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These are not your typical software engineering events.  BASE is focused on emerging technologies and creating events around topics that have never been attempted.  Events may be around such topics as Big Data, Machine Learning, Robotics, Nanotechnology, 3D Printing, Synthetic Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer History, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality (AR), and using software to create art. BASE creates events only possible in San Francisco and the Bay area with experts from all walks …

East Bay Anime is being created to give the community a place to gather, watch, and talk about Japanese animation. From projects, conventions, cosplay, each meeting will include screenings of anime films and episodes, discussions and much more. This group is primarily focused on youths and young adults. Our goal is to grow and nurture a supportive avenue for the community to enjoy and share their anime fan experience. The meeting may have giveaways from sponsors which include Viz Media. Artists, …

Are you a fan of My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic? Do you live in Northern California? Are you looking for some friendship near you?

Are you a professional 2D or 3D artist in the bay area games industry looking to do some networking? Are you a student or aspiring game artist looking to get your foot in the door? Are you sick of hanging out in your gloomy studio grinding away on art assets in relative solitude? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, come hang out with us! We have beer and like-minded people! The first half of the meetup will be some kind of presentation about working in the games industry (if y …

MakersFactory is a new educational maker space in downtown Santa Cruz, CA, where students of all ages will learn and use exciting new technology for 3D printing, modeling, animation, and robotics. MakersFactory students and members will be able to design, prototype, and manufacture a wide variety of items, from simple 3D objects to complex mechanical/electronic products. For more information, visit http://makersfactory.com and follow us on Facebook.

Founded in 2011, our group now has over 150 members, and this is SOME of what they do: making collaborative sculpture, making music, crafting, making video and film, making art in the environment, dancing, contact improvisation dancing, creating dances, being a bodyworker, creating collages, creating 3D illustration, writing plays, writing poetry, writing screenplays, cooking, making ceramics, , knitting , painting, drawing, tinkering, being silly, playing, making music, making rhythm, drumming, …

This group is for all those working with 3d animation & motion graphics. Join us for regular meetups in downtown San Francisco at TH studio. We will have brief talks about animation followed by some good old-fashioned networking! In the meantime, please check out our work (www.transparenthouse.com).

Motion Graphics, 3D Modeling & Rendering, Compositing, VFX, beer, and networking. If it involves 3 dimensions, we're down for it.

Our mission is to educate and support our community about Autodesk developments, tools and best practices in computer animation. We are a social group formed to serve the needs of highly talented individuals. We gather to discuss technical issues in animation and computer graphics. Covering all aspects of Entertainment and Serious Games.

This group is for anyone who cares about the evolution of books in any form, including eBook, HTML5, print, app, or daydream. If it's packaged, paginated content with words, pictures, media, connectedness, or interactivity in any combination, this is the place.

This group is for anyone interested in getting more connections or even just learning more about the game development industry. Whether your experienced or inexperienced, everyone is welcome, we want to encourage collaboration between members and all game developers in the south bay area. This group is for developers, artists, modelers, animators, musicians, writers and anyone else interested in game development. This group is hosted by Perfect Imagination, a company that builds clever, innovat …

Oh, the computer is such an amazing medium to create art with. Regardless of if you use Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, SAI, or After Effects to create your art pieces, if you create vector or pixel art (as long as you don't fight!), don't lock yourself up in a dungeon to do it. Grab your laptop and your tablet and come on out and let your creative juices blend with those of others. We meet once a week at the Orchard Valley Coffee Shop in Downtown Campbell, set up our hardware and get creative, …

This friendly group welcomes you to Japan's rich world of artistic animation. Our focus is limited series, an institution in Japanese late-night television. These are not like American TV shows that just add more episodes until the ratings drop. They are planned as complete stories in 12-26 half-hour episodes, sometimes with just one writer and one director. Like movies, most suck, but some are brilliant. We will be watching the brilliant ones. Japanese TV has four seasons corresponding to the q …

"Visual Media Professionals Group in San Francisco" is a professional group dedicated to provide time to share knowledge, experience and ideas with others professional who live or work in San Francisco Bay Area. Our members are coming from Photography, Graphics Design, Printing, Webdesign, Animation, TV, Movie, Magazine and Fashion industries. Our purpose is to deliver what it takes to help our group members become more successful and profitable in their professional life or business. To accompl …

Disney doesn't have to be just about children, sometimes it's a state of mind. Come join us and share why/how Disney is a part of your life! Meet new people and build new and lasting friendships. Your input, ideas, suggestions, and participation will make our gatherings fun and interesting! If you think you'd enjoy fun times, field trips, socializing, good food and good conversation, then this group is for you! 18+ only please

Calling all animators, illustrators, storyboard artists, directors, writers, producers, editors, VFX artists - it's about time we got together and made films of our own. There's too much talent in San Francisco for us to not all be collaborating together to create awesome animated films, so why not team up and make some? Whether you're a beginner or veteran, young or old, an animator or writer, as long as you want to contribute to making quality animated content, then this club is for you. The …

Silicon Valley based group with the goal of fostering a digital art & media community through activities, workshop and events.

SF Bay Area 3D Animation and Visual Effects Group is for enthusiasts and practitioners in the computer graphics (CG) visual effects and 3D animation industry. The mission of this group is: To provide an opportunity for networking with other people interested in visual effects and animation. To provide educational opportunities on topics relevant to 3D animation or visual effects. To provide (whenever possible) meetup locations that are close to BART or CalTrain to make commuting easy throughout …

This hybrid event gives San Francisco’s community the opportunity to show off their work and receive feedback from well-known professional animators from the major studios in the Bay Area. Whether you’re a student, amateur or junior animator, join us to meet the pros and screen your pieces in an informal setting.

For young adults 18 to 25 who would like to meet at local libraries to share work and ideas for animation projects, short film ideas, colabrative work, voice acting ,and just hang out.

Hi! This group is for those creative types interested in expressing their three dimensional dreams into way cool videos using Adobe After Effects. Our primary focus is on creating beautiful worlds in 3D with AE, not so much on compositing and green screens. Not big on war on violence, just projecting our visions of sanity and beauty with a big "wow" factor for those who see our work. We welcome all skill levels to the wonderful world of 3D animation in Adobe After Effects. Come join the laughter …

Many of us baby boomers have managed to gain a measure of true independence at this phase of our lives. We are therefore no longer tethered to a corporate job as such. Instead, we get to focus on reinventing ourselves by pursuing interests, hobbies and even dreams we did not quite have time for when we were part of the daily-commute crowd. For me, this means developing for the Kinect platform (and, in the process, falling in love with C# despite my earlier prejudices!), designing an animation pl …