Next Meeting & Door Prizes:

Next meeting: There are 2 meetings this month!

• Meeting 1: Thursday, October 23, 2008

• Meeting 2: Tuesday, October 28, 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.)

Both meetings are FREE.

Our Lineup Includes:

	Thursday October 23: Brazilian graphic artist, designer and director Nando Costa will give us a behind the scenes look at some of his awesome Motion Graphics projects. Also, if that weren't enough, see all of the latest and greatest plug-ins from effects powerhouse Red Giant software.
	Tuesday October 28: Get a first look at Adobe After Effects CS4. (plus some other cool CS4 stuff) Need we say more? Yeah, we didn't think so.

Door Prizes Include:

Adobe - CS4 Production Premium
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium software is a must-have solution for creative professionals who need to craft world-class video, audio, and interactive media — on air, online, on device, and invariably on deadline. Includes: After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, Flash CS4 Professional, Illustrator CS4, Soundbooth CS4, Adobe OnLocation CS4, Encore CS4, Adobe Bridge CS4, Adobe Device Central CS4, Dynamic Link.

2D3 - Boujou Bullet SD
Derived directly from boujou 4 (Emmy award-winning, industry-standard camera and object tracking solution), bullet SD shares the same robust and accurate feature tracking and camera solving engines. bullet SD offers more functionality to more people than previous releases of bullet, while still providing the easy to learn, easy to use, single click, wizard based workflow of boujou bullet 2. bullet SD is designed for those who don't need HD support and have less demanding export requirements. Developed with smaller studios, individual artists and applications such as Architecture, Planning and Engineering in mind.

Imagineer Systems Mocha
A standalone tracking tool based on Imagineer’s unique 2.5 D planar tracking system. Designed as a cost-effective tracking solution with a variety of features mocha affords you the ability to generate solid 2D tracks, even on the most difficult shots, while saving both time and money. mocha allows tracking to be completed in less time and with higher accuracy, giving you the ability to bid for jobs at a time and rate that creates an advantage for you over your competitors! mocha is the ‘big brother’ of motor; it contains all motor’s rotoscoping tools.

Red Giant Software - Radium Glow
Don't settle for glow effects that are just a blur. Radium Glow simulates the way real light behaves, giving you ultra-realistic glimmers and glows.

Red Giant Software - MB Looks
Now you can define the style of your video or film with powerful imaging tools. Choose from 100+ Look presets, to help set the mood for everything from a wedding to the next Sundance original.

Red Giant Software - MB Colorista
An easy-to-use color correction plug-in that delivers great results quickly from within Final Cut, After Effects, Motion, Premiere Pro, or Avid systems.

Red Giant Software - Instant HD Adv
Go beyond simple scaling with Instant HD Advanced. Its advanced toolset offers sharp, motion-compensated de-interlacing and de-noising; advanced pan and scan; and a super-resolution algorithm for actual resolution enhancement.

Red Giant Software - ToonIt!
Give video footage that sought-after cartoon look easily and quickly. Red Giant ToonIt uses unique algorithms to transform your image into beautiful cartoon shading and lines.

Red Giant Software - Psunami
Whether it’s a peaceful pond or a raging ocean you need, Psunami can handle it. Powerful wave simulation and ray tracing algorithms bring you the ultimate in animated water effects.

Red Giant SOftware - Primatte Keyer Adv
Primatte Keyer is a professional greenscreen tool that extracts keys from any color background quickly and easily. Version 4 brings new levels of power and speed to After Effects and Avid, and for the first time, Final Cut Pro. New features include easy-to-use Auto setup, which creates an almost-perfect key with one click. Powerful features allow Primatte Keyer to overcome keying challenges such as uneven lighting, compression artifacts, subtle shadows, and edge light contamination. Best of all, Primatte Keyer 4 works right on the timeline.

Red Giant Software - Knoll Light Factory
The industry's favorite tool for creating lens flares, sunsets, photon torpedoes, stars and other effects. It offers a custom lens editor, auto tracking, alpha channel support, and pinpoint control over dozens of settings.

Red Giant Software - Text Anarchy
Take the pain out of animating text. Whether you need Bezier paths, particle patterns, or Matrix-style patterns, Text Anarchy generates the coolest effects while maintaining typographic control.

Red Giant Software - MB Suite 2008
Magic Bullet Suite 2008 is a completely revamped product. Magic Bullet Suite now supports After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro, and Avid. The full suite of tools includes Magic Bullet Looks (including Misfire), Magic Bullet Frames, Magic Bullet Colorista, Magic Bullet Steady, and Instant HD for high-quality up-conversion.

Red Giant Software - Trapcode Suite 2008.5
With Trapcode Suite 2008, the right effects plug-in will always be at your fingertips, because they're all included! Bundle pricing offers enormous savings over purchasing plug-ins individually. Includes Shine, Starglow, 3D Stroke, Lux, Particular, Echospace, Sound Keys, and the new Trapcode Form plug-in.

GridIron Flow
This insanely essential tool will change everything for you! It keeps track of the connection between files as you work, so that you can't accidentally delete a crucial project file. And if you do erase it, or even overwrite it, Flow will let youbring back any previous version of the file. It allows you to see the connection between files (even when you're just copying and pasting text from Microsoft word to an AE Project) and makes sure to package up every related file (even fonts) when archiving. With additional features, like Time Tracking and Visual Versioning, Flow is idiot proofing your project from start to finish. And best of all, it does it without you having to change the way you 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.

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.

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.

6-month Membership to the Pixel Corps
In development for almost 7 years, the Pixel Corps has nearly 1800 members in 30 countries. The Pixel Corps is designed to create a global production community capable of generating content around the world. It's not just about acquiring skills...it's about becoming part of a community. The Pixel Corps blends training, real-world challenges, and community participation to build a development system unlike anything else available. Our goal: To build a highly networked, highly skilled, highly organized group of artists prepared for the next opportunities that emerge in the media field.

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!!!