Vray @ 3ds London Wednesday 2nd November

For 7pm

Upstairs at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A

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Hi everyone,

This November Teddy Ilieva and Jimmy Krastev are flying over to show us some of the latest Vray features. It will be a great chance to catch up with some of the Chaos Group team in the usual relaxed setting of 3ds London. Some of the areas they’ll be covering:

V-Ray® 2.0 for 3ds Max - the latest trendsetting rendering technologies by Chaos Group

1.    Memory efficiency with Render time subdivisions
2.    Displacement geometry - cool tricks
3.    Rendering heavy geometry with V-Ray Proxy
4.    V-Ray RT accelerating the shading process
5.    Creating advanced layered shaders
6.    Light Cache improvements - retrace threshold
7.    V-Ray stereoscopic rig - shade map optimizations for rendering stereoscopy
8.    Distance texture - use procedurally generated textures to create a wide range of effects based on the distance between various objects in the scene
9.    Lens analysis tool - easily match the distortion of your real world and your virtual cameras
10.    Multi-sub texture – assign different textures based on object ID
11.    Light select render element – extract the contribution of each light to the scene, change their intensity in post-production and compose them back together
12.    Adding realism to your refractive materials with light dispersion
13.    V-Ray RT running on CPU vs. GPU

As always, please bring some of your own work to share with the group, and I’m looking for some short presentations 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

Vray at 3ds London 2nd November

Chaosgroup have confirmed their presentation, further details in just a few days!

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