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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

The Real Fake Lighting of Pixar's 'Soul'

February 10, 2021, 01:57 PM

https://filmschoolrejects.com/pixar-lighting-soul/

Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a video essay about how Pixar animated real-looking lighting in their latest film, Soul.

Pixar's Secrets for Finding Inspiration

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https://filmschoolrejects.com/pixar-inspiration/

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8 Cool Stop Motion Tricks

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https://boingboing.net/2021/01/15/8-cool-stop-moti...

In this Edu Puertas video, he shows 8 simple and effective stop motion animation tips and effects tricks. The light effects were the big eye openers for me.

Animator Creating Animation

November 16, 2020, 02:08 PM

https://lesterbanks.com/2020/11/animator-creating-...

I am sure we all go through ups and downs when creating art. Maybe caring a little too much about what others think and not enough appreciation towards your own art. Whatever you make, it

SIGGRAPH SEASON 2020: Tangent Labs' Jeff Bell

August 19, 2020, 01:08 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xTQb0NATk4

#TangentLabs #Siggraph2020 #cloud-basedworkflows Tangent Lab's Jeff Bell talks about why they created their Loupe cloud-based asset management and pipeline system while working on projects at Tangent Animation.

SIGGRAPH Season 2020: Foundry's Christy Anzelmo

August 18, 2020, 01:08 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE25ylfH77Y

#FoundryNuke #VFX #Siggraph Foundry recently introduced Nuke Indie, a slightly restricted version of its Nuke compositor, now available for those working on their own.

How this film was NOT saved in edit

August 9, 2020, 05:11 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Cci_6rhw0

It took six years of editing for Oscar-winning filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan to turn Margaret into a masterpiece. Take the Envato 3 Elements Editing challenge: https://thisguyedits.com/envato (Sign-up for a Free Trial) to win a Sony ZV-1 and more... Additional prizes from Tito Ferradans: https://www.youtube.com/c/AnamorphicOnABudget and The Go-To Editor 2.0 Course: https://thegotoeditor.com THE 3 ELEMENTS EDITING CHALLENGE: Take action and cut a 60 sec. (or less) film and get a shot a...