Lunch time's great.
Just gonna make my daily commute. I always get so tired doing
this bit because it takes so long. Oh thank God. So the FXhome team, we've all been
working from home now for the last week and a half. One of the things we wanted
to show you is just basically of our day, and what our days are like as we're all
separated from each other. And it's really important that we stay connected
and we keep talking. So I'm gonna take you through a couple of the things that
I do. It's really busy because we have so many new Express users coming on board
during this period. Hello, if you're new. I'm gonna show you a little bit about
what I do to keep my spirits up. Usually I go outside on my, lunch but it's really
cold today and I'm an absolute wuss, so instead, I'm gonna do something I've been
looking forward to for a while. A theremin it's an instrument that you can
play without touching it I got it a while ago but it's really difficult to
learn so while I was doing other stuff I packed it up and I put it in a in a
drawer. Well guess what, I've got more time. The thing that's really good about
the theremin in comparison to the classical theremin is that it allows you
to correct your pitch which my neighbors are very happy about
Can hear the notes going one after the other. Then, no pitch correction...
is very smooth allows you to hit all the sharps and the Bs in between so can sound pretty awful.
So, I need that. The theremini also has presets, for example, the super-fast saw
which is one of my favorites. Over quarantine I will be trying to learn a
little bit more about the theremini, and then I'll update you I guess if you're
interested. Good morning everybody, I thought I'd show you my little setup, and kind of
how I'm dealing with this and how I'm working from home at the moment so let's
take a look. Nice! Here is my current setup with my computer screens and my
computer and if we step back a little bit you can see how I built a wall
around me to protect me from this tiny daughter of mine. One of the things I've
been working on today are the next set of sale newsletters, so keep an eye on
your inboxes. Oh yeah, I shaved my head! That's new. One part boredom, one part
curiosity. All stupidity! Alright, what to say, what to say. I'm quite
lucky that I have an excuse to get out of house really. A four-legged friend
who's also a very good running buddy - Loki, if you were curious about his name.
Paw! Good boy! Oh hi there, come on in. This is my setup, my office space. Let me take you
through. We've got my monitor here, some light reading material, vintage lenses -
they're very important. My camera sits over here, I'm recording this on an
iPhone just for portability, and yeah. I have my schedule on a whiteboard just to
let me know I have to schedule the day and just make sure that I am taking
breaks, I am stopping down, because it's very easy to be sucked into working 24/7.
I've got my own computer and the office computer so I'll switch over and make
sure that I'm working on my projects, my personal things, which, if you're curious
And then you can, you can cut... In the evenings, I've been using this time to work on a short film
that I've been sitting on for a very long time and thought
I didn't have the time. Now, funnily enough, I do. I'm a huge fan of B
movies and that classic sort of cheesy sci-fi feel so just going through the
pre-production stage which I love because you get to throw all your ideas
out there and see what sticks. Basically, just figure out can I do
brains and sci-fi and robots. At the moment it's looking like I can, that means
I have to do it. So this brain was modeled in Blender. I
didn't start from complete scratch, I had this schematic that I drew up. I got the
the top, front, and side views, scanned it, imported it back into Blender and then
use them as templates to draw up the designs. If you would like to learn how
to make something like this in Blender and then import into HitFilm all you
have to do is hit subscribe, the like button, and leave a comment section down
below. Leave a comment in the comment section, not a comment section. It's time
for the company meeting update stream thing. We've got Josh, Kirstie, and Andrea
all here giving us updates on how the company's doing, how the lockdown is
going, any sort of social events that we have coming up, and just a general how's
everyone doing. Quick walking tour of my flat - this is the kitchen area which
you'll see probably more during lunch, and this is the workstation, so this is
my actual work computer. Over here we have the Xbox. I'm watching Lost at the
moment, on Season 2. It's a rewatch, it's like the fourth time
I've rewatched it, but yeah, that's where I'll be working.
It is now almost 1:00 o'clock which means it's time for lunch, so I'm gonna
go ahead and start doing that. On the menu today is chicken alfredo with rice
and broccoli. I would have it with pasta but I haven't had that for like a week
now the stores have just been emptied so rice it is. So while the food is cooking,
I typically come over here and I do some piano which I've been learning since the
start of this year, so about four months now. I can play a few different things so
maybe a little bit of Beverly from IT
or if you guys ever played Black Ops Zombies. Being that this is meeting
Monday, we've just had our software development planning meeting for HitFilm
and Imerge. The developers here are some of the best in the world. They know what
you guys want, they know what needs to be improved in the software. You don't need
to worry, just because we're outside the office doesn't mean that we can't carry
on. So the products are ongoing, the team are doing an amazing job. So it's not all
crazy meetings, actually going to test some stuff today as well. Nick has made
something awesome, I'm going to test it right now in my back garden. But yeah, we're not
going to tell you much about it yet, it's nearly to the point that we will, but not
quite yet. Imagine this app where you can use your
iPhone to record everything you need to make a full 3D scene. I can give it some
data by looking around, and then I can set the floor, but then I can also...
In your heart, in your mind, I'll stay with you, for all of time! If I could, then I would. I'll go wherever you will go.
Oh yeah! So I've been doing a little bit of woodwork over the weekends. I built
this bird table and this little hanger as well. And I've got another one over there. So here
is something else that I've grown, it's actually a giant redwood. It's not so
giant at the moment, here is a banana for scale. And just before I start work
again, what I'm gonna do is write a new letter to my neighbors because I have one
above me and one below me and I've never said hello to them before, but I sent my
message couple days ago saying if you get isolated, I can go out and get you some food,
just let me know. And they've both, bless them, they both sent
me lovely letters back and so now we're going to be pen pals!
So we're updating the Pay What You Want page. We've raised so much money for charity
I can hardly believe it. The whole team here is so excited by this. We're
actually gonna move to doing three charities over the next three months. I
won't give away which ones they are here. That's one of the best things about this
company and FXhome is that we get to make projects like this happen and that
we're raising so much money for charity. It's really, really exciting. So this period
is really weird, and really strange, and we're still adjusting as a company as
well. But from our point of view the most important thing is keeping you guys
positive and creatively inspired, and giving you stuff to do. We did a live
stream earlier in the week where we asked for some ideas of what you guys
want to see, can we do competitions? Can we do more of these visual effects
prompt? Can we do creative projects? Collaborative projects? What can we do to
feed the hunger you have in you. So if you have any ideas, please put them
down in the comments. I would love to see some really awesome ways that we can
start to work even more closely during this period. It would be really nice.