Paul Coniglairo, principal at Mograph milwaukee, the Milwaukee motion designers group, will talk to our group about what Mograph does and how he sees our two groups working together in the future.

In fact, Mograph has a meeting the day before ours, on Wednesday June 16th. Check out the details at their website:

http://mographmilwaukee.net/

NEXT meeting, June 17, 6:30 pm @ MIAD TBM theater

Our next Milwaukee Animation Group meeting will be on June 17, at the TBM theater at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.

The snafu with the building closing time has been addressed, and MIAD will now be open every evening until 10:00, paving the way for us to continue having our meetings there throughout the Summer.

On a side note, Mograph Milwaukee (http://mographmilwaukee.net), a group similar to ours for motion designers in the Milwaukee area, has expressed an interest in working with MAG on future events and meetings. I think that everyone can see the potential benefits in joining forces with this group, and discussion about the possible ways we can work with them will be on the agenda for the 17th.

The focus at the next meeting will be:

1) Pitching your project to other animators and producers, and

2) working with local independent film people

1) If you have a personal project that you have been working on, or an idea that you have developed and can present with character sheets, animatics and other completed pre-production visual materials, please RSVP me so that we can work your presentation into the "pitch" segment of the meeting. The goals here are two-fold:

a. For you to recruit other animators to assist you in your project.

b. To hone your pitch so that it is more professional, for when you pitch it to potential funders and producers

2) If anyone knows any independent film people out there, please ask them to attend. Especially if they have a current or impending project for which they would like some animation or 3d effects. By working with local directors, there is a huge potential for both raising the standard for special effects and animation in the Milwaukee area, and for animators to learn the ins and outs of working with directors and in film, as well as developing relationships that will help both the film and animation industries in Milwaukee grow.

Again, please get the word out to all of your film friends. We would like them to pitch their projects to our group at this meeting.

Of course, there will be demo reel viewing and critique, and you can bet that somebody will be getting together for drinks after the meeting.

If you will be pitching your animation, or know of any film people who would like to pitch to get some animation done by animators in our group, please RSVP or have them RSVP me at this email address as soon as possible. Thank you.

Brad Krause
chairman

Milwaukee Animation Group