rethinkfx http://www.rethinkfx.com A load of guff about animation and photography by Ben Cowell. Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:40:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Lightplot at Anifest 2012 http://www.rethinkfx.com/972-lightplot-at-anifest-2012.htm http://www.rethinkfx.com/972-lightplot-at-anifest-2012.htm#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:20:28 +0000 mrbencowell http://www.rethinkfx.com/?p=972

Our shipping having finally arrived in India I’ll be packing up the lightplot rig and taking it to Anifest 2012 in Mumbai on Friday 24th August. I’m really looking forward to presenting the project so far to an audience.

If you’re in Mumbai then come along : http://www.tasionline.org/2012/07/sessions-at-anifest-india-2012/

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This animation is shot entirely in-camera, the figure having been animated in 3DS Max and then plotted by custom built 3D light painting system.

Read more about the project.

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I’ve been uploading videos to my vimeo page, this just went up today. Read about how it was made.

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]]> http://www.rethinkfx.com/818-showreel-2012.htm/feed 0 Little Big Adventure http://www.rethinkfx.com/653-little-big-adventure.htm http://www.rethinkfx.com/653-little-big-adventure.htm#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:48:40 +0000 admin http://www.rethinkfx.com/?p=653

In August 2005 I joined Nexus Productions, and now after seven amazing years it’s time to start a new adventure.

Next week I’ll be joining Prime Focus as a VFX Supervisor, and in month or so we’re moving to Mumbai .. crikey.

(the above picture features me, and Nexus friends, trapped in a lift in Cleveland)

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A new project from Nexus, for Tropicana. I was the CG Supervisor working with the incredibly talented Fx & Mat. Very proud to have worked on this one .. it was a lot of fun.

You can watch the video here.

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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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