We are the local group for ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics). Our mission is to promote the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques. Our purpose is to foster a membership community whose core values help them to catalyze the innovation and application of computer graphics and interactive techniques. We meet roughly every month, usually on the third Thursday. Our local group has been me …

Welcome to Bay Area Photo Cliques! Your organizers, Thucelle Pham and I, started this meetup group to create unique opportunities for photographers, models and stylists to learn, network, and work together while improving skills and, of course, having fun and meeting people. We work hard to bring you fantastic opportunities to work and shoot with shoot top artists and models in studios and other great locations at a fraction of what it would cost you to do it on your own. As an added bonus, we …

iPad Warriors seek to LEARN-GIVE-have FUN. We will have meetups on learning more about our iPad and how it can help us be more productive, learn tips, tricks, and more. I'm not an engineer or developer but personally I would like to learn how to build apps. How about you? Let's come up with creative ways to help the community, or charity organizations with our awesome iPad. Of course, we will have fun, too! The first 100 members who join the group will be free. Afterwards, a membership fee (abo …

Real Life Super Heroes, Masked Crime Fighters, Costumed Vigilantes, & Uniformed Mystery Detectives meet to share case files, organize citizen patrols, review investigations, analyze crime statistics, discuss law enforcement support, teach new techniques, tell success stories, plan charitable and educational events, send inspiring messages, and learn about resources for solving cases. Whether fighting crime, solving cold cases, researching records, or otherwise, this group is a support team for t …

Join the San Francisco's Bay Area most successful network of young professionals and create your own business opportunities. Read the below for details and a list of participating companies. Mail membership@ypn-online.org to join our mailing list. YPN (SJC) is a non-profit community of young professionals in Silicon Valley with sister chapters in Austin, Atlanta, Bangalore, Boston, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Raleigh and Vancouver. The group started off as an organ …

This group is dedicated to the world of MALE MODELS who are not afraid to push their limits.  We will be doing shoots from High Fashion to Commercial Looks; from Fitness to Underwear. From Fine Art to Bodyscapes.  The modern male model is not afraid to shoot any genre of photography. The Candy Man is here to show all masculinity through his strong connection with the camera. If you are the photographer who is not afraid to shoot a male model; then this will be your new group.

Are you a professional 2D or 3D artist in the bay area games industry looking to do some networking? Are you a student or aspiring game artist looking to get your foot in the door? Are you sick of hanging out in your gloomy studio grinding away on art assets in relative solitude? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, come hang out with us! We have beer and like-minded people! The first half of the meetup will be some kind of presentation about working in the games industry (if y …

As a creative laboratory, Palo Alto Int'l Film Festival's mission is to foster innovation and educate the community about those ideas that most inspire its members. John Lasseter of Pixar expressed that "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires art." PAIFF strives to be a conduit for increased innovation in art, technology and film. As movies migrate to digital, the future of cinema will depend on the cutting edge tools that continue to be conceived and developed in the Bay Area. These too …

Meet other local Photoshop users and the Adobe Photoshop team to trade tips, tricks and ideas. Be a part of a great community!

A group where photography meets art. The idea is to focus on specific areas in photography and master the techniques to the highest level where you can start to feel your work and it becomes art. Portraits, landscape, food or modelling. Whatever the area is... it doesn't matter as long as you master it and feel it the results will be amazing. We will have meetups where members can deliver a short and quick down and dirty workshop 15-30 minutes on shooting a particular scenario they feel comforta …

Would you like to meet people in your area who share your love for scrapbooking, card making and paper crafts? Or have you wanted to get started, but haven't had the time or didn't know where to begin? This group is for all scrappers and paper crafters in the Silicon Valley area. (Saratoga, Los Gatos, Cupertino, San Jose, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Hollister etc. Really you can come from anywhere in the Bay Area!) Whether you are an experienced .. a beginner .. traditional scrapper.. digital scrapper. …

This group is a place for independent game developers who live in the Silicon Valley (near San Jose, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Los Altos) to discuss design trends, platforms, tools, testing and sales techniques, the media, the IRS, lawyers, cloning, pirates, advertising, publishers, stupid mistakes we've made, and anything else that is relevant to an indie developer who wants to successfully make it in the games industry. There are DOZENS of game development events and groups with very speci …

Professional Photographers of Santa Clara Valley (PPSCV) is a non-profit organization whose objectives and purposes include the advancement of photography as an art and as a profession. If you’re already a professional photographer, or an aspiring one, and are in the greater San Jose area please consider attending one of our monthly meetings where you may create and foster cordial relationships and have an interchange of thoughts and ideas with other photography professionals. http://www.ppscv.c …

We are a community of performers, models,  producers, directors, production professionals, make up artists, and film goers. We meet regularly to collaborate on producing films and other projects. We also watch films and critique them.  We also have events of interest to people interested in still photography. We will share our knowledge and skills with one another. We will support each other in achieving our aspirations and realizing our dreams. Most of our events are free and open to all.

This group is for anyone interested in getting more connections or even just learning more about the game development industry. Whether your experienced or inexperienced, everyone is welcome, we want to encourage collaboration between members and all game developers in the south bay area. This group is for developers, artists, modelers, animators, musicians, writers and anyone else interested in game development. This group is hosted by Perfect Imagination, a company that builds clever, innovat …

Let's feel, enjoy and discuss about what is visual communication here! We are crazy to find better way of communication which is visual based for fun. Welcome everybody who has interested in visual communication!

Our group is geared toward fine artistic imaging and will give photographers, models and makeup artists an opportunity to socialize, conceptualize and bring thier visions to full fruition.

This group is designed for the Mid-level to professional photographer looking to improve their talents and get exposure to a variety of top quality models. Our meetups will consist of actual photo shoots and workshops with a variety of themes. Most of our meetups do have a cost associated with them. Cost will vary depending on the meetup, but most will run from $75.00 to $125.00, depending on the model's experience, travel expenses, how many models we have for the shoot, and the complexity of th …