This month on Thursday April 22nd at 7pm we’re talking character rigging and animation. As always, we’ll start the meeting by showing you what’s new in After Effects. Then we’ll showcase a few smaller presentations. By covering multiple techniques for rigging, you’ll be certain to pick up a few new tricks from the presentations. We’ll...
This month we’re challenging you to take one piece from your first (or earlier) reel and reimagine it with the skills and eye you’ve developed since. This will be a lot of fun to see what everyone chooses and how they’d approach it differently. We’ll also open the time up for people to show off...
Want to make your comps more flexible as Motion Graphic Templates (MOGRTs)? Join other motion designers, animators, and VFX artists in the Twin Cities online, Thursday June 17th at 7PM! This month we’ll be covering the Essential Graphics panel in After Effects. Co-manager Paul Conigliaro will show you how the seemingly simple Essential Graphics panel...
Learn to leverage Premiere Pro in your workflow! Join other motion designers, animators, and VFX artists in the Twin Cities online, Thursday August 19th at 7PM! This month we’ll be covering the Premiere Pro for After Effects users. Member Brian W will demo ways to use Premiere Pro and get you familiar with it. Users...
Learn some chroma key and compositing tips and tricks at this month’s MNAE. Tara will walk us through some of her techniques for chroma keying in After Effects. We'll also have some quick times and a special announcement about October’s meetup. (Hint: we’ll have some special guests from Seattle, WA.) Join the Google Meet on...
The meetup has been pushed to Wednesday October 27th. Join us Wednesday, October 27th to chat with the After Effects team from Adobe. Several members of the team will be there, including After Effects Product Manager Victoria Nece! Meet some people on the AE team, get your questions answered, hear direct from the team about features currently...
Join us Thursday, March 17th on Google Meet to chat about the state of the group, plans for 2022, and share resources. So bring a preset to share, link your favorite AE site, or share a tidbit of knowledge! Here’s what the night looks like: - Whats new in AE? - State of the Group...
Join us Thursday, April 21st to chat about workflows, from concept to completion. Tara will briefly walk us through two projects: one solo and one with a team. You'll see how the project was managed and the differences in the two workflows. Paul will also demo two great timesaving workflow AE scripts/extensions: Quick Menu 3...
Join us Thursday, August 18th! MNAEUG member Chad Gilmour will walk us through some of the arena graphics he’s worked on and answer your questions about the process. Stick around until the end for your chance to win a 1-year license of Creative Cloud! Join the Google Meet on 8/18 at 7PM! Agenda Update on...
Join us Thursday, December 8th! We’ll be covering how and why to use Proxies as well as our usual topics. Join the Google Meet on Thursday 12/8 at 7PM! Agenda What’s New in AE Proxies Workflow Show & Tell