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A massive thank you to our friends at Encylomedia for hosting us in their incredible space and being so welcoming. And a massive thank you to everyone who showed up, it was amazing seeing so many new faces and having everyone together.
Lastly, one more thank you to: Tyson Stryg, Kelcey Steele and Marcus Arnold for being the driving forces behind this event and making everything happen.
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Thank you SO much to everyone who came out and hung out with us last night, it was amazing seeing so much talent all in one room. We’re really looking forward to the next one and can’t wait to see you there!
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A Huge Thanks to our friends at Meptik for staying late, showing us all of their capabilities and hosting us!
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A huge thank you to our friends at Trade School for hosting us last night! It was awesome to get a sneak peek behind the curtain and meet the team! Thanks also to everyone who showed up! It was so great meeting so many new folks.
And a huge thank you to our sponsor The Pixel Lab for the amazing giveaway prizes!
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It was amazing to see presentations and hear about Kelcey Steele’s and Patrick Foley’s trip to NAB. And wonderful to see all the new faces, thank you so much for coming out to the event!
A huge thank you to our friends at Guild + Journeyman for hosting us and a huge thank you to The Pixel Lab for sponsoring our event!
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Thanks to everyone that joined us at Westside Motor Lounge, see you at the next one! Big shout out to Kelsey Steele for the awesome animation!
Thanks to Pixel Lab for sponsoring our events and giving away awesome resources. Be sure to make it out to the next meet up to get you some goodies!
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Big high fives to everyone that showed up to Argosy for the last meetup of the year, we’ve got a lot of exciting stuff in store for 2023, can’t wait to see you then!!
Thanks to Drew Smoot for the awesome promo animation!
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The brewery tour continued at Spectre Brewing! It was a great atmosphere with a great crew. Thanks to everyone that came out, see you at the next one!
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We had such a good time at Elsewhere Brewing. Great crew, great drinks and an awesome space.
Thanks to everyone came out!
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Great crowd at Biggerstaff, it was great to see everyone in such a great space!
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Awesome time at Monday Night Garage with the crew. Thanks everyone for coming out!
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It’s so nice to finally be back to meeting up in person! Great to see everyone again for the first time in 2 years! And thanks to Scofflaw Brewing for having us!
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The highest of Fives goes out to the wonderful team at Lionstar for hosting the 27th Ease. The night featured a motion controlled camera demonstration, a speakeasy client room, food, drinks and a friendly team of individuals showcasing their amazing work!
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Thanks to everyone that came out to Ormsby’s had a drink and met up. It was great seeing everyone
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To celebrate our 25th meetup we went bowling and the winner from each lane won an Ease T-shirt, which btw are now for sale! Congrats to Rachel, Anthony, Bobby, and Stephen on the win!! Looking forward to the next one!
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What a great time at Method! A huge thanks to Brett Glover for getting us in and giving us the lay of the land. It was great to see what they’ve been up to and get a look on the inside of a great shop! Thanks to Method for hosting!!!
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For our 23rd meet up we all showed up at Ponce City Market and took over a table upstairs, it was great seeing everyone!
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For our 22nd meet up we all showed up to New Realm Brewing to take a load off and talk shop. Thanks to everyone who came out and to New Realm for hosting!
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We had such a great time with team over at Awesome Inc as they walked us through several incredible projects, shared food, stories and a load of knowledge with us. Huge Huge Huge thank you to the Awesome Inc team for being so hospitable, informative and inviting!
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Fugo is located inside a literal million dollar mansion in Castleberry Hills. It was so cool to connect with the team, hear about their process and see their truly incredible space. Big thanks to the team at Fugo for hosting!
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We love getting to meet up with our fronds At Fern. It was great getting to see what James and the team have been up to and as suspected, it was fantastic work. A huge thanks to all that came out and to Fern for hosting and for the pizza!
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Our second official Teach and Tell with Michael Frederick was amazing. Michael dropped tons of knowledge, handed down some helpful techniques and ended the evening off hanging out on the rooftop of Ponce City Market talking shop until they kicked us out! Big thank you’s to School of Motion, Indigo Studios, and as always the wonderful General Assembly for the space. And an equally big thank you to everyone who showed up and made the event awesome! Looking forward to the next one!
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For this month’s Ease we had a laid back drop-in at Krog St Market where we met up for drinks/food and had a couple hours just to catch up and check in with everyone. It was an awesome turn out with a lot of new faces and even more laughs. A huge thank you to everyone that made it out, you are truly what makes these so awesome.
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Indigo Studios new EP, and long time Ease contributor, Eric Brackett walked us through the incredible work their studio is doing, showed us the studio and laid out goals for their future. Indigo is a gem here in Atlanta that is doing really amazing hyper realistic 3D work from toys to big machines and everything in between. It was awesome getting to meet the folks that who do the work and get an insight on the inner workings of a shop that has been in Atlanta for 15+ years. Thanks to Indigo and Eric for hosting and letting us get a look behind the scenes!
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We got hear from creative Mammals own Robert Burroughs as he discussed the brain’s two systems for forming thoughts. The presentation was based on the work of Nobel Memorial Prize winner Daniel Kahneman and created quite the conversation amongst the group. The event was held at their swanky new digs that was an AMAZING rooftop view of the city. Big high fives to Masha and Robert for hosting Ease!
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Our first edition of Teach & Tell was nothing short of amazing. 50+ attendees, 7 incredible speakers and a ton of knowledge all packed into an amazing room provided by the insanely hospitable General Assembly. Each presenter spoke on a variety of different topics all relating to motion graphics. We covered everything from Illustration, 2D, Lighthing to client communications and 3D modeling. Thank you so much to everyone that came out and made it such an awesome event. Also, sorry about the warm beers! See you at the next one!
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The stars aligned and we were just able to catch the Meptik team while they were in town at their amazing studio. Nick, Sarah and the team were kind enough to break down their work and the all the technicality that goes into creating for massive displays, live shows and INSANE projection mapping. It was so cool to see behind the scenes of everything that goes into creating captivating immersive experiences. Highest of fives to Meptik for hosting us!
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It was amazing to hear Primal Screen founder and CCO Doug Grimmett talk about his life and times as a creator. In the talk, Doug talked about his journey through the world of design and how he wound up at Primal Screen along with showing some of the iconic pieces that Primal Screen has made during their 20+ years of operation! The turnout was amazing, the pizza was delicious and space was incredible. A huge thank you to Doug and Primal for hosing and thank you to everyone who made it out!
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Our host for Ease 11 was Scad Atlanta, where we all gathered for a discussion of the animated short film “Quicksand”. The group who wrote, directed, designed, voiced, animated, and did sound design for the short gave a great process breakdown of their film. We heard about everything from concept art, to future plans both for the short and additional “episodes” they might want to make. The value of the presentation was in hearing how they worked together for a two year period to get this short done, including all of the stumbling blocks, dead ends, and ultimately huge success they acheived. We’re all hoping “Quicksand” does well on the festival circuit and the team can report back at future meetups how things are going.
At the end of the presentation, we managed to get the first ever Ease Atlanta group photo!
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Ease 10 was in September and hosted by Witness. They did an AMAA (Ask Me Almost Anything). It was an open discussion about things we’ve learned and things we still can learn in running a studio and working in MoGraph. We had a great turnout and continue to be excited about the growth of this community.
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The August meeting was the largest turnout yet. Elevation, Inc was our host and the crowd size was big enough that they opted to make arrangements for us to meet in the Trolley Barn instead of their studio space. They are in the process of building out their space and just didn’t have the room. It’s great to see the Atlanta MoGraph community growing.
The theme of the night was pitching and Elevation's presentation focused on wins, losses and learning opportunities. Using a hilarious Dungeons and Dragons theme, ECD Stephen Cocks walked us through case studies that represented pitches they’ve both won and lost. Then, Justin Burks showed us a breakdown of a PSA that he art directed and discussed how everything came together perfectly for them.
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Our July meeting was hosted by Fern at the Goat Farm on the westside of Atlanta. James Mabery walked us through the process of creating their short film "Unexpected Discoveries" and gave a preview of a new film they are working on now.
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Our May 2018 meeting was held at the Atlanta office of Huge. Big thanks for Ben Gabelman for hosting and filling us in on the great work Huge is up to.
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In April, we met up at Creative Mammals and had a great time catching up on what everyone is up to during a busy spring.
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If you missed our February meeting, then you missed out. We were hosted at the new Mercedes Stadium and given a VIP behind the scenes tour and demonstration of how their huge screens operate. Better still, we were able to submit animations that were then played on the halo screen while we ran around on the field and watched it all.
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The first meeting of 2018 was held, once again, at Ponce City Market. Ben Bullock walked us through some of his recent work and broke down his process for us. You can see more of Ben's work at his site: benbullockdesign.com.
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Ease Atlanta kicked off our first meeting at Ponce City Market. We put a lot of faces to names and spent some time listening to the super talented Sam Bass walk us through a recent project he completed at MaxMedia. See the great work Sam does at his site: artbysambass.com.
