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| October 26, 2011 | | 6:30 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
On Wednesday, October 26th Great Eastern is holding their fourth annual Game Night!
Location: Microsoft NERD Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Come learn about the Harmonix Art Department from Art Manager Jason Arnone. He will show concept art and talk about the creative process, highlighting Dance Central’s art direction. Jason will explain the unique skills and responsibilities of the various artist roles at the studio and will also share what Harmonix looks for in new artists. Attendees should come prepared with though-provoking and daring questions to get the most out of this event.
Steven Roselle from Autodesk will be presenting a games-centric workflow using Maya, Mudbox and Motion Builder – and Turtle, too!
Great presentations, food and networking. Free event, please RSVP http://greateasterntech.com/events-a-news/56-game-night-2011-october-26-2011
| July 13, 2011 | | 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
This month’s Boston Post Mortem will be this Wednesday, July 13th at The Skellig in Waltham. Our guest speaker this month will be Scott Macmillan, who will be giving a post mortem of his company, Macguffin Games, in ‘Death of an Indie Studio’:
Last December, Boston area indie studio Macguffin Games closed its doors. In three years, Scott Macmillan took the studio from a one-man shop to a 4-person startup with paid employees, launched two games (one of them for Facebook), and then finally shut the whole thing down with no regrets. At this talk, he’ll discuss the big lessons he learned, what worked and what didn’t, and take lots of questions from the audience.
More info and directions to the Skellig in Waltham: http://www.bostonpostmortem.org/
| July 18, 2011 | | 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
This month, Eitan Glinert of Fire Hose Games will be doing the post mortem for Slam Bolt Scrappers, with a specific focus on indies.
Hope to see you there!
Directions to the Loft here: http://loft.bocoup.com/
More info on Boston Indies Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=209235585788725
| July 26, 2011 | | 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Tuesday, July 26th – 7 – 9pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
Registration: http://bugjuly11.eventbrite.com/
Boston Unity Group is holding its next bi-monthly gathering on July 26th! Come talk about Unity game development with your peers.
They’ll be diverging from the notion of a single speaker and holding several microtalks on various topics. These should be informal, short and about any topic that would be relevant to the group such as a demo of a WIP project, showcasing a new technology or development methodology, raising an interesting topic for roundtable discussion, or something else entirely!
In order to suggest or give a microtalk, visit their Facebook page ( http://facebook.com/bostonunitygroup ) – there’s a discussion set up for this purpose! You can also email alex@owlchemylabs.com or elm@vermontdigitalarts.com to sign up for a spot.
We’ll be heading out (as always) after the main event for networking at CBC (Cambridge Brewing Company)
The New York City Maya Users Group is planning a meeting for May 18th – anyone who is in the area should definitely check out this group…
May 18th 7:00 – 9:00
Steve Strong over at Oceana has been gracious enough to host another event for us to have a Maya Users Group Meeting.
Steve Talkowski of sketchbot will show how he takes his concepts and designs and create vinyl toys.
Aaron Walsman and friends from BlueSky Studios will take us through the creation of some of the “birds” from Rio.
For more info and to RSVP: nycmayausersgroup@gmail.com
3D Stimulus Day is Saturday, April 9th at Mt. Ida College in Newton!
On Saturday, April 9th Great Eastern will hold our third annual 3D Stimulus Day!
Location: Mt. Ida, Newton, MA
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Presentations this year include:
- Chad Moore of Turbine and Rigging Dojo, with Job Hunting Tips for 3D Artists
- Alex Schwartz and Yilmaz Kiymax of Owlchemy Labs, presenting Mixing 2D and 3D in Unity
- A panel-discussion with various tech artists from local game companies, mediated by Chad Moore
- Ryan Griffin, Senior Character TD, Turbine
- Elliott Mitchell, Vermont Digital Arts
- Brandon Bateman, Senior Tech Artist, Turbine
- Farley Chery, Instructor, ITT Institute and Bunker Hill Community College
- Justin Woodard, Technical Artist, Turbine
- Willem Van Der Schyf, Tencent Boston, presenting his Workflow for Character Creation using Max & ZBrush
- Afternoon networking session upstairs with demos from various individuals including 3d Camera Technology, Mocap with Kinect and Motion Builder and lots more!!!
Please send any questions you would like addressed by the tech art panel to Heidi – anything you’ve wanted to know about tech art but haven’t had six pros on a panel to answer your question? Well, here’s your chance!
Here’s a link to last year’s recap and photos!
Register and updated info here…
Happy Holidays from everyone at NEDAG and Great Eastern! We are looking forward to an exciting 2011 – if anyone has ideas for presentations, or even wants to present, send Heidi an email!
3December was amazing – there’s a photo album up at our Facebook page – please go check it out! Vinnie LaCour, Franco Galletta, Raf Anzovin and Pasha Roberts generously gave of their time & talent to share with all of us, and for that we are so thankful! Our sketching contest, sponsored by Wacom, was great fun and the finalists and winners photos are here – see facebook for more photos throughout the 30 minutes each contestant had to complete their depiction of “December…”
 Artwork by Rosco LaMontagne,  Artwork by Colin Feeney  Artwork by Dan Konieczka
| December 3, 2010 | | 11:00 am | to | 6:00 pm |
 On Friday, December 3rd, Great Eastern is hosting 3DECEMBER! With local, talented presenters, tons of learning and sharing, a Wacom-sponsored sketching contest and free refreshments – how could you NOT come?
11:30am – 12:30pm Franco Galletta of 745 Studios will take us through his ZBrush sculpting workflow
1:00pm – 2:00pm Vinnie LaCour will show us the new CAT (Character Animation Toolset) in 3dsMax
2:30pm – 3:30pm Raf Anzovin, of Anzovin Studios, is presenting “Breaking the Hierarchical Habit: How “broken” rigging opens up new animation possibilities
4:00pm – 5:00pm Pasha Roberts of Lineplot Productions will be presenting his Feature Film Animation Pipeline: A small, local studio produces Silver Circle. Lineplot is one of only 3 local studios right now producing a feature film, and the only animated one!!
Presentations will run about an hour each, but seats are limited for each presentation, so register now to make sure you get seats!
Let Heidi know if you want to take place in the sketching contest.
11:00am – 6:00pm Great Eastern Open House with refreshments
Join us at our new “loft” space in Salem, New Hampshire for some awesome food and drink, and even better schmoozing. It’s a third-floor walk-up, so wear comfy shoes…
This is a free event, but we will be collecting donations for a local Manchester, NH food pantry, so please bring a non-perishable item with you to share this holiday season. Thank you.
Any questions? Just email Heidi
Great Eastern technology is offering a class in Lighting and Rendering in Mental Ray for Maya. On Friday, Oct. 22nd, Dan Konieczka is teaching a one day class so you can learn just that!!! If you attended 3D Stimulus Day you’ll remember what an amazing job Dan did presenting lighting theory – you won’t want to miss this hands-on class….
LIGHTING and RENDERING IN MENTAL RAY: An application of lighting and lighting theory in Maya. 1 DAY • $199 In this one day course, you will learn how to light and render in Mental Ray – both with control and efficiency….
Contact Steve at Great Eastern for info or to register – 781.937.0300.
| November 10, 2010 | | 6:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
 We’re teaming up with the Boston Maya User Group and presenting an event featuring Jayme Wilkinson from Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age) and Lee Fraser from Autodesk – this is promising to be a grand evening – so stay tuned for details and keep that date open!!
UPDATE: Location is set for MIT so email Heidi if you want to sign up! (It’s free and we’ll have some refreshments available!
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