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July Meeting
Jeremy Cox of Imaginary forces shows his work from Terminator: Salvation and God of War.
New Tutorial: Trapcode Form City
Red Giant Quicktip #15: Trapcode Form City from Red Giant Software on Vimeo.
In this Quicktip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how using Depth Maps to displace Trapcode Form particles can be used to create a 3D Point Cloud Representation of a city.
This tutorial was inspired by the brilliant Trapcode Form work of Jeremy Cox at Imaginary [...]
Harry Frank Fills Your AE Brain
Through Class on Demand, our good friend Harry Frank just released the ultimate Particular 2.0 training DVD: Complete Training for Trapcode Particular.
Harry is arguably the most knowledgeable person on the planet, when it comes to the practical use of Particular. If you want to learn all there is to know about that essential plug-in, [...]
June Meeting
Jeremy Cox of Imaginary forces shows his work from Terminator: Salvation and God of War.
May Meeting
All things Adobe Production Premium CS5!
Lots of Cool Extra Give-Aways at the April Meeting!
Just got this list from Jim. This is going to be one seriously kick-ass meeting!
G tech Hard Drive
Avid Media Composer 4 (with free upgrade to 5, when it ships)
Adobe Production Premium CS5
…and more
Awesome user Group Video from AEPDX
An AEPDX Meeting – by Juliet Zulu
Jayson Bosteder, of the After Effects Portland user group (AEPDX) just posted an awesome video. Come on New York AE users! Don’t you love us enough to make one too?
April Meeting
Philip Bloom talks DSLR video production
Red Giant Software Releases Photoshop Versions of Their Video Plug-ins
Red Giant Software just released Magic Bullet PhotoLooks (Like MB Looks but for Photoshop) and Knoll Light Factory for Photoshop.
That’s great for the Photoshop market, but what does that mean to you as a video artist?
Think Print Resolution Style Frames: No more trying to render out a printable high-res style frame or still shot in [...]
March Meeting
In this meeting: Robert Sharp of DigiEffects and Ross Shain of Imagineer Systems.
February Meeting May be Cancelled!
IMPORTANT NEWS:
Hi Folks -
Just want to let you know that Thursday night’s meeting may be cancelled, due to weather. It’s not clear yet how bad the snow may be, but if it closes down the schools, we won’t be able to have the meeting. Please keep your eyes on the AENY blog and our twitter [...]
Some Great New Stuff at MotionWorks
A new Making It Look Great training DVD from Tim Clapham:
Click Image to watch video.
This promo for our brand new MILG7: MoGraph Unleashed video training, was created using Cinema 4D and After Effects. The Out Now text bounces using MoGraph 2.0 MoDynamics, the sky was added in After Effects using Trapcode Horizon, and the colour [...]
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 car! (I [...]
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!!!!!
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 now, we have [...]
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
New AENY.org site is live!
Hello everyone. Welcome to the brand-spanking new AENY.org site.
Please note that we’re in the process of moving over to a new server, so for the next few days, our emails, newsletter sign-up and contact page may not work properly.
It’s a work in progress so please let us know if you run into any issues. Thanks!
Good [...]