveal shot. By using an existing 3d model and a few

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