2005 Meeting Archive
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Dec 14th, 2005
After Effects Beginnings
This is the meeting for those new to the program and interested in picking up a few of the basics to help expand the animation in your motion-pictures beyond what an editing application can do.
Some programs like Photoshop and Final Cut Pro are easy to learn by just clicking around and trying to figure things out, but that's not so true of After Effects. The goal of the meeting will be to provide an introduction to those concepts for people that have never had any formal training in motion graphics design with AE.
Nov 19th, 2005
Meet the Vloggers Chicago
Presented by Video Bloggers from the Midwest
Richard Hall, Josh Leo, David Meade, Lo-fi St. Louis, & Mason Dixon
This group represents a broad range of individuals, including technical and new media professionals; entrepreneurs; and a college professor who all share a passion for video blogging and the growing video blog community.
See footage of this episode on the MGChicago Video Blog.
Also find some on Life with Kelly Belly and Lime Blog.
Video of the meeting available in the members section.
October 12th, 2005
Discreet Combustion 4 & Cleaner by Kenneth La Rue
Kenneth is the Discreet Training Specialist and Creative Cow moderator for Combustion, and he will take an in-depth look inside the new features of Combustion 4.
Giveaways: Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 3rd Edition, new C4 training DVD sets, and and Lot's more!!!
Video of the meeting available in the members section.
September 14th, 2005
Flash Video: using flash to deliver video content on the web.
Review of the Flash Video Kit, Flash Video Components, and Flash Communication Server for Streaming video content
Realworld case scenario using XML to deliver realtime information with video to Kiosks, Digital Signs, and Vlogs
Tips for encoding to the FLV file format
July 13th, 2005
New features in Motion 2
Real world After Effects Production Tips by Mason Dixon
Giveaways: RES 8.2 & Stash 7
June 27th, 2005
For those of you just itching to MAKE STUFF
we will be having some screenings of member work
with 312 films on the last monday of the month
at the DARKROOM at 8.30pm, 2210 west chicago ave
between damen and western.
May 11th, 2005
Speakers: Justin Rickles, component-based audio authoring with Native Instruments software.
Mason Dixon, Adobe CS2 review & new AE tricks
Giveaways: RES 8.2, Stash 5, After Effects in Production (2nd edition)
Screens: Brand New School, Shilo, The Syndicate, Trace, Addikt, and more
March 9th, 2005
Discussion::Codec's Beatdown
Screens::adverts by Addikt, Eyeball NYC, brand new school's "fuel tv", trace's
"OLN Fearless", Waytion's "MTV New Shit", the MTV Motorola ads, a No Brain music video, play airwaves, "flash in the can" festival titles, Shilo's "Huff Credits", a motion graphics short film: Flama's "tecnoorganic",
Making Of::Syndicate's "British Telecom" advert (if you havent seen this one, it is amazing compositing work)
Sponsors & Giveaways::CMP Books
February 9th, 2005
Screens::Stash 03;;mk12's AXN (full res);;Best of RES vol 2;;RES2004 festival intro
Contest::name that company: ebling group's VIVA ads: mk12, nakd or lobo?
Discussion::Lars Van Treir's Dogma 95 film guidelines;;Getty Images' Big Idea
Tutorial::color correction on the Lord of the Rings;;expression tricks from mason dixon
Raffle: Anvel Tutorial DVDs;;Stash #3
January 12th, 2005
Guest Speaker : Darrien Murphy - www.praetorianllc.com/preview.html
Brief tutorials on 2 different HP commercials and Expressions
Movies: HP adverts, Sapphire Blue, Nike and more
Raffle: CMP Books and Stash #2 DVD
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