Samurai Rabbit: iiwia bros.

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Sat May 05, 2007 9:27 -0700

Somthing interesting to check out:

Samurai Rabbit Part I: Head (Thursday, May 03, 2007)
http://iiwia.blogspot.com/2007/05/samur ... -head.html

Samurai Rabbit Part II: Body, Part I (Thursday, May 03, 2007)
http://iiwia.blogspot.com/2007/05/samur ... art-i.html

Samurai Rabbit Part II: Body, Part II (Thursday, May 03, 2007)
http://iiwia.blogspot.com/2007/05/samur ... rt-ii.html

Samurai Rabbit Part II: Body, Part III (Saturday, May 05, 2007)
http://iiwia.blogspot.com/2007/05/samur ... t-iii.html

Samurai Rabbit Part III: Putting it Together (Saturday, May 05, 2007)
http://iiwia.blogspot.com/2007/05/samur ... ng-it.html

Musashi · Post by **Musashi** » Sun May 06, 2007 12:02 -0700

So, is all this for a game being developed??!!!

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Sun May 06, 2007 13:03 -0700

It sounds like it is supposed to be for a video or computer game....

Here are a couple more links.....

Samurai Rabbit Part V: The Yojimbo (Sunday, May 06, 2007)
http://iiwia.blogspot.com/2007/05/samur ... jimbo.html

Samurai Rabbit Part IV: Diasho Set (Sunday, May 06, 2007)
http://iiwia.blogspot.com/2007/05/samur ... o-set.html

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Sun May 06, 2007 13:06 -0700

I don't know what this is for. I'm thinking this is someone's personal project.

Cosmo · Post by **Cosmo** » Sun May 06, 2007 14:16 -0700

Neither do I know what it is exactly for, but - I guess it's because of the glossy rendering - the result... looks a bit like an inflatable dummy.

Don't draw hasty conclusions, Cosmo, don't draw hasty conclusions.

Perhaps we'll see very soon a samurai rabbit on SecondLife.

Thomas Froehling · Sun May 06, 2007 18:53 -0700

Well, I'm sure I've seen that figure before.....

Roel, is it another spin-off of your Usagi maquettes???

If not, it might be the winner of our #100 contest, idling with his statue...
(For what purpose? Beats me...)

roel · Post by **roel** » Sun May 06, 2007 22:02 -0700

Thomas Froehling wrote:Well, I'm sure I've seen that figure before.....

Roel, is it another spin-off of your Usagi maquettes???

If not, it might be the winner of our #100 contest, idling with his statue...
(For what purpose? Beats me...)

No it's not mine. I'm doing my own which will be totally different. I just haven't had the time to do it.

When I do finish mine I will gather some friends to help me animate a scene from Usagi which I hope will be pretty cool.

darktatami · Post by **darktatami** » Mon May 07, 2007 6:11 -0700

Wow, I guess the old saying about news traveling fast is true.

Just wanted to make a quick post, so that no confusions hurt what we are doing or cause any unwanted trouble.

A good friend and colleague of mine are starting an entertainment company from the ground up, iiwia bros. We intend on doing low budget animations and games to build our portfolio. So we were faced with the issue of where do we start. We have a bunch of ideas and interests, but one that we shared in common and a great deal, was Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo.

We understand that in no way, are we to release anything made using Usagi Yojimbo or other Stan Sakai work, and well anyone else's work for that matter. Our intensions are to make something that Mr. Sakai would like and possibly take serious.

We were really hoping we would have some form of finished project before anyone had found it. I purposely haven't done any marketing on the blog for those reasons. But when I checked the traffic this morning I was really surprised to see that UsagiYojimbo.com was a big source of traffic. When we have something that would be presentable, we will definitely send word to Mr. Sakai, and hope for the best.

Critiques are welcome, hope you enjoy our development blog.

-Joey (Darktatami)

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Mon May 07, 2007 11:05 -0700

Hi Joey,

It looks promising, however I should notify you that Usagi is already optioned for animation.

Don't anybody get your hopes up for a TV series or feature. Usagi (like almost everything out there) has been optioned a number of times. There is quite a leap from an option to a finished product.

darktatami · Post by **darktatami** » Mon May 07, 2007 11:39 -0700

Thanks for the response. Bummer that you've been optioned already. Well we have been making the models with game production in mind also. If nothing else, it would make a good demo/portfolio piece.

darktatami · Post by **darktatami** » Thu May 10, 2007 19:01 -0700

Posted a Hikiji Samurai, wasn't really certain about the color scheme so I stuck with darker earth tones. How far off on the colors was I?

http://iiwia.blogspot.com/2007/05/hikij ... murai.html

darktatami · Post by **darktatami** » Sat May 12, 2007 11:47 -0700

Here are some Hikiji samurai.

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:54 -0700

Lookin' pretty cool!

darktatami · Post by **darktatami** » Sat May 12, 2007 13:57 -0700

Thanks

Cosmo · Post by **Cosmo** » Sat May 12, 2007 14:14 -0700

Nice work ! The aspect now reminds more of a classic cartoon animation. A little bit like cel-shading. I'm eager to see those characters in context.

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