Echo Conference

If you pre-ordered a 2009 Echo DVD set, your order has been shipped. For everybody else, now’s the time to grab your set. As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, the DVD set includes some great stuff:

• Keynote Sessions from Ben Arment, Mark Steele, and Phil Cooke
• The Church Panel (featuring Carlos Whittaker, Bobby Gruenewald, Scott Hodge, Cynthia Ware, and Conway Edwards)
• The After Effects User Group
• Breakout Session MP3s
• Breakout Session PDFs
• 8 Motion Graphics Tutorials by Barton Damer and Trent Armstrong

Head over to the Echo Store to order yours.

In the weeks following Echo 2009, we sent out a survey to our attendees in hopes of a little feedback. In the survey, we asked attendees to share with us one or more of their favorite moments of the conference. Yesterday, I took the results, removed all the proper nouns (Phil Vischer, Phil Cooke, Ben Arment, Mark Steele, and Johnny & Chachi) and created a Wordle word cloud for a presentation. I admit, I was pretty pleased by the results:

The Echo Conference 2009 DVD set is nearly complete!  The set features 3 DVDs with a TON of content:

•  Keynote Sessions from Ben Arment, Mark Steele, and Phil COoke
•  The Church Panel
•  The After Effects User Group
•  Breakout Session MP3s
•  Breakout Session PDFs
•  8 Motion Graphics Tutorials

Just for fun, we’re including a sample of the Motion Graphics Tutorials here for free. From Designer and Animator Barton Damer, we have the first of his series on building a logo animation from Illustrator to After Effects and Cinema 4D.

Next up, Motion Designer Trent Armstrong take this first session to walk through turning a still graphic into a loop— or two.

Echo 2009 DVD Sets will ship out in two weeks, so pre-order yours today.