Our last meeting was on May 22, 2008.
Click here for the meeting Archive page where you can get a recap of the last meeting, and see its archived meeting page.

Next Meeting & Door Prizes:

Next meeting: Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Time: 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM

The Place:

We have a new location that can sit up to 400 people!!!!

P.S. 41
116 W est 11th St., NYC
(corner of 11th Street and 6th Ave.)

The food: Sorry - but due to site rules - no food this time. If you can live for 2 hours without eating, you'll have a great time!

The meeting is FREE.

Our Lineup Includes:

	Visual Designer, Mark Coleran, whose work has been seen in films like  The Bourne Ultimatum, Domino, Alien vs. Predator, The Bourne Identity, Blade II, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The World Is Not Enough - just to name a few.
	Visual effects artist John Montgomery -  co-founder of the online visual effects news site fxguide, as well as the training site fxphd. Clients include McDonald's, Disney,Budweiser, Miller, Hallmark, Morgan Stanley, ESPN and CBS.

Door Prizes Include:

Video Copilot - Evolution
Evolution is a collection of high quality decorative design elements for creative video professionals. Flourishes and othe motion graphics elements that will rock your world. VideoCopilot.net did the hard work so you can be the artist.

Red Giant Software - Pro Keying Bundle
Primatte Keyer is a professional greenscreen tool that extracts keys from any color background quickly and easily. Version 4 brings new levels of power and speed to After Effects and Avid, and for the first time, Final Cut Pro. Key Correct Pro is a set of 15 plug-ins designed to help After Effects users create better composites with built-in keying tools. The plug-ins can be in used in combination with any keyer to better enhance the final result, like Primatte Keyer, Keylight, Ultimatte & Ultra.

CreativeCow.net - After Effects: The Next Level Vol. 2
The new DVD by Aharon Rabinowitz that covers the features in AE CS3, with all of last year's AE podcast episodes, + 80 minutes of new material that includes updates to older podcasts to account for changes in CS3, some cool tutorials on shape layers and 50 Minutes devoted to the new, powerful puppet tool.

Wondertouch particleIllusion 3 +
CreativeCOW.net particleIllusion Fusion Vol. 1 DVD
Award-winning standalone particle effects application that enables you to quickly and easily add a huge variety of particle effects to your images, animation, or video. + the Creative Cow Master Series Training DVD "particleIllusion Fusion" by Aharon Rabinowitz).

CreativeCow.net - Internet Killed the Video Star
The DVD by Aharon Rabinowitz that teaches you everything you need to know about getting your video on the web: Video Compression, Flash Video, Video Podcasting, Creating Video Tutorials.

Video Copilot - Riot Gear
Andrew Kramer's latest post production tool is a Stock footage DVD-ROM containing 155 Hi-Def Visual elements including paint spatter, paint in water, and other VFX and textures - all pre-matted and ready for your projects.

Imagineer Systems - Mocha AE (x2)
Tthis stand alone 2D tracking tool is packed with features that make the After Effects compositor's life easier. Based on Imagineers unique 2.5D Planar Tracking technology, mocha AE helps solve problematic shots that traditionally break point based trackers, such as footage with objects moving out of frame, lack of detail, motion blur and heavy grain.

Creativecow.net - Advanced Rotoscoping Techniques
VFX and compositing expert Pete O'Connell shows you advanced techniques for rotoscoping in After Effects that will change the way you think about one of the most challenging tasks for any compositor. Pete uses his unique style to show you the tricks he's picked up and created for big-budget Hollywood features. You'll learn how to use the entire AE toolset in entirely new ways.

Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects
From Focal Press, Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects". More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-color book is jammed full of tips, gotchas, and sage advice that will help you survive whatever your next project throws at you.

Stash DVD Magazine - (TBD)
STASH delivers the planet's most innovative and outstanding commercial animation, VFX and motion graphics plus insightful behind-the-scenes extras in a monthly DVD magazine. Also tucked inside the STASH DVD case is a companion book of color stills, details on the featured work, credits and tech notes. Each SIXPACK collection contains the complete DVDs from six issues of Stash in a single case. The books for all six issues are included as PDF files on the disks.

Creativecow.net - Motion Design with After Effects
Eran Stern is the co-host of the Creative Cow AE podcast and author of some of the web's most popular AE tutorials. In this 5-hour DVD, he'll help you explore the true depths of After Effects. Combining his unique sense of humor and serious AE chops, Eran will teach you how to bring a project from concept to completion.

Studio Daily's Trapcode Form Training (x2)
Design Techniques with Trapcode Form - In this video tutorial, Harry J. Frank, freelance motion designer, gives an in-depth overview of the design capabilities of Trapcode Form and then shows how to get the most out of these tools in building an animated design project step-by-step.

Artbeats - HD footage Clip (x2)
Artbeats is the leader in Royalty Free Stock Footage. Much of their huge and diverse hight quality library of clips are now available in HD. 2 winners will walk away with certificates for any HD clip they want (A $300 value).

Digital Film Tools - PowerStroke AE
Designed with the creative workflow of colorists, film/video editors, graphic designers and artists in mind, Power Stroke introduces a simple, interactive stroke-based workflow to quickly and intuitively perform targeted adjustments - Adjust, Blur, Colorize, Diffusion/Glow, Fill Light,Re-Color & Selective Black & White.

Compositing Visual Effects:
Essentials for the Aspiring Artist
The new book by Steve Wright from Focal Press - Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of film shots, figures, illustrations and diagrams to help the visual reader gain a valuable vocabulary and understanding of the full range of visual effects, in which digital compositing plays a key role.

Digital Film Tools - PowerMatte
Power Matte is an easy to use interactive image matting tool capable of extracting almost any object in an image--even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. Once a matte is extracted, the foreground object can be seamlessly composed onto a new background as well as apply filter and image corrections only within the area defined by the matte.

DigiEffects - Suite
A powerful Suite of effect that includes: Delirium, Berserk, Aurorix, Buena Depth Cue, and, the new plug-ins, Damage and Simulate: Illuma.

GridIron Software Nucleo Pro 2 (x2)
Nucleo Pro is a plug-in for AE that produces faster RAM previews and allows rendering AND working at the same time in Adobe After Effects 7.0 - while still maximizing your computers performance. Nucleo Pro 2 allows you to render non-AE projects without slowing down AE.

BitJazz SheerVideo Pro
This Mac and PC Codec Works twice as fast at half the uncompressed file size, with perfect fidelity to your original video and digitized film. The ultrafast nondestructive power of SheerVideo saves you time, space, and money in your professional video and film production, post-production, and archival workflows, while faithfully preserving every single bit of image information. ANyone can use your Sheer Video files with the free decoder.

Lynda.com - 1-year membership
Lynda.com is an award-winning provider of educational materials, including Hands-On Training™ instructional books, the Online Training Library®, CD- and DVD-based video training, and events for creative designers, instructors, students, and hobbyists. A 1-year membership gives you access to the online training library 24/7 for a full year.

Photoshop Elements
From Peachpit Press, Best-selling author Scott Kelby pairs up with Matt Kloskowski to deliver the definitive book on using Photoshop Elements 6 to create the best possible images. With this newest release of Photoshop Elements, Scott and Matt show readers how to work with their images like a pro, from importing to organization to correction to output.

1-year membership to Zoom-In online
Includes training DVD's and other goodies, TBD.

More Prize info will be listed soon. There are lots more coming!!!