Creative Impulse Entertainment branched out into motion comic animation, starting with Junior Energy (2008),[18] a children's intellectual property created, written, and produced by Jan Lucanus and Mercer Boffey for the Clinton Global Initiative[19] and JuniorEnergy.org.

The pilot episode, directed by Jan Lucanus, was launched in February 2012 during the "JFH FreeFor All" Event[27] with leading digital comic network, Graphicly,[28] media outlet iFanboy, and animation software developer Reallusion.

[29] The JFH Motion Comic Animation had its premiere public screening at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con's Superhero Kung Fu Extravaganza[30] hosted by Ric Meyers,[31] where Jan Lucanus and Willow Road President Zach Shelton announced a live action feature film and animated series production partnership for JFH: Justice-For-Hire with Spillwall Productions.

Among his classmates were his creative partner, actor Mercer Boffey,[14] and business partners Andrew Vannata[34] and Patrick Brennan,[35] cinematographers Jon Chen[36] and Jody Lee Lipes,[37] directors Jess Manafort and Lance Edmands,[38] rapper/writer/director/actor Aldous Davidson,[39] DJ Madame Turk,[40] model/singer/actress Sinsu Co,[41] Danity Kane singer D. Woods, and comedian Aziz Ansari.

Lucanus interned for fellow NYU alum, music video director Marc Klasfeld, at Rockhard Films,[47] and quickly rose to the title of Production Coordinator, with his own projects.

[56] As announced at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con Superhero Kung Fu Extravaganza, his feature directorial debut will be the live-action adaptation of his comic book series, JFH: Justice-For-Hire, slated for production via a partnership between his company Creative Impulse Entertainment.

CIE operates as an umbrella corporation for creative design, intellectual property development, and production across comic books, filmmaking, music, and games.

Among His strategic advisors are transmedia artist Michael Counts,[62] producer Barry Navidi,[63] and former Village Roadshow Pictures President & COO Steve Krone.

In college, Jan was on the outskirts of the United Nationz rap crew led by Tox Simian[65] (not to be confused with rapper Cam'ron's U.N. group), with his first official featured appearance singing the chorus on the UN track "We So Gangsta".

In his senior year of college at NYU, Lucanus took a hip hop class to assist with his performance abilities in prep for his upcoming role in his Justice-For-Hire featurette.

He returned to rap with his creative partner and JFH co-star Mercer Boffey, a proficient beatboxer,[66] and performed several times as part of his duties in the class.

Lucanus also teamed up with rapper/actor Aldous Davidson[39] to form the rap duo Ultra Vanity Testosterone (UVT) – their independent release The Freestyled Mixtape debuted in February 2013.

(Motivated by Truth)", produced by Sage Michael and Davide Berardi,[73] was released on YouTube and Soundcloud in 2010,[74] and was first performed live that year at a benefit for the More Than Me Foundation[75] hosted by Prince Lorenzo Borghese.

[76] Art for a second single entitled, "Aura Ignite" has been posted on the Jan Lucanus Myspace page,[77][non-primary source needed] but a release date has not been announced.

Considered an underdog with his teammates against the Beijing pros that were also formerly coached by Li Ti Liang, Lucanus won a Silver Cup in the fights for the 165 lb.

One day, while Lucanus was on set wrapping production for his NYU senior thesis film, "Justice-For-Hire",[90] his class was challenged by former childhood chess champion Joshua Waitzkin, who had become a top student of the renowned Grandmaster William C. C. Chen and was in training for the Chung Hwa Tai Chi World Cup.

Several students shifted focus to Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), and Josh introduced Lucanus to Professor John Machado (who would later become a creative partner and mentor for Jan and an advisor for his company).

[102] Members include Ian Morgan, John Machado, Maximillion Chen, Mercer Boffey, Aurore Barry,[59] Hinton Wells, Gabe Dorado, Glenyss Puentavella, and Jordan Forth.

Lucanus, his father, and the team won several gold medals on the International Chinese Martial Arts Circuit (ICMAC), with the father/son duo taking gold medals[104][105] in the ICMAC's first tournament to use Extreme Pushing Hands rules (full body grappling with tai chi space control tactics within a ring) organized by Dr. Shie-Ming Hwang[106] and Nick Scrima.

[109] However, also as his former coach Josh before him, despite the accumulation of several international titles and medals, Jan's style of competitive pushing hands has received criticisms within the tai chi community for being "all wrong".