Battra Larva work in progress
Monday, December 22, 2014
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Switcheroo
More Minced Oath Pantheon. Frick used to be a love deity before ~the incident~. Now he’s a god of strife with trust issues.
His sister Frig was a goddess of war, but an arrow through the heart changed that. So she decided to pay it forward and become the new goddess of romance. She’s still learning the ropes.
His sister Frig was a goddess of war, but an arrow through the heart changed that. So she decided to pay it forward and become the new goddess of romance. She’s still learning the ropes.
Gosh and Son
Whenever you censor your swears you are empowering a mysterious and possibly dangerous pantheon of deities. Don’t used minced oaths, people.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Titano-lisk
Titanosaurus 1998, as a mutated basilisk lizard. Again, mutated due to atomic testing in French Polynesia ala American Godzilla 1998, as well as my takes on American Baragon and Anguirus.
Why were so many varied species of lizard located on French Polynesia? In a world where radiation can turn animals into giant superbeasts, maybe they French where experimenting with mutation. Maybe they had a think tank on the islands that included studying alternate forms of energy and a reptile house of exotic reptiles, and the two meeting was an accident. Who knows?
Anyways, Titanosaurus migrates to the waters off the coasts of India and Japan, decreasing fish populations and spooking ships, creating a rumor of "a giant goldfish" attacking fishing ships. Designed to be an analog of Godzilla, with a bit more hadrosaur elements.
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Monday, July 28, 2014
Manda-Stropheus
Manda as a Tanystropheus.
Can't say that Manda's long/chinese dragon design was not as impressive when placed in the same setting as Godzilla or Ghidorah. I felt like tanystropheus was a nice fit. Serpentine, aquatice, reptillian, toothy.
The neck was originally going to be a lot longer, but it didn't sit right with me.
Can't say that Manda's long/chinese dragon design was not as impressive when placed in the same setting as Godzilla or Ghidorah. I felt like tanystropheus was a nice fit. Serpentine, aquatice, reptillian, toothy.
The neck was originally going to be a lot longer, but it didn't sit right with me.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Baragon's Kids
So after being used for Frankenstein Conquers the World, the Baragon suit was used to make the monsters Pagos, Neronga, Gabora, and Magura for the Ultraman series. So it’s a little bit like he has descendants. Sea Baragon and 2001 Baragon are thrown in for good measure.
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Monday, July 21, 2014
Godzilla-Raptor
Godzilla as a Dromaeosaur
Don't get me wrong, feathers are an important part of depicting any kind of raptor, and most theropod dinosaurs. I just like the idea that being mutated by an atomic blast burned all his feathers off and they grew back sparsely and in weird ways.
Almost didn't do this one, on account of a Godzilla with raptor features could just end up being Zilla/Gino/Godzilla1998. Adding Godzilla's distinctive low center of gravity as well as (hopefully) appropriately positioned raptor arms helped move it along.
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Monday, July 14, 2014
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Anguirus 1998
American Anguirus
Anguirus as a mutated Red Eyed Crocodile Skink, mutated by atomic testing in French Polynesia, ala Zilla and Baragon 1998. I'll leave it up to you to figure so many exotic lizard species were affected by it.
In 1998 American Godzilla movie, Godzilla's name is depicted as a mispronunciation of the original name Gojira, which in the film's world is derived from a Japanese "mythological sea dragon that filled their hearts with fear". This certainly was meant to be some filler text to justify the movie's title name, and, but what if there was more to it? What if in the movie's setting it's part of an international disinformation campaign to cover-up an occurrence in 1954 Japan, the events of the original Godzilla movie? Or what if in this world Godzilla and all associated monsters are actually elements of east Asian mythology, with Gojira literally being a dragon/lóng? What if they weren't just myths?
Anyways, the idea is that this Anguirus got his name because he's buddies with Zilla Junior, and in the myth, Gojira's ally had the same name.
Anguirus as a mutated Red Eyed Crocodile Skink, mutated by atomic testing in French Polynesia, ala Zilla and Baragon 1998. I'll leave it up to you to figure so many exotic lizard species were affected by it.
In 1998 American Godzilla movie, Godzilla's name is depicted as a mispronunciation of the original name Gojira, which in the film's world is derived from a Japanese "mythological sea dragon that filled their hearts with fear". This certainly was meant to be some filler text to justify the movie's title name, and, but what if there was more to it? What if in the movie's setting it's part of an international disinformation campaign to cover-up an occurrence in 1954 Japan, the events of the original Godzilla movie? Or what if in this world Godzilla and all associated monsters are actually elements of east Asian mythology, with Gojira literally being a dragon/lóng? What if they weren't just myths?
Anyways, the idea is that this Anguirus got his name because he's buddies with Zilla Junior, and in the myth, Gojira's ally had the same name.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Plateo-Zilla
Godzilla as a Plateosaur.
One idea I've read is that Godzilla might be derived from some sort of carnivorous or omnivorous plateosaur, sort of like the inverse of therizinosaurs. An interesting idea.
I was surprised to learn while researching for this that prosauropods aren't really a scientifically classified clade anymore. They've been absorbed into the sauropodomorph suborder.
One idea I've read is that Godzilla might be derived from some sort of carnivorous or omnivorous plateosaur, sort of like the inverse of therizinosaurs. An interesting idea.
I was surprised to learn while researching for this that prosauropods aren't really a scientifically classified clade anymore. They've been absorbed into the sauropodomorph suborder.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Anguiro-suchus
Anguirus as an Aetosaur
Originally based upon Desmatosuchus, which features of Riobarrisuchus/Heliocanthus, which might all by synonyms for the same creature anyways.
Originally based upon Desmatosuchus, which features of Riobarrisuchus/Heliocanthus, which might all by synonyms for the same creature anyways.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Cephalo-Zilla
Godzilla as a pacheycephalosaur. Godzilla is ostensibly a theropod dinosaur in some of the movies, so I thought it would be a nice exercise to apply Godzilla features of other families of dinosaurs.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Thursday, May 29, 2014
A Baragon By Any Other Name
I like the idea of reinterpreting Godzilla monsters using the 1998 Godzilla/GINO/Zilla design rationale as a basis. No dinosaurs, no prehistoric beasts, no magic, everything is basically a giant mutated creature. As an iguana mutated and became Godzilla, a frilled lizard mutated and became Baragon, who first appeared in Frankenstein Conquers the World (incidentally, one of my favorite movies).
This originally started out as an excuse to draw a folded up frilled lizard frill, before I thought that the frill could be a stand in for a redesigned Baragon's ear flaps.
This originally started out as an excuse to draw a folded up frilled lizard frill, before I thought that the frill could be a stand in for a redesigned Baragon's ear flaps.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
ZOINKS.jpg
Working on a book, a short guide to gods from space, an idea that’s been sitting on the backburner for a while. Each entity has found an abstract domain for itself to claim. This guy specializes in fear.
Friday, April 11, 2014
Titans Without a Tack
Some creature request from some buddies of mine. Three Sonic Titans, the first an extra-dimensional entity made of sound, the second a stridulating divine cricket, and the third a bellowing behemoth.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Friday, February 14, 2014
Valentiner
Valentine's day could use a mascot. Not Saint Valentine, he's rather drab, and Cupid is way to overplayed.
How about a giant disembodied heart that deliver luvvy-duvvy stuff to people who can't afford or forgot to buy some?
Careful of the dentata. And the fire.
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