Hey everyone! Let's all get together this Thursday and keep the spirit going!



Join us for our first ever 100% remote meetup. Expect some technical issues, but also expect to be inspired by 3 awesome humans.



## Peckin’ Pixels the game – my journey creating something from nothing by Jenny Robertson



My process of creating a web game using no game-engines or libraries. How I made it, and what happened when I released my first passion project out into the world.



Jenny Robertson is a Software Engineer at the BBC. She helps develop the BBC Sounds website with javascript, making it as useful and accessible at possible.



Jenny’s favourite hobby is creating web games in HTML canvas using no libraries or game engines, designing all the graphics and logic herself. She is never happier than when she is animating a pixel walrus or coding the behaviour of a virtual chicken. She releases her games under the title ‘Waving Walrus Games’.



Her other hobbies include learning the piano, seeing musicals, playing video games and singing in a BBC staff choir.



## Creative Computer Vision by George Profenza



A brief look at DOs and DON’Ts of using computer vision techniques for art installations and commercial projects.



The talk will cover a few techniques from basics to convolutional neural networks used in real world projects.



London based, Romanian born, Creative Technologist, most-of-the-time socially functioning nerd, all round fix-it-code-champion and chaser of rabbit holes.



## Painting with SVG by Cassie Evans



SVG's a great format for creating illustrative graphics on the web, but it can sometimes feel a bit... flat?



Illustration in the real-world is gloriously messy. It's full of texture, human error, smudges, and paint splatters.



Let's take a look at how we can use different SVG techniques to recreate some of this tactile 'messiness'



Cassie is a front-end developer with a background in design and a lot of love for animation.



She got started with coding back in the halcyon days of Myspace and Neopets and is on a mission to make the web more whimsical again.

She currently works at Clearleft in Brighton and can usually be found tinkering with SVG's on Codepen.



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