AEPDX

Since 2009, Portland's After Effects user group for people that love motion graphics.

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Tickets are on sale now for AEPDX presents Curiosity! Grab them from designweekportland.com

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Portland Creative Jam / Thursday, August 31 7:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Join us for a #CreativeJamPlease join us for a Creative Jam, an inspiring two-part design experience that demonstrates and celebrates creativity. The Adobe Creative Cloud team will host the Creative Jam presentations. This one-hour design showcase highlights the work of local creative leaders. At the same time, in the next room, design teams will be competing in the Creative Jam tournament, a 3-hour design showdown. This event will have two categories: motion design and graphic design. Once the Creative Jam presentations wrap, tournament participants will take the stage to share their creations with you. As part of the audience, you’ll vote on each submission and select the People's Choice winner. There will also be Grand Prize winners decided by a group of Judges!And don't be late! Catch long-board demos from some of our favorites! Thanks Cindy Zhou, Kate Shultz and Malia Shipsey!BEHANCE PORTFOLIO REVIEWS Local creative leaders will be on site and would love to see your work.The reviews are a 1-on-1 opportunity to meet for 15 minutes with a creative professional before the main event. Sign up here: http://tinyurl.com/creativejamreview and we'll provide the exact time for your review.EVENT SCHEDULE 7:00pmDoors open. Settle in, and meet your fellow creative community. Free food, beer, and wine available.The tournament will be in full swing—pop your head in and see how it’s developing. Portfolio reviews will be taking place for those who reserved a spot before the event. 8:00pmCreative Jam Talks begin. Sit back as local creative leaders walk you through their personal creative process. 9:00pmCreative Jam tournament competitors share their solutions, inspired by a theme announced just 3-hours before. Audience and Judges vote. Awards follow. 9:30pmEveryone socializes and gets to meet the teams.

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Live VIP User Group Meetings with Adobe Worldwide Video Evangelist Jason Levine on: 

June 19 4:30PM PT/7:30PM ET &  June 20 7:00PM PT/10:00PM ET

Jason will also discuss the latest release of Adobe Video tools announced at NAB, including new features for graphics and titling, animation, polishing audio and sharing assets; support for the latest video formats, such as HDR, VR, and 4K; new integrations with Adobe Stock; and advanced artificial intelligence capabilities powered by Adobe Sensei. In addition, Jason and the product team will be on-hand to answer questions. Please tell us if there is anything specific you would like us to cover.

This is an unlisted YouTube Live event exclusively for our closest user groups, and we will be giving away one annual Creative Cloud membership to a registered attendee in each session.

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Some photos from the DRAEMS event. See you at Design Week 2018.

See the entire show on YouTube here!

Photos by J Bills of VFX/PDX

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DRAEMS Winners

1ST Place: PMurphy & Meg Hunt / 1-Year Adobe CC 2ND Place: Devin Gustafson / $250 Toolfarm Credit 3RD Place: Brian Smith & Blain Klitzke / $150 Toolfarm Credit Drawing Winner: Everett Patterson / $75 Toolfarm Credit

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DRAEMS 2017 on YouTube

Check out last nights DRAEMS show in its entirety here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyMGk8SRJh6mx3dCucx8naXZRt21vsgL_

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Tickets are on sale now for DRAEMS & Reel Review 2017! Grab them from designweekportland.com

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Call for Artists! Design Week Portland 2017

AEPDX is brewing another big showcase event for this year's Design Week Portland coming up in April. 

DRAEMS / I'm looking for talented local animators, motion designers, and video people to create an original piece of work! This is an early call for people who are interested (there are a limited number of spots) so please contact me here or on Twitter. Share a link to your reel or some recent work to be considered.

REEL REVIEW 2017 / Get your reel reviewed by professionals.  Enter here.

PDX Artists only, please. Jamal Qutub / AEPDX Manager 

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ReConnect 2017

Happy New Year! You should join me and other AEPDXers at this Meetup.

Bye and Bye / 6:30pm

Check it out and RSVP! http://meetu.ps/35cXb7

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Motion Meetup! October 21st

You should join me at this Meetup.

Bye and Bye / 7pm

Check it out and RSVP! http://meetu.ps/30tbKG

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Let’s Meetup! September 9th

You should join me at this Meetup. 

Bye and Bye / 7pm

Check it out and RSVP! http://meetu.ps/2Zp3FH

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Monday, April 18th, 2016 / 6:30-10:00 / Buy Tickets Here

AEPDX, 3DPDX and VFX/PDX are joining forces to bring you a huge double event for Design Week Portland 2016.

Alphabest is an invitational collaborative show where local individuals or teams of talented animators & video artists make a creation (15 - 60 seconds long) based on a word that begins with a randomly assigned letter from the alphabet. The 26 created pieces will be assembled for an amazing presentation. 

Reel Review 2016 will be a showcase of the best reels of local talent in motion, 3d and vfx. Reels will be judged and critiqued by some of Portland's very own seasoned professionals.

If you work in Portland and you’d like to participate in Alphabest ask here or DM us on Twitter.

If you’d like to participate in the Reel Review 2016, fill out the form by clicking here.

This event could sell out quick, so grab your ticket from DesignWeekPortland.com when they go on sale February 15th!

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Thursday, August 20th, 2015 / 7:00-9:00 / RSVP Here

3DPDX and AEPDX invite you to come have a drink with Tim Clapham of luxx and Maxon! Tim will be coming to Portland to show off some of the cool projects he has worked on at Luxx.tv, talking about some new training just released on helloluxx, as well as walking through some of the new features just annoucned in Cinema 4D R17.

It will be a mellow evening and great time! Limited seating is available, reserve your seat today!

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Monday, August 3rd, 2015 / 6:30-9:00 / Get your Free ticket

AEPDX and 3DPDX present Already Been Chewed. Maxon, maker of Cinema4D, brings guest presenter Barton Damer to Portland to share the creative work and process of Already Been Chewed. Join us in as he shares all sorts of tips, tricks and techniques behind a variety of design & mograph projects. Save a spot and grab your ticket now.

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Thursday, June 25, 2015 / 6:30-8:30 / Get your Free ticket

AEPDX is excited to have Satya G Meka of Rowbyte, maker of the popular After Effects plugin Plexus, who will be discussing that plugin as well as give people a sneak peek at his upcoming plugin: Flux. We’ll also have Harry J Frank, who’ll be covering new design and effects technology from Red Giant with new unannounced motion graphics and visual effects products, plus color correction and grading with brand new products from the Magic Bullet suite including Magic Bullet Looks 3, Magic Bullet Film and Colorista III.

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Things are changing up at AEPDX! We have a new Group Co-Chair, freelance motion designer Jarrod Allen. He’s started a monthly Meetup group, Portland Motion Designers and Animators, that all AEPDX members are welcome to attend and will also be helping out with other AEPDX events.

While AEPDX.org is the group homepage and most information can be found here, we are also on Meetup, Facebook, flickr, Twitter, and when we have events we give/sell our tickets on Eventbrite.

Stay tuned. :) 

Jamal Qutub / User Group Manager

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Grab your free ticket on Eventbrite: NW Master Sessions with Orland Nutt & Ben Luce