Road Trip
by Jason Della Rocca (March 2002)
Discreet hosted the Montreal Chapter for our March gathering - in part because we were too busy with GDC to organize something ourselves, and in part because the thought of doing a road trip to the hip offices of Discreet was a cool idea!
There were over 100 developers who came to Discreet to hear a brief recap of the recent Game Developers Conference, along with presentations on several animation tools (ie, cgCharacter, Fat Lips, Di-O-Matic). There was pizza and soft-drinks to welcome everyone as they arrived. But, sadly, there was no free beer to "hold" people after the presentations, limiting the overall socializing aspect of the meeting...
It was fun to head out for a road trip, but we'll be back to our traditional arcade/bar location for April!
Jason
Big thanks to our sponsor for the March gathering:
March gathering - Pictorial
...here are some shots I took during the March gathering of the Montreal Chapter. Sadly, I was only able to take a few shots before Discreet's security clamped down on any photo taking ;-) (all persons are identified from left to right)
Freelance artist Raquel Rivera
chatting with Phil O'Connor (Strategy First) and Su Skerl (Microids).
A cross-shot of the Discreet lobby as developers pour in...
The space had a good A/V set up - big screen projector and all :-)
Mark Snoswell (cgCharacter) all the way up from Australia to demo his
impressive animation tools, along with Martin and Laurent from Di-O-Matic.