Improving kaiju designs
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Improving kaiju designs
You can improve any number of kaiju design. Who will you choose and what would you change?
1962 King Kong: Base it more on 1933 Kong.
Mothra (larva): Don't make it look like a weird turd.
Post-1964 Showa Godzilla: Keep more aspects from MosuGoji like, for example, the light-colored eyebrows.
Showa Gigan: Recolor the fins to be red.
Megalon: Turn the hands into full drills.
Heisei Ghidorah: Add the crescent horns.
Heisei Mechagodzilla: Use the Transforming Mechagodzilla design (without the transforming since they cut it for a good reason).
Heisei Rodan: Start from scratch.
Little Godzilla: Focus more on modernizing the Minilla desing than "outcuteing" everything else.
GMK Guardians: Add more cultural details to make it clear that they're guardians of Japan.
Millennium Anguirus: Use the 2001 design but with 1968 colors and no ice abilities.
Millennium Gigan: Use a desaturated version of the Showa color scheme.
Keizer Ghidorah: Make him bipedal (but with arms still) and give him a brighter gold color scheme.
Legendary Godzilla: Have his underside be a brighter grey or maybe even beige.
MUTO: Use the more clearly mammalian concept art design with the color scheme of the final version.
1962 King Kong: Base it more on 1933 Kong.
Mothra (larva): Don't make it look like a weird turd.
Post-1964 Showa Godzilla: Keep more aspects from MosuGoji like, for example, the light-colored eyebrows.
Showa Gigan: Recolor the fins to be red.
Megalon: Turn the hands into full drills.
Heisei Ghidorah: Add the crescent horns.
Heisei Mechagodzilla: Use the Transforming Mechagodzilla design (without the transforming since they cut it for a good reason).
Heisei Rodan: Start from scratch.
Little Godzilla: Focus more on modernizing the Minilla desing than "outcuteing" everything else.
GMK Guardians: Add more cultural details to make it clear that they're guardians of Japan.
Millennium Anguirus: Use the 2001 design but with 1968 colors and no ice abilities.
Millennium Gigan: Use a desaturated version of the Showa color scheme.
Keizer Ghidorah: Make him bipedal (but with arms still) and give him a brighter gold color scheme.
Legendary Godzilla: Have his underside be a brighter grey or maybe even beige.
MUTO: Use the more clearly mammalian concept art design with the color scheme of the final version.
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Re: Improving kaiju designs
The designers and suit makers were specifically told not to do this, So they based his face off of the cute little monkeys you see in Japan's hot springs. I get what they were going for and had they pulled it off we would have had a cool unique design Kong instead of the equivalent to the SOG Godzilla design.Cryptid_Liker wrote:1962 King Kong: Base it more on 1933 Kong.
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Not too sure how people would've reacted to Anguirus suddenly becoming gold and having ice powers out of the blue.Cryptid_Liker wrote:Millennium Anguirus: Use the 2001 design.
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I’d change every FW design except Kamacuras and Kumonga. I’d make them more Showa-Like.
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Oof. Should probably update that.tyrantgoji wrote:Not too sure how people would've reacted to Anguirus suddenly becoming gold and having ice powers out of the blue.Cryptid_Liker wrote:Millennium Anguirus: Use the 2001 design.
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Re: Improving kaiju designs
Or just keep the design and toss his ice powers and gold coloring.tyrantgoji wrote:Not too sure how people would've reacted to Anguirus suddenly becoming gold and having ice powers out of the blue.Cryptid_Liker wrote:Millennium Anguirus: Use the 2001 design.
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I fle the FW Kamacuras lokked pretty good. They seemed more realistic.VoyagerGoji wrote:I’d change every FW design except Kamacuras and Kumonga. I’d make them more Showa-Like.
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Re: Improving kaiju designs
Showa Anguirus - A more sleeker, running adapted design reminiscent of extinct cocodilians like old depictions of Postosuchus and related genera or Quikana, with some elements of big cats. Essentially, something like a Mishipeshu.
Obviously, this includes fixing the legs so they don't look like dragging human legs.
Gorosaurus - Run with the kangaroo kick bit make a design that screams 'Australia'. This includes adding simple, hairlike black feathers on him reminiscent of a cassowary, another animal from Australia known for its kicks; the second is a kind of spotted pattern on it that echoes australian dot paintings.
Obviously, this includes fixing the legs so they don't look like dragging human legs.
Gorosaurus - Run with the kangaroo kick bit make a design that screams 'Australia'. This includes adding simple, hairlike black feathers on him reminiscent of a cassowary, another animal from Australia known for its kicks; the second is a kind of spotted pattern on it that echoes australian dot paintings.
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^ That Gorosaurus does sound interesting, but it doesn’t feel right for KKE.
Speaking of, we seriously need a kaiju based of the Indigenous Australian legend of the Rainbow Serpent.
Speaking of, we seriously need a kaiju based of the Indigenous Australian legend of the Rainbow Serpent.
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Godzilla 1984 - Make the eyes proportionately smaller.
Heisei Mechagodzilla - Use the poster design.
Spacegodzilla - Help him differentiate from Super Godzilla by replacing the head-crest with an enlarged brain encapsulated with a crystal.
Shin Godzilla - Remove the pointed sternum.
Heisei Mechagodzilla - Use the poster design.
Spacegodzilla - Help him differentiate from Super Godzilla by replacing the head-crest with an enlarged brain encapsulated with a crystal.
Shin Godzilla - Remove the pointed sternum.
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The Anguirus is pretty interesting but I'm not a fan of the Gorosaurus. Seems more like an Ultraman monster than something that would fight King Kong.Al Diplodocus wrote:Showa Anguirus - A more sleeker, running adapted design reminiscent of extinct cocodilians like old depictions of Postosuchus and related genera or Quikana, with some elements of big cats. Essentially, something like a Mishipeshu.
Obviously, this includes fixing the legs so they don't look like dragging human legs.
Gorosaurus - Run with the kangaroo kick bit make a design that screams 'Australia'. This includes adding simple, hairlike black feathers on him reminiscent of a cassowary, another animal from Australia known for its kicks; the second is a kind of spotted pattern on it that echoes australian dot paintings.Spoiler:
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Post-64 Showa Godzilla (All designs): I would keep the shiny lighter-colored brows.
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Heisei Mothra- Make it look less like a plush doll. Keep the hairy body, but the wings need to look smooth.
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What makes me sad with Toho's Kong design is that The Gargantuas look great, and they are similarly primate/humanoid in nature. Not quite like gorillas, but enough similarities to where it shows that more humanoid monsters can work.
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I gotta be honest, i'd make Legendary Ghidorah look a bit more eastern dragon than western dragon.
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GMK Godzilla I'd probably slim that pot belly he has, as it is the one nitpick I have with the design.
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THIS. Adding a mane, crescent horns, and maybe even barbels could've been the thing to save Ghidorah from just being another generic Vermithrax expy.
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I heard somewhere the designers did it that way on purpose since corpses usually bloat up when they die.
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I feel taking a realistic approach to a literal zombie Kaiju possessed by the souls of vengeful ghosts is entirely missing the point, but if that was true wouldn't a decomposing corpse be more accurate if that was the intent?