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

Synaptic VFX Completes Production of VFX

January 22, 2014, 01:37 PM

http://www.broadcastbeat.com/index.php/synaptic-vf...

(Burbank, California--January 22, 2014) Synaptic VFX has just completed production of original visual effects for the first season of the new, hit FOX TV series “Sleepy Hollow.” Synaptic VFX is one of the visual effects vendors for “Sleepy Hollow.

Is 3D TV Dead or Just Dormant?

January 22, 2014, 10:51 AM

http://www.schubincafe.com/2014/01/22/is-3d-tv-dea...

Having been a major focus at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2011 and 2012, 3D TV receded in focus in 2013, and all but disappeared at the 2014 show where it was largely supplanted by 4K technology. While some signs point to the technology being dead in the water — and it’s certainly no longer the belle of the ball — it just might have a future yet.

Create Spherical HDRI's In Photoshop

January 22, 2014, 10:51 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/create-spherical-hd...

Hydra Design Labs has created a super useful plugin for Photoshop if you ever have the task of creating HDRI’s for use in a 3D application. With Hydra HDRI Pro, you can take an 8-bit panorama into Photoshop and create a spherical HDRI from them that you can use in your rendering programs.

Free Uber Delay Effector - Cinema 4D

January 22, 2014, 10:50 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/free-uber-delay-eff...

Über Delay Effector is brought to you by Eyedesyn’s multi-Emmy winning freelance 3D/motion graphic artist EJ Hassenfratz and collaborator Charles Rowland (@ragingclaw) and Donovan Keith (@dskeith). With the new (and free) plugin for Cinema 4D, you are able to go beyond the limits of choosing a single delay mode for the Delay Effector, the Über Delay will let you apply all three delay modes at once.

Over 200 #au2013 classes are online

January 22, 2014, 06:00 AM

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItsAliveInTheLab/~3...

A while back i got an email from Writer/Editor, Jenny Greeleaf, letting me lnow that the AU 2013 classes are now online. Visit site. What skills could advance your career? We’ve posted recordings of over 200 classes, along with presentations... (...)

AE Parenting

January 22, 2014, 05:58 AM

http://www.surfacedstudio.com/tutorials/adobe-effe...

In today’s tutorial we will take a closer look at another very important basic technique available in Adobe After Effects: parenting. Parenting is used to link one or more layers to a single parent layer. Moving, scaling or rotating the parent layer will then automatically affect all of its children.

Trouble Brewing

January 22, 2014, 05:57 AM

http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/trouble...

I just returned from my trips to NY and SF. I’ll have a post up about the meetings but first I wanted to give a few thoughts of some recent trouble brewing in the VFX industry.

Cinema 4D Xpresso Tutorial: Global Position

January 21, 2014, 07:54 PM

http://www.mographcandy.com/blog/xpresso-motext-ra...

In this Cinema 4D Xpresso tutorial, I will show how to link a randomly moving sphere's global position to a MoText Object so the global position of the sphere is the text displayed in real-time by the MoText Object in the viewport. I also show you how to convert Real numbers to Integer Numbers for a cleaner display readout if you want whole numbers.

preventing crash in After Effects when using Illus

January 21, 2014, 02:42 PM

http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2014/01/crash-...

The new version of Adobe Illustrator (17.1) creates files (.ai, .eps, .pdf files) that contain XMP metadata in a format that causes After Effects to crash when reading that metadata. The crash occurs when you add a footage item from Illustrator to a composition. The crash affects all recent versions of After Effects, including After Effects CS6 (11.0) and After Effects CC (12.0, 12.1, 12.2). The workaround is rather simple: You can prevent After Effects from reading the XMP metadata from the...

Maya BlendShape Editing Tool

January 21, 2014, 02:42 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/maya-shapes-blendsh...

SHAPES BlendShape editing tool speeds up creating and Editing Blend Shapes and Corrective Shapes in Autodesk Maya

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