Portland, OR area, any V-Ray / 3ds Max users?

[wrt]

Hello all, just wondering if there are any V-Ray / 3ds Max (or V-Ray / Maya for that matter) users in the Portland, OR area?

 

If so I'm wondering if there are any local user groups in the area based on these platforms (or others?) or local architectural cg groups in general?

 

If not anyone interested in starting even an informal one?

 

Thanks and best to you wherever you are,

 

Bill

 

p.s. Being a newbie on this forum as a participant (though not a newbie to the field or this site), I posted this question with another title and couldn't change the title so please excuse the repetition. Thanks so much.

[Dan J]

I spend my time between Portland and central Oregon's high desert (Redmond area).

 

PCC NE campus has a Siggraph members chapter with Maya users

 

I did find this link http://3dsmax.meetup.com/cities/us/or/portland/

 

Autodesk might have a listing of user groups.

 

Online with this site and CgSociety are some of the better resources.

 

Good luck.

Edited September 15, 2009 by Dan J

[wrt]

Dan,

 

Good to meet a fellow Oregonian in arch vis, thanks so much these suggestions, they are all excellent. The Meetup dot com site is interesting, I've never used that search engine, and it seems like an interesting resource.

 

Sending you a message...

 

Bill