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

This is the End for Modus FX as Montreal VFX House

March 7, 2014, 11:00 AM

http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/this-is-th...

Montreal-based visual effects house Modus FX closed it doors on Friday after seven years, laying off over 100 employees. Founded in 2007 by Hybride alumni, executive producer Yanick Wilisky and president Marc Bourbonnais, the studio specialized in attracting Hollywood and international film work, rarely taking on Canadian domestic projects or television work. Most recently, Modus contributed high-end visual effects for such films as Source Code, The Avengers, RoboCop and Riddick. The compan...

Working with Animated Type in Nuke

March 6, 2014, 05:02 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/working-animated-ty...

Use Nuke for motion graphics? Why not. It is not something that comes readily to mind when someone mentions Nuke, but being a high end compositor, with a true 3D environment – why not? Even though it doesn’t really have an animation timeline close at hand, motion graphics style animations are possible.

How They Made The Hobbit's Amazing Barrel Escape S

March 6, 2014, 01:47 PM

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2014/03/the-hobbit-...

That awesome seven-minute barrel-enabled escape from the elves in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug? Here's how it was made.

VFX March In March Mentioned On Conan O’Brien

March 6, 2014, 01:46 PM

http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/vfx-mar...

Big thanks to one of our supporters who directed me to this. Conan O’Brien talks about the VFX March protest that drew almost 600 supporters. Some good chuckles.

5 movies revolutionising CG in 2014

March 6, 2014, 10:32 AM

http://www.creativebloq.com/audiovisual/movies-rev...

2014 has already been a great year for VFX, and it shows no signs of letting up. Between Gravity bagging Oscars galore and The Lego Movie enchanting kids of all ages, there's already been plenty of CG-related excitement in the movie industry this year, and we've not even hit a Summer blockbuster yet.

Craig Calvert – Robocop Previs Lead/CG Superviso

March 6, 2014, 10:32 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=6241

Last year, Craig Calvert had told us about the previs work of Mr. X on PACIFIC RIM. He then worked on the TV series THE STRAIN. And now he explains his work on the remake of ROBOCOP.

Episode 192: "Star Trek into Darkness" Warp Speed

March 6, 2014, 10:31 AM

http://www.borisfx.com/videos/BCCAE/Star-Trek-into...

In this episode of Boris TV, Paul Ezzy becomes Captain Kirk - deftly guiding you into warp speed using BCC 8 AE in Adobe After Effects. Learn how to create a fully animated title (or you could use your logo) that quickly blasts through space. Filters used: BCC Particle Emitter 3D, BCC 2D Particles, BCC Lens Flare 3D, BCC Film Glow, and BCC Particle Array 3D "Beyond the darkness, lies greatness."

Shotgun Software Keeps Blur Projects on Track

March 6, 2014, 05:52 AM

http://news.creativecow.net/story/874711

(Los Angeles, California--March 6, 2014) Shotgun Software announced that Blur Studio has standardized on Shotgun for production management and tracking. Shotgun is the visual effects, game development and animation industry’s trusted platform for production management and review. Blur, known for a diverse roster of work on feature films, commercials and game cinematics and trailers, adopted Shotgun to replace their in-house production management software that was tying up valuable internal dev...

Orphan Black - Making Of by Intelligent Creatures

March 5, 2014, 05:16 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unZBz8FLWEA

eyeon Software hosted this webinar featuring the visual effects creation for Orphan Black. Presented by Intelligent Creatures utilizing eyeon Software produc...

Keyframing Basics in Avid FX

March 5, 2014, 05:15 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Dfem2tXj0

Boris TV, Episode 193: Keyframing Basics in Avid FX - YouTube

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