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Harry and I both taught Master’s Classes at the Chicago Motion Graphics Festival. This photo was taken at Bridges Media Group at the mixer last Friday night. It’s a great facility and Bridges puts out some really sweet motion graphics work. We met a lot of very cool people, many from a surprisingly long distance from Chicago.

The Festival was a lot of fun. I taught a Master’s Class in After Effects where we dove deep into masking, keying and expressions and also spent some time with 3D, cameras and lights. Harry taught a Maya class. We also attended a couple of screenings of professional and student work, which were really good. I’ve added one sample to Toolfarm’s Inspirations section and I’ll be adding more as I find them. There was one called “Duct tape and Run” that I can’t find anywhere. It was done by a student at Columbia College in Chicago. If you know where I can find it, please drop me an email.

On Sunday, we attended an educational panel. I especially enjoyed the panel on motion graphics, which discussed workflow, attaining clients, networking and so on. There were panelists from post houses, gaming firms, freelancers, Feedburner. Adobe had a speaker come in the afternoon, which I unfortunately missed because I had to catch my train. Eric, my former student stayed and said it was a terrific presentation. I won a book and DVD in the raffle and so did Harry, and the same former student Eric won After Effects 7.0! Congratulations to Eric!

I’d like to thank Mason Dixon and the Chicago Motion Graphics Festival for having us. The festival is so well organized and has so many different elements to it. You MUST go in 2008!