Wednesday 2nd July

This Wednesday 2^nd July is 3ds London- England is out the World Cup (boo) so no clashes (yay), the sun will be shining and Truckles has a great courtyard to drink in- plus there’ll be all the usual 3ds Max camaraderie in the basement… sounds wrong but you’ll love it.

This month Raffaele Schiavullo is presenting his virtual reconstruction of the "Villa of Papyri in Herculaneum” which has been, for 7 months, the main attraction at the exhibition "La Villa de los Papiros" at the Casa del Lector Museum in Madrid. I’m looking forward to this, it’s a bit different and a topic Raffaele is both knowledgeable and enthusiastic about.

Raffaele will focus on "Virtual Archaeology" for cultural heritage, showing how he rebuilt an ancient ruin with archival research as guide line and talk about the laser scanning of the original statues from the Villa and making the 3D models of the monument in 3ds Max. Raffaele started his career at the Cultural and Virtual Reality Lab, University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). He has worked as an Art Director and 3D Artist for many educational and cultural projects and was a Professor at the University of Naples teaching Interactive Virtual Reality for Architecture and Industrial Design for eight years.

Always looking for presentations don’t forget! If it’s short just bring it along, if you’re feeling more confident get in touch and arrange a date. Check www.3dslondon.co.uk, follow @3dslondon or email to get on the distribution list. I recently discovered 3ds London has been on Facebook for four years- thanks Sol! So you can check that out too.

See you there, kind regards, Simon

3ds Max Team @ 3ds London Wednesday 4th June

Join Autodesk at Truckles for the next 3dsLondon at 7pm on Wednesday 4th June to meet key people from the team behind 3ds Max. Including the Product Manager, Eddie Perlberg. Eddie will give the group an insight into the future roadmap and to gather feedback to help shape the product’s direction. Joining Eddie in London will be Martin Coven, a product designer with considerable production experience across VFX and creature effects, and movie credits at numerous facilities including ILM. 

This unique opportunity will offer a chance to not just hear the plans, but also offer valuable feedback, directly to the relevant team members.

           

Present from the 3ds Max product team will be:

·        Eddie Perlberg: Senior Product Manager - Design Animation Solutions

o   As Product Manager of 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design, Eddie acts as ambassador for the product development team and is in town to engage with 3ds Max customers, helping identify current and future needs as well as being involved in the shape of the division and industry at Autodesk.

·        Martin Coven: Product Designer - Design Animation Solutions

o   With CFX credits spanning such notable productions as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, War of the Worlds and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Martin brings incredibly deep production expertise to his role at Autodesk. He'll be in town to visit customers from the broad range of industries that 3ds Max serves and to gather feedback to help drive the product’s roadmap.

Joining Eddie and Martin will be Jamie Gwilliam, Tom Parsons and Alex Horst - your local contacts for all things Autodesk.

Kindly note that due to the nature of the information being shared, Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) may require advance completion.

Follow @3dslondon and www.3dslondon.co.uk.

Kind regards, Simon

Carlos Mazon Godoy & Taylor James @ 3ds London Wed 7th May

3ds Max London User Group
From 7pm, Wednesday 7th May
Truckles of Pied Bull Yard

Good news this month! After last month’s hiatus 3ds London returns on Wednesday 7^th May at Truckles. The downstairs area has now been booked for our exclusive use for the rest of the year’s meetings, and they’ve sorted out a P.A. for us.

I hope last month’s call for speakers struck a nerve, if you’ve got an interesting project bring it along! If you want to do a more detailed presentation get in touch. To kick off the evening Keith Jeffery and Dave Wortley from always-impressive Taylor James are going to present some recently completed work for Ford, talk tech and give us a sneak peek of a new tool they're developing.

I’m also looking forward to a presentation from Carlos Mazon Godoy. Carlos has freelanced all over London so you might know him, if not check out his site. Carlos is going to go through some of his  very stylish work and talk a bit about how he uses Blender and Cycles in his workflow.

Check www.3dslondon.co.uk, follow @3dslondon or email to get on the distribution list. See you there!

Kind regards, Simon


Check out Dave's Maxscript site here.

No 3ds London this month, Wed 2nd April

First the bad news- THERE IS NO 3DS LONDON THIS MONTH. I’m disappointed, I think this is the first time it’s been cancelled since November 2010. A misunderstanding with the venue unfortunately, I’ve tried to organize a last minute alternative but it just hasn’t happened, sorry. I’m happy to nominate an alternative pub just for drinks if there’s a flurry of emails and tweets… let me know!

Last month it was noted by everyone that it was difficult (OK, impossible) to hear the presentations. Despite that and this month’s hiccup I think the venue is worth sticking with. Some good news- We’re booked in now for exclusive use of the downstairs for the rest of the year’s events, they’ve sorted out a PA and they’ll stay open until 10pm for us.

We’ve had a run of great 3ds Max speakers for a long time now. Just listing the past six months, we’ve had Analog, Hayes Davidson, Henry Goss, Chaos Group, Factory Fifteen, Vyonyx, Cityscape, Maxwell, John O’Connell and Corona- quite a few traveling a long way, on actual airplanes, to get here. So it's a shame the run's been broken, but there you go, "stuff" happens (special thanks to Taylor James who were going to present this month). What I'd like to do now is secure speakers for the next few events, which is where you come in. Please get in touch if you've got an interesting project to share with the group, the success of the evening depends upon it! If you've been coming along for some time you definitely ought to consider it. Despite occasional problems the group has a friendly regular crowd, it's brilliant for networking, has a very good reputation with speakers and best of all costs nothing to attend. The way to continue supporting 3ds London is to come along and share some work. Think about it?

Definitely see you next month, Wednesday 7th May. Check www.3dslondon.co.uk, follow @3dslondon or email to get on the distribution list.

Kind regards, Simon

Wednesday 5th March

3ds Max London User Group
From 7pm
Truckles of Pied Bull Yard

image: Marcelo Souza kumodot.com

Last month's event at the new venue went well (Nikos Nikolopoulos took some great photos) so we're back at Truckles this month, with more international speakers!

John O'Connell is a Dublin based freelancer, he's going to talk about three projects he's been involved in recently- a digital prosthetics shot from BBC's Ripper Street, a run through of the process of creating oceans and ships in Sky1's Moonfleet and a look at the digital vehicles in Ruairí Robinson's Last Days On Mars. John's a bit of a V-Ray legend on the Chaos Group forums, but he's also going to touch on Naiad, Rayfire and Krakatoa in his presentation.

Adam Hotovy is flying in from the Czech Republic to show the group the latest build of Corona Renderer. There's some great looking imagery being made with Corona at the moment- Adam will be talking about Alpha V6 and giving us an overview of future development (He's also giving 3dsLondoners special access to builds and demo scenes).
 

Bring along some of your work to share! I'm looking for speakers for April onwards too, if you're interested get in touch. Check out www.3dslondon.co.uk, join the LinkedIn group, subscribe to the mailing list or follow @3dslondon to keep updated.

Sorry for the slightly late notice this month, regards, Simon

Vyonyx, Cityscape Digital and Maxwell Render at 3dsLondon Wed 5th Feb- NEW VENUE!

Happy New Year! This Wednesday 5th February from 7pm we kick off the first 3dsLondon of 2014 in great style.

First thing to note is a new venue, Truckles of Pied Bull Yard, just around the corner from The Plough (which everyone has been telling me is too small for some time now). It's got a large private space downstairs with a staffed bar and a great space to hang out outdoors (later in the year perhaps).

Our first presenters are Vyonyx. It's always a pleasure to see what Nikolay and his colleagues have been up to! They're also going to talk about their Gobotree project, which looks like a great resource.

Nikos Nikolopoulos is the CGI Director at Cityscape Digital. Nikos is going to present some of their slick-looking projects, rendered with Maxwell.

Finally, the team from Maxwell Render are flying over from Madrid to make a presentation this evening. Juan Cañada, the head of Maxwell Render technology, will be taking us through the new features and highlights of V3 and answering any questions you might have.

Come along and catch up with everyone after the Winter break! I'm especially keen to see what everyone thinks of the new venue so I'd like a great turnout. Bring along some work too!

Check out www.3dslondon.co.uk, join the LinkedIn Group, subscribe to the Mailing List or follow @3dslondon to keep updated. Kind regards, Simon

Factory Fifteen host 3ds London

7pm, Wed 4th Dec

Studio 4a, 246 Stockwell Road, SW9 9SP

(Head right along Brixton Road from the Tube or Train Station. The studio is in a building opposite the O2 Academy on Stockwell Road- there will be directions on the door)
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This Wednesday 4th December 3ds London heads a few stops down the Victoria Line to Factory Fifteen's studio in Brixton. Paul, Jonathan, Kibwe and their team have kindly invited everyone to check out some of their recent projects including the Dazed Digital featured studio project ‘Chupan Chupai’, D&AD ident ‘I wish I’d done that’, a secret sci-fi project called Xavier and Factory fav ‘Jonah’. The team first presented their work at 3ds London a few years ago and never fail to impress so it'll be great to visit their studio- Ping Pong Pros especially welcome.

Bring along some work to share please! I hope most of you will make it, remember the next event after this will be on Wednesday 5th February 2014. 3ds London has been traveling around a lot towards the end of this year but I think it's been a success, next year we'll be back at The Plough or somewhere very close by, stay tuned.

Follow @3dslondon, check out www.3dslondon.co.uk or the LinkedIn group to stay up to date. Kind regards, Simon