Next Meeting & Door Prizes:

Next meeting: Thursday, January 24, 2008

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:

	From GridIron, the people that brought you Nucleo Pro, comes Flow a revolutionary approach to digital content mangement that dramatically simplifies the design process for creative professionals. Get a first look - we promise you will be impressed.
	Todd Prives from GenArts with the help of a local AE artist will be exploring some cool projects created using the After Effects and the Saphire plug-ins. This is a great chance to see some effects workflow and be introduced to some new tools.
	Get your hands on a Wacom Cintiq! Maybe you've worked with Wacom tablets before, but this is a whole other thing. The Cintiq gives you the ability to work directly on screen. We'll have one in the back of the room for you to try, before the presentations, and at breaks.

Door Prizes Include:

GenArts Saphire Plug-ins - 1 FX Box TBD
GenArts, Inc. is a premier provider of visual special effects software for the film and video industry. Our Sapphire Plug-ins extend the capabilities of editing and effects workstations by providing digital artists with a collection of over 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects.

ToolFarm - Trapcode Form Training (x2)
Trapcode Form is a grid-based 3D particle system with a twist. It can be used to create fluid, organic patterns, complex geometric structures and swirling stringy animations. Form is phenomenally cool but also extremely complex. Harry J. Frank, freelance motion graphics artist, instructor and Adobe Certified Expert, beta tested Trapcode Form and shows you how to get comfortable with Form very quickly. You'll be spinning out gorgeous textures and eye candy in no time.

Wacom - Intuos 6x8 or 4x6 the (winner’s choice)
The Intuos3 professional pen tablet makes it easy to quickly and professionally edit photos and create digital artwork by turning on the full power of Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Painter™, and over 100 other leading software applications. Alternating between the comfortable Grip Pen and the ergonomic five-button Intuos3 mouse reduces repetitive motion. It's an easy and natural way to work.

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.

CreativeCow.net - Internet Killed the Video Star
The new 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.

Zaxwerks 3D Warps (x2)
3D Layer Warp lets you take existing AE layers and deform them in many ways. Twist them along any axis. Bend a layer around itself. Add arbitrary dimension with a displacement map.3D Grid Warp provides the same warping controls as 3D Layer Warp in addition to a crisp grid generator. Select your grid style and set your line colors. Animate the lines and the warping parameters to create fantastic backgrounds for your motion graphics.

CreativeCow.net - Zaxwerks Invigorator Training
The industry's first complete training for Zaxwerks Invigorator, the leading plug-in for 3D model creation inside Adobe After Effects. Even if you've got no 3D modeling experience whatsoever, Serge Hamad shows you how easy it can be, and how great it can look.

Peachpit Press - Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional Studio Techniques (x2)
This is the only book in the After Effects market to focus exclusively on the creation of visual effects, and is a one-stop resource for anyone who wants in-depth explanations that demystify the realm of visual effects and how they were created, thanks to veteran author Mark Christiansen's friendly and accessible style.

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.

Stash DVD Magazine - 6-Pack
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 - Apple Color Training (x2)
Stop Staring and Start Grading with Apple Color - Apple Color looks completely different than just about any other Mac application, but there's a method to Color's madness. Walter Biscardi provides nearly 2 hours of trianing to help you begin to enjoy this powerful tool.

Artbeats - Code Storm
With its distorted figures, frenzied display screens and high frequency waves, Code Storm is the definition of digital chaos. This bizarre collection of seamlessly looping clips is sure to evoke creativity and originality. Collection contains 34 clips.

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 - Delirium
Delirium contains over 39 special effects plug-ins. It also contains tools for creating particle-based fire, smoke and bubbles. These particle effects enhanced with built-in turbulence processing to create realistic imagery without resorting to complex 3D programs.

ToolFarm - AE Expressions Tutorials V1 & V2 (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.

CreativeCow.Net - Getting Organized in Final Cut Pro
So you know how to use Final Cut Pro, but now you have a big project. Where do you start? How do you organize it? Where should your media go? What about your project files, audio files and picture files? In this in-depth series of 9 video tutorials spanning over 90 minutes, CreativeCOW.net leader Shane Ross will show you time-saving techniques that the manual left out!

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!

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.

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 - 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?