rethinkfx http://www.rethinkfx.com A load of guff about animation and photography by Ben Cowell. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:56:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2011 http://www.rethinkfx.com/645-2011.htm http://www.rethinkfx.com/645-2011.htm#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:56:57 +0000 admin http://www.rethinkfx.com/?p=645

There’s a look back at 2011 over at the Nexus Studio Blog.

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We’ve set up a studio blog on the Nexus site, we’ll be putting up behind the scenes articles and whatever else takes our fancy.

Currently there’s a Maxscript I wrote for Jim LeFevre‘s ‘Holy Flying Circus’ title sequence.

http://www.nexusproductions.com/studioblog/

]]> http://www.rethinkfx.com/575-nexus-studio-blog.htm/feed 0 A dip into the archives http://www.rethinkfx.com/524-a-dip-into-the-archives.htm http://www.rethinkfx.com/524-a-dip-into-the-archives.htm#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:28:04 +0000 admin http://www.rethinkfx.com/?p=524 Some images from my collection of photographs from 2003-2009 which I’ve recently uploaded to Flickr.

A few more of my favourites.

]]> http://www.rethinkfx.com/524-a-dip-into-the-archives.htm/feed 0 My (So called) Digital Life http://www.rethinkfx.com/518-my-so-called-digital-life.htm http://www.rethinkfx.com/518-my-so-called-digital-life.htm#comments Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:29:20 +0000 admin http://www.rethinkfx.com/?p=518 Based on the recommendations of a couple of friends, I’ve recently bought an Apple TV.

Like many gadgets Apple TV promises to both help me organise and reconnect with all my media, surely the dream of all geeks. I was doubtful at first but all this interconnected Apple stuff works really well, sending movies, music and playlists to the TV is fantastic. The real revelation has been the integration of Flickr and Apple TV, you can point it at your Flickr stream and use that as a screen saver. Suddenly all my long forgotten photographs are scrolling by on the television whilst we listen to music.

This inspired me to upload the entire contents of my old photoblog to Flickr, these photographs have been languishing in a dusty corner of this site since I rewrote the back end using PHP a few years ago. My motivation was to get them onto the TV in my living-room, and a by product is that they’ve ended up on the web .. I love how irrationally gadgets make us (me) behave.

You can find the photographs here.

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I’ve joined Twitter, you can follow me here : BenCowellThomas.

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Another recently completed Nexus project. Also directed by Smith & Foulkes (busy boys !). I was the CG Supervisor.

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Recently completed project at Nexus Productions. Directed by Smith & Foulkes. I was CG / VFX Supervisor.

]]> http://www.rethinkfx.com/506-intel-chase.htm/feed 0 Photoblog update http://www.rethinkfx.com/499-photoblog-update.htm http://www.rethinkfx.com/499-photoblog-update.htm#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:00:25 +0000 admin http://www.rethinkfx.com/?p=499 I have put two new sets up on my photoblog.

Firstly a set of photographs from our Honeymoon in China, Singapore and Japan.

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Secondly a general round up of 2010.

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]]> http://www.rethinkfx.com/499-photoblog-update.htm/feed 0 2010 http://www.rethinkfx.com/495-2010.htm http://www.rethinkfx.com/495-2010.htm#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:56:10 +0000 admin http://www.rethinkfx.com/?p=495 All sorts of exciting things happened in 2010, most importantly I got married and then in December went on an amazing victory lap Honeymoon around Asia.

Our good friend Mr Phill is a fantastically talented photographer and we were incredibly lucky to have him document our wedding day. You can see the photographs here.

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]]> http://www.rethinkfx.com/495-2010.htm/feed 0 Showreel 2010 http://www.rethinkfx.com/468-showreel-2010.htm http://www.rethinkfx.com/468-showreel-2010.htm#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:35:08 +0000 admin http://www.rethinkfx.com/?p=468 Click here to view the embedded video.

As well as showing off your skills, showreels can be a useful personal marker for projects completed and time passing. I haven’t produced a showreel for 5 years and so I thought I’d put together a quick reel showing what I’ve been up to.

There’s a 1024×576 version here.

Music : Wave of Mutilation by Matthew’s Celebrity Pixies Covers.

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