Our last meeting was on March 29, 2007.
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: Tues., May 15, 2007

The Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

The Place:

Pratt Manhattan
144 West 14th Street (b/w 6th and 7th Ave)
Room 213

The food: Pizza and soda/water

Thanks to Adobe and Pratt, the meeting is FREE.

Our Lineup Includes:

	Wondertouch particleIllusion & Pro Emitters: Alan Lorence will be demonstrating particleIllusion 3's powerful tools for creating high-impact motion graphics and effects, as well as pIllusion and After Effects integration.
	Curious Pictures will present clips from Disney's Little Einsteins and the Crunch Gym stop motion commercials - discussing general pipeline and AE's essential role in production. Plus: the differences between digital animation, puppet animation, and compositing.

Door Prizes Include:

Wondertouch particleIllusion 3 + 2 Creative Cow Master Series pIllusion training DVD's (x2)
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. +Creative Cow Master Series Training DVDs: "The apprenctice Magician's guide to ParticleIllusion 3" and "particleIllusion Fusion."

Artbeats - Ocean Water Effects
Experience the rush of magnificent waves as they engulf the lens,then dip below the surface and watch the deep blue ocean water come to life as mysterious bubbles rise from the deep. 23 gorgeous progressive clips shot on motion picture film.

Digital Juice - (TBA)
Digital Juice is the world leader in royalty-free professional animations, stock footage, music, layered graphics, clip art, and templates.

Imagineer Software - Motor
Imagineer Systems is proud to announce our new rotoscope application, motor: an exciting tool dedicated to generating accurate mattes quickly by using Imagineer's planar tracking technology.

Red Giant Software - Light FX Bundle
Includes Knoll Light Factory + Trapcode Shine + Trapcode Starglow. From the company that gives you Magic Bullet, MB Colorista and Instant HD

Toolfarm Buena Fabuloso Gigante Bundle
3 plug-in packages which give you A) much more natural looking results when compositing, blurring, or correcting your footage, B) realistic depth effects to 3D layers and C) 10 professional plug-ins for Adobe After Effects.

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.

GridIron Software Nucleo & Nucleo Pro
Nucleo is a plug-in for AE that produces faster RAM previews and renders. Nucleo Pro introduces rendering AND working at the same time in Adobe After Effects 7.0 - while still maximizing your computers performance.

CreativeCOW.net - After Effects: The Next Level
You've seen the AE podcast and the tutorials - Now 50 of Aharon Rabinowitz's tutorials (in full 800x600 res) have been put together on one 6-hour training DVD. Who needs an internet connection to learn more about AE?

Re:VisionFX - Shade/Shape
Shade/Shape generates 3D models from your 2D graphical and picture elements using RE:Vision's powerful and proprietary shading-from-shape technology. The models are then lit and rendered in true 3D! Add further detailing to your 3D models by applying reflection and bump maps.

Adobe - 1 License of After Effects 7
Do we really need to give the details on this one? You know darned well what it is!

Threadless T-Shirts - 10 Vouchers ($20 each)
Threadless T's are the hippest in all the land. That's our opinion. If you're an animator and you don't have one, you should be ashamed of yourself! Hopefully this will help you start your addiction...er... collection.