Make and share your ideas with 3D printing! Shapeways is your personal fabrication service. From jewelry to puzzles, home decor and more, create, buy and sell your products using 3D printing. To learn more about Shapeways, visit: Our homepage Our gallery of most popular products An explanation about how our service works An overview of the materials that we offer Our vibrant community of designers and creators

As Featured on: FANGORIA.com Fangoria Long Weekends XOMBA HORROR CHANNEL HORROR HAPPENINGS (1) , (2) , (3) Horror News.Net  - Scream Queenz &   MEETUP.com We Proudly Support "Scares That Care" Rich who is the founder and Organizer of this group is the state representative for the charity and gladfully gives back through this charity with the Dark Side. WELCOME to the DaRk siDe , The premier New York based Horror group bringing Horror fans from all walks of life together and connecting them t …

Join the local New York City forum for the Volumetric Society ( http://volumetric.org ) an eclectic group of innovators exploring the arts & sciences of a new world of natural user interfaces between body, brain, and spatially aware computing for the physical world.  Come exchange ideas, demo your projects, or just get exposed to the volumetric future that devices such as Kinect, Emotiv/MindWare, volumetric 3D displays and cameras and telematic interfaces are taking us. Everyone is welcome - fro …

If you are in the field of web design, graphic design, online marketing or video production/editing then this group is for you.  Why? Because we can collaborate, teach and support each other since all of our specialties are intertwined and interdependent. We'll also discuss regularly how technology is influencing both marketing and design and how it can benefit us.

Whether you're a hardcore 3D gamer, a fan of 3D cinema, or a professional 3D content creator, this is the group for you. The purpose of this group is to bring together everybody from the New York City area that is interested in stereo 3D and to create a forum to share ideas and collaborate. Do you like to go to the 3D cinema? Were you blown away by Avatar and other recent 3D films? Find other fans of 3D and talk about your favorite movies. Are you are 3D gamer? Do you have a PS3 and a 3D TV? …

The IBM Global Business Services Virtual Center is a web-based, voice-enabled, easy-to-use 3D meeting and collaboration environment, built on the web.alive platform. This group is to coordinate events, presentations, meetings and other activities for this virtual space. You are welcome to visit the Center anytime at http://bit.ly/ibmavc. And we would also welcome ideas or suggestions for 3D meetups, especially around topics relating to Smarter Planet, Smarter Cities, business analytics and …

Group will function as a share point of knowledge, through past experiance using Civil 3D, GIS and Revit Software. Presentations on projects, with lessons learned. Professional's sharing experiances and networking with other professionals to gain technical expertise. Anyone wishing to gain technical knowledge through the vast professional netowork of prefessional Engineers and Designers in the New York Metropolitan Area.

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Animation Study Hall is a group for animators of all stripes who come together to teach each things they know well or weller than other members of the group. Rather than just network or watch/discuss animation we're here to sharpen your skills and gain new ones for the low price of free. Unless you've been animating for the last several thousand years, there's always more to learn than naught. We give each other feedback on shots we have in progress, teach workshops, and demo new techniques. Top …

I started this group to bring together those developers with an interest in OpenGL, WebGL, Canvas and HTML 5.

SWUGNYC is operated completely by volunteers with the aim of promoting the sharing of skills and information related to the use of SolidWorks and to create a forum for networking within the SolidWorks community. SWUGNYC considers the specific needs of New York City area users, conducting quarterly meetings in easily accessible Manhattan locations. This group is open to anyone with an interest in expanding their knowledge of SolidWorks and related technologies utilized in design & engineering fie …

The new and improve Unity3d meetup group. Ours Goals Are: 1) Building a deeper understanding of Unity technology in the New York area. 2) Bringing together like minded developers, artist, designers, musicians and others interested in creating great game play experiences.

Make Something Design Make Sell Community of Makers that actually make things Our goal is to make a community of markers that will help each other design cool things to be made and sell into a marketplace.  We believe there is a new revolution in industrial manufacturing from individuals being empowered by making their own things and selling them directly to others. Make things you like and others will like as well. We want to unleash the creativity of the individual that would transform society …

You're obsessed with Making It. You made It, that thing, that object, and you want to show It off. Perhaps you're in the process making It, but you'd like some feedback from your peers before you finish It. Or you want to make It, but you have no idea how. Maybe you've perfected It, but now you need to figure out how to Kickstart It, sell It, license It, manufacture It. MakeIt is a general show-and-tell for physical things that you've made, where Makers can talk about their projects, how they cr …

The Cross-Platform Games Meetup New York is a meeting place for anyone interested in creating cross-platform games. It will provide a platform for learning and collaboration around the development, distribution, and monetization of cross-platform games. The list of platforms and devices is constantly growing--Desktop, Browser, Facebook, iOS, Android, Windows 8, Kindle, Nook, etc. We will explore general approaches, business models, design considerations, platforms, and technology. Look forward t …

Hey, I know great teachers like CGMasters.net, and folks at Blender Nation and cgcookie have awesome instructors, but I'll bet they all say they really learn when they participate in a production. We'll lets do it. A Character Animation short based on NYC Experiences., using Blender and Gimp. Have you downloaded the latest character animation tool kit by Beorn and Nathan from cgcookie? Have you studied the tutorials on cgmasters.net? Have you dated crazy people, been harassed by the cops, paid t …

Tech Tuesday is the weekly open night at Hack Manhattan, a community hackerspace in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan. Stop by to chat about your projects and use our electronics tools, 3D printers, sewing machines or machine shop. Hack Manhattan is located on 137 West 14th Street between Union Square and Chelsea. We are dedicated to technology, art and craft. Our physical space is open every Tuesday evening. A smaller 3D printing foucsed group gathers on Thursday evenings, and it’s pos …

Leap Motion has captured everyone's attention, including ours. All those video demos in the months leading up, left most everyone in the tech community wanting one. The time has come to show it in action and how to develop with Leap Motion. Our goal is to foster a lively and engaging community for Leap developers, to better understand how to harness this marvelous technology, take the state of the art to a new level, and stay ahead of the curve as Leap continues to evolve. We'll be regularly hol …

The goal of this group is to help each other learn about 3d printing and modeling.  We will be printing on my Makerbot Replicator 2 and modeling using any software (I use Google Sketchup).  Beginners to experts are welcomed. There is no fee for the group, but if you would like to print something there will a small fee to cover electric and materials cost.  I only have my laptop, so it's recommended you bring your own computer.  Looking forward to meeting everyone!

a group for gimp, inkscape, Blender artist and animators, writers, film screenplay writers, directors, cinematographers, and philosophers for coming together for the production of both marketable and free content to enlighten, educate, and entertain.

GameDays consists of panels on a bi-weekly basis, following themes ranging from technical game mechanics and the computational problems involved, to conceptual design involving narrative, music, and art, and intersections of the three. Our intro-level panels empowers students to create games without prior coding experience, using software such as GameMaker: Studio and Unity 3D.

Are you: - Passionate about stereoscopy? - A stereoscopic 3D professional? - Interested in 3D and want to find out more? - Or, have you never experienced stereo vision? Join the new 3D Club of NY and enjoy the magical world of stereoscopic 3D! We are a group of passionate Stereoscopers, organized for the purpose of promoting the art, practice, enjoyment and science of 3D imaging. This will be accomplished through open monthly meetings (with 3D projections and programs), events, workshops, …

This is a group for anyone interested in creating and collaborating to make animation and motion graphics projects. Join our fun, creative and talented team and explore your abilities like never before. Looking forward to exploring how far our creativity can take us.

fat cat fab lab is a new undertaking of the fat cat club, music, and gaming venue on 75 Christopher street. We are expanding to include a small Maker facility that will provide access to digital fabrication equipment and related hacker, maker, crafter, and hardware enthusiast tools and workshops.

The DesignX Meetup Group brings design innovators together for inspiring  events and thoughtful exchanges centered on the cutting edge technologies revolutionizing our designed world. During New York City's inaugural design week you can get in the digital fabrication game through DesignX, a series of hands-on workshops bringing together leading experts from digital design and next-gen manufacturing. DesignX will consist of four days of classes and networking events, including presentations from …

Total 3D Experience 3D Printing New York is for anyone interested in the revolutionary 3D technology. Whether you are: a novice and would love to see a 3D printer in action, owner of a 3D Printer and keen to show off your creations and share your experience, a designer or an artist using 3D printing in your work - or keen to, enthusiast user of Sketchup, Blender, SolidWorks or any other 3D drawing software, a developer interested in new 3D modelling techniques, curious about making your own jew …

This group was founded on the simple principle that video games are infinitely more fun when you can play them with other people. So come have a beer, toss some blue shells, catch some ghosts, and have some fun! 3DS games with awesome multiplayer that you should probably buy: Fire Emblem: Awakening Kid Icarus: Uprising Luigi's Mansion Mario Kart 7 Monster Hunter 3 Star Fox (Have a suggestion for the game list? Let us know!) Note: This meetup group is intended for people who are 21 years of age …

New York City Animation Studios is creating a community of Animation Software Engineers coming together to meet like-minded Software Engineers and exchange ideas and best practices in the evolving Animation scene in New York City. Within this community we are promoting mentoring along with professional development within a general forum for Animation Software Engineers to share their experiences. And we plan to have fun doing it. Fellow Animators are also welcomed to join this group to gain know …