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 notes from the ICG 'Mandalorian' s2 panel

December 22, 2020, 02:18 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/12/22/vfx-notes-...

Today, Local 600/ICG Magazine hosted an amazing panel on s2 of The Mandalorian, hosted by Executive Editor David Geffner, which dived into the LED Volume work and VFX from this season.

VFX Greats we Lost in 2020

December 21, 2020, 01:54 PM

https://www.animationmagazine.net/people/in-memori...

We had to bid farewell to an awfully large number of talented men and women who worked in the animation and visual effects business in 2020. We honor their memory on these pages and share our gratitude for the many artistic contributions they made to our world. A big thanks to animation veteran, author and educator Tom Sito, who is producing a virtual Afternoon of Remembrance on Saturday, January 30 at noon (PST) to honor these animation luminaries.

VFX Legion Works with OPIS on 'Songbird'

December 18, 2020, 01:59 PM

https://www.cgw.com/Press-Center/Web-Exclusives/20...

Visualization services company OPIS recently called on VFX Legion to assist with Songbird, director Adam Mason's new dystopian thriller from producer Michael Bay. As the film’s primary visual effects vendor, OPSIS provided end-to-end services – from concept, previs, postvis, and finalizing VFX shots, to assembling the right talent for the job.

Weta appoints industry veterans to board of direct

December 18, 2020, 01:53 PM

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

LOS ANGELES — Visual effects studio Weta Digital (www.wetastudios.com) has announced the addition of industry leaders Tom Staggs, Jeff Huber and Ken Kamins to its board of directors. The appointments reflect the studio’s continued growth, which includes the opening of offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.  

Maxon’s Cheap Tricks: Holtzman Shield VFX

December 15, 2020, 07:27 PM

https://www.aotg.com/maxons-cheap-tricks-holtzman-shield-vfx/

Recreate the Legendary Protective Force Field Shield From Dune; VFX Tutorial Walks Viewers Through Process Using Tools from Red Giant in Adobe After Effects

#magic bullet looks#cheap tricks#maxon#red giant complete#dune#vfx tutorial
Episode 277 — JEFFREY — The Creative Team

December 15, 2020, 02:28 PM

https://www.allanmckay.com/277/

Connie Siu is the Writer and Director of short film Jeffrey. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, graduated cum laude from SFSU with a BA in Fine Art, and attended UCLA’s Producers Workshop Program. Connie is the former Chairman and co-founder of the San Francisco Chapter of Siggraph, the former Vice-Chair of the U.S. Sports Film Festival, and served as Executive Director of the Pre-Visualization Society.

BEHIND MANK’S INVISIBLE VISUAL EFFECTS

December 14, 2020, 02:11 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/12/14/mank-vfx-b...

I recently had the chance to ask Territory Studio about their visual effects work for Mank, which involved the re-creation of Wilshire Blvd from the 1930s. Like those shots, so much of Mank’s VFX work was invisible, involving subtle augmentations to tell the period story.

How MIDI files, Houdini and the art of animation m

December 11, 2020, 02:04 PM

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/12/11/how-midi-f...

In Pixar’s upcoming Soul, directed by Pete Docter, one of the challenges the animation studio faced was depicting its main character Joe (Jamie Foxx) playing the piano, believably. That is, animating his fingers to hit the correct keys for the music he was playing.

Autodesk's Maya 2020.4 sees Bitfrost improvements

December 10, 2020, 02:15 PM

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

SAN FRANCISCO — Autodesk (autodesk.com) has rolled out Maya 2020.4, which includes the biggest update to the Bifrost visual programming environment to date. The release also integrates the latest version of Arnold, bringing artists a faster, more creatively engaging rendering experience, as well as updates to the Motion Library and Substance plug-ins.

The Mill grows global color team

December 10, 2020, 02:15 PM

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

LOS ANGELES & LONDON — The Mill (themill.com) has announced several new senior appointments within its global color team. The appointments come as the studio continues to invest and expand its color offering, branching out into more long-form and episodic opportunities, in addition to its commercial capabilities. 

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