We are stoked to have Chad Ashley (@chad_gsg & @cgpov) join us for this week's meeting to go over his process for creating materials in Substance Designer.  Chad walks us through a lot of the creative decisions and workflow for creating unique, procedural materials.  Keep an eye out because Chad and the crew at GreyscaleGorilla will be releasing a new material pack for Cinema 4D soon!

This week's meeting was an open discussion and consisted of some good topics.  We touch on the School of Motion "state of the industry" survey, bad trends in the motion graphics industry, whether or not going freelance is the right path for you, traditional schools vs online training, and new programs like Substance Alchemist.

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This week's call was an open discussion that turned into looking at what success means. Does it mean you're famous and working with all the big names? Does it mean you're not homeless? What constitutes success for us?

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This week we discuss a wide variety of things. The original topic started out questioning does location matter to a motion designer career. We branched off and talked about the importance of networking beyond the mograph industry, how being reliable is super important, and utilizing word of mouth and referrals. We also go off a bit at the end about Adobe's response to a year old thread about multi-threaded support in AE and how we're tired of the corporate fluff.

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This week we did a quick recap of SIGGRAPH since we skipped it last week. The main focus of this week's call was about having a career in mograph. Some harsh truths about what it takes to make it in the industry; Some honest talk about pricing and the ranges that people can charge; How networking can change a person's career; and so much more!

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This week the group talks reviews a couple reels and talks a briefly at the end of the call about using Linkedin for doing sales and cold emailing. 

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There are so many resources for learning motion design.  From free tutorials to paid courses and everything in between, what's the best way to go?  Pros and Cons?  And once you learn more skills, how do you critique your own work?  This week's meeting dives into both topics.

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Have you noticed the industry seems to be shifting a lot lately? We have too. This week we discuss how the industry is changing. Studios closing and downsizing. The huge increase in freelancers. Lots of big names now going to work for companies like Google or Facebook instead of a studio or agency. Also, what the hell is up with budgets?

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This week we discuss a lot having to do with invoicing. How to deal with late payments, overtime, and more.

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We have been doing this for one year! This week we discussed what our first year of meetings has been like and how thankful we are for you, the participants and our plans going forward. Such as moving the calls back to 10AM Eastern Time. We also have a really awesome conversation about the hold system and other general topics.

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