Rebrand Under Construction

Remember back in the dawn of the internet when you would say a site is 'under construction'? It was how you would tell people that the site is being worked on and will be improved shortly. You don't really hear people saying that any longer. I wonder why.

Well, I'm bringing it back. At least for now. www.kungfukoi.com has moved off Speakeasy, where it has been hosted since the dawn of time. To Dreamhost. ( unlimited space, bandwith for your life, only $6/mo! )

The entire site, galleries, and misc content are temporarily down, as I build a dynamic and super cool back-end for the site that hopefully will make updates and re-designs easier in the future. So for now.. I am keeping my contact info, and reel up.. you know, for self promotional puposes.

However, I fully expect to have the new re-branding and site up in the next few weeks/months. The new site will also come with it some new features that I won't go into yet. However, I'm pretty excited about it!

In other news, I'm finishing up my current contract with Psyop and will fully available for bookings on the 22nd.
I've also broken down and aquired a Twitter account. So if you are so inclined.. follow me at: www.twitter.com/kungfukoi . I have started to peck around on it, and think that if I just use it for a work-related feed only, perhaps I'll be able to justify it. After all, I have a Facebook for the personal stuff right!? :-)

Guiness Dot on permanent viewing at the MOMA!

So this spot I helped with, served as as sequence lead, is now on permanent viewing at the Museum of Modern Art! I can say now say I have a piece in the MOMA. heh.
( Lead the Black and White jungle that grows on with a panther sequence )

Guiness Dot
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MTVA Promo Now Online!

It's been a whirlwind couple of months. Last month I finished up the MTV gig, which was a really quick turnaround project. I think I had two weeks or so to turnkey the spot. They wanted the 2D style typically associated with After Effects. Check it out here, I'd love to hear what you think.



Since then I have gone back on contract with Psyop, who have always been great to work with!
I'm working on an international Psyop spot for Playstation, so you know that'll be some fun-eye-candy coming out soon. So keep the eyes open.

My contract with them is up May 23rd and am not booked beyond that at this time.

I'm going to be updating/re-doing the KungFuKoi.com soon. I'm moving hosts, and using that as an excuse to update and redesign the site. The goal is make the entire site more dynamic so it's not such a chore to update it. I have so much content these days, it's hard to organize, update, and just keep interesting all the archival content. I want to keep it out of the way so it's not overwhelming, but still online, so that I can easily get at it. It looks like I'm going to be moving into a world of PHP, mySQL, and other acronyms that are boring and dry.

But hey, I'll have a jazzy new site worthy of being on ( insert your trendy design promotional blog here ).

Big Changes

Well, I read somewhere, that you know you are happy when you don't update your Blog.
Apparently, I've been extremely happy. :-)

Ok, big changes. Mass Market has made some cutbacks, and that resulted in me going back on the independent/freelance market.

So, with that, I've had the opportunity to work with click 3x, on an MTV promo for Star Trek. Was a lot of fun, and got to meet some fun new people!

Then MTV asked KungFuKoi to produce a :30 promo for the MTV Movie Awards. I'll post the spot as soon as I upload it. I think it airs ( 4/20! )

So with all the hustling, I'm going to attempt to revisit this blog, and find a more interesting format.

I'm also looking to update it weekly. We'll see how that goes.

Sprint Nascar "Speed"

My Directorial Debut for Mass Market is finally online ready to show!

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This Nascar spot was done for Sprint, for the Daytona 500 and Nascar season. I imagine it'll run like very nascar race...

I'm very happy with the spot, and really enjoyed working with our team at Mass Market to make it possible.

It was an ambitious undertaking, and I think the end result speaks for itself.

7-up goes live!

The spot I worked on back in August as an Animation Director, is finally airing and I can show it here...

Check out a small version here: http://7up.com/

I'll post a bigger version when I get some time.

This spot was entirely done with XSI's ICE system.

Superbowl Spots!

Well it looks like they took down the link to the Stereoscopic HP spot. It was turned into 3D for the superbowl, but I don't think it aired.

However,

Coke - Heist,
Monster.com - NFL Draft
Kellogg - Frosted Flakes
GE - Wizard of Oz

All aired!! All Psyop/Mass Market projects! Pretty cool!!!

See them here: XLIII 2009 Superbowl Ads

August 2008 Update

Day Off The Dead was included in 3D World Magazine's "50 greatest independent animated 3D shorts: 1997 to 2007!

Way to go guys!!

September Update

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September 12th

Smith and Nephew from mate on Vimeo.

I pre-visualized this spot for Eben and Mate, that went onto become an FX masterpiece!
They did an awesome execution.. I'm proud to have been part of the project!!