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

VFX Supe Tim Webber on the Challenges of Gravity

February 19, 2014, 01:41 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/02/vfx-supe-tim-we...

During the past four years, visual effects supervisor Tim Webber has concentrated largely on one film: Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. During his career, though, the Framestore visual effects supervisor has split his time between broadcast television and feature films and picked … more »

Graham Elliott puts creativity in motion

February 19, 2014, 01:39 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/adobe/story/graham-el...

Growing up, Graham Elliott desperately wanted to become a pilot and devoted himself to learning about flight. At 17 he received a scholarship to the RAF in London and within a week he was flying solo. Although Elliott ultimately decided he didn’t want to be in the Air Force, he took away...

TidyUp Can Organize Your AE Project

February 19, 2014, 10:32 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/tidyup-can-organize...

Between naming things in a project and keeping organized, and also trying to get the work done may drive you to let one of those things lapse. Even at my best, I find that when I open an AE project more than a month old, I have no idea what is happening in it – and its my project.

ILM's Scientific Solutions

February 19, 2014, 05:43 AM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/ilms-scientific-so...

ILM is no stranger to the SciTech Awards; numerous innovations crafted by its artists and engineers have been recognized with prestigious Scientific and Technical Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The studio’s latest two SciTech honors were awarded recently for ILM’s GPU-based simulation and volume renderer Plume and the Zeno application framework. fxguide spoke to key members of ILM’s team about these in-house visual effects tools.

3D Printing Is Revolutionizing the Effects Industr

February 18, 2014, 05:57 PM

http://news.doddleme.com/equipment/3d-printing-is-...

As American Cinema has continued to go deeper into its relationship with visual effects, practical effects have taken a more and more of a back seat. This was true when Phil Tippett realized on Jurassic Park that he was out of a job and had to evolve, and it’s true today as more of the cinematic experience gets put into the computer and manipulated. But thanks to 3D Printing, practical effects have a rebirth, and by working hand-in-hand with CGI, it can make a shot look far more believable.

VFX Supervisor Christopher Townsend on Iron Man 3

February 18, 2014, 05:57 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/02/vfx-supervisor-...

Christopher Townsend’s Oscar nomination for Iron Man 3 is his first. Townsend’s entry into feature film visual effects was as a digital artist at Industrial Light & Magic on Congo. He followed that with credits on Mission: Impossible, The Lost … more »

'Life After Pi,' doc on fall of VFX house, to debu

February 18, 2014, 05:55 PM

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/coto...

Pioneering visual effects house Rhythm & Hues stunned Hollywood last year when it filed for bankruptcy protection and laid off more than 250 employees. The announcement came as the Los Angeles company was enjoying its crowning achievement: the Ang Lee film “Life of Pi,” whose dazzling digital effects would land Rhythm & Hues its third Academy Award just a few weeks later.

VFX Breakdowns

February 18, 2014, 05:54 PM

https://www.aotg.com/vfx-breakdowns/

Check out this fantastic VFX showreel by the talented Timucin Ozger! Timucin is currently a FX TD at Worldwide FX. For more information, please see the detai...

SGO’s MAMBA FX now available on Linux

February 18, 2014, 01:45 PM

http://www.sgo.es/2014/02/sgos-mamba-fx-now-availa...

In response to market feedback, SGO takes another major development step forward with the release of its Linux version of MAMBA FX. With the abilityRead more...

Two Faces of January Breakdown

February 18, 2014, 01:42 PM

http://vimeo.com/87018482

LONVFX TFJ Breakdown Reel

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