Community Kitchen » Los Angeles Adobe http://blogs.adobe.com/community News and views from the Adobe Community Team Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:33:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Creative Talent Network Expo 2012 http://blogs.adobe.com/community/2012/12/creative-talent-network-expo-2012.html http://blogs.adobe.com/community/2012/12/creative-talent-network-expo-2012.html#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 06:03:28 +0000 Aaron Houston http://blogs.adobe.com/community/?p=1192
Adobe Community Team was invited by WACOM to participate alongside them in the 2012 Creative Talent Network Expo. CTNX2012 was held in Burbank, CA November 16-18, 2012. with  over 8000 art & film students, animators, and illustrators in attendance. What was really cool about this event was that it takes place very close to the Disney Animation and Dreamworks studios in Burbank. In fact, Disney animators actually participated and attended this event. Adobe had booth manned by Adobe Community Mgr Aaron Houston, local Los Angeles Area Adobe User Group managers, and Adobe Education representatives.  There were also Adobe Touch App & Illustrator demo’s by Adobe Community Professional (ACP) Chana Messer on the new WACOM Cintiq interactive touch tablets. Adobe Education team member Rick Miller and Leona Guidice also helped out with the Adobe booth.Special thanks to Tony Arredondo and Steve Smith from WACOM for being true “Community Champions” by inviting the Adobe Community to participate in this premiere event.

Actually, the idea of getting Adobe and its community involves at WACOM event began back in June 2012. Tony and Steve attended an Adobe Speaker dinner for the Las Vegas CS6 Camp.  So, when Creative Talent Expo was mentioned as a possible collaboration (thanks to ACP Stephen Burns), it seemed like a “no-brainer”, since I was already in the LA area for the LAWEBPRO Design Camp. I couldn’t have done it without the AdobeEDU team and the LA-area Adobe User Group community helping out in the booth. So thanks to: George McKinney (LA PhoneGap), Josue Bustos (LA PhoneGap), Chana Messer (LA Illustrator), Cynthia Gordon (Orange County Creative Suite & ocmma.org), Adam Bell (LA Adobe), and Ko Maruyama (dmala.org)  Together, with the User Groups Managers and ACPs we were able to talk to over 400 students and animators about:  Adobe’s Creative Cloud; Student/Teacher Programs; Adobe Touch Apps; and, all things Adobe.  We’ll see what opportunities present themselves in 2013 with WACOM.  Here are some photos from this event.  – Aaron Houston Adobe Community Mgr No. America.
 
 
 
 
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