INK at 3ds London Wed 1st July

3ds London is next Wednesday 1st July, from 7pm downstairs at Truckles. The talented team at INK are coming along to present- David Macey and Mike Haas will be talking some of INK’s latest films, recently produced for Land Rover. David and Mike will talk about INK’s digital film making process, in particular how they’ve gone about integrating Nuke Studio into their 3DS Max pipeline. Then James Ball will then chat briefly about INK’s visual language and approach to creating CGI still images – in both their architectural and advertising work.

I’d like to get started on time so there’s enough of the evening to enjoy the courtyard outside afterwards, the weather forecasts suggest it’s going to be a scorcher (subject to usual disclaimers because… London). See you there!

We’re getting closer and closer to winding up the email list in favour of  www.meetup.com/3DSLondon/ so please make sure you register for free. Also check www.3dslondon.co.uk, www.facebook.com/3dslondon, the LinkedIn group or follow @3dslondon for updates.

Kind regards, Simon

3ds Max Development Team next Wednesday 3rd June

The 3ds Max development team are jetting in from across the globe for a pint downstairs at Truckles next Wednesday 3^rd June from 7pm sharp (actually I don’t think we’re the only reason they’re coming over but that sounds good). Eddie Perlberg, 3ds Max Product Manager, Neil Hazzard, Principal Engineer Rendering, Alex Horst, Product Specialist, and Jamie Gwilliam, Territory Sales Manager UK, I & N, are all coming along to take us through some of the highlights of the 2016 product release, the strongest in some time I think you’ll agree. Eddie’s also going to talk about the development process for Max, what the team are working on and (with the usual caveats I’m sure) what you might expect to see in future releases.

I’m very happy they’ve all agreed to come along to 3ds London again, it’s always great to hear what’s going on and a brilliant opportunity for you to talk to them. I don’t have any other speakers lined up for the evening but I’d be very grateful if you brought some work along to share at the beginning of the evening too- I’m sure the team will enjoy seeing what 3ds London members can achieve with Max. So to reiterate, I’d be very grateful if you brought some work along to share at the beginning of the evening too (i.e. your end of the bargain).

Have you signed up on our meetup page for 3dslondon that Sol set up last month yet? This will soon become the primary channel of communication for the group, so make sure you do!

Check www.3dslondon.co.uk, www.facebook.com/3dslondon, the LinkedIn group or follow @3dslondon for updates.

Vyonyx & PriestmanGoode next Wednesday 6th May

3ds London is next Wednesday 6th May, from 7pm downstairs at Truckles again (Last month we enjoyed Squint Opera's hospitality at The Doodle Bar, wrong side of the river and all that, but well worth the effort for all those that made it- fantastic work, generous insight into their organization and cold beer).

We've got a few shorter presentations lined up for May. From the always impressive Vyonyx, Konstantinos Koudounis is going to take us through some recent projects and how they did them. Then Rob Walsh will talk us through PriestmanGoode's impressive animation for London Underground. I'm going to show a short project from Stufish so I don't feel hypocritical about constantly nagging everyone else to share their work... Speaking of which, why don't you bring along a project to show the group? You don't necessarily have to prepare a long presentation, just bring something along! Let me know beforehand if you like and I can update the invitation. If you would like to make a longer presentation just get in touch by the way.

Hopefully we'll be lucky with the weather too, looking forward to seeing everyone.

Our social media guru, Sol, has generously set up a meetup page for 3dslondon. I hope this will soon become the primary channel of communication for the group, so make sure you join!

Check www.3dslondon.co.uk, www.facebook.com/3dslondon, the LinkedIn group, follow @3dslondon.

Kind regards, Simon

3DS Max London User Group

Wednesday 1st April

For 7:30pm

The Doodle Bar

33 Parkgate Road

London, SW11 4NP

020 7223 7115 ‎

map (19/319 bus, 10 mins approx from Sloane Square)

Next Wednesday 1st April 3ds London is at The Doodle Bar, hosted by Squint Opera. No fooling... Thought a change might be nice, we've had a great time there before and Ryan Lintott, CTO, has kindly offered to give an overall presentation on Squint Studios, the many things they do and how they make it all work- How they've changed from a small arch viz studio into a much larger creative company and where they're going next. Their 3d team will run through a recent arch viz project and hopefully the lead TD from Okido will talk about that side of their production.

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.

As always, please bring along some work to share or get in touch to schedule a presentation. Check www.3dslondon.co.uk, www.facebook.com/3dslondon, the LinkedIn group, follow @3dslondon or email 3dslondon@gmail.com to get on the distribution list. Everyone welcome, don't miss this great evening, see you there!

Regards, Simon

n.b. Job openings- there were a lot last month! If you have an exciting position and want to let everyone in the group know please tweet @3dslondon (no agencies please) or post on the LinkedIn group with full details.

David Connolly took some great photos last month btw

Cityscape Digital, Maxwell Render, Foster + Partners & Lenovo @ 3ds London next Wednesday 4th March

3ds London is next Wednesday 4th March, from 7pm downstairs at Truckles.

Nikos Nikolopoulos, CGI Director of Cityscape Digital, will be premiering some of his latest work. Nikos’ presentation last January was great and he’s just written a brilliant article for 3D World, so I’m looking forward to this one! Nikos has been using recently released Maxwell Render V3.1, so I’m happy to say Juan Cañada (Head of Maxwell Render Technology), Victor Gonzalez (CEO) and their team are flying over from Madrid to watch and update the group as well.

Foster + Partners’ Design Communications Team (as oppose to the Visualisation Team, who’s work Gamma Basra presented last September) create a range of artwork from hand drawn sketches, pen and ink drawings through to ephemeral and photo real digital work. Tan Sohanpall and Olga Banaszyk and are going to present some of this work, giving us an insight into the incredible cross section of projects and techniques covered by the team.

Our last speaker, Mike Leach, has also presented at 3ds London before, but a bit longer ago, September 2008 in fact… Mike’s now the Workstation Technologist at Lenovo. Lenovo are the world’s largest PC manufacturer and Mike has 15 years’ experience with workstations, so he’s well placed to get the group up to speed with the latest tech! Mike’s bringing along a slick ThinkStation P Series to showcase but (as with all hardware vendors invited to 3ds London) will keep the presentation non-vendor specific as much as he can bear to!

Did you see The Boundary put their presentation from last month online? Carlos Mazón Godoy also posted the workflow videos he presented here and here for you to check out.

As always, please bring along some work to share or get in touch to schedule a presentation. Check www.3dslondon.co.uk, www.facebook.com/3dslondon, the LinkedIn group, follow @3dslondon or email 3dslondon@gmail.com to get on the distribution list.

Kind regards, Simon