Check out Bunny’s website and see some of her amazingly cool artwork!
http://www.darkbunnystudios.com/
ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE PHOTOSHOOT: Japanese School Girl Edition
As a photographer I have a vision in my head for the way I want each months image to come together. In the past due to budget and time constraints we’ve relied heavily on green screen / post production effects because we simply did not have the time or resources to stage the shoots we have dreamed of. This year, with your help, we can make these dream shoots a reality and share the results with ALL of you. This is one of those dream shoots. The pieces are coming together, but this shoot will not happen if we are not successful in our funding. Let me tell you a little bit about it and afterwards I’ll be revealing an exciting new reward. Something we’ve never done before!
To detail this shoot a little let me first show you a few props that have been offered for use in this particular months image. My bosses and friends Kimble and Rebecca offered me the following to use for this photo shoot.
and my Friend Bob, proud owner of the Dodge Zombie Wagon has agreed to let us use it in a shoot… Check it. Yes.. those are zombie hunting permits.. 
We haven’t stopped there however we have even more planned for this shoot…
Our models for this month will be the illustrious and talented best friends, Hayley and Trini.
We don’t want to give away too much but let’s just say that when we are finished over 20 people both living and undead as well as a few horses, some fire, some smoke, a barn, and lets not forget the most imporant part.. exploding blood packs will be involved in the production of this one photograph. And this is just ONE image of the 12 we have planned. Our ultimate goal with the photography this year is to spend less time in post production and more time in the real world capturing shots that you’ll never believe came straight from the camera, and that brings me to the next reward for our backers.
We’ve always been too busy taking the photographs to document the process that goes into creating the calendar but this year we want to do something different. We want to create a dvd of all the calendar shoots that go into this years calendar. we’ll videotape the entire process, on set, on location, talk to the models, show off the props, weapons, vehicles, and costumes that go into each elaborate shoot (should we be successful in funding that is) and then at the end of it all we produce a DVD for our backers to have as a unique keepsake to show what their money helped to create. A unique insight into how each month was created, even behind the scenes post editing secrets revealed on camera, something we’ve never done before but would love to share with all those who will support us in this effort. So please, help us spread the word, let’s make this shoot a reality, lets make this DVD a reality, we have nowhere to go but up! Help us make this calendar a reality.
Thanks for your time and go checkout that new backer reward!
Sincerely,
Jason L. Bohannon and Traci Tant
Co-Founders,.
Girls Of The Con
PLEASE HELP US GROW. Thank you so much.
My friends and colleagues,
As you may or may not be aware my business partner Traci Tant and I, for the past 2 years, have produced a fantasy costuming and cosplay calendar for our convention group “Girls Of The Con”. We’ve traveled and worked tirelessly each year to produce a calendar full of images that would bring out the best of the convention costuming and cosplay community. Over the years we have gained so many wonderful friends and fellow convention companions and that’s why we are here now at this point. We need your help friends, in an effort to help raise our production values and widen our audience and reach, in an effort to grow Girls Of The Con and become an even bigger voice in the convention community we need your help. We’ve created a kickstarter to raise money for the production of this years 2013 Calendar. You can view it here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/girlsofthecon/girls-of-the-con-2013-fantasy-cosplay-and-costumin
we’ve created a short URL as well for easier sharing.
We ask that you only share this link, share it with everyone, promote it on your fanpages, show it to your friends, in any way you can help us get the word out. We want to grow and give our talented calendar girls an even bigger spotlight to showcase their talent and hard work. To create more opportunities for professional costumers and amateur alike, and to ultimately introduce more people in a positive way to the community we’ve all grown to love and support, we need more money to grow. We aren’t asking for your money, although we would be grateful for any donations no matter the amount, we are simply ask that you share this link with your friends. We have always been supporters of our colleagues, even the ones who we might have considered competiton, because ultimately we are a community, and if one of us succeeds we all succeed in some way. If you are on this list, at some point Girls Of The Con has likely promoted, shared, liked, or even donated to your cause, group, or organization. We simply ask that you help us in a similar way, take a few minutes and share our link and give thought to helping us reach our goal of $4,000.
If all the people whose lives we’ve ever touched with our production, our artwork, and our friendship gave a single $1 we would reach our goal. We have great things planned this year, a few things that have never been done at Dragon *CON before, but we need help to make it happen. So please my friends I beg and emplore you to share this link, give if you feel you can, and help us move forth. We’ve gone a long way on our own, but Girls Of The Con needs your help to grow. Thank you for taking the time to read this through. We consider you all friends and thank you so much for the love and support you’ve shown for our little project over the past few years. It’s only getting better and regardless of how this kickstarter goes we will still produce our calendar the way we always have. But with all your help I feel we can show you what we’re really capable of bringing to this community.Thank you for your time and support.
Sincerely,
Jason L. Bohannon and Traci Tant
Co-Founders Girls Of The Con.
