AWUG Meetings...
 

Hey Guys,
I'm planning on making a trip to my first A|W user group meeting nest Thursday.

Just wondering if anyone has experiences going to these?
I'm going to the one held in LA at Gnomon Inc. Is anyone here going?

I'm in San Diego, so it'll be a 2 hr drive :cool:

I'm excited, and I'll let you all know how it goes :)

God Bless,
George

I wish I could, but for me LA = Long Away from home... :D

have a nice trip and meeting... :)

regards

Strarup

When is going to be it. i live in LA.

Hey Rodi,
It's going to be on Thursday, feb. 27th.

Sign up for the gnomon newsletter, and request an rsvp

www.gnomon3d.com

See ya there.
George

Hey, im up for a 12 hour drive down to LA. (I say down because I live in North West Oregon)

But... My parents aren't. That and gas is almost $2.00 now, so no way in hell Im driving all that way.
Have fun.

Don't fret Ultra,
I'll share as much info as possible after the meeting, hopefully they'll a lot of great info to share with you guys.

Rodi,
you can also look/signup here for more info on A|W user group meetings.

http://www.highend3d.com/awgua/

Hope this helps,
George

Hi George,

how did the meeting go?

and was it interesting?

regards

Strarup

Wow, totally forgot about this post :)

Well, let's see... It was back in Februrary right?

It was pretty cool, execpt for the fact I didn't know anyone there :) There was pizza and drinks in the beginning and time to mingle.. I'm not a good mingler :)

I saw Alex Alverez of Gnomon Inc. on my way of out the restroom, did know what to say, so I just said "hey, what's up?" and he replied "what's up?" and that was it. A real deep Maya conversation, I know :)

We then went into a big room where presentations were being held.
First presentation was a guy from apple inc. He showed us Shake in a production
shared some of the shake techniques used in Lord of the Rings with some clips of the movie.

Next was Zoic Studios, and they shared various clips they've done for tv shows like Buffy, and Angel, and others. Shared techinques they used in Maya for production. They were asking for demo reels, but I did not have one ready :\

Last was supposed to be Metrolight studios, but they cancelled, so Alex did a Maya techinque, way too crazy for me to ever do, but educational on how deep and crazy maya can be.

They also gave out prizes ex. Gnomon videos. I didn't win anything.. :\

That was pretty much it. It was fun, and I think it'll be better the next time around, if I can work on my mingling skills :)

George

Sounds good gcastro :D.. just yep, work on those "mingling skills" and bring something to show :D.. like, even printoffs of your work :), I for now am keeping a binder of every final i have made.. its handy ;). Alright, sounds cool.. if it was ever held in seattle i would go.