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Animation Challenge Winner
The results for the 2010 CAVEMODE Animation Challenge were announced at CAVEMODE 7 on July 22nd. Michael Wilfong was selected as the winner from among a field of professional caliber entries. Entrants were tasked with creating a new logo build for the CAVEMODE demo reel. The entries were anonymously judged based on creativity, design, and execution. Michael Wilfong is a local freelance editor and motion graphics artist. He walked away with a very valuable prize package including Maxon Cinema 4D, Digieffects MegaSuite, Digital Art Masters Book, Artbeats $500 credit, Toolfarm After Effects Training, and a Stash Magazine subscription. 4 finalist animations were shown at the meeting along with Michael’s winning entry.
Summer Motion Graphic Design Internship
Elevation Church in Matthews is looking for a Motion Graphic Design intern for 10 weeks this summer.
Interested individuals should email gschultz@elevationchurch.org with the subject “internship”.
Check out some of the awesome work being done by Elevation at elevationchurch.org.
May 6th Meeting
We have an exciting meeting planned for May. Be sure to mark May 6th on the calendar and come out to CAVEMODE. The meeting will be at a new venue Art Institute in Charlotte.
The Guest Speaker will be Stephen van Vuuren from SV2 Studios(http://www.sv2studios.com) in Greensboro. Stephen has created an IMAX film entirely in After Effects. He has considerable experience wrangling very high resolution images through After Effects and will be showing how some of the 64bit features in CS5 helped his production.
Byron Nash and Brian Pace will be doing a project breakdown on a national TV spot with Edit at Joe’s. The project will demonstrate 3D and 2D collaboration to accomplish the project in a short timeline.
Jamie Byers will be doing a demo of a new tool for After Effects entitled DUIK. DUIK is a interface and workflow to set up inverse kinematics inside After Effects.
As always, CAVEMODE will have many great prizes to raffle from Toolfarm, Digieffects, Peachpit, Artbeats, and Focal Press.








