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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

Adding Bloom and Glare Effects

March 26, 2014, 07:16 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/adding-bloom-glare-...

The post notes that the lighting effect can happen in real life when you are taking a photograph of a light source that is much brighter than the surrounding environment.

Link Colors Across Ae Compositions

March 26, 2014, 03:12 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/link-colors-across-...

Paul Conigliaro has a look at some workflow tricks for getting things done quickly. In this case, showing how you can use the After Effects Expression controls to drive color across an entire project. This can be a great time-saver, especially if you know that there will be a possibility of some color changes across all of your deliverables, including versioning or different brand, product or style colors.

Houdini For Softimage ICE Users

March 25, 2014, 10:15 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/houdini-softimage-i...

In a post SoftImage world, Javier Meroño offers a Side FX Houdini orientation for Softimage ICE users. To me Houdini would be the most loci gal connection for the people left hanging by the news that SoftImage will no longer be made or supported After this latest version 2015. It would be the closest thing to SoftImage’s ICE environment, being that Houdini is a completely procedural application.

Industry Level Uneven Green Screen Issues

March 25, 2014, 03:40 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/instantly-level-une...

An uneven green screen due to poor lighting or a trashed backdrop can now be rectified with a bit of workflow automation. Jae Tools launches a new After Effects tool, Screen Equalizer, a tool that will help you with problematic green screen problems. Screen Equalizer for After Effects is a chromakey screen leveling plugin that can assist with uneven green screen lighting or with wrinkled backdrops.

Making Waves at Pause Fest Melbourne

March 17, 2014, 12:40 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/making-waves-pause-...

We all know how important sound design, music and audio can be to an animation or motion graphics piece. Try walking down the street, then walk down the street with headphones on, listening to your favourite music. Quite a difference.

Puppet Character Overview/AE and Dulk Tools

March 14, 2014, 12:57 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/puppet-character-ov...

The Minnesota After Effects User Group posts a presentation that was given by motion graphics and visual effects artist Ben Pohl. Ben’s talk was on creating “puppet” animations in After Effects, specifically all the ancillary bits that revolve around using the DuIK tools for rigging up character limbs in Ae.

Add AE Layers Quickly

March 14, 2014, 12:56 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/add-effects-layers-...

By default you are able to create new layers in After Effects quite easily. This doesn’t mean that this can’t be improved upon. What if you are the type that likes to build out everything you will need for a project before stating to work on it?

Creating Curved Screens for images in AE

March 12, 2014, 12:54 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/creating-curved-scr...

Daniel Brodesky posts a look at creating images in After Effects that have a 3D curve to them. Although you can do this all without any help from scripts, Daniel uses a few to assist in creating the curved forms in After Effects.

Subsurface Scattering and the Connect Object

March 11, 2014, 04:33 AM

http://www.mographcandy.com/blog/2014/3/10/cinema-...

Mograph Candy is a destination for learning motion graphics and 3D animation using After Effects, Cinema 4D, and Premiere.  We have tons of free Cinema 4D tutorials so you can learn tips and tricks to help speed up your motion graphics and broadcast editing workflow.  Tutorials hosted by Dan Conrad.

Create a Controller to KeyFrame in AE

March 10, 2014, 02:02 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/create-controller-k...

The Great Zimm posts a quick little look at how to easily attach the After Effects Wiggle Expression to some effect sliders so they can be keyed.

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