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Observations through a cinematic lens by Dan Kendall. dantkendall.com

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SHG Developer Profile This is my Developer Profile interview where I got to discuss what I do as the Multimedia Lead at Sledgehammer Games and how I ended up there.

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Trying to keep my 3D skills sharp and begin improving. I made this while waiting in the dealership lobby for my car to be serviced this morning. #cinema4d #c4d #aftereffects https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu-baL1ljQtSR9ct4i-BWJzfzRJfXio1vRMkp00/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dmmsl5rzmjf9

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Man's Best Friend

I'm working on updating my website and just posted my thesis short film, Man's Best Friend.

This is the short film I created for my MFA in VFX at the Academy of Art that I finished in 2016. My original plan for this short film was a bit different to start with, but I was inspired by our sweet Boston Terrier, Bugsy (who we had to say goodbye to while I was in pre-production), to change the story to be more personal to my experience grieving that loss. While those who depart from our…

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Node-based Compositing 2 Final Project For my final project for this class, I took two different photos and projection mapped them onto multiple pieces of geometry in Nuke to create a 3D scene. I then flew a virtual camera through that scene and added some smoke fireworks inspired by Mad Max: Fury Road.

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Node-based Compositing 1 Final Project For this final project for my node-based compositing class, I shot footage in a parking garage and then shot myself against a green screen and composited them together in Nuke. I then created particle effects in Nuke to simulate a meteor shower and composited that in as well.

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Advanced Texturing & Lighting Final Project For this class, I was given a modeled and animated scene and I was tasked with texturing and lighting it.

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Bugsy gettin' down! #bostonterrier

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Wasteland

Not only the title of this video (which I’ve been meaning to post for the last 4 months), but…

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Back in the bay. Discovery Bay, that is. #discobay (at Discovery Bay)

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Bugsy enjoying the warm weather. #bostonterrier #bostonterriersofinstagram (at Discovery Bay)

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Watching geese through the telescope. Happy Easter! (at Discovery Bay)

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Bugsy scoping out the water on a beautiful day in Discovery Bay. (at Discovery Bay)

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The response to this site has been overwhelming and incredibly fast. I started this only two days ago and the site already has 2500+ followers and many more views.

I’ve received a lot of emails of support but I’ve also had a lot of fellow VFX artists ask me to at least acknowledge the current...

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Our neighbors' two week old Boston Terrier puppy! #bostonterrier #puppy #bostonterriers #puppies #bostonterriersofinstagram

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Pizza and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Perfect combo. TOTALLY holds up! #pizza #tmnt #teenagemutantninjaturtles #ninjaturtles

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#sunset on Devil's Slide. (at Devil's Slide)

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"Whatcha doin'?" "Oh, just thinkin'." Fun date here with my lovely wife yesterday! (at California Palace of the Legion of Honor)