When fantasy and science fiction narratives bring futuristic technology to life on big and small screens, designers have an opportunity to shape expectations of emerging technology as never before.
In this talk, Marti Romances, creative director of Territory Studio San Francisco, explores the increasingly close relationship between films, games and real world technology products, with blue sky UI and UX briefs for entertainment beginning to inspire technology entrepreneurs looking for competitive advantage. Colin will talk about the changes to the format of the user group and the vision for the Meetup moving forward into Transcriptive is an amazing video transcription plugin that vastly speeds up the transcription process using AI and Jim is going to show some use cases from users.
Food and beverages provided by Digital Anarchy. We almost all use it or are learning it. For many of us, it's our most essential tool. Let's talk about it. Let's also tell Adobe what's important to us for the way it works.
We're delighted to host Ramiz Sheikh, an interaction and motion designer based in San Francisco. Upon graduation he started working on the user experience of After Effects and continues to do so today. Ramiz will give us a little bit about his experience leading up to working at Adobe. Then he will go over some of the newer features in the latest release of After Effects. But, he'd really like to hear from us.
Keep it constructive, bring your passion, and chow down on some pizza as we figure out the future. Colin will share some sweet giveaways from Maxon, talk about upcoming bookings, and give a quick news report from NAB. We're so happy to feature Monique Wray this month. Monique Wray is an animator and director based out of San Francisco. Her career began in her hometown Miami where she studied Computer Animation and dreamed of one day working at Pixar.
Her work spans a range of mediums, including interactive. She currently runs her own studio, Small, where she helps clients communicate ideas through motion and illustration. What is it to do video and sound as a fine artist as opposed to work for hire or service design?
What's the same, and what is different? We're going to find out as we feature two award-winning fine artists as our creators this month! They are sensational performers and thinkers and we're glad to host them. Surabhi Saraf is a media artist, composer, and performer based in San Francisco.
Tiare Ribeaux is a Hawaiian-American new media artist whose work explores the entanglements of human technologies and infrastructures with mythologies, the environment, and non-human species. Check out a hands-on demo of the LF1 from Lightform, Inc. Lightform is a design tool that makes it easy for anyone to create epic visuals for projected AR using content creation software powered by computer vision hardware.
LF1 the device is a compact wireless computer and camera system that mounts to the projector to scan your real world scene and wirelessly plays back your content. The product video recently got shared around many a creative's inbox, so we thought we'd get a demo straight from the source and get a break down from the motion graphics artists who are building content for and with this design tool. Ray Chang is a motion designer based in San Francisco. Born and raised in Taiwan, he came to the U.
He now works at Lightform, collaborating with different artists to create projection artwork. Phil Reyneri is an artist and technologist who combines sculpture, video projection, and generative graphics to blur the lines between digital and physical media. He is currently Director of Marketing at Lightform , a new design tool for projected augmented reality.
This hard-working and friendly computer graphics artist will share work, tips, and techniques with our group.
He's sure to bring his inimitable style with tons of Cinema 4D insights and more. Tim will be revealing an all new training series, so don't miss this one. What started as small blog — sharing tips from the creative company Luxx — continues to evolve into a collective of experts and developers working together to provide you with real world techniques and solutions to improve your workflow and enhance creative productivity.
The raffle will be back this month, with tons of prizes and freebies from our various partners and MAXON, who is sponsoring Tim's visit. Huge thanks to them! This month we are delighted to host an artist who is taking new media to actually new places and yes, is trying to freak us out. Check out the multiple realities of Chelley Sherman at this month's meetup!
Chelley Sherman is a virtual artist from San Francisco. Her work is governed by patterns and texture which harness the neural systems that underlie enthrallment in darkness, ritual, reverie. Her practice consists of experiments with different mediums and displays such as virtual reality, projection mapping, and interactive audio visual installations.
Sherman's work often focuses on human cognition, exploring perception in photic stimulus and non-linear narrative. He will share all kinds of insight into his interactive installations.
His artworks are interactive, scalable, and multiplatform, giving anyone ability to shape them, and create their own. By building windows into the same universe Marpi provides an empty canvas where the art does not exist until people create it.
NET Magazine site of the year. Thaddeus "Thad" was a key technical and creative contributor in the field of VFX from to These days, Thad is full time at Dolby Cinema, working out the tech of tomorrow's entertainment experiences.
We're happy to host him to talk about - well We're excited to learn from Thad's experience and career. Elizabeth has worked on the exercise experience and teacher dashboard areas at Khan Academy. She also leads visual style initiatives including defining color palettes and iconography. Here's who is slated so far:. Big thanks to Ramiz and Kevin. Food, beverage, and more provided by Adobe. Issara Willenskomer is an award-winning designer and educator. Issara has personally trained the design teams at Dropbox, Slack, Airbnb, Salesforce, Oracle, and others.
Issara currently teaches motion innovation both online and in the real world. Curious about direction in Motion Design? Join us for a night of drinks and inspiration with our panel of 3 women doing exactly that in the industry. We'll have creative director Angela Yu, art director Tori Main and product designer Agatha Yu speak about their experiences working in leadership roles as well as show some of the great work they've been doing.
Angela Yu - a creative director and art director for commercials based in San Francisco, the Bay Area. Tori Main - Art Director at Lyft for animation and design. Monique Wray - animation director and illustrator running the creative studio Small. Unfortunately no. We will be requiring all attendees to register through Eventbrite so we can cross promote the event.
It's fine to indicate here on MDSF that you are attending, just make sure you have a ticket secured first. It is easy and much appreciated. Just follow this link if you cannot attend how to cancel your free registration. Attendees can feel free to take pictures and document the evening but please ask that no photos of the presentations be shared online. As the industry begins to shift into voice heavy experiences, he gave us a sneak peek of where these interactions can go in the future.
He spoke of the pros of multimodal design and shared a few helpful examples and use-cases of why this approach to conversation design may be useful. The audience had plenty of questions. It is easier for us to be forgiving of a human customer support agent because we know that human error applies.
With conversational agents, the line becomes blurred and expectations begin to change drastically. We expect more from non-human entities. Very happy, and would strongly recommend to work with. Small, Medium.
Vonnda designed and built our Magento based site, and has maintained it since They always find time for us despite the size of our business - we employ only a handful of people, but our site is very large. Vonnda truly cares about our success - and our well being - and they never disappear when we have a crisis - even if it's well after hours.
Their knowledge and ability to make things happen has astounded us time and again. David and the team at Toi are experienced beyond their years. Thoughtful, highly skilled, organized, and on the cutting edge. They come highly recommended. Graphics Design. Neuron helped us developing and launching our first iOS app called In the Know teaching Chinese immigrants conversational English. We gave their team an Adobe XD mock-up with a basic interface, but they had to fill in a lot of blanks.
While we gave them some colors to start in our mock-up, the final colors and compositions, as well as the logo, were all their work. For cultural reasons we have to protect our users so that they feel safe about asking questions and with interactions in general. Neuron understood and exceeded our expectation. Additionally they created an explainer video and marketing website to prepare for the product launch.
Having a one-minute video that tells the story for us cuts down time tremendously when having to explain our product.
During our engagement, I was mostly in Beijing. Time difference and software platforms not acceptable for use in China made things difficult, but they were always accommodating for our weekly online meetings.
We hope to work with Neuron again in the near future. Mobile Application Development. Great, can recommend Ramotion to most US contacts. Rocket Communications, Inc. Overall, we loved working with DesignMap.
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