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 Making of The Hobbit

December 15, 2013, 08:00 AM

https://www.aotg.com/the-making-of-the-hobbit/

Behind VFX ACCESS - The Making of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Behind VFX ACCESS – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (01:31:00) Behind VFX ACCESS is a video curation service for movie fans a...

Was it CG? Or Live Action

December 15, 2013, 07:59 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/was-...

... This year several of the finalists for the visual-effects Oscar nomination are pushing the boundaries of f/x lighting, blurring the lines between “practical” and “digital” effects, and along the way, using that lighting to integrate actors with vfx in ways that could only have been dreamed of before.

VFX Artist Lewandowski Makes Art His Own Way

December 15, 2013, 07:58 AM

http://nofilmschool.com/2013/12/director-vfx-artis...

A week ago, director and film school dropout Ryan Lightbourn shared his experience of striking out on his own as a filmmaker, solidifying for so many of us that nothing stands in the way of our cinematic aspirations. Now, director, VFX artist, and fellow film school dropout, David Lewandowski gave a similar account to the web series Half Cut Tea, explaining how a self-taught artist without formal education can go on and create visual effects for Tron: Legacy, music videos, and bizarrely brillian...

Using the New Camera Tracker Features in Nuke

December 15, 2013, 07:58 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/12/nuke-using-the-new-...

The Foundry recently released Nuke 8, and with it came a bit of an overhaul to a few items, one of them being the Camera Tracker. Here Sphere VFX’s Matt Leonard takes a look at the newly unified Nuke Camera Tracker which now includes the projection solver and the new camera calibrator.

Adobe After Effects Level III

December 15, 2013, 07:58 AM

http://events.creativecow.net/event/3377/adobe-aft...

This two-day advanced class will help you achieve better results from this comprehensive application. Building on concepts from After Effects Level 1 and Level 2 classes, this course covers all about alphas (straight vs. pre-multiplied alphas, working with Photoshop and Illustrator and vector paint) and advanced formatting and rendering (video, interlaced footage and fields, 3:2 pulldown, pre-rendering and proxies, as well as advanced rendering plus network rendering)

Planar Tracking in AE

December 14, 2013, 02:35 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/12/mocha-planar-tracki...

Showing the benefit in the relationship between planar tracking / roto work in mocha, mocha Pro and After Effects, Imagineer Systems’ energetic Mary Poplin demonstrates creating motion graphics with a suite of tools, creating a dynamic animation with tracked graphics.

Everything is a Remix Case Study

December 14, 2013, 09:27 AM

http://filmmakeriq.com/2013/12/everything-is-a-rem...

Kirby Ferguson looks at the inspirations behind the Apple iPhone both in its first iteration in the new iOS7 iteration and the remix of technology that created this culturally important gadget.

FumeFX Where the hell is the Emitter Button

December 14, 2013, 09:26 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/12/maya-fumefx-where-t...

It was back in near the end May of 2013 when we first heard word that the popular 3ds Max fluid dynamics simulator, FumeFX was being developed for Maya, and as a precursor to its looming release next week, Allan McKay provides a quick-start to getting oriented in using FumeFX for Maya.

December 2013 updates: After Effects CC (12.2) and

December 14, 2013, 09:25 AM

http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/12/decemb...

I think you are starting to notice a trend It is with great pleasure I get to announce a new feature-bearing update to After Effects CC (12.2) that we released today. Todd Kopriva has put together a detailed list of what’s new and changed in After Effects CC (12.2). Along with the update to After Effects CC, we have also updated After Effects CS6 with a couple of bug fixes. Todd also has a list of what’s changed in After Effects CS6 (11.0.4) here. (IMPORTANT: Sometimes, it can tak...

After Effects CS6 (11.0.4) update: bug fixes for r

December 14, 2013, 09:24 AM

http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/12/after-...

The After Effects CS6 (11.0.4) bug-fix update is now available. We also released the After Effects CC (12.2) update today. You can install the update through the Creative Cloud desktop application, or you can check for new updates from within any Adobe application by choosing Help > Updates. One way to check for updates is by closing all Adobe applications other than Adobe Bridge, and choosing Help > Updates in Adobe Bridge; this ensures that all processes related to Adobe video applications...

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