KingKong19100

"How To Train Your Kong" ft. Kong and Jia from the Monsterverse!

Hey everybody! Here's a quick photo I've had in the works for a bit now! I wanted to shoot my shot at recreating the beautiful How To Train Your Dragon poster but with King Kong and Jia from the Monsterverse! This one was really fun! I liked messing with the lighting and character materials a lot more, creating Jia and the cliff-side from scratch, and also making a clean-plate from the original HTTYD Poster so that I could re-adjust it and add more space for Kong to actually fit in the frame. I was debating on just making Jia as big as Hiccup was in the poster, but since that wouldn't make too much sense for the Monsterverse I figured I could put her on a cliff-side and just make her really small. Which works because I was struggling trying to figure out how I would add Kaylee Hottle's face to the human model, but it's so small it doesn't really matter. I also added some effects like clouds, godrays, lens flares, dust, film halation, and blurs to get the final effect! Really hoping to get back to animating and figuring out faster workflows for the coming semester! Hope you guys enjoyed this one!

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1 year ago | [YT] | 144

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Hey everyone! Here is a picture I just created as a way to practice composition, landscapes, and overall approaches to color grading! I found an amazing picture on Instagram by p_the_collector_76 pitting Kong against a gorgeous pink sunset sky and I wanted to take a whack at it (with his blessing of course) at recreating it in 3D! Really liked how this one came out!

I do wanna finish my other projects first so that I can move on to newer projects. I plan on doing a bunch of pics like this that can help me improve things like lighting and rendering. I finished up my school work which was just so much animation (that I'll be posting soon) but yeah I'd like to try and animate more this summer and finish up everything I had in the works to move on to newer projects! Let's see if I can keep to that schedule haha.

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1 year ago | [YT] | 113

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Hey guys, I know it's been a minute since my last post here and I just wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I noticed we hit 20K recently and that's such a huge milestone, and now we're sitting at 20.2K Subscribers and it truly means the world to me that you all find my content enjoyable enough to warrant a sub! In light of this I wanted to give you all an update on the channel and future projects:

First and foremost, Godzilla vs Scylla. This project has been completely finished in terms of animation, but I've decided that with both this project and all my future ones that I won't be using Unreal Engine 5 anymore. The truth of the matter is that it looks so much more better in Blender. Everything from the motion blur, the path tracing and shadows, the materials and shaders (especially normal maps) all look 10x better in Blender. I'm sure there's a way of getting it to look as good in Unreal Engine 5, but I don't think I would be able to accomplish that within a reasonable time frame. So I decided to use Blender as well as a render farm to get all the frames rendered out internally within Blender (my school has a pretty good render farm I can test out and if not I would use other options through online services). With that aside, I've also been in the midst of handling some school projects so I've had to put this project on hold. I didn't want to post an update without at least giving you guys a cool Goji v Scylla render, but I don't have any that are in Blender. So this text update might just have to do for now. So Goji Vs Scylla is fully animated, but I would need to go through and really make a good looking scene since it was originally built to be exported to Unreal while now I have to go in and add the higher poly models and new textures/shaders. It won't be a big deal and shouldn't take too long to do, but that leads me to my next point.

There is another project I picked up so that I can work on something while I'm still in school (and it sounded way too fantastic to say no to). This is one I'm keeping a lid on for now, but it really should look great and it's the reason I decided to use Blender for rendering purposes. Because I want my work to look as excellent and up-to-date as it can with all the latest animation techniques I've been learning. So this project should take another 2 and a half to (LATEST) 4 and a half months to complete since I've already been working on it for nearly 2 months now. It's shaping up to look great and I really am hoping it pays off because there's a lot of effort going into this project!

After those projects are finished I wanted to then update you guys on my Godzilla Vs Kong: Hollow Earth Battle video. I know there's been a lot of silence on this front, but I went through and updated the script especially for the first video and I'm so excited to make it. I know all the people who are helping with it are eager to begin the creation process, but being a student is proving to be a bit difficult when it comes to actually starting the thing. So this project is also on hold until everything else is finished first. But I'm DEFINITELY aiming to have Part 1 of this (hopefully) 3-part animated project finished before the end of the year!

The last thing I'd like to discuss is, well... discussion videos! I've been gaining more and more motivation to begin actually making these again. It's just going to be a bit difficult due to my schedule, but I think it would be best to start doing these again very soon and regularly because of how quiet it's been on this channel recently. Being exhausted from school and whatnot means I spent a bit more time playing games (not too much time but just enough) to start recording some clips, so I wanted to just compile those every now and then and throw them into the gaming playlist unlisted (to prevent channel clutter) and eventually start posting bi-weekly discussion videos to get rid of this dryspell. So look forward to that VERY soon!

Once again I just wanted to thank you all for keeping the engagement going and subscribing, it really means a lot to me and I have a lot of projects in the works to hopefully make that effort pay off! Thank you guys so much!!!

2 years ago | [YT] | 103

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Have you guys seen ‪@GojiCenter‬'s newest video!? I highly recommend it if you'd like to see what I've been up to for the past two months! I'm gonna be picking up Godzilla Vs Scylla again and will try to finish it within a few weeks. Toothless Vs Godzilla is now up on GojiCenter's channel, so if you guys enjoy the visuals in that then that's what you can expect in my newer videos! I have a ton of discussion videos planned but have been wanting to finish this animation in the meantime. Big things are coming within the new year for this channel, and I can't wait for all of you to experience it!

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2 years ago | [YT] | 2,084

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Got some progress shots for you all! The Character/Camera Animation is almost complete, just have like 15 more shots to do (5 being original). A lot of these more intense action scenes mid-combat are harder to do because of how detailed it has to be, but yeah it's going well so far. I'm gonna be using an add-on that helps me bake all the final Blender materials into their own textures so that the models can look JUST as good-if not better in Unreal Engine then they do in Blender. That's been another big thing in Unreal I've been having issues with, is really just getting the models to look as good. I have so many shaders I use in Blender that never look as good, so now I can finalize the materials in Blender where I'm more familiar and then I can have them look really good in Unreal! I really want to get this video out within the next week or two but it's been super hard to work on since I'm at school so often, so I upload these to OneDrive and work on it there which is a huge help. Gonna continue to chip away at this until it's finished, so I'll be kicking it into high gear now to get this out there in time!

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2 years ago | [YT] | 124

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All she wants is a hug, Goji!!! 😭😭

Just had to share more progress shots with you all. I changed up the clouds for the scene since they’re mainly what’s visible, since I didn’t like the volumetric look the-well… volumetric clouds, had. Also added some more saturation to the sky, changes up some of the lens flares for the sun, and also changed the aspect ratio for the final video so it doesn’t look as letterboxed as it did in the test shot. Working on smoother animation and capturing weight, so we’ll see how that goes as well haha. And lastly, I decided I’d be taking some creative liberties with the animation to put my own stamp on it. It’ll be completely faithful to the comic, but I figured I can add some shots in to help build better continuity or things like suspense. I’ll JUST be adding stuff and won’t be taking anything away, and that’s how it’ll be with all 3 of my Godzilla Dominion/IDW Godzilla animations! Lmk your thoughts!

Ps the water is NOT final hence why it looks a bit off. It’s a lower quality version and not the final high quality one.

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2 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 124

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Hey guys, still cracking away at Godzilla vs Scylla at the moment, I remembered that I recorded five hour long episodes of me playing The Wolf Among Us picking the worst possible options. They're already on YT in my Livestream/Gameplay Playlist, do you guys think I should upload these to the channel itself or keep them unlisted in order to avoid clutter? Let me know in the poll down below! Goji vs Scylla is coming along well!

2 years ago | [YT] | 40

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Here is our finished King Kong for our Godzilla Vs Kong: Hollow Earth Battle project! With the help of my amazing team member MISTR, we finally got a successful weight paint transfer from the TerraVirtua Kong model to the new COD Warzone Kong model! I also adjusted the hair groom to specifically match the style of GvK Kong with my own personal groom edits. Longer hair around the shoulders, sharper looking beard, mohawk-esque head hair, etc. So Kong is ready to go! I posed him with a high poly version of a Godzilla model one of our team members edited, and I've been debating on using that model for the final GvK project or continue editing the brand new model we have in the works. I feel like if it takes too long to finish, then I'd much rather use this current version of the Godzilla model we have since it really does look fantastic and all it needs is a polished rig.

I also just finished rigging Scylla for the Godzilla Vs Scylla project, and all that needs to be finished is the Godzilla model used in this photo! I'm really aiming to get Goji finished by the next day or two so I can finally start the project. A lot of shots are already animated, they just need the kaiju thrown into the shots! That's all I got for yall now! Full versions on Instagram!

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3 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 106

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Hey everybody! While I've been waiting on the Scylla model getting a re-rig (that model has a NIGHTMARE of a rig, don't ask), I decided it would be much better to use the COD Warzone Kong model as opposed to the original Terravirtua Kong model for our GvK Hollow Earth Battle project. COD Warzone Kong seems to have much better textures and hair, so we're planning on applying the rig from the original Kong model to this new Kong model! The second slide shows the hair groom I edited so that it matches what the GvK Kong's hair seems to look like! I also wanted to mention that I got some incredible explosion assets that I cannot wait to use in the Scylla and GvK animations, as well as just in general from now on as they're so high quality and will help bring these videos to the next level. Thanks to all of you for the love and support, and I'm hoping to come back with more discussion videos in the meantime!

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3 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 86

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Currently working on a short yet sweet fight scene between two badass kaiju! I’m gonna be recreating the Godzilla Vs Scylla battle from Godzilla Dominion, and this is being worked on while our GvK project is on a slight pause. We're having Godzilla get completely remodeled and retextured, so I figured I can make this animation in the meantime as that will take several weeks. I'll be to be utilizing EmberGen for some crazy explosion and fire effects, which does indeed occur a bit later in the fight! Really excited to knock this one out hopefully within 4-6 weeks, most likely longer haha but I’ll do my best!

Here’s a close up on an updated Godzilla model I’m gonna be utilizing for Godzilla Vs Scylla! This beautiful model is by @nelzonis1, who updated a 6 Million Poly version of the model originally by the amazing @mi5tr_03 (MISTR on YouTube)! MISTR is actually currently re-rigging both this model and the TerraVirtua Scylla model for me, which is gonna be incredibly helpful! So major shoutout to him! Hoping this is gonna be a short and sweet battle with stunning visuals to show much more I’ve been learning recently.

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3 years ago | [YT] | 127