Next Meeting & Door Prizes:

Next meeting: Thursday, February 28, 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:

	Tronic is a NYC-based multimedia studio. Their work moves between film, animation, architecture, and experiential design. These visual futurists are boldly combining architecture, graphic design, film, and animation to create striking and conceptually based work.
	DigitalKitchen is a marketing content partner to ad agencies, entertainment studios and corporate clients around the world.  Their work has touched every continent and garnered awards in every major industry forum in the Western world.

Door Prizes Include:

Adobe  Production Studio CS3
Come on. You know what it is! This package includes After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, Encore DVD, and Flash.

fxphd - 1 Term of Classes
fxphd was created by the founders of fxguide.com, the ultimate resource for high-end compositing and post production on the web. They provide high quality internet training targeting visual effects professionals. One lucky member of our group will win a full term of FXPHD - which is awesome and worth its weight in gold.

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 - Magic Bullet Suite
The awesome package includes MB Looks, MB Frames MB Colorista, and Instant HD.Change the look and frame rate of your footage, color correct it and even up-rez it with the Magic Bullet tools.

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.

lynda.com - AE CS3 Beyond the Basics DVD
Instructor Chad Perkins teaches techniques for bringing photos to life with displacement, crafting fire and water effects with Fractal Noise, mastering masks, using the "other" puppet tools, creating a lightsaber fight, running the gamut of expressions, and taking advantage of advanced 3D options.

Telestream - Episode Pro
Episode is the most powerful desktop media encoding application on the market, up to 8 times faster than Cleaner. It offers the highest quality and fastest encoding for content repurposing and distribution to new media channels: Web, DVD and portable devices including Apple video-enabled iPod®, Sony Playstation Portable® and mobile phones.

Zaxwerks ProAnimator (x2)
Traditionally adding high quality 3D animation to a video project has been a time consuming and expensive process. Further it has required a specialized set of skills to use the complex 3D animation products currently available. ProAnimator is a must-have appliation that breaks new ground by giving video editors a way to easily create stylish 3D animations in the editing suite, with familiar looking tools and methods. It is both a stand-alone app and a plug-in for AE.

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.

lynda.com - AE CS3 Pro Essential Training
Explores the possibilities available using the motion graphics and animation features in After Effects. Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins teaches the fundamentals of managing the timeline, working with 3D layers, creating projects for iPods and mobile devices, and more.

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
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.

lynda.com - Cinema 4D R10 Essential Training
Larry Mitchell teaches users how to get the most out of the new modeling, animation, rendering, and workflow features in this latest release. From understanding the interface to creating skin and hair textures to animating body parts and clothing, Larry covers all the key elements of CINEMA 4D R10.

Peachpit Press - Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional Studio Techniques
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.

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.

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.

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).