NEWS:JOE'S RANTS

Joe Gunn is the on-staff 3d animation and visual effects specialist at Digital Pictures in Minneapolis.
Joe has been certified by Discreet to train individuals, groups and entire companies on 3DS Max
and Combustion. Joe is not only a technician but an artist as well. Some of his industry experience
includes commercial and print design, post production and design/visulaization projects here in the
Twin Cities.

Past email 5/11/04

NEXT MEETING:

Date: Thur May 20th 2004

Place: Fischer Edit, 801 Nicollet Mall Suite 300W, Minneapolis, MN 55402

Time: 6:30pm bar opens 7:00pm Fischer Edit presentation

Topic: This is the first time our user group meeting has not been held at Digital Pictures.  Make sure you find directions and RSVP's are mandatory.  We are a guest in this great post production house.  We will take the Fischer Edit tour of this post house using 3ds max in their pipeline.  Nick Hansen is their 3ds max artist who you will get to meet and see his work unfold.  Nick will talk about what it is he does at Fischer and how he uses 3ds max in his daily projects.  As a bonus we will get to see the behind the scenes of the 3ds max work being produce here.

MORE Information on Fischer Edit VISIT:  http://www.fischeredit.com

Very important!  RSVP's for this meetings is mandatory!

Please send me an email if you are attending.

joe@digitalpictures.com

Last thing to note, our website is being updated all the time.  Do not miss out on
good information that this user group provides.  Some key pages to note:

http://www.mnmug.com/industry.htm

http://www.mnmug.com/maxnews.htm   (Current Max Buzz must read)

http://www.mnmug.com/reference.htm

Important message about the website:  Our gallery section will be a place
for our members to post their images.  It will be a password protected area
for uploading.  If you want to upload your images CONTACT: russell@hdmg.com
for the keys!

We only accept still images in a suitable web format (jpeg) no larger than
800X600.  NO animation's will be allowed at this time.

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