I saw this from the mailing list and posting it here just in case anyone is interested. NOTE: I'm not involved in this at all, just reposting.

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H O U P / L A : The Houdini Users Group of Los Angeles


T H U R S D A Y M A Y 1 9 , 2 0 0 5 6 : 3 0 p m

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////Monster OTL Garage////

Our next HOUPLA meeting will be on Thursday May 19th, 2005 at 6:30pm.

The meeting will explore dabiggadabetta™ monster™ OTL's
(Houdini Digital Assets) created to solve a host of production issues.

As usual, the evening will start with a social hour: monster™
snacks and beverages at 6:30, and the meeting begins at 7:30pm, at the
SESI Santa Monica offices.

RSVP mailto:rsvp@houpla.org

*Jeff Willette*

Jeff will show a monster™ snow-generating OTL that he developed
for the movie /Sin City/ while working at The Orphanage. He's in the
process of relocating down to Los Angeles to work at Sony Pictures
Imageworks.

*Agent X-Ray*

Craig “Xray” Halperin is a full time computer graphics supervisor for
a52 and part time Cacophonist. He has worked for most of the major
visual effects houses in Los Angeles. Xray will present his work on
Cadillac /Turbulence/ and explain how a52 used monster™ OTL's and
HDA's to streamline the creation of effects for this commercial.

*David Davies*

David Davies is an FX technical director at Sony Pictures Imageworks,
currently doing FX pipeline development for “Monster House”. He will be
demonstrating an monster™ OTL he developed to populate trees with
leaves.

*Daniel Kramer*

Daniel Kramer is a CG Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks and acted
as Effects Supervisor on /Polar Express./ He'll be demonstrating the
*Bakeout OTL Beast*, a monster™ OTL front end to Houdini's ROPs
for handling the dumping of geometry and images and packaging up assets
for a custom rendering package.

*Peter Bowmar*

Peter is an FX TD at Rhythm & Hues, and previously was the Houdini
Training Manager at Side Effects Software Inc. He'll be showing a
monster™ collection of VOPs and Object OTLs that create a
reasonable lighting workflow in Houdini.

*Antoine Durr*

Antoine has been at Rhythm & Hues for the last 5 years, and was a
long-time employee of VIFX before it's merger into R&H. He will show us
a monster™ ROP OTL that generates queue files and streamlines
production workflow, all in two SOPs! (…oh, and some 2500 lines of
code)

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*Location*

Side Effects Software Inc.
233 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 610
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310/319-9876


*Parking*

Parking is available at meters on the street, or at the public parking
structure located on 3rd street in between Wilshire & California (next
to Michael's) - this is a metered lot, so bring quarters as the meters
run 24/7. There is also a public parking structure located on 2nd
Street
between Wilshire Blvd. and Arizona, which is $3 when you exit.


*RSVP*

* RSVP: rsvp@houpla.org <mailto:rsvp@houpla.org>
* INFO: info@houpla.org <mailto:info@houpla.org>

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