Our last meeting was on May 15, 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: Thursday, July 26, 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:

	Imagineer Systems - Motor & Mocca: Ross Shain will be showing us how this extraordinary software can be used for highly accurate roto-scoping and motion tracking, with ease of use that puts other software to shame. Don't miss this!
	Psyop's Laurent Bartholemy - One of NYC's most prestigious animation groups will be sharing some great workflow tips and show you how they put together some of their critically acclaimed projects. This is your chance to ask "How'd you do that?"

Door Prizes Include:

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.

Adobe - Production Studio Premium
Do we really need to give the details on this one? You know darned well what it is You get the whole firggen shebang! After Effects, Premiere, Flash, Soundbooth, Photoshop, Illustrator + other apps as well. This is one serious prize!

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.

Video Copilot - Designer Sound FX and Elements
2-DVD Set with 500 Powerful Sound FX Elements + Extras - Royalty Free Sound FX for all your productions
+ After Effects Project File for the DVD Promo - Free Tutorials and Extras!

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?

Wondertouch particleIllusion 3 + 2 Creative Cow Master Series pIllusion training DVD's
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 apprentice Magician's guide to ParticleIllusion 3" and "particleIllusion Fusion."

Artbeats - (TBA)
The leader in royalty free stock footage. Arguably the best stock footage collection on-line in both SD and HD. A huge variety of content for all of your video project needs.

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 - AE Expressions Tutorials (Ser. 1 Bundle)
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 3 parts - 20 minutes each: Introduction to Expressions, Introduction to Arrays and Variables, 3D Text.

Digital Juice - (TBA)
Digital Juice is the world leader in royalty-free professional animations, stock footage, music, layered graphics, clip art, and templates. 4 titles will be given away at the meeting!

Re:VisionFX - RE:Fill
RE:Fill mends holes in images by intelligently fillinguser-specified regions, can replace missing pixels in numerous ways. Also, Creates nice color gradients and washes by filling in large holes. Creates interesting kaleidoscopic effects using a mirror fill on large holes.

GridIron Software Nucleo Pro 2
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.