Our last meeting was on July 31, 2008.
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, August 28th, 2008

The Time: 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM

The Place:

We have a new location that can sit up to 400 people!!!!

P.S. 41
116 West 11th St., NYC
(corner of 11th Street and 6th Ave.)

The food: Sorry - but due to site rules - no food this time. If you can live for 2 hours without eating, you'll have a great time!

The meeting is FREE.

Our Lineup Includes:

	Phillip Niemeyer from Brooklyn-based art and design studio Double Triple will be coming to talk about some recent work and collaboration with filmaker Ryan Junnell for the fun stop motion work in Spoon:You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb music video.
	Tim and Mike Rauch aka Rauch Brothers Animation have a great animated short film called "German in the Woods" in association with StoryCorps.They will share and talk about the process. Tim and Mike have a great traditional animation background and unique visual aesthetic that comes through in their animation.

Door Prizes Include:

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 -Instand HD/Magic Bullet Looks
Instant HD-High quality conversion from SD to HD withing your favorite video application.Magic Bullet Looks- Now you can define the style of your video or film with powerful imag tools.

CreativeCow.net - After Effects: The Next Level Vol. 2
The new DVD by Aharon Rabinowitz that covers the features in AE CS3, with all of last year's AE podcast episodes, + 80 minutes of new material that includes updates to older podcasts to account for changes in CS3, some cool tutorials on shape layers and 50 Minutes devoted to the new, powerful puppet tool.

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).

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.

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.

Creativecow.net - Advanced Rotoscoping Techniques
VFX and compositing expert Pete O'Connell shows you advanced techniques for rotoscoping in After Effects that will change the way you think about one of the most challenging tasks for any compositor. Pete uses his unique style to show you the tricks he's picked up and created for big-budget Hollywood features. You'll learn how to use the entire AE toolset in entirely new ways.

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.

Boinx -iStopmotion Express and Pro(1 each)
Used by educators, professional and amateur film makers all over the world to create astonishing work, iStopMotion 2 is the tool of choice for Stop Motion Animation (aka. Claymation) and Time Lapse Recording.

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.

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 - 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.

dvGrage-Conduit Suite and dvMatte Pro
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. 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.

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.

More Prize info will be listed soon. There are lots more coming!!!