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

WME Signs VFX Firm Digital Domain 3.0

February 5, 2014, 05:32 PM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wme-signs-vf...

Digital Domain 3.0 has signed with WME. The agency will advise on the visual effects company’s growth and expansion as it moves forward after its 2012 bankruptcy and 2013 acquisition by Hong Kong-based Sun Innovation (now Digital Domain Holdings).

The Padcaster Mini Kickstarts Production Dreams

February 5, 2014, 11:04 AM

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb1155513...

The creators of the Original Padcaster is launching a Kickstarter campaign to answer the call for a Padcaster Mini. Shoot, edit and upload HD footage with the iPad mini and Padcaster mini rig; back the 30-day Kickstarter campaign to receive exclusive perks.

#video#kickstarter#camera#ipad mini#padcaster mini#padcaster kickstarter#launch
VFX in Dramatic Re-Entry Scene in 'Gravity'

February 5, 2014, 11:01 AM

http://www.indiewire.com/article/watch-visual-effe...

While Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity" is undoubtedly one of this year's best pictures, it also marks a technical achievement never before seen in film. Rising Sun Pictures (RSP), the visual effects company that produced some effects for the film, decided to breakdown one of the movie's more spectacular sequences in a two minute video.

'Need for Speed' Gets 3D Conversion

February 5, 2014, 10:59 AM

http://www.firstshowing.net/2014/need-for-speed-ge...

The Super Bowl spot from Sunday showed off some of the great, real action from the video game adaptation Need for Speed. Even if the full theatrical trailer showcased a lot of melodrama and cheesy dialogue, we at least now this film will look pretty on the big screen and have some spectacular racing sequences with big crashes.

'Gravity' Re-Entry Visual Effects Breakdown

February 5, 2014, 10:58 AM

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/gravity-re-entry-visu...

Australian visual effects house Rising Sun Pictures has posted the following two-minute breakdown of how they achieved the final visual effects shots for Gravity as the Tiangong space station reenters Earth's atmosphere. The 3D sequence spans 17 shots and two and a half minutes of screen time, following the spacecraft as it dives through the atmosphere, colliding with debris and breaking apart, before parachutes slow its fall.

SUPER BOWL: ThinkBreatheLive helps create dynamic

February 4, 2014, 01:51 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Press-Center/Daily-New...

NEW YORK — Touchdown Entertainment engaged New York-based creative shop ThinkBreatheLive to produce digital environments for the Super Bowl halftime show, including a dynamic LED experience that turned the stadium into an immersive panoramic concert screen.

NEED FOR SPEED Getting Last-Minute 3D Post

February 4, 2014, 11:33 AM

http://collider.com/need-for-speed-3d-post-convers...

Well this is disheartening news. Scott Waugh‘s Need for Speed, which looked like an entertaining, gritty, hardcore action film with an emphasis on practical stunts, is now getting a last-minute 3D post-conversion. For those unfamiliar with the film, it chronicles a cross-country race against time as a blue-collar mechanic (Aaron Paul) who was framed for manslaughter by a wealthy, arrogant ex-NASCAR driver (Dominic Cooper) sets out for revenge in a high-stakes underground racing tournament.

Creating a Rotating Vector Globe in AE

February 4, 2014, 11:30 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/vector-globe-animat...

Creating a muti-use spinning globe can be pretty practical as well as worthwhile project to keep around and if it is one that you can edit or change the style of to fit project needs, all the better. Over the course of this blog I have posted quite a few animating “Spinning Globe” tutorials that use After Effects. The thing is, you can never have too many globe animations in broadcast work.

Imageworks India Goes Down

February 4, 2014, 11:29 AM

http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/imagewo...

One of the most controversial arguments made by this blog has been my routine skepticism of the commonly accepted narrative that VFX was "all going to India". In fact when I started this blog, I was the only one in the VFX world that made the bold prediction over 3 years ago that VFX in…

Cutting Edge Creates Effects for ‘I, Frankenstei

February 4, 2014, 05:47 AM

http://www.awn.com/news/cutting-edge-creates-demon...

In his latest incarnation of the Frankenstein story, Stuart Beattie’s thriller follows the struggle of Dr. Frankenstein's creature 200 years after his creation. Central to this story and the visual drama is the ‘demon descension’ effect developed by Cutting Edge. In the I, Frankenstein world, as a demon’s earthly body is mortally wounded, the demon’s spirit is violently released...

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