AAUGA Meeting
Thursday, Feb. 21st, 2013, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Neoscape, 23 Drydock Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston MA (Easy access via the Silver Line! Take the SL2 Silver Line to the “21 Dry Dock Ave” stop. Garage and metered street parking also available.)

Agenda:

6:30: Meet and greet, pizza
7:00: Presentation #1: (3ds Max) Want to make a beautiful lush forest? Maybe staircases are more your thing.
Jonny Allen of Neoscape will be showing some great plugins that are free to get and use that will make your life a lot easier.
http://www.cgarchitect.com/2012/05/mystic-lake
7:30: Break
7:45: A surprise guest awaits you. (3ds Max)
8:30: Formal User Group Ends

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Agenda:

6:30-8:30: Welcome and Secret topic reveal

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

It’s our 4th annual IronMax 3D competition, The reason it is on the 3rd is in celebration of 3December (http://area.autodesk.com/3dec2012).

Four teams will battle to the death in order to with the crown!… or other sweet prizes.
And by “to the death” I mean that they will have 2 hours to model and render a top secret scene.

We will start promptly at 6:30 in order to give our teams optimal modeling, texturing and rendering time. So, get there on time to see the kick off.

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AAUGA Meeting: Thursday, September 20
6:30 – 8:30 PM
Neoscape, 23 Drydock Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston MA (NEW LOCATION!!!)
(Easy access via the Silver Line! Take the SL2 Silver Line to the “21 Dry Dock Ave” stop. Garage and street parking also available.)

Agenda:

6:30: Meet and Greet
6:45: Presentation #1: UDK: Architectural visualization is increasingly moving towards a more interactive format. A part of this is the push towards clients being able to walk through and interact with the environment. The Unreal Development Kit has been instrumental in developing the next generation of vis projects.
This presentation will explore this process from starting with a final result, as well as going through some workflow issues.
7:30: Break
7:45: Presentation #2: More Magnificent Maya: Maya Tips & Trick, part 2, from Special guests Jason & Dax from Turbine
8:30: Formal User Group Ends

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Special Guest: Steven Roselle, games industry focused Solutions Specialist at Autodesk, who has worked closely with a wide array of game developers using Maya, MotionBuilder and Mudbox for game content creation. This involves software customization, workflow development and pipeline integration, as well as working as a liaison between game developers and the Maya product development team. Some of the game companies Steven has worked with include EA, Microsoft, SOE, Activision and Nintendo.

AAUGA Meeting: Thursday, August 16
6:30 – 8:30 PM
Neoscape, 23 Drydock Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston MA (NEW LOCATION!!!)
(Easy access via the Silver Line! Take the SL2 Silver Line to the “21 Dry Dock Ave” stop. Garage and street parking also available.)

Agenda:

6:30: Meet and Greet
6:45: Special Presentation: Maya 2013- new features and updates just released at SIGGRAPH! (Steven Roselle, Senor Solutions Specialist at Autodesk)
7:45: Break
7:55: Presentation #2: Maya- Animating with Layers (Chad Moore, Director of Technical Art & Animation at Turbine)
8:20: Presentation #3: Maya Woes- A Q&A about your Maya challenges (Jason Breneman, Associate Technical Artist at Turbine)
8:30: Formal User Group Ends

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