AAUGA

Next week, Wednesday, April 28th, is our next 3d Austin Users Group (AAUGA affiliate)
We will meet at El Mercado, 1702 Lavaca at 6:30.
The program will be:

Jason Hughes of Steel Penny Games
Jason started with Origin Systems, after graduating from UT with a degree in Computer Science. He has since worked with Retro Studios, News Stand, Acclaim and Naughty Dog. He and his partners formed Steel Penny Games after working at Naughty Dog. Jason has continued his pipeline development consulting with companies such as Red Fly Studio and Disney Interactive.
But he has also become a wizened entrepreneur in the game development business. He will tell us what he expected starting up to be like with his years of experience and what it really was. And he will tell us about his decisions, both good and bad and how Steel Penny managed to get its feet under it after a self funded start.
About Steel Penny Games

Luke Gustafson of Datahouse Studios
Luke also grew up in the game business. He was an environmental artist, the guy who designs the worlds in which the game is played. He now has his own operation, Datahouse Studio, and he and his guys are take industrial graphic art in a totally new direction, the interactive animated graphic art has become the umbrella that covers the entire product development process in an industry. You have to see this to understand what is becoming possible.
http://datahousestudios.com/

Randy Polk of Metaman Productions.
Randy has been doing interactive productions for many years and teaching his techniques at ACC. This month he will show how to really speed up your texture map work with Mudbox. We have all seen the wonderfully detailed characters that Mudbox can create quickly. Randy will show you how it can really speed up your work in painting your characters and putting pictures on the walls of your house. Randy will show how your can save a lot of time on your next project. Simple tricks to speed up a tedious process.
http://meta3dstudios.com/

We also have people looking for talent, talent looking for jobs and everyone looking for opportunities. Get your life organized and come to the meeting.
3d Austin Users Group meets the last Wednesday of each month with some exceptions.
Sponsored by Austin Business Computers, Inc.