Our next meetup will be on April 14th, 7:00pm at Bucketworks. General schedule is as follows:

7:00pm Mingle, meet people, talk, have a great time!

7:30-ish guided discussion/talk about a topic TBD*

8:00 Show off your shit! Seriously, bring stuff to show on DVD, QuickTimes on a flash drive, Vimeo link, whatever! Show us what you got… what you’ve been working on… or something you need feedback on.

Hopefully our new location will all work out well and it’ll be a great time. But that won’t happen if you’re not there. So be sure to make it out!

*About that TBD topic, we know our group involves people from many skill sets and experience levels. So finding a discussion topic that will apply to everyone is a little difficult. If there’s something you want to talk about—the recent unionizing talks in the VFX industry, a how-to style breakdown of a specific video or technique, where to find inspiration, etc–let us know! Otherwise it’s just going to be me rambling for half an hour, and no one wants that. Seriously, you don’t.

[Update: Added event to our Facebook page.]

Mark your calendars. Wednesday May 19th will mark Mograph Milwaukee’s 4th meetup. We’ll follow a similar setup as last time:

7:00 Mingle, Talk, Network…
7:30 Discussion about mograph trends. Maybe a demo or two.
8:00 (or whenever the discussion ends) Show your stuff. Bring something to show off, or perhaps more importantly, something to get critiqued.

We’re sticking to a laid back atmosphere here, but we’ll need to wrap by 9:00 so the Bucketworks crew can head home. If there’s interest, we’ll head to one of the nearby bars to keep discussions going.

See you there!

We’ll be discussing some seriously great work that’s out there and trying to figure out how it was done. Bring links or quicktimes of mograph work you’ve been wondering about, and we’ll wrap out collective heads around it to see if we can break it down.

Keeping along with that theme, we will be giving away Harry Frank’s After Effects Expressions and Trapcode Form training (worth $65) in a free drawing. Then you will indeed know how the f#&! to do that.

There’ll also be another first: we’re offering free food. We’ll have subs and beverages available because we’re just that generous. Here’s the details:

7:00pm Meet, talk, network, eat, drink, be merry.

7:15/7:30pm Discussion. There’ll be a few business items to discuss about our group, then we’ll get on to viewing some works and trying to break them down.

8:45 Quick overview of our group project. Where we stand… What needs to be done… Setting deadlines… We’ll also be nailing down a specific theme to work off of. After this meetup, we’ll be kicking it into high gear!

Depending on time remaining we may have time to show off your stuff, but it’s not guaranteed since we only have the space until 9:00pm. So come to Bucketworks on June 16th at 7:00pm to eat, meet awesome people*, pick everyone’s brain, and maybe win some stuff.

*Seriously, the people at these meetings are really awesome.

For several reasons (one of which being the weather) we will be shifting gears from our usual meetup. This time, we’re going to meet up at Iron Horse Hotel (The Yard if it’s nice our, otherwise Branded) and hang out, talk shop, and get a few drinks. We’ll still be catching up and talking about the group animation project, but this will not be a structured event.

If you’ve never been to a Mograph Milwaukee meetup, this might actually be the the best time to come and meet some of Milwaukees best (and most fun) motion designers and animators. It should be easy to spot us—we’ll probably have a laptop or two out—but if you have trouble, send us a message on Twitter or Facebook or contact Paul directly. One of us will let you know where we are.