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

State of the Union

January 3, 2014, 06:27 PM

https://vimeo.com/62961750

The last ever Presidential address is the wake up call for ongoing alien invasion. This is a short teaser for an upcoming feature project by Bruce Branit who is known as the co-creator of 405 and World Builder. Branit FX also contributes VFX work to shows like Fringe, Breaking Bad, Person of Interest.

#vfx#cgi#premiere#fusion#max#fume#lightwave#teaser#alien invasion
ILM: Back on the Effects of Lone Ranger

January 3, 2014, 05:35 AM

http://www.3dvf.com/actualite-8409-ilm-retour-sur-...

ILM back in video on visual effects film The Lone Ranger . If the film was a critical and commercial flip, it has many rich planes VFX. VFX supervisor Tim Alexander and Digital Environments Supervisor Dan Wheaton present the project.

How to create character-related VFX

January 2, 2014, 11:04 AM

http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/how-create-characte...

Visual effects veteran William Dwelly explains the process behind creating character-related FX, such as drool hanging from a dog's mouth.

Circles in After Effects

January 1, 2014, 10:30 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/ryoung/story/circles-...

Making circles in After Effects seems like a trivial exercise, but there are a ton of approaches to their various forms in design. Circles come in movement and repetition, from expressions & scripts, as Shapes, masks, particle effects like Particle World, Bubbles, Ball Action, from the Circle effect, scripts, CC Sphere, Polar Coordinates, Wave World, Radio Waves, halftone effects (Card Dance, Particular, effects), and so on. Here are few circle-related tutorials and resources for After Effects.

Moving on Up

January 1, 2014, 10:29 AM

http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2013/Volume-36...

The visual effects studio Digital Domain was a co-producer of the film Ender’s Game. We asked Writer/Director Gavin Hood about the impact of having a VFX studio involved in the production from the beginning. Prior to Ender’s Game, Hood most recently directed the films X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Rendition, and Tsotsi, for which he received a BAFTA nomination.

2013: The Year in Review

December 31, 2013, 05:35 AM

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artofthetitle_rss/~...

Hit the road, 2013!It was the biggest year ever for Art of the Title. We tackled more ambitious content, we participated in a number of great events, we partnered with many exciting sponsors, we committed to a rigorous publishing schedule, and saw our readership grow immensely across a variety of platforms.We published a total of 47 articles this year, including some massive and important features, some of which took more than a year to put together.  Top Billin’Our most popular articles...

Hobbit saw large digital work juxtaposed with gopr

December 31, 2013, 05:35 AM

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/126079-the-new-hob...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug saw some of the best special effects to date. If you haven’t seen it be warned, this will have spoilers. That said, the scene where Smaug chases Bilbo about the mountain of treasure is jaw-dropping and obviously took a lot of work. Yet the barrel escape scene seems more straight forward. That intricate blend of 4K footage and GoPro shots is thanks to Weta.

VFX Supervisor Joe Letteri on Fashioning a Dragon

December 30, 2013, 06:20 PM

http://www.studiosystemnews.com/awards-spotlight-t...

Joe Letteri is the man behind some of the most eye-popping visual effects of the last two decades. Steven Spielberg turned to Letteri to help him design the dinosaurs for Jurassic Park and James Cameron relied on him to create the Na’vi in Avatar. Peter Jackson hired him as visual effects supervisor for Weta Digital 11 years ago, and in that time, Letteri has created Gollum for The Lord of the Rings, the title character in King Kong, and Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

‘Gravity’ VFX Supervisor Tim Webber Interview

December 30, 2013, 06:20 PM

http://www.studiosystemnews.com/awards-spotlight-g...

Whatever you may think of Gravity, the one undeniable thing about the film is just how stunning its visuals are. Never before has a movie so brilliantly captured the realities of space, putting the audience right next to Sandra Bullock’s lone astronaut as she struggles for survival.

AE - 20 Years of Innovation

December 30, 2013, 09:49 AM

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/12/after-effects...

The chance to work with the After Effects team is among the things that drew me to work at Adobe. Here’s a look at the folks whose work has helped define motion graphics and who keep breaking new ground:

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