Austin 3D USers' Group March 29 2006 at Lucy's Boatyard

Austin 3D Users' Group - Wednesday, March 29 2006, 7:30pm at Lucy's Boatyard overlooking Lake Austin

This month the 3D Users’ Group meeting will be Wednesday, March 29, at a new time, 7:30pm, in a new venue: Lucy’s Boatyard overlooking Lake Austin.

Thanks to Cal Rogers at ViZIX (http://vizix.com/) for the suggestion. For those of you pining for the restaurant meetings of the La Madeline era, this will be a welcome change of pace. Many of you have been asking us to host the meeting at a location where you can buy food and drinks. You can purchase your own meal from the restaurant menu and pay as you leave. Chips and Salsa will be provided. We’ll be in the meeting room overlooking the lake. It should be very nice.

Our featured speaker will be Randy Matzkanin from 21^st Century Forensic Animations. He’ll tell us about forensic animation: what it is & how it’s different from other types of CG work. He’ll also explain the function of perishable space visualization. Andre Stuart, the company owner, tells me that they are the oldest independent forensic animation firm! Come see how they put 3D technology to work for their clients & learn about a growing part of the 3D market.

We have tentatively scheduled Adam Duran from Right Hemisphere to show us the new version of Deep Creator (the royalty-free game engine aka “interactive simulation environment” that runs in a browser). He’ll also touch on some of their other new stuff. This is a busy month for them, so hopefully he’ll be able to make it.

Our DOOR PRIZE will be a license of the new version of Deep Exploration!

"Turn 3D Product Communications and PDF into a Competitive Advantage"

To learn more about how to Globally Source, Sell and Service Products More Effectively with 3D and Adobe PDF, you can view the recording of the recent Right Hemisphere webcast which took place on Thursday, March 23, 2006. Windows Media Player is required to to view this recording. Please click on the link below to download the attached zip file.
http://www.righthemisphere.com/company/events/Webcast_PGM_and_PDF.zip

We’ll draw for the winner of an ESD version of DE 4.0 Standard Edition ($149.00 value)

We’ll also print some work by UG member Swati Bibikar at Dreamensions on our new HP DesignJet 4500 to showcase at the meeting. If any of you have work you’d like to share, please give us a call at 328-4747 or send Bill an email.

Bill is collecting success stories/solutions from our 3D Users. See more here: http://www.ausbcomp.com/solutions/solutions.htm If you’re interested, please contact us.