2008 Meeting Archive
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April 2nd, 2009
LIVE 8 Premier Event & Demonstration by Dave Hill, Ableton Inc.
Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 7 PM
MacSpecialist 500 N Wells, Chicago
Presented by Ableton Inc & MacSpecialist
Ableton presents Live 8 in Chicago on Thursday April 2, 2009 at 7PM. This special event will take place at MacSpecialist's Chicago location at 500 North Wells Street. Come and check out all of the new features of Live 8 with a presentation by Ableton Product Specialist Dave Hill.
This up close and personal inside look at Live 8 will feature an open question & answer segment. Bring your questions and get the answers to further your Live technique. Special Guest Dj's will demonstrate how they use live on stage and in the studio.
Following the presentation, join us on the showroom floor to make purchases or step over to our service counter to discuss Live 8 system requirements, RAM and hardrive upgrades, and more.
As an added bonus, a special one-day-only discount on Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 will be available! This is a prime opportunity to purchase your copy or upgrade to Live 8. Budget, plan accordingly and take advantage of some exclusive savings. Prior to the close of the event, you can mingle and join in discussions among other Ableton Live users, while enjoying complimentary refreshments.
The MacSpecialist staff will be on hand from start to finish offering a warm welcome and their professional assistance. After the event, you're welcome to join the MacSpecialist staff, along with Elevate Chicago and In Your System, at Victor Hotel Restaurant and Night Club to witness the software in action. Victor Hotel will provide free admission to attendees, complimentary sushi servings, and host performances by:
MacSpecialist's Frankie Vega, Decibel, and Marcos Romero and Kiddo
at the Victor Hotel, 311 N Sangamon
April 1st, 2009
Chicago Cinema 4D Meetup
Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan Ave., Room 1314, 6:30 to 8:30 pm
We'll have two presentations. One will cover MoGraph, Cinema's
powerful and flexible motion graphics module. The other will cover
the use of Xfrog, a procedural plant modeling plugin, and combine this
with the Vray Proxy Object, which allows the creation of scenes
containing billions of polygons. We'll also have some new goodies to
give away, courtesy of Maxon.
Feburary 4th, 2009
Chicago Cinema 4D Meeting
600 South Michigan Ave. Room 1314
Whether you're a Cinema 4D pro or brand new to the program, this is a
great opportunity to meet other local users, learn some new skills,
and see how people from different fields are using Cinema 4D. We'll
have two presentations as well as some giveaways and networking
opportunities.
Chris Schmidt will present an introduction to XPresso, Cinema's
extremely powerful but underused node based expression editor.
XPresso gives you a whole new level of control over Cinema through a
visual interface that's very accessible to non-programmers.
Jack Bransfield will present a case study of an architectural
visualization project using the VrayforC4D render engine. You'll
learn how to import geometry from other applications, easily set up
realistic lighting and materials, and get an introduction to Vray and
its deep integration with Cinema 4D.
January 20-25, 2009
Chicago Motion Graphics Festival 2009
Chicago is the heart of the Motion Graphics Festival's tour. The entire schedule begins amidst Chicago's January and debuts all the festival has to offer, right in the backyard of the globe's largest advertising & media companies, and top-rated ivy league art school. MGFest presents Chicago's best artists to the country's most representative demographic.
September 23, 2008
Adobe CS4 Launch Event
@ Ascend Training, 410 S Michigan Ave,
Room 433, Chicago, IL
Read the review on Xchicago
March 17 2008
After Effects for Flash Animators
@ Ascend Training
Presented by Mason Dixon
Hosted by the Chicago-area Adobe Users Group
Free (Doors open at 5:30pm)
This presentation was an open-format beat-down between the animation tools in Flash and After Effects. The discussion focused on comparing the two programs in terms of ease-of-use, power, and speed when faced with animating challenges. Direct feature comparisons complimented inter-operation workflow discussions. Specifically, we will looked at what translates well when going from AE to Flash and from Flash to AE.
February 25, 2008
RIA Technology Summit
@ spot cafe (901 N. Larrabee, Chicago, IL 60610)
The Chicago ColdFusion & Flex User Group is hosting a special live event to share exciting new information on Adobe's platform tools and technologies for building RIAs. You'll see an exclusive video presentation by Adobe Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, see demos of what the new tools can do, and hear some important product news, plus get your hands on some exclusive schwag and software giveaways.
January 15-21st, 2008
Motion Graphics Festival 2008
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