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I've been drawing - a lot of kaiju lately.

Just one of several redraws/redesigns that I've been working on. Once I've finished I might go into more explanation on them all.

EDIT:

Okay. Explanation time.

Redmoon is weirdly one of my favorite kaiju that never ended up being made. I guess it's just the overall story the monster is involved with in the unproduced Godzilla lore, along with Erabus and Halfun (Hafun? Hunfun?), his mate and child, respectively. It's a strangely sad story, which is probably why it never made it to film, but we did end up seeing it, in a way, in the 2014 Godzilla film from Legendary, which seems to recycle and repurpose a lot of things from Godzilla mythos, used or otherwise. It was interesting seeing the MUTOs not only being these weird combinations of previous Godzilla foes, but also having the sexual dimorphism and overall story arc that Redmoon and Erabus did.

There are only a couple of concept arts made for this movie, and I tried very hard to stick to them, but also combining the best features I could from both of them into a single, suit-friendly design. Mostly, it resembles the bulkier design you see in one of the pieces, which itself resembles the suit it was going to be based on (weird story, read into it: Redmoon was going to be the suit of Goliath from another kaiju film, Daigoro Vs. Goliath, retrofitted to be in this Godzilla movie), which I also pulled elements from. I also tried to tie the designs of Erabus and Redmoon closer together, even with the sexual dimorphism, just to drive the point home that they are in fact from the same species. I gave Redmoon some of Erabus' armor design, for example, as well as her ears, because the original didn't have them. I won't go into everything because, weirdly, there were a ton of design choices with Redmoon and Erabus, so many I can't remember them all.

In the concept pieces, Redmoon has wings, but they seem decidedly bird-like, which I thought was interesting: not dragon- or bat-like, but simple, seemingly feathery wings. I stuck to that, but I also tried to make it seem (even though it's not really obvious) that the scales on his body would transition from hard reptillian armor to feathery or furry texture, but still in a scale-like configuration on the wings. Maybe it'll be more obvious when I ink it. I also tried to make it that the texture on his wings is similar to the mane of hair (or maybe feathers?) that Erabus has.

In any case, here's Redmoon. More on the way.

Description

I've been drawing - a lot of kaiju lately.

Just one of several redraws/redesigns that I've been working on. Once I've finished I might go into more explanation on them all.

EDIT:

Okay. Explanation time.

Redmoon is weirdly one of my favorite kaiju that never ended up being made. I guess it's just the overall story the monster is involved with in the unproduced Godzilla lore, along with Erabus and Halfun (Hafun? Hunfun?), his mate and child, respectively. It's a strangely sad story, which is probably why it never made it to film, but we did end up seeing it, in a way, in the 2014 Godzilla film from Legendary, which seems to recycle and repurpose a lot of things from Godzilla mythos, used or otherwise. It was interesting seeing the MUTOs not only being these weird combinations of previous Godzilla foes, but also having the sexual dimorphism and overall story arc that Redmoon and Erabus did.

There are only a couple of concept arts made for this movie, and I tried very hard to stick to them, but also combining the best features I could from both of them into a single, suit-friendly design. Mostly, it resembles the bulkier design you see in one of the pieces, which itself resembles the suit it was going to be based on (weird story, read into it: Redmoon was going to be the suit of Goliath from another kaiju film, Daigoro Vs. Goliath, retrofitted to be in this Godzilla movie), which I also pulled elements from. I also tried to tie the designs of Erabus and Redmoon closer together, even with the sexual dimorphism, just to drive the point home that they are in fact from the same species. I gave Redmoon some of Erabus' armor design, for example, as well as her ears, because the original didn't have them. I won't go into everything because, weirdly, there were a ton of design choices with Redmoon and Erabus, so many I can't remember them all.

In the concept pieces, Redmoon has wings, but they seem decidedly bird-like, which I thought was interesting: not dragon- or bat-like, but simple, seemingly feathery wings. I stuck to that, but I also tried to make it seem (even though it's not really obvious) that the scales on his body would transition from hard reptillian armor to feathery or furry texture, but still in a scale-like configuration on the wings. Maybe it'll be more obvious when I ink it. I also tried to make it that the texture on his wings is similar to the mane of hair (or maybe feathers?) that Erabus has.

In any case, here's Redmoon. More on the way.