Rodan, Mothra, & King Ghidorah Designs (2018-)

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Mr_Goji_and_Watch wrote:Oh wow most of the Ghidorah fan designs here are hideous (excluding Frank's). They either have horrible wings or fucked up faces. Sometimes it's both. :lol: Something like Frank's design incorporating some elements of the Showa design would be sick.
Like his design or not, but calling Quach's drawing "hideous" is overstating your resent just a hair, is it not?

I find it glorious, personally: with a couple bodily tweaks (remove the hair, fangs, and one of the tails), that is my ideal Legendary Ghidorah. And furthermore, though I may not personally love the hair and fangs, I do agree that it is, for all intents and purposes, probably one of the best updates of the original suits that some of you guys cherish so dearly. It manages to become a more streamlined and graceful structure while retaining key traditional traits.

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Personally I've always loved the design in Ryguy's avatar.
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I really like this design. One the few designs that is very alien looking but still actually looks like King Ghidorah. Plus love how the artist incorporated the trunk like legs but didn't just make them literally Godzilla's legs but golden/yellow like a few other design I've seen.

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Their Rodan also looks pretty good too imo.
These are perfect imo. Ghidorah actually looks like an alien life-form and Rodan is modernized but still very recognizable, infact I get some Heisei vibes from him. I also like Matt Frank's Ghidorah heads that have multiple eyes.
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I'm just really worried at least one of the designs will look entirely too bland. Hollywood has a bad habit of doing that to their kaiju.

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Tyrant28 wrote:Image
I really like this design. One the few designs that is very alien looking but still actually looks like King Ghidorah. Plus love how the artist incorporated the trunk like legs but didn't just make them literally Godzilla's legs but golden/yellow like a few other design I've seen.

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Their Rodan also looks pretty good too imo.
These are perfect imo. Ghidorah actually looks like an alien life-form and Rodan is modernized but still very recognizable, infact I get some Heisei vibes from him. I also like Matt Frank's Ghidorah heads that have multiple eyes.
The Rodan is cool but I'd like to see more originality than what's in the Ghidorah in this design. It borrows way too may elements from Cloverfield's kaiju. :? However, change the torso to something more original, I'd definitely like it.

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master_of_monsters wrote:Image
Legendary, if you're seeing this, you have your ghidorah, or at least the basis for it.

Someone call Tull.
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Too Rathalos-y. I like the wings, though.
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I do like the perma-grin in the picture
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Tyrant28 wrote:Image
Their Rodan also looks pretty good too imo.
That doesn't look recognizably like Rodan to me. It looks like a generic pterosaur-inspired monster.
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master_of_monsters wrote:Image
First off beautiful art.

But as a design...I don't like it I find it looks too much like a generic super dragon or Yughoi O for some reason.
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g2vd wrote:
master_of_monsters wrote:Image
First off beautiful art.

But as a design...I don't like it I find it looks too much like a generic super dragon or Yughoi O for some reason.
technically that's sort of what ghidorah is
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i dont wanna see 3 winged monsters in one movie thats bs wheres anguirus

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Gahdzilluh wrote:i dont wanna see 3 winged monsters in one movie thats bs wheres anguirus
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MechaGoji Bro7503 wrote:
Gahdzilluh wrote:i dont wanna see 3 winged monsters in one movie thats bs wheres anguirus
I know right? I like these monsters but let some others have the spotlight
But this isn't a Toho movie. We've never seen any of these guys in CGI, with Hollywood effects.

Makes it fresh enough for me.
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MechaGoji Bro7503 wrote:
Gahdzilluh wrote:i dont wanna see 3 winged monsters in one movie thats bs wheres anguirus
I know right? I like these monsters but let some others have the spotlight
But this isn't a Toho movie. We've never seen any of these guys in CGI, with Hollywood effects.

Makes it fresh enough for me.
Eh you've got a point. Think their going to somehow use motion capture for Ghidorah?
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MechaGoji Bro7503 wrote:
Kaiju-King42 wrote:
MechaGoji Bro7503 wrote: I know right? I like these monsters but let some others have the spotlight
But this isn't a Toho movie. We've never seen any of these guys in CGI, with Hollywood effects.

Makes it fresh enough for me.
Eh you've got a point. Think their going to somehow use motion capture for Ghidorah?
i say no way on the mocap lol.. idk i think they should be able to tell the movie is saturated with wings

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I really excited to especially see their design for Ghidorah. Godzilla looks incredible, dark and creepy in certain shots so if they go with that feel for Ghidorah I think that will be great and his size will especially be daunting on an already massive Godzilla. With Mothra I think they will make her a little "darker" as well but I hope they have her sort of pop more design/color wise and retain a good mystical type of feel to her. Rodan I think should be fine as well and probably more realistic looking then ever.
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I want Ghidorah to be beautiful yet horrifying, and bloody huge. Even though G14 was a more "natural" looking film (which I greatly enjoyed), I want both Ghidorah and Mothra to pop. Godzilla and Rodan can be the more drab and "Earthy", looking kaiju.
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I have a bad feeling that they'll make the monsters extremely generic. Rodan, Ghidorah, and Mothra aren't super creative or anything, but they do have some unique qualities that make them stand out.
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Sorry if this has been posted already, but I like this design. Only thing I'd change would be to make the necks and tail longer, the legs thicker and sturdier, and the waist thicker.

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