Our last meeting was on August 23, 2007.
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, November 29, 2007

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:

	Harry J. Frank, freelance motion graphics artist, instructor and Adobe Certified Expert, (not to mention AE expressions expert) will be showing some recent work and teaching you the secrets of using After Effects expressions to quickly create better animation.
	Hot off his win at the Cut &Paste design battle here in NYC, extremely talented artist and director Mate Steinforth will be showing off some works both personal and in-conjunction with Pysop.

Door Prizes Include:

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.

MotionWorks - Making it Look Great Vol. 1 (x2)
In this in-depth video workshop, look over senior broadcast designer and After Effects expert John Dickinson's shoulder as he guides you step–by–step through real-world techniques in using Zaxwerks and other 3rd-party plug-ins in creating an impactful broadcast motion graphics promotion.

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.

Zaxwerks Reflector (x2)
After Effects can do so much, but you couldn't do reflections easily. Until now. Use Reflector to quickly enhance your scene with reflective surfaces. It's as easy as picking a surface (a floor, a wall, a ceiling) and applying the Reflector effect. One additional click will update your scene for reflections. Reflector will work with 3D text, pictures, and movies. Most effects in your scene will be reflected as well. Need a mirror? Use Reflector. Want to simulate a hard wood floor? Use Reflector.

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.

Imagineer Systems - Mocha AE
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.

Artbeats - Digital Refractions
These gorgeous, seamless looping backgrounds will surround your project with refractive textures, glorious color and unique flare. Collection contains 28 clips.

Red Giant Software - Magic Bullet Looks
Desert sunrise, Arctic tundra, nighttime urban streets: the look of your footage defines the mood. Now you can define the style of your video or film, regardless of on-set conditions, with powerful imaging tools. Choose from more than a hundred Look presets, all neatly organized into 10 categories, to help set the mood for everything from a wedding to the next Sundance original.

CreativeCow.Net - Money Making Graphics for FCS
Award-winning editor Stephen Smith takes you through 13 chapters of client pleasing graphics, while showing you how to use Final Cut Studio to its fullest.

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.

ToolFarm - AE Expressions Tutorials (x5)
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 3 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!

Re:VisionFX - PV Feather
Users have been requesting better feathering control within After Effects for quite some time, and PV Feather now fills that void. PV Feather (the "PV" stands for "per vertex") performs feathering by using an inner mask for filling, and an outer mask for feather control. The distance between the inside and outside mask controls the amount of feather. PV Feather uses AE's built-in mask splines, so there there is no new spline interface to learn!

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.

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.

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 - Designer Sound FX and Elements
2-DVD Set with 500 Powerful Sound FX Elements + Extras - Royalty Free Sound FX for all your productions
+ After Effects Project File for the DVD Promo - Free Tutorials and Extras!

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?