Meeting on March 25th

The next WIA meeting is at 7pm on Thur. March 25th at Club Lucky. Hope to see you then!

Club Lucky

1824 West Wabansia Avenue, Chicago, IL‎

http://www.clubluckychicago.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5&Itemid=22

Meeting Feb. 25th

The next WIA Chicago meeting will be:

Date/Time:

February 25, 2010 at 7:00 PM.

Location:

Club Lucky

1824 West Wabansia Avenue, Chicago, IL‎

http://www.clubluckychicago.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5&Itemid=22

This is an important meeting- part 2 of the last one. We'll be doing elections. I hope to see you there!

Meeting Jan. 28th 7pm

Here's the official email Katy sent out regarding the next, and very important meeting:

Our next meeting will be:

Thursday, January 28, 2010'

7:00 PM

in the basement of the Corner Bakery near the Palmer House

35 E. Monroe, Chicago, IL 60603

Hope you all can attend. This is an important meeting for the future of the chapter as we will be holding elections for Chair, Board member, Secretary and Treasurer. I will be stepping down as Chair.

So if you would like to take an active part in our Chapter, please consider volunteering for one of these positions!

As always, please feel free to email me with any questions at katykalata@yahoo.com.

Have a safe and happy holiday!

Katy

Meeting Tonight CANCELED

The meeting tonight has been canceled due to the severe cold. Please check back in a few days for the new meeting date.

Stay warm and see you later! :)

Meeting

We may have a meeting this Wednesday evening to discuss the state of our Chicago chapter of WIA. Please check back soon for more details. Thanks!

Feb 5th- WIA meeting at DreamWorks

Hello everyone! I received this email today and am passing it along in case anyone is going out to CA in February or would like to book a quick trip over there to check this out:


"THIS GUN FOR HIRE: Careers In Freelance Animation"

ATTENTION WIA MEMBERS!
Animators are migrant workers. Lifetime employment at a single studio is a mere nostalgic dream. Most of us are freelancers, either by preference or necessity. We must network constantly, keep our skills fresh, and be ready at the drop of a hat to move to the next job. Reinvention is the name of the game. So how do you continually repackage yourself without becoming completely bored or totally insane?

Join us at DreamWorks Animation on Thursday, February 5th, when Women In Animation, The Los Angeles Chapter, presents its first General Meeting of 2009:

"THIS GUN FOR HIRE: Careers In Freelance Animation"

A panel of independent artists, writers and directors will discuss issues of self-marketing, networking and keeping up a skill set. If you're a freelancer, don't miss this event!

To RSVP, please email LAchapterrsvps@aol.com before Sunday, February 1st. For space reasons, we will be closing the list when we reach sixty guests, so don't delay. When you RSVP, please tell us your membership status.

Non-members will be asked for a $10.00 donation: attendence is free for members and DreamWorks employees. We look forward to seeing you!

Stephanie Graziano

Linda Miller

Women In Animation International

November Meeting- BOTNIK!

Come see Calabash Animation's newest short animated film, Botnik! Meet and hear from creator, writer, director, Jackie Smessaert Brennan at Columbia College on Friday, Nov 14th at 7pm. Room 502 at 1104 S Wabash Ave.

Sketch Crawl June 14th

I'm reposting the sketchcrawl info because it's buried below so many other posts:

Mark your calenders for Sat, June 14th at 1:00 will be the first sketchcrawl of the year. We're meeting at Millennium Park on the lawn of the Jay P. Pavilion. (the big band shell) The first 15 minutes will be our official meeting. So, please come with any ideas as to what you want WIA to do this year. We are working on scheduling guest speakers, but if there's anything else you are interested in doing, please let us know at the meeting. Thanks. See you then!

Sketch Crawl and Meeting

Mark your calanders- Sat, June 14th at 1:00 will be the first sketchcrawl of the year. We're meeting at Millinium Park on the lawn of the Jay P. Pavilion. (the big band shell) The first 15 minutes will be our official meeting. So, please come with any ideas as to what you want WIA to do this year. We are working on scheduling guest speakers, but if there's anything else you are interested in doing, please let us know at the meeting. Thanks. See you then!

April Get-Together

Happy Spring everyone! The next WIA "gathering" will be at our apartment on the North-West Side of Chicago Saturday, April 12th at 5:00. Please bring money for pizza and feel free to bring any of your own work you'd like to share with the group (portfolios, animation, artwork...) Look out for an email from Katy about the details. If you're not on the WIA email list, please send Katy an email at chicagowia@yahoo.com.

Hope to see you then! :)

-Catherine & Sarah

Reminder!!!!!!

Hi everyone. This is a reminder for the next WIA meeting, which will be Wednesday, Feb. 20th @ the 1104 S. Wabash building, in room 413.

3D Animation and Compositing

Hi all this is when we are having our next meeting.

WIA
presents
Emily Berveiler
A Columbia graduate, that now works in the world of professional 3D commercial animation and effects, will speak about the How to's of 3D animation in a production pipeline.

Wednesday, February 20th
1104 S.Wabash Building
Room 413
6:00 pm

Hope to see you all there. A flyer soon to come.

FLASH

Hello all!! This is a reminder about the next WIA meeting.

A FLASH DEMO
by
Patrick Cheng

A local Chicago freelancer, that will give a brief history about Flash and a demo of how to use Flash in todays Animation Industry.

Wednesday, January 23rd
1104 S. Wabash Building
Room 415
6:00pm

I will later post a flyer. Hope to see you all there!

January Meeting

The next WIA meeting will be on Wednesday January 23rd. Patrick will be sharing some of his knowledge on Flash with us. 6pm at Columbia College- 4th floor- Check back in a few weeks to see what room we will meet in.

Happy holidays! See you next year!

WIA Screening Flyer

Hello everyone! I now present to you the long awaited flyer. TA DA!!!

Nov. Meeting Update

There's been a change of plans for tomorrow's meeting. Katy will be giving us a presentation of medical animation. Patrick will give a demonstration on Flash next month. See you there! :)

Nov. Meeting

Hi. The next meeting is next Wednesday, Nov. 14th at 6pm at Columbia College- 4th floor- room 401H at the 1104 S. Wabash building. (animation offices) Patrick, a Chicago freelance Flash animator, might be giving a Flash demonstration if he gets his laptop fixed in time. (It had a little accident!) Otherwise he'll give the demonstration at the Dec. meeting.

Hope to see you all there!

Flip Books

Hi all! Okay so I know that during the summer we agreed to do flip books, so I was wondering if any more people have done flip books? I would like to collect them in the next WIA meeting on November 14th. If you have done one and would like to do another please feel free to. Just in case, the flip books should be 8.5 X 5.5, enter left and exit right, also please number your pages and write how many frames the pose is going to hold for, so when I shoot them, there won't be a mix up. Thank you.

Meeting this Wednesday

Remember the October meeting is this Wednesday at 6pm at Columbia College in room 401H at the 1104 S. Wabash building.

Is anyone interested in kind of doing a "show and tell" type thing after each meeting? Anyone who's interested can show what animation or art projects they're working on.

Oct. Meeting Reminder

October is almost here! This is just a reminder that the next meeting will be on Wed. Oct. 10th at 6pm at Columbia College in room 401H at the 1104 S. Wabash building.