Motive is for anyone who has an idea and is motivated enough to bring it to completion (or at least start). An 'off-line' community, made up of Creatives of every kind. We meet regularly to talk about interesting projects they've seen, are working on or want to collaborate on. * Visit the motive portal with links to previous speakers: http://www.motive.org.uk * Join us on twitter at: http://twitter.com/MotiveGroup * Join the vimeo group at: http://www.vimeo.com/groups/motive * Join the flickr …

youtube.com/CartoonHrt A club for Cartoon Artists to socialise, network and increase their cartoon income. It's a sort of animation club and cartoon club combined. We get together in London to make exciting projects and exhibitions happen, for fun, love and money. Sister group to meetup.com/cartoon-figure-drawing Free to join. Who is this group for? We are looking for active members who turn up regularly and contribute. Create the buzz! Be a founder member of a fantastic group! Turn up once …

Untutored, long-pose life drawing session every Tuesday and every other Wednesday, 6.30pm to 8.30pm near Russell Square £10 per session or pre-book 6 sessions for £50. RSVP to reserve a place or we have limited drop-in places too *** TRY US FOR FREE *** Come and draw, have a cup of tea and meet the group. If you like what you find, stay for the rest of the session and pay the usual fee. If it's not for you, just leave at the interval owing nothing Why us? * Untutored * Long poses - 15 mins warm …

If you work in Central London and wish you knew a place where you can meet friendly faces, where you can Draw/paint to relax once a week, well now you know, it's 5 mins from Oxford Circus and really comfortable venue. All materials are provided or available such as paper at 20p a sheet and fee is reduced when you have a drink. Tell your friends and colleagues as we need to keep the class busy enough to keep the pub happy.

Going it alone not getting you as far or motivate you as much? That's why this group exists, not only is it about meeting up to do something you enjoy but it also gives you the opportunity to learn something new.  The aim is to have something exiting to do that will hopefully spur you on. The job of artist is to make the Impossible a reality. Most low budget films production crews view anything beyond utilizing the camera one's holding as a mystery, exotic, the stuff of Hollywood, it's time we c …

This group is open to all artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists and Graphic artists, professional or amateur, who would like to share the experience of drawing and painting from life. Any member can make suggestions or host an event, so that we have a range of activities to suit everyone. When we are working indoors - please bring along 'clean materials' that won't leave a mess behind! Useful to have a pub or cafe nearby, so that we can have a sociable time too and get inspired by exchan …

The Nexus Project is an initiative to bring together the creative talent of different disciplines to share techniques, solve problems and build networks of collaboration. The events will happen every month inviting young designers, architects, engineers, programmers, game designers and visual artists. We will also have one guest connected online to keep the project open to international collaboration. You can also apply to present at the Nexus, making the Nexus an opportunity to showcase your wo …

Our group covers most of the products Adobe offers, focusing on products in the Creative Suite family. Whether your interest is in design, development or eLearning, we have something for you! A free monthly catch up and what’s more, we are going to throw in some training tips for free. Do you want free training? Well join the club The Creative Class Club in London in run by Academy Class the Adobe Authorised Training Centre and is available for both old friends and new friends We do hope you’ll …

FX FILMMAKERS FORUM THE PURPOSE OF THE GROUP: This group has been formed to serve as a central hub for those interested in shooting short movies in the sci-fi, action and horror genres. This group is also for those who may not be leading FX based projects but want to become involved with one. So this group is also useful for VFX artists, Makeup artists, those working with Practical FX, etc. This group also has a minor function as a hub for owners of the Panasonic GH2/GH3 cameras since I own a GH …

Saturday un-tutored Class Graduated as a Teacher of Art in 1998, teaching Life Drawing to adults for over four years, with 7 years experience of teaching adults in total. Initially, I set up the group in Crystal Palace because there was nowhere else to meet and to draw from the figure. The class consists of artists with or without experience. Others have developed a recent interest. This is mainly a drop in class, based at a brand new venue in the heart of Crystal Palace, with relaxing music, ea …

For like minded, local developers who wish to push their skills to the next level. All levels welcome from beginners to experts. Typical technologies include: Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS etc), Shell/Bash, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPUnit, Zend Framework, CakePHP, Doctrine, caching, memcache, html, xhtml, css, javascript (js), jQuery (ajax, animation), xml, W3C, SVN, Git, Hudson CI, Bamboo, Ant, Selenium, Design patterns, Best practices, TDD, Open meetings, nagios... Most groups are in London, so …

This group is for people who want to develop fundamental programming skills for teaching ICT to at prirmary and secondary level. This is an informal gathering.  Just bring a laptop, books and knowledge to share. Most sessions are organised with the first section dedicated to one programme and then the remainder of the session given over to discussion and freestyle programming.

Why not grab some lunch with fellow developers / designers / artists all interested in Game Development? Get out of the office, talk about what you're working on (Unless its NDA'ed or breaking contract!) and have a chat with others with similar mindsets. Bring your laptop along if you'd like to show off what you've made! Logo provided by the wonderful Iain Gillespie!

A monthly eclectic film night of independent shorts, in the convivial surroundings of the Balham Bowls Club lounge. We show 8-10 short films in a wide variety of genres: drama, documentary, animation, comedy, horror. Programme details at: showreelnight.tumblr.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/showreelnight

Life Drawing and Art Classes In Dulwich, South London The Dulwich Art Group organises life drawing and painting sessions which are open to people of all abilities. We tend not to call them Art Classes as with no formal tutor, artists are free to pursue their own approach to painting or drawing. However if a student wishes to have guidance or direction there are plenty of members who will offer advice, some of whom are lifelong art educators. Looking over the shoulder of someone who appears to k …

An official Adobe User Group with free monthly meetings - 3rd Thursday of each month. Speakers, hot tips, networking, sometimes informal pub meetings loosely based around the range of Adobe software products from Photoshop and Illustrator to Dreamweaver and Edge. Everything web and design related. All welcome.

The reason for starting the London Talent and Film Making Group is to open an opportunity for all the undiscovered talent or film students to collaborate and get some film experience. It was hard for me to learn the process of film making so I do understand how difficult it’s to get into the film industry. So hope this group will create the opportunities for all the talents to create their portfolios and build their experience. This group will be different and unique from any other filmmaking …

42Academy is about helping students create their own videos just like professionals would do of their own projects & assignments that they can show to their classmates & teachers. Is this you? With our new Social Video Review App (coming soon) students will be able to watch create & share videos by other students & teachers about everything from Animation to Zoology or anything else! Time to be creative!