Welcome to my new homepage of INTENSITY!!! Here I'll post nice things about myself and interesting stuff in my life. Also, I would like to thank my dad for doing the majority of the work on this webpage (check out his page here).

LAST UPDATED: 6/19/2008

Recent Updates: Ben's Art Gallery (Click Here to See It!)

If you want to contact me, either leave a comment on my YouTube page (here) or e-mail me at ben@roncentra.com.

On YouTube, I am MissingLink07, the great claymator! My claymations are for an ongoing school project, so between documentation and planning for that and a fairly busy daily schedule, it takes a while for me to make a movie. I HAVE FINISHED MY THIRD MOVIE, "B.C. CLAYMAITON: SINGING IN THE BATHTUB. Watch this movie here, or watch the video below. For my earlier movies, I animated in Flash 5, but for my last two movies, I used Adobe ImageReady. I record and edit the voices in WavePad, a sound recording program, and finalized the movie in Windows Movie Maker.



Here is another movie of the presentation for my claymation project:



    -- Ben Centra

ART:
Besides Claymation, I am interested in the graphic arts. I began as an amateur signature (image) maker for the nintendo.com forums (as GameCube88). For the sigs, I would use Adobe Photoshop and occasionally ImageReady. I learned about Photoshop mostly in a basic Graphics class in school, but a fellow sig maker CyanLaser (Akirakage on YouTube, check out his page here) taught me a few more tricks, primarily about animation. Here's a video of my sigs I made on nintendo.com:



This last school year, I took an Advanced Graphics class, which focused on the program Adobe Illustrator. I did five big projects this year, and they are all here in my website's new feature, BEN CENTRA'S ART GALLERY: CLICK HERE TO SEE IT!

MUSIC:
As well as being a director and artist, I am also a musician! I do play the clarinet, but I definitely prefer the guitar. I started teaching myself to play almost two years ago, and I'm pretty good by now. I recently got a computer program called Guitar Pro, which lets me write my own music. I already wrote one song (which is on YouTube), and I am currently helping my little brother, Jake, write a song. He wrote the lyrics, and I am writing the rest of the music (Guitar, Bass, and Drums). We plan on recording the song and putting it on YouTube. Currently, I am still writing the music, but it will definitely be finished during the summer. For now, here is the song I wrote:



    -- Ben Centra

Let's see... I'm a GENIUS (100.998 GPA!!!), I play the Clarinet, and Electric Guitar (ROCK!!!!), I am a 2nd Degree Black Beld in Tae Kwon Do (kyaaaa!!!), as well as a Training Instructor, and yes, all of that is true. Yeah, I'm a nerd, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I am friends, both on the internet and in real life, with Bobderpie (check out his stop-motion animations here), AlexBondNx (check out his RuneScape epics here), and Br0k3nS41nt (his page here). Also, check out my little brother Jake's YouTube video's here. You're Welcome for the Advertising.

Favorite T.V. Shows: Scrubs, The Simpsons, South Park, House, Two and a Half Men, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report

Favorite Movies: Basically any comedy and most action movies

Favorite Bands: R.E.M., Boston, Journey, Kansas, Queen, Aerosmith, Jethro Tull, Yes, any other classic/arena/prog rock

Favorite Books: I usually don't read more than books required by school, so none

Hobbies: Tae Kwon Do, Music (Listening, Playing, Creating), Computers/Videogames, My Claymations

    -- Ben Centra