Our last meeting was on October 28, 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, December 11, 2008

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

The Place:

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

Thanks to our sponsors, the meeting is FREE.

Our Lineup Includes:

	Maxon CEO Paul Babb will walk us through some of the new features of C4D 11 - the latest release of the 3D software most integrated with After Effects. If you're doing any 3D motion grpahics work (or want to learn more about it), then don't miss this presentation!
	Freelance C4D artist Michael Senften (the Monkey) will share some of his motion graphics work. Michael has worked with Dorian Orange, The Saline Project, Perception, Sugar Film Productions and Imaginary Forces.

Door Prizes Include:

Maxon Cinema 4D 11 + Mograph
Robust, Professional, Easy to Use 3D Animation Software. Mograph: Powerful tools that make it easy to create motion graphics elements.

Red Giant Software - TBD
Something cool.

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.

Pond5 stock video footage $100 gift certificates(x2)
Pond5 is the world's first open marketplace for stock video footage. Pond5 offers the most affordable broadcast quality HD and SD footage in the market today.

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).

Imagineer Systems - Mocha AE (x2)
This 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.

Divergent Media-Scopebox
Scopebox replaces a cart full of tools:Preview Monitor,Waveform,Vectorscope,Audio Meters,Direct Disk Recorder and goes even further adding Luminance and RGB histograms ,RGB and YUV Parades. Whether you're building a new color correction suite , or looking for a way to ensure you get the shot in the filed, Scopebox offers you all the tools you need on your Mac.

Video Copilot – Twitch
Twitch is a Plug-in for After Effects that synchronizes random operators to create stylistic video effects for motion graphics and visual effects. And controlled chaos to Color, Light, Scale, Position, and Time to create effects in Motion Graphics, Music Videos, Film Flashbacks, Transitions, Horror & more.

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).

ToolFarm - AE Expressions Tutorials Bundle (x2)
Harry J. Frank, freelance motion graphics artist, instructor and Adobe Certified Expert, goes over the basics of Expressions – Expressions for the average designer. The tutorials are in 6 parts - 20 minutes each: Introduction to Expressions, Introduction to Arrays and Variables, 3D Text.

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.

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.

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.

Cram for Compressor
Info coming soon.

dvGrage -Conduit Suite
The Conduit Suite is one application and six plug ins in one. With Conduit Suite you can composite and analyze live videoinput on set , use nodal techniques in Photoshop(pc or mac),After Effects , Final Cut Pro and Motion.

dvGrage - dvMatte Pro
dvMatte pro is the best option for Final Cut Pro /Express and Motion users needing to "key" footage from green or blue screen background from DV or HD footage.

Making it Look Great - Vol. 5
Work along with After Effects expert Jerzy Drozda Jr. (aka. Maltaannon) as he guides you step by step through a wide range of motion graphics and visual effects looks and techniques. Learn how to harness the power of expressions in After Effects to make beautiful, complex animations and save time.

Peachpit Press - Photoshop CS4 in 24 Hours
Info coming soon.

Focal Press - Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects
Info Coming Soon.

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.

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