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December Meeting
Some stuff to be announced…
AENY Going Strong (and Global)!
Last night I had a chance to hit the Maxon mixer at Spin. It was really great seeing people in the motion graphics and animation industry outside an AENY meeting, where I actually had a chance to talk to them (and drink beer). I had a lot of fun hanging out with Nick Campbell and [...]
October Meeting
Some stuff to be announced…
MAXON Mixer at SPIN NYC October 13th
Hey folks – our good friends at MAXON are hosting a Mixer at SPIN NYC October 13th: TIME: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm http://www.spinyc.com/ SPiN New York 48 East 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 212.982.8802 In Attendance: Paul Babb: MAXON US CEO Bret Bays: MAXON TECH Mathias Omotola: MAXON MARKETING Special Guest: Nick Campbell [...]
Knifeshow – Video from last AENY Meeting
For those of you who were asking about the video we showed at the opening of the last meeting – here is is: A videogame invasion has hit Mt Hood and High Cascade! Check out Scott Stevens, Micah Hollinger, Chris Beresford, Tim Eddy, Ben Bogart, and Casey Wrightsman as they live life like it’s one [...]
September Meeting
John Lepore Associate Creative Director at Perception NY shows some amazing breakdown work done on Iron Man 2 along with other client work. Jim gives a review of cool stuff he saw at IBC.
Tiny Inventions Shares Their Secrets!
Our friends at Tiny Inventions have given a deep workflow breakdown of how they created their recent AE-animated film “Something Left, Something Taken.” Enjoy: RGTV Episode 47: Tiny Inventions from Red Giant Software on Vimeo. Check out the full film at http://tinyinventions.com/animation/slst.html
August Meeting
VFX Animator and Compositor, Deke Kincaid, shows some of his work and the inner workings of The Foundry’s Nuke compositor and new 3D texture painting Application Mari.
July Meeting
Danny Princz, Jim Geduldick, Aharon Rabinowitz Show some cool stuff. Yeah.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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!!!!!
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 [...]