tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46400739564617892712024-03-05T03:02:28.134-05:00Art Director - 3D VFX Lighting Artist3D VFX, Lighting in visual effects, independant film making and just all around fun.....maybe even wood working. i do that too.kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-43235443960594413402020-09-02T08:20:00.001-04:002020-09-02T08:20:53.411-04:00Kungfujackrabbit Modeling Reel 08302020 A<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cS8fWsYMUeI" width="480"></iframe>kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-45659305449390100812019-01-03T11:36:00.001-05:002019-01-03T11:36:39.045-05:00Mastering 3D VFX Rendering 101<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Mastering 3DVFX rendering 101 starts February 4th. Come join me!</span><br /><br />
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kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-18868348345956829342018-08-10T13:01:00.001-04:002018-08-10T13:01:29.561-04:00The Healthy Artist - Vol.0001 http://kungfujackrabbit.com/the-healthy-artist-vol-0001/<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For the crazy creatives out there that try to balance the business minded side of their work day with the "fun stuff" this article really helps. Every day is filled with requests and people standing at my desk or asking questions and needing estimates on work. The gambit of things people bring to us every day can be a huge diversion from the real meaningful work we want to accomplish. So this article really hits home showing how to get focused, or keep focused back on whats important. </span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pixars methods list takes it one step further. The list gives you detail oriented things to do to refine, then it keeps you going. I'll probably print this out and or somehow refer to it next time im in the cloudy haze of the work day.</span></h1>
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kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-58579113897357237002014-08-05T15:18:00.001-04:002014-08-05T15:18:47.119-04:00The final on that Dragon - Sculpt/modelFirst let me say thank you. This is for all of you who have been looking over the work on the blog. I had no idea there was traffic in seeing the work so I appreciate you all stopping in and I hope you enjoy what you see.<br />
So here is a final of that dragon I showed earlier.<br />
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<br />kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-73250151746793942922014-07-20T22:29:00.001-04:002014-07-20T22:52:04.853-04:00Keeping up to dateIm finding it easier and easier to get on the blog here and update.<br />
I made this after Michael (who sits next to me at work) mentioned he was planning to make some dragon Brushes for ZBrush. I thought that sounded great and it was right after i read an inspiring book( See previous post) so i dug into zbrush and popped out my first dragon from ZBrush. Granted ive modeled a dragon before but that was like 12 or 14 years ago so im rusty on the dragons I'll be the first to admit.<br />
I hope you enjoy and ill try and update as I go along.<br />
By the way here is a link to my mikey's brushes I used them all over my model and they are great. I had such a great time i used over 15 of the brushes but i couldnt tell you which ones at the moment. Awesome work Michael Dunnam.<br />
<a href="http://www.michaeldunnam.com/free-stuff.html">http://www.michaeldunnam.com/free-stuff.html</a><br />
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<br />kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-61815663968053157002014-07-15T12:01:00.001-04:002014-07-15T12:01:26.936-04:00You gotta read this "Steal like and Artist"So as artists we all have inherent things that limit us, as well as release us to full fill our potential. I feel periodically I myself have to shake things up a little and get my "creative juices" flowing. So today I took an hour and read this:<br />
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Luckily Michael Dunnam had the book and well he sits right across from me. So as soon as I read it I also bought it off amazon. I plan to mark it up and pass it along to my friends, my daughter and eventually my sons. Great read thats quick, inspiring and will reside in my collection from now on.<br />
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Working away is all I can say on this, other than the scripts I made today in MEL confirm some long standing questions. So much fun making new things .....Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!<br />kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-1828963285116240552014-06-26T10:04:00.001-04:002014-06-26T10:04:35.832-04:00A quick funny birthday image for a friend.I get asked to make fun stuff alot, banners, and birthday cards, scouting stuff. Well today i made this for one of the guys at work who is a gung ho army guy. So his friends wanted him in a marine unifrom and all that sorta thing. It was quick turn around but alot of fun. For me too.<br />
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<br />kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-17535566960995388702014-04-24T00:53:00.001-04:002014-04-24T00:53:57.297-04:00Updates on the MessengersSo a lot of work has gone on for the messengers film and I owe a ton of updates so the next thing to mention is that after the last post the storyboards got more attention. And one of the designs that we will feature more on came up for design. It's a flying motorcycle that can also drive on land. We have scenes under way in production and the messengers book written by Joseph is complete now I believe. Ill load more images next on the messengers. Check back soon!kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-60131528444734247812014-01-17T11:16:00.003-05:002014-01-17T11:16:32.377-05:00The Kungfujackrabbit Charger on Google maps! I know its the little things in life that we sometimes get excited about......<br />
Anyhow one day at lunch me and the guys were coming in to work and saw the Google maps camera car.<br />
So I flipped the car around in our parking lot at Meggitt and chased him down real quick. Like i said its the little things, but for any of you that dont know me, I really dig that car.<br />
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Well i finally broke down and set up a file to test the VRAY renderer (again) and it went well. Easy.... and i made some presets. I took enough time to learn it this time and will probably use it for future projects.<br />
Not a brilliant example above for modeling or anything. Just something simple so i could see the Glass capabilities, chrome and metal and plastics. Oh and some liquid so over all it was a pretty good test subject. I got the time with glass and all of it to about 36 seconds so i was happy with HD res in that time. Maybe a little :15 second video example would be nice but its time to get back working on "the Messengers" film.kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-51813682954862667022014-01-09T12:35:00.001-05:002014-01-09T12:35:48.599-05:00Zip Bags from Japan - Just a cool thing no relevance<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/8GMpVX__0QQ" width="480"></iframe>kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-50240517507451679302013-12-19T13:54:00.002-05:002013-12-19T13:54:49.078-05:00Greeenscreen is portable and has lasted really well.This was the first day i set up my new green screen awhile back. I just felt like sharing a little. Its relativly cheap, bit the screen and the stands are okay. The lights melted one evening on a very long shoot for "the Messengers" So i wouldnt recommend the lights. Its a fun set though and the fabric has lasted for over a year now and that even with shoots in the woods. So it kept clean even. lol <br />
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I mostly leave it in the studio at work now so we can use it regularly. But as needed it does leave for side work. So thats the end of my rambling for today.kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-1541289946364623412013-12-12T18:38:00.003-05:002013-12-12T18:38:28.121-05:00Short Film - "The Messengers" - The BeginningIve kept relatively quiet on this for awhile now, but here is the start of the production diary of sorts.<br />
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<b>The Messengers </b>is a short film we began pre-production on in December 2012. The Director (Joseph) and I began with a novel and created story boards of the first set and scenes.<br />
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So I plan to take you thru the process here and I'll will keep the steps brief and include pictures so feel free to write or comment or ask questions.kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-80349037858801416792013-11-22T11:19:00.000-05:002013-11-22T14:18:36.737-05:00 HDRi Breakdown for Visual FX<h4>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) Low end is to use the gazing ball you can see more explanation on this tutorial i did here: <a href="http://www.digitaltutors.com/lesson/9878">http://www.digitaltutors.com/lesson/9878</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The good part about this is that its cheap. The bad part is that the resolution and quality are low. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> d) And a Manfrotto tripod <a href="http://www.manfrotto.us/collection/8374.58969.1070647.0.0/190_new_series">http://www.manfrotto.us/collection/8374.58969.1070647.0.0/190_new_series</a></span></div>
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I like to see art like this being kept alive.kungfujackrabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06484806238142667329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640073956461789271.post-58789006014051441282013-04-09T12:24:00.001-04:002013-04-09T12:24:51.649-04:00Sometimes there are fun happenstancesSometimes there are fun happenstances. That wasnt the case this time. We had a specific look and feel we were looking for. We used a T-Shirt design from Houdini at Siggraph 2011as our inspiration, Its one of Michaels and my own favorite T's. So here is our new Tshirt design I hope you like it. If you see us wearing them around please say hi.<br />
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I wanted to share a little of the work ive been doing at home recently. More specifically the process that im going through. Its slow going since I do work fulltime as Art Director. So my days are filled with meetings, scheduling, making decisions. Fighting to make the products we sell better, and getting my guys paid. so needless to say I barely get a chance to be an artist anymore during the day job. So I started VFX Mill with a business partner and then i get my ART "fix".<br />
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