Last meeting of the year. Wednesday Dec. 16 6:45 @ 156 Augusta Ave. Kensington Mrkt.
Regretfully Chad is not able to attend this meeting. We are currently trying to find a replacement. Sorry for any inconvenience.
DECEMBER SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED!For December we have another incredible lineup! Here are our two amazing presenters:
We have Toronto talent Dan O'Rourke, giving us an awesome tutorial on bringing still images to life using After Effects!
And joining us via Adobe Connect we have the incredible Chad Perkins! Chad Perkins is an award-winning software trainer, an Adobe Certified Instructor and Certified Expert, and a CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer in Seattle, WA. He is an independent filmmaker, editor, motion graphics designer, musician, consultant, iPhone application developer, and award-winning sound designer. He is also the author of several books, including The After Effects Illusionist (Focal Press). Chad has a blog and podcast with his brother and fellow lynda.com author, Todd Perkins, at www.chadandtoddcast.com. For questions, tips, and humorous musings, follow him on Twitter@chad_perkins.
LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON THE 16TH!!!
November 18, 2009 - $40,000 Artbeats giveaway - Artbeats is celebrating the launch of FootageHub with $40,000 in weekly prizes - head to http://www.artbeats.com/huntforfootage for this week's scavenger hunt. ALSO AN AETO BONUS!!! We get our own clip to hunt for, for a special prize. Send in your completed scavenger hunt form or print it and bring it to our December meeting and we'll draw a winner. Download this pdf file for more information and the entry form: PDF FILE DOWNLOAD - Here's what Artbeats has to say about the contest:
"Artbeats invites AETO members to play in our $40,000 Scavenger Giveaway, celebrating the official launch of FootageHub, a unique gathering of many different brands and libraries of footage designed to meet all of your royalty-free stock footage needs. Check out FootageHub here http://www.artbeats.com/footage/hub
We'd like to tell you about the Scavenger Giveaway, and also extend a special offer to AETO members for an additional chance to win an exclusive Artbeats footage prize.
The Artbeats $40,000 Scavenger Giveaway is a weekly scavanger hunt, centered around stock footage clips that can be easily found on artbeats.com. Players who visit artbeats.com/huntforfootage during the 13-week game period will be prompted to search for a special "clip of the week". Once the clip is found, the player will be able to register for the weekly prize package. (Weekly prizes includes $1,599 worth of Artbeats footage, a $99.50 SmartSound music album, and one or more prizes from our many sponsors (valued up to $999 each). All weekly entries will also be placed into the pool for the grand prize drawing of over $15,000 in prizes, including an Apple MacBook Pro laptop. Players can come back every week to increase their odds of winning.
Artbeats is pleased to support members of the motion graphics community, and we value your group as a outlet for creatives to join together toward a common goal. For this reason, we'd like to personally invite AETO members to play for a chance to win. Attached you will find a flyer which outlines the Scavenger Giveaway."
Thanks for Artbeats for this incredible offer! Again, CLICK HERE to download the pdf.
November 18, 2009 - MEETING TONIGHT!!! - Be sure to come by Element156 tonight at 6:45pm for our meeting, free as always, thanks to our generous sponsors and incredible members! See you tonight!
November 13, 2009 - NOVEMBER 18th MEETING UPDATE - Our second guest is Harry Frank from Graymachine.com!!! He will be presenting via interweb. As a special bonus, Harry will also be contributing a copy of Video Rock!!! http://www.graymachine.com/videorock/
November 9, 2009 - NOVEMBER 18th MEETING UPDATE - Our November meeting will be featuring the incredible Steve Roberts (live) showing us some advanced AE and 3D techniques, and a special second guest!
November 9, 2009 - HUGE GIVEAWAY - Our friends at Artbeats have let us in on a very cool giveaway. I will be updating the site shortly with more information. Stay tuned!
September 23, 2009 - MEETING TONIGHT - Nick Campbell and Chris Bodaglo will be dazzling us, starting at 7pm!
September 1, 2009 - Chris Bodaglo returns from AENY - he'll be bringing tales of The Big Apple to our September meeting!
September 1, 2009 - Russ Fairley successfully updated his After Effects CS3 certification to CS4 - write to him for tips on becoming an Adobe Certified Expert
August 12, 2009 - August Prizes Announced:
Red Giant has given us a copy of the Trapcode Suite.
The Foundry has given us a copy of their new RollingShutter plug-in.
Toolfarm has given us 2 prizes:
1) Rob Birnholz 'Professional Training for the After Effects Camera' Toolfarm Expert Series
2) Angie Mistretta 'Professional Training with Trapcode 3S' Toolfarm Expert Series
(Use "AETO2009" in the discount codes for 5% off anything at Toolfarm)
NOTE: Chris Bodaglo will also be reviewing each of those titles after his Particular presentation.
Imagineer has given us the very excellent companion to AE. Mocha V2 and the Mocha shape plug-in.
...and a whole lot more!
August 12, 2009 - AETO will be attending AENY in New York City, during the last week
of August!
August 5, 2009 - August speaker announced! Chris Bodaglo (AETO/Slyngshot Solutions)
will be demoing and reviewing Red Giant's Particular 2!
August 5, 2009 - AETO will be attending the Adobe User Group Summit just prior
to MAX 2009 in Los Angeles, California, on October 4, 2009!
August 5, 2009 - AETO launches new website! AETO.ca is reborn! This site is currently
in an early beta phase, so please forward any suggestions to info@aeto.ca.
DECEMBER - December 16, 2009
All meetings are held at Element156 - Digital Design Studio at 156 Augusta Avenue, Toronto.
Please write to info@aeto.ca for more information!
AETO WILL BE AT:
AENY's August meeting
Adobe User Group Summit
MAX 2009
