Daniel Zinck is a texture artist for Reel FX, a film production studio. He’ll be speaking about how he uses Photoshop to create his textures and what textures work best in a production based environment. Daniel has also offered to look at and critique DFWAUG members’ photoshop textures — a great opportunity for artists in the group to further develop their skills.

Daniel’s Projects:

Current: Turkeys Feature (Now renamed Free Birds), Book of Life Feature

Past:  Loony Tunes “I tawt I taw a puddy tat,” Despicable Me Minion Mayhem, Chuck-e-Cheese commercials, Wizards 101 commercials, Rockettes to the Rescue for Radio city music hall
More about the presenter:
Daniel Zinck hails from the rolling hills and Amish communities of central Pennsylvania. Growing up on a farm he began to develop a passion for the entertainment industry and as he got older he started to pursue all things creative. Becoming unsatisfied by his surroundings, he decided to pack up everything he could fit in his car and move to Orlando to attend Full Sail University. He attended school with an open-mind and tried to learn as much about the computer animation industry as he could. After graduation he knew there would not be much work in Pennsylvania so he moved to Texas to work at Motus Digital. He later got the opportunity to further pursue his dreams by becoming a Texture Artist Apprentice at Reel FX. He has been at Reel FX for a few years and has worked on a lot of the high profile projects they have produced and that are currently in production.

meeting details: May 18th, 11-1pm at New Horizons Learning Center, 150 West John Carpenter Freeway, Suite 100, Irving, TX

Mike McCauley will be giving the presentation on Adobe Captivate. Mike is the President Elect of the ASTD Fort Worth/Mid Cities chapter and a Sr. Instructional Designer. He has been developing technical training and e-learning for several years.  He has experience in working with Authorware, Flash, and Captivate. He specializes in integrating multimedia into classroom and computer based training. He was recently referenced in the book “Rapid Video Development for Trainers”. Mike enjoys helping people learn and grow to meet their full potential. He holds a bachelors of science in business management.

meeting details: April 20th, 11-1pm at New Horizons Learning Center, 150 West John Carpenter Freeway, Suite 100, Irving, TX

Photoshop CS5 & 6: Power Up and Paint! – Painting workshop with Suzette Allen
Arlington Convention Center, March 15th, 8am – 6pm, $49

‘The first half of the day, Suzette will get you up to speed with Photoshop workflow, using Lightroom 4 with a transition to Photoshop, for speedy retouching techniques. Other presentation options will include artistic edges, overlays and easy embellishments. The second half of the day will focus on developing the Painted Portrait profit center. Notice the name “Profit Center.” That doesn’t mean spending 20 hours on each one! Suzette will demonstrate some speedy ways in Photoshop CS5/6 to make beautiful, hand-painted portraits (incorporating some helpful filters to speed things up) and how to customize brushes to get just the look you want. Her techniques are based on efficiency for the purpose of making a saleable premium product with a production mind-set.’

Register:

https://tppai.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&Itemid=90

Event flyer:

http://texasprophotomagazine.com/ConvSpkrPgA.html

Call him a creative generalist or digital artisan, A.J. Wood talked so much about Adobe products they had no choice, but to hire him and put his big mouth to use. Ranked as the #1 Adobe Instructor worldwide more than once, you can watch his videos on AJWOOD.COM, find him on Facebook, or chat on Twitter.

meeting details: March 16th, 11-1pm at New Horizons Learning Center, 150 West John Carpenter Freeway, Suite 100, Irving, TX