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Welcome!

Congratulations on effectively stubbing your toe on my tiny slice of the web.

Here you’ll find my recent artwork, my own free graphic offerings and links to many of the offsite resources that I use.

Now, since a long self intro might pain you only as I can imagine, let me cut to the chase and I’ll toss you my main bullet points;

  • I’m Kirk. (Yes hi, pleased to meet you)
  • I’m a CGI (Computer Generated Image) artist and I create artwork in 2D and 3D.
  • 2D programs = Mainly Photoshop.
  • 3D programs = Mainly Maya, Zbrush and Sketchup.
  • I have worked 2D/3D freelance off and on for many years but have also worked in film as an art director, screenwriter and with IMD in 3D motion capture.
  • I am originally from Southern Illinois and I have lived in California since 1985 and now in Los Angeles for the last 10 years.
  • At this point in my life, I am most likely psychosomatically addicted to Dr. Pepper.

Now that you know everything that matters, I would say that about wraps up our internet courtship. I now return you to my blog, already in progress.

Enjoy!

Resume                Download: PDF or DOC or PNG

Website                www.kirkdunne.com
Email                     kirk@kirkdunne.com

Film Credits        http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3180295/
LinkedIn              http://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkdunne
Twitter                  http://twitter.com/kirkdunne

September 5, 2010 | Categories: Talkathon | Leave A Comment »

“Community” – Chang Rising Poster #2

“Community” RETURNS – March 15th – 8:00pm – NBC

Community Returns TODAY, so be ready with my next Chang Rising Poster!

This one may be half size but still looks Chang-tastic printed out full sized at 24 x 36!

Glorious “Manilla” poster: (4.5Mb, jpg) (3,600×5,400)– Download Here!

Again;
All rights reserved to: NBC, Sony Pictures Television, Universal Media Studios, Russo Brothers,
Harmonius Claptrap, Krasnoff Foster Productions, the eternaly Chan-tastic Ken Jeong and
anyone else at NBC that will promise to never even THINK about cancelling “Community”!

Now pardon me while I stare at my blackened HDTV for the next 12 hours until COMMUNITY COMES ON.

Kirk
kirk@kirkdunne.com

Twitter: @KirkDunne

#changrises !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

March 15, 2012 | Categories: 2D CGI, Artwork, Photoshop, Posters | 6 Comments »

“Community” – Arise, Chang Army!

In Chang We Trust

*NOTICE – If I did happen to guess WRONG at what is at the bottom of this poster, I WILL be adding a corrected version.

Chang Poster available in;

Wallpaper sized: (104kb) (2560×1600) – Download Here!  -  Also, a 16:9 ratio wallpaper: (62kb) (1920×1080) – Download Here!

Gloriously full-sized poster: (714kb) (7,200×10,800, which is 24″x36″) – Download Here!
This one is so Chan-tasticly huge it probably won’t load into most browser windows.
I suggest right-clicking the link and choosing “Save Link As”

Info;
Based upon the Chan-tastic Chan poster being unfurled in the “Community Returns!” trailer.
Watch the video here, Chang poster at the 0:30 second mark)
Obviously, I’m just guessing at what’s actually at the bottom of that poster.
Come March 15th, the full Chang shall be revealed!

All images are in png format, created in Photoshop CS5.

All rights reserved to: NBC, Sony Pictures Television, Universal Media Studios, Russo Brothers,
Harmonius Claptrap, Krasnoff Foster Productions, the eternaly Chan-tastic Ken Jeong and
anyone else that would like to dogpile in on some of this copyright action.

“To know your Chang, you must become your Chang.”
– The Art of Chang

Kirk
kirk@kirkdunne.com

                                                                                                                                                                     

*This page is in fandom spirit of the AMAZING NBC comedy Television show “Community“.
If you’ve never seen it, do so NOW and level up your coolness by a roll of at least +10.

*So, realize this is all in fun and therefore I am not a communist.
(Sorry commies)

*I am also not a rabid celebrity stalker of Ken Jeong.
(Sorry Ken, you are awesome…but at this moment in my life, you’re just not “go to jail” awesome…as I am still paying off my plasma flatscreen)

March 9, 2012 | Categories: 2D CGI, Artwork, Photoshop, Posters | 6 Comments »

“Left Turn” – The Road Poster

Based upon Director Mauricio Marin’s idea of having the lines of the road fading outward from the expressionistic
facial lines of Danny Trejo (Samuel Lopez) this is the first in a series of posters for the film “Left Turn”.

I finished this piece quickly, so what you see here will most likely be the first version with a more refined second
version to come as I feel this could be fleshed out much more faithfully to Mauricio’s original idea.

But, for now v2 will wait as more and different art is to come for “Left Turn”.

Here’s a 1:1 detail, click through to see its full size;

Technical Info;
Painted in Photoshop CS5 in around 50 hours.

Because of how quickly I needed to completed this, it is only half sized at 12″ x 18″, 300dpi.
(v2 will be the standard 24″ x 36″)

For the initial sketching and layout, I used VFX Workshops Pencil Brush Pack, available here.

For painting, I used mainly the default CS5 Mixer brushes. I have some custom
Mixer brushes but they aren’t very far away from the default setup’s at all.

“Left Turn” at IMDb.

Dream Film Studios

March 6, 2012 | Categories: 2D CGI, Photoshop, Posters | Leave A Comment »

Keep Calm – I.T. Poster

Click through on the main poster below to grab the high-res version (2480×3508) (4mb jpg)

Made for fun and for an associate that works in I.T.
(Information Technology)

Created in Photoshop CS5, roughly 30 minutes.
Detail of full size.

 

The history on the original, UK “Keep Calm And Carry On” posters can be read about here.

November 29, 2011 | Categories: Photoshop, Posters | 5 Comments »

Happy Halloween!

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
- George Carlin

Happy Halloween everybody!!

Painted in Photoshop CS5. Keep clicking on image to see full size.

October 30, 2011 | Categories: 2D CGI, Photoshop | 3 Comments »

Cheshire Bound

“The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well. Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next.”

I had downloaded and got inspired  by the “Alice In Wonderland” free epub book for pc Kindle, available from the Project Gutenberg site HERE.
(they provide many formats and also carry a lot of other public domain books).

Painted in Photoshop CS5, on five layers in around 20 hours total.

Click the image to grab the full sized version.

August 28, 2011 | Categories: 2D CGI, Photoshop | Leave A Comment »

Eight-Legged Art

After clicking the thumbs above, you will see a larger version AND an additional text link to download the full / original sized pieces. (they’re BIG)

A Photoshop CS5 sketch and painting. As far as the final painting goes; I wanted to experiment with a stylized look to the Octopus
and I eventually chose to use two divided styles together; a tight cell-shaded line work laid atop a loose wet-on-wet painting below.

To play a bit further on divisions, I used a hard, flat wood surface to contrast the pliable, gelatinous characteristics of the Octopus.

The sketch was created at 2K, the painting made at 3K, with probably around 30 hours total put into making both.
(about an hour or so for the sketch and with a good amount of the rest just being spent on various experimentation’s with the painting.)

Gotta admit, although I don’t eat Calamari often, this does kinda makes me wanna pull out a chopping board and skillet.

July 31, 2011 | Categories: 2D CGI, Photoshop | Leave A Comment »

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