The format for this event will be more structured than our usual meetups. From the MCAI-Milwaukee website, here are the details:

Joint Meeting with MoGraph Milwaukee & MCA-I Milwaukee
THURSDAY, Feb. 17th - RSVP NOW

GRAPHICS – GONE WILD!
Featuring

• Jon Richter of Supermassive Studios -
  as the master of Digital Media Convergence and Integration
• Paul Conigliaro, Motion Designer -
  revealing Motion design trends, plus intro to coding in After Effects
• Shane Schickowski, Multimedia Developer, Aquent Studios at Rockwell Automation brings shocking details of Multi-use Media in Corporate America
  

Exclusive showing – Only at:
Bucketworks
(in LIVE Bucket-color and Bucket-sound)
706 S 5th St, Milwaukee WI 53204

Time: 5:30 to 6:30 pm – Food, refreshment, tours & schmoozing
6:30 to 8:00 pm – Presentations

Cost – Free to students, MCA-I and Mograph members , others $5

About the event and locale:

MoGraph Milwaukee is a new Milwaukee organization dedicated to advancing the art of motion graphics. MCA-I Milwaukee has been advancing the industry of non-broadcast TV and related media, evolving for over 35 years. Join with both broups as we bring you this nonstop show of motion graphics, animation and integration!

Bucketworks, a co-working, meetup, and practice space for creative professionals…is Milwaukee’s “health club for your brain”. If you have not seen this immense facility yet, it’s worth the price of admission. [map link]

See you there! Don’t Miss it - RSVP NOW

Please RSVP to let them know you’ll make it. It’s free to MGMKE members.

Our March meetup will resume our regular format and will be back at C2 on March 17th. Jon and/or Rick will be leading that meetup as well as the April meetup as we are expecting an addition to our family in March, and I won’t really be in a state to present anything other than how to care for an infant.

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.

[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!