Chaos Group and Burrows at 3ds London

Wednesday 6th June
For 7pm
Upstairs at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A

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On Wednesday 6th June, Master V-Ray Trainer Konstantin Gaytandzhiev will be discussing the latest improvements in V-Ray for 3ds Max. Check out the topics that he's prepared and make sure you stop by and ask your questions:

• Latest developments in V-Ray RT
• Motion blur in V-Ray RT
• VRayPtex - a new texture capable of loading Ptex files
• Fur and hair rendering and the V-Ray hair material
• Dispersion and lens effects
• Distance texture
• Stereoscopic helper and the shade-map
• Heavy scenes rendering

3ds London regular Mike Owen from Burrows CGI has some great new work to share with the group, yes, using V-Ray! The last presentation Chaos Group made was heaving- make sure you come along early for a great evening, and bring along some work to show everyone, especially if you used V-Ray.

Remember, details posted at www.3dslondon.co.uk and on Twitter, follow @3dslondon. Everyone welcome, see you there, Simon

Wednesday 2nd May @ The Plough

Hi everyone,

There's a meeting this Wednesday as scheduled, but I can't confirm the speaker right now I'm afraid, looks like he might be rained off due to flooding where he lives!

The guys from The Neighbourhood are coming down though, to give the group a quick look at some of their recent work (but they'll hopefully be making a longer presentation later in the year).

Matthew Kennett had a great idea last month, a Q&A session for everyone, so if you've got a problem perhaps someone else can help? I think this will be an informal thing afterwards, we'll see how it works... Strictly no personal problems, 3ds Max related only please.

So it will be great to see everyone as usual, we've had a great run of speakers for a long time now. But this month we need people to bring along some work to show the group! If you haven't wanted to do a long presentation before, this is your opportunity to do something shorter.

See you there, regards, Simon

Factory Fifteen at 3ds London

Wednesday 4th April
For 7pm
Upstairs at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A

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Hi everyone,

I hope you enjoyed last month's presentations at The Doodle Bar, a great evening so we'll be back! Next Wednesday, 4th April, 3ds London returns to The Plough. Factory Fifteen are kicking things off for us; Have you seen their latest film, Gamma? I'm hoping for a sneak peek at some of the work for their new film Jonah, which looks amazing on their blog...

As always, please bring some of your own work to share with the group. We need a presentation for May, if you're interested or know someone who is, please email me.

Remember, details posted at www.3dslondon.co.uk and on Twitter, follow @3dslondon. I'm using a dedicated gmail account to send this invitation out from now on; If you no longer wish to receive these messages or there is some other problem, let me know.

Everyone welcome, see you there, Simon

3ds Max London User Group March

3DS Max London User Group

Wednesday 7th March

For 7:30pm

The Doodle Bar

33 Parkgate Road

London, SW11 4NP

020 7223 7115 ‎

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Hi everyone,

Next Wednesday 7th March 3ds London is at The Doodle Bar, hosted by Squint Opera and Vyonyx. Neither firm needs a long introduction, both are regular attendees and have presented their excellent work before, you know it'll be a great evening! Note the later start time, The Doodle Bar is a great venue but a little further south than usual!

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

Remember, details posted at www.3dslondon.co.uk and on Twitter, follow @3dslondon. I'm using a dedicated gmail account to send this invitation out from now on; If you no longer wish to receive these messages or there is some other problem, let me know.

Everyone welcome, don't miss this great evening, see you there!

Regards, Simon

3DS Max London User Group Wednesday 1st February

For 7pm, Upstairs at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A  map

Hi everyone, 

I hope you've had a good start to 2012! We've got two speakers lined up for next Wednesday 1st February so far. First up is Andrew Hickinbottom, a talented character artist who's going to show us his work and give us an insight into his creative process, using 3ds Max of course. I'm sure many of you will recognise his distinctive style, check out his gallery first!
 
Neil Hazzard, Autodesk M&E, had some bad luck travelling down to London for the last meeting but the delay will be worthwhile. Neil is the development lead on rendering and interactive viewports for 3ds Max, and is coming along to discuss Nitrous and perhaps Iray, time willing. A great opportunity to discuss everyone’s favourite 3D program with one of the key developers!
 
As always, please bring some of your own work to share with the group, I’m looking for presenters for 2012. If you are interested or know someone who is, please email me.

Remember, details posted at www.3dslondon.co.uk and on Twitter, follow @3dslondon. Make sure you come along to catch up with everybody and all their latest news after the break… Everyone welcome, see you there!

 

3ds London Member's Web Presence

I hope everyone enjoyed last night; thanks to everyone at Hayes Davidson for hosting, all the presenters and everyone else who's come along this year and made the evenings worthwhile.

The next meeting will be on Wednesday 1st February 2012 at The Plough. Hopefully, Neil Hazzard will be able to make it! We have a number of great speakers lined up already, if you're interested in talking next year let me know.

Peter Guthrie's presentation was brilliant, as is his blog. If you have one, let me know so we can start a blogroll here on the site; leave a comment on this post, or email me directly, use Twitter or Linked In.
To get things started, here's mine. See you all next year!

Neil Hazzard & Peter Guthrie @ 3ds London, 7th December

From 7pm

HayesDavidson

Studio A

21 Conduit Place

London W2 1HS

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It’s the last 3ds London of 2011, and to wrap up the year we have a busy event planned. If you squeezed into The Plough last month, thanks, I hope you were squashed up against someone nice. Happily, we’ll have a bit more space this month, Hayes Davidson have kindly opened their doors (figuratively, you’re going to have to knock) for us to enjoy their hospitality again. There’s going to be a couple of short presentations first from members whose work has been in the news recently which will be great, please bring along some of your own work to show the group too.

Neil Hazzard, Autodesk M&E, is our first presenter; Neil is the development lead on rendering and interactive viewports for 3ds Max, and is coming along to discuss Nitrous and perhaps Iray, time willing. A great opportunity to discuss everyone’s favourite 3D program with one of the key developers!

I’m very happy that Peter Guthrie will be the second presenter. A freelance visualisation artist with a background in architecture, Peter studied architecture in Edinburgh, Scotland and worked as an architect for several years before making the switch to visualisation. Peter recently presented at the SOA Academy Days in Venice and enjoys sharing his findings via his blog. There’s no way you haven’t heard of Peter if you’re involved in Arch Viz, he’s travelling a long way to make the evening so don’t miss it!

It’s going to be a brilliant evening so do come along, everyone is welcome. Remember, please bring along some of your own work to show the group too! Next year, as usual, we’ll skip January, then back at The Plough for February. Details posted at www.3dslondon.blogspot.com, LinkedIn and Twitter, follow @3dslondon.

Kind regards, Simon