After Effects New York will have their January meeting tomorrow, so if you're in the area, be sure to come by. They have great prizes and their meetings are always packed. Check out their new website!

Date, time & Location: On Thursday, January 28, 2010 @ 6:45PM
PS 41 in NYC @ 116 West 11th St., New York, NY 10011-8306

Tiny Inventions: Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata
Known for their playful and humorous mixed-media animations, Tiny Inventions combines handcrafted art, photography, and digital techniques. Since they began collaborating in 2007, Max and Ru have directed music videos, produced PSAs, developed original television content, and headed design on a large-scale toy brand. Recently, they directed the TMBG video "Electric Car."

Animator, Story Artist, Stephen Neary
AENY favorite, Stephen Neary returns to us to screen his animated short, "Chicken Cowboy," and will give a rundown of his workflow and process. He’ll also show a couple story boards from a new project as well.

Labels: AENY, After Effects, Minnesota AE User Group

The Minnesota AE User Group will have their second meeting this Saturday the May 30th @ 4:30pm at the Minneapolis Art Institute at 15 S 9th St, Minneapolis, MN.

Speakers:
Scott, Israel "Izzy" Long, Brian Michael

Agenda:

• A 20 minute Mocha v2 for AE planar tracking & roto demo video by Minnesota's own Carl Larsen of Creative Cow, courtesy of Imagineer Systems. (Watch an amazing video tutorial here on Imagineer Mocha from Carl Larsen.
• A Quick overview of the new features of Trapcode Particular v2.0
• An Expression-driven Puppet Tool demo - Brian Michael
• Our new Monthly Featured Expressions Demo - This month: Wiggle, beyond the obvious.
  

Sponsors are:
Adobe - Toolfarm - Imagineer Systems - Digieffects - Digital Film Tools
FocalPress - Apress.com - designProvideo.com - O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Door Prizes include:

• A full version of After Effects CS4 courtesy of Adobe. (possibly more...)
• A full version of Mocha AE v2.0 courtesy of Imagineer Systems.
• A complete Expressions Training download bundle courtesy of Toolfarm.com.
• A full version of Digieffects FreeForm AE courtesy of Digieffects.
• A full version of the Composite Suite plug-in courtesy of DigitalFilmTools.com.
  

Labels: Event, Minnesota AE User Group, User Group