Wednesday 5th October

3DS Max London User Group

Wednesday 5^th October

For 7pm

Upstairs at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A

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 Hi everyone,

This Wednesday 5^th October we’ve lined up a brilliant presentation from Pete Addington. Check out Pete’s great site first, www.lonerobot.net. Pete will be presenting Creative character systems for studios great and small: The presentation will highlight some of the character-focused pipelines integrated into Impossible TV's framework over the last few years. Pete will talk about Lonerobot's modular design pattern and how this can be adapted to different types of character-based projects without modification. He’ll demo some custom tools written with dotnet and maxscript and perform a real-time demonstration of developing a character layer control system for production.

 So a little different from the past few months, I hope you’ll come along to enjoy it. As always, please bring some of your own work to share with the group, and I’m looking for presenters for DECEMBER. If you are interested or know someone who is, please email me.

Remember, details posted at www.3dslondon.blogspot.com and on Twitter, follow @3dslondon. If you’ve been along recently, you’ll know it gets busy…  So get there early if you want a seat!

Kind regards, Simon

Factory Fifteen @3ds London Wednesday 7th September

3DS Max London User Group

Wednesday 7^th September

For 7pm

Upstairs at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A

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First up next Wednesday 7^th September, evening regular Sebastian Burdon, creative director at Urban Digital, will be showing us how he helped create an animation currently showing at Ron Arad's stunning Curtain Call at the Roundhouse.

After Sebastian, Paul Nicholls and his colleagues from Factory Fifteen are going to present their recent works, consisting of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and  6 minute films. Factory Fifteen use both film and animation to communicate social, political, and fantastical futures. These highly experimental shorts are accompanied by 'chronographics' which visually narrate and stylistically envision their films. Paul’s presentation last year was brilliant, this year he will include a look at the making of his film Golden Age, which recently won the Best Architectural Animation Award from CG Architect in 2011.

As always, please bring some of your own work to share with the group, and remember we’re also looking for presenters for the next few months. If you are interested or know someone who is, please email me.

Remember, details posted at www.3dslondon.blogspot.com and on Twitter, follow @3dslondon. If you’ve been along recently, you’ll know it gets busy… I’ll be organizing the room a bit more ruthlessly to cope next week, so get there early if you want a seat!

3ds London 3rd August

Hi everyone,

Next Wednesday we’ve got two great presentations. First, Alex York is going to talk about the amazing body of work Atelier York produced for “The House”, over 15 minutes of animation and more than forty stills over the last four years.

Jamie G from Autodesk is coming too, to talk about Motion Capture workflows, discuss the new viewports, and share some tips and give an overview of SLATE, the node-based material editor.

As always, please bring some of your own work to share with the group, and remember we’re also looking for presenters for the next few months. If you are interested or know someone who is, please email me.

Remember, details posted at www.3dslondon.blogspot.com and on Twitter, follow @3dslondon. See you upstairs at The Plough, Museum Street for 7pm.  Thanks!

Kind regards, Simon

Taylor James @3DSLondon Max User Group next Wednesday 6th July

3DS Max London User Group

Wednesday 6^th July

For 7pm

Upstairs at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A

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Hi everyone,

Next Wednesday Keith and Mark from Taylor James are presenting some of their recent work, including a look behind the scenes of their stunning Turkish Airlines project, above. They’re always generous sharing their experiences with the group, a benefit of having so many professional and talented members who attend regularly! I look forward to seeing everyone to enjoy their presentation and a summer drink, perhaps outside if sunny, who knows?

As always, please bring some of your own work to share with the group, and remember we’re also looking for presenters for the next few months. If you are interested or know someone who is, please email me. Thanks!

Kind regards, Simon

Allies & Morrison @ 3ds London Wednesday 1st June

3DS Max London User Group

Wednesday 1^st June

For 7pm

Upstairs at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A

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Thomas Horsley, head of the internal 3d studio at Allies and Morrison Architects, will be showing us their latest film produced for the Rambert Dance Company.

This recently completed project was their first requiring the integration of live actors within a CG environment and the presentation will cover their workflow, lessons learned and some tips on what not to do on your first greenscreen shoot.

As always, please bring some of your own work to share with the group, and remember we’re also looking for presenters for the next few months, if you are interested please email me. I can't make it unfortunately, so Joe Robson has kindly offered to compere for the evening.

Kind regards, Simon

Meet the Met @ 3ds London this 4th May

3DS Max London User Group

Wednesday 4^th May

For 7pm

Upstairs at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A

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On Wednesday 4^th May we have an excellent presentation;  Mark DeGiovanni is a 3D modeller and Analyst at the Metropolitan Police Service Computer Aided Modelling Bureau. The small team is recognized as one of the most experienced in the world, reconstructing crime scenes as 2D plans and 3D computer models since 1992. They use a range of surveying, photogrammetry and modelling techniques to analyse geometric variables within crime scenes for use in Court Presentations. Mark will be presenting three real cases showing some of the elements of their work, and of course how the team use 3ds Max.

As always, please bring some of your own work to share with the group. I’m also looking for presenters for the next few months, if you are interested please email or speak to me on Wednesday. Thanks, see you then!

Kind regards, Simon

RIBA Viz Exhibition & CityEngine @ 3ds London this Wednesday 6th April

3DS Max London User Group
Wednesday 6th April 7pm

The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A
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Neil Clark, founder of Eyelevel, has curated Visioning The Future. An exhibition currently taking place at the RIBA, it aims to inspire visitors and highlight the role of architectural visualisation in realising great modern buildings, from epic cityscape to fine detail. Neil will be talking through how he (and other members of the 3ds London User Group) use Max to do so!

Marcel Reimer from Procedural is coming along to show the group their latest version of CityEngine, and to show us some recent projects and talk about future developments.

As always, the group always enjoys other people’s projects, so bring something along!

Kind regards, Simon