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January Meeting sum up

Man – what a blast. This last meeting featured 2 presentations focused around character animation, but really covered design in storytelling as whole. First up was Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata of Tiny Inventions. They showed us “Electric Car” a video they directed for They Might Be Giants: They even let me hold the electric [...]

February Meeting

This meeting features John Montgomery (fxphd) Marc Hamaker (Autodesk Product Marketing Manager), and Bill Ennis Autodesk Application Specialist) all discussing Smoke on a Mac.

Prizes AT AENY DOT org

OK… Ok… for those of you emailing us for you’re prizes from the January (tonight’s meeting)… when we moved the domain over to a dedicated server to host the site, I forgot to set up the Prizes email account. It ‘s working now – sorry for the bouncebacks.

AENY’s Jim Geduldick Featured in American Cinematographer

Go Jim, go!!!!!

Video Copilot Optical Flares page now online

AENY’s good friend Andrew Kramer and his team at Video Copilot now have the Optical Flares page online.If you have not being keeping tab on his blog and the development of the plugin over the past few months it is a huge undertaking to say the least. The page has tons of videos from Andrew [...]

Broadcasting the Meetings Live

We’ve had a lot of requests for broadcasting our meetings live. And while we really want to, there is no internet connection (wired or wireless) at PS41 that AENY can access. We would love to use Ustream, but according to their bandwidth requirements: “Depending on your set-up and settings, broadcasting will dominate between 300-700kbps.” Right [...]

December Meeting

In this meeting, Nick Campbell (greyscalegorilla.com) and Paul Bab (Maxon) will give presentations on working with After Effects and 3D.

January Meeting

In this meeting: Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata of Tiny Inventions and Story Artist/Animator Stephen Neary