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Recently (within the last five-ish years?) I've been really into doing kaiju costume designs. They were sort of inspired by a previous Matt Frank contest he did in the past concerning monster designs that were built around the idea of how a person would fit inside, but the challenge sort of took on a life of its own. There was a time when I thought I might actually try to build a suit myself built on my sketches and take it to cons and stuff...but yeah, that's probably pie-in-the-sky stuff.

In any case, I started doing sketches of a Godzilla redesign that was heavily based on the short-snouted caiman. The idea was to give Godzilla slightly more crocodillian features without sacrificing his bulk or chunkiness. I was also partially inspired by the Stan Winston Godzilla design from the Jan de Bont movie that never happened, which I both love and take some issue with. Some sketches make this more evident than others. I would like to keep pursuing this design, possibly color it and digitally realize it, but...we'll see. God knows at this point if I will get around to that.

Actually went to the trouble of inking and coloring this one, to a point. I feel like this sort of sells the crocodillian elements a little better, like how they swim, and the flat rudder-like tail, and especially the way they poke their heads out from beneath the surface to scope things out before ducking back under. I'm also a huge fan of that webcomic (not sure who did it) that depicts Godzilla carting around like 50 babies on his back like a crocodile, clinging to his dorsal plates as he makes his way into the city. I love that idea.

Anyway...here's Godzilla swimming.

Description

Recently (within the last five-ish years?) I've been really into doing kaiju costume designs. They were sort of inspired by a previous Matt Frank contest he did in the past concerning monster designs that were built around the idea of how a person would fit inside, but the challenge sort of took on a life of its own. There was a time when I thought I might actually try to build a suit myself built on my sketches and take it to cons and stuff...but yeah, that's probably pie-in-the-sky stuff.

In any case, I started doing sketches of a Godzilla redesign that was heavily based on the short-snouted caiman. The idea was to give Godzilla slightly more crocodillian features without sacrificing his bulk or chunkiness. I was also partially inspired by the Stan Winston Godzilla design from the Jan de Bont movie that never happened, which I both love and take some issue with. Some sketches make this more evident than others. I would like to keep pursuing this design, possibly color it and digitally realize it, but...we'll see. God knows at this point if I will get around to that.

Actually went to the trouble of inking and coloring this one, to a point. I feel like this sort of sells the crocodillian elements a little better, like how they swim, and the flat rudder-like tail, and especially the way they poke their heads out from beneath the surface to scope things out before ducking back under. I'm also a huge fan of that webcomic (not sure who did it) that depicts Godzilla carting around like 50 babies on his back like a crocodile, clinging to his dorsal plates as he makes his way into the city. I love that idea.

Anyway...here's Godzilla swimming.