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2019 Edit: Shin godzilla confirmed my fucked up godzilla is valid.2017 Edit: This picture was made in 2014, and I still get comments saying that this is 'bad' or I should 'feel bad' for making this image? I love Godzilla and simply wanted to make another interpretation of him. If you dislike it, that's fine! However attacking me as an artist is not appreciated.
Using my knowledge of Dinosaurs, large deep sea creatures, and radiation - which isn't much, to be honest, I decided to sit down and make a Godzilla that would seem more feasible. The irony in my thought, is that the fans' least favourite Godzilla - the American Zilla of 1998, is actually most feasible. Why? Well it's due to the simple age of the Godzilla franchise. Up until recently, paleontologists believed that the T. rex stood upright, like a Kangaroo or human, with the tail dragging on the ground. However, we soon realized that the hips could not function this way, and instead the dinosaur would look more like a bird, with the legs in the center of it's weight, balancing. Its tail would not dragon the ground.
From there, I figured the radiation would eliminate all of Godzilla's feathers; his skin is exposed and burnt - his skin looks a lot like a crocodiles to the touch. The radiation also added deformities to his spine - creating the 'spikes', while other toumourous growths appear all over his body. His tail is split in two, and his appendages become webbed. He has traumatic burns throughout his body, and is sterile - to escape the pain, he retreats into the water. His nose looks much more like a seal's so as to control his breathing. His arms can bend to make his body more streamlined, and with his time spent in the water,most of his pale skin has become darkened and burned black; so that from above he resembles the dark shadowy waters, and from above he resembles light. Barnacles, the green, and lampreys/fish cling to him for protection and sustenance. He spends most of his time in water, due to the soothing affect it has on his skin and the less pain he is in with added tumour weight; he has adapted amazingly well and is known to eat large prey - sharks, whales, and giant squid, among others, from which he earns the more recent scars.
He has no beam powers, and it is logical to assume his brain is a bit maddened by the radiation; in all reality, he will die not long from the exposure - far from the media monster we see him as.
And no, I've yet to see the new movie yet, : (.
Gojira/Godzilla (c) Toho
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Evil-tahu [2021-12-31 08:56:36 +0000 UTC]
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godzilla199999 [2020-05-09 03:53:45 +0000 UTC]
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Klomonx In reply to godzilla199999 [2020-05-14 00:49:55 +0000 UTC]
This picture is very old, so I had to think - this picture came about before the Legendary reboot Godzilla or the Shin Godzilla [who, in retrospect, isn't that far off]. I got really interested in reading about what science folks thought of Godzilla as a concept, and felt that they weren't going deep enough. Of course something as big as Godzilla couldn't exist, but, I wanted to have some fun with it.
If I had to redo it now, I'd probably make him far more Spino like!
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godzilla199999 In reply to Klomonx [2020-05-14 03:22:42 +0000 UTC]
Ok πππππ»ππ»ππ»
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BlackoutAffect [2019-08-23 01:15:36 +0000 UTC]
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Klomonx In reply to BlackoutAffect [2019-08-23 11:19:42 +0000 UTC]
I know the origin changes with each incarnation, but I appreciate it - it's been a long time since watching Zilla's movie and I didnt remember any origin story.
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Absurdpotato [2017-06-20 11:06:07 +0000 UTC]
zilla was the first godzilla movie i ever watched so i guess i am a little bis about this and also i am a huge science nerd. also thisΒ www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcRS1Sβ¦
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Klomonx In reply to Absurdpotato [2017-06-20 18:38:34 +0000 UTC]
Great video - I probably would have used it to construct a realistic Godzilla had it existed when I made the image. My image was made in 2014, before the 2015 video. I also seem to have wrongly recalled that in one of the movies Godzilla was a literal T-Rex, thus my basing of it on T-Rex.
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Absurdpotato In reply to Klomonx [2017-06-20 19:11:07 +0000 UTC]
i know just something you can use if you plan to redo this.
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Klomonx In reply to TheAtomicDinosaur [2017-05-22 02:43:38 +0000 UTC]
As described, I gave him a fish tail in an attempt to make him more water-based. It is a flipper, like those found on whales or sharks.
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TheAtomicDinosaur In reply to Klomonx [2017-05-22 13:46:27 +0000 UTC]
I mean the thing sucking blood out of him...
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Klomonx In reply to TheAtomicDinosaur [2017-05-22 20:14:33 +0000 UTC]
Oh, that is a Lamprey!
Another common animal on large fish and other sea creatures, they help clean the skin and keep parasites off of the larger animals.
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TheAtomicDinosaur In reply to Klomonx [2017-05-23 00:30:47 +0000 UTC]
cool.. this one doesn't help much!
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Zimzilla99 [2017-03-31 01:26:24 +0000 UTC]
And that is why realism does blend well with monster movies, also despite having a tyrannosaur as part of its original design it has no relation to the species and Godzillasaurus has been shown to share more with abelisauridae a species that is shown to have osteodermsΒ and 4 fingers. Also overall if we were to make him more streamlined why does he have large therapod legs that would have drag in the water.
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Klomonx In reply to Zimzilla99 [2017-03-31 02:57:56 +0000 UTC]
For one this picture is over three years old.
I did this for fun and as an experiment, as Godzilla is fictional but shown to beΒ T-Rex - like dinosaur in some of the movies, I went and had fun with it, using a T-Rex as a base. I know things like the legs are an odd choice for a swimming creature but so is Godzilla's regular design.
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Klomonx In reply to Zimzilla99 [2017-04-02 19:32:57 +0000 UTC]
Your attitude is unappreciated.
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Zimzilla99 In reply to Klomonx [2017-04-02 19:35:25 +0000 UTC]
You can't read attitude through words
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thereal9thdoctor [2015-10-20 00:01:15 +0000 UTC]
While a more Dino postured Godzilla may "seem" more realistic, in actual fact a theropod the size of even the 1954 Godzilla (164ft) would NOT be able to stand like that. If it were even possible for an land animal to be that big( even something semi aquatic like Godzilla) its hip section would be crushed from its mass and the stress of its posture. It would have to stand upright and would have plantigrade legs(like the old school Godzilla) to be even able to stand, let alone move. Much as I have issues with Godzilla 2014 his overall posture and body structure is very realistic to what a creature that size would be like(ignoring, of course, the fact that its mass would kill it in reality).
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Klomonx In reply to thereal9thdoctor [2015-10-20 03:23:03 +0000 UTC]
Ah, true. I said my knowledge of Biology is, sadly, limited. I also believed that Godzilla (this one I mean) would not be on land really, at all. I guess I should have made his legs more suited to swimming, then, but... well I guess radiated dinosaurs can only be SO logical, y'know?
Thank you for your insight! I never took that into consideration that a creature his size NEEDS plantigrade feet.
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thereal9thdoctor In reply to Klomonx [2015-10-21 02:16:22 +0000 UTC]
Btw, here is my "realistic" Godzilla: fav.me/d94wy0a It is trying to be realistic without losing what makes him Godzilla. That is what I think people balk at (in a very jerkish way frankly) to your design. You designed a realistic dinosaur mutation but it has none of what makes Godzilla Godzilla. That is why Zilla(toho's designation for 98) is reviled. To put it another way: there is a certain cut off point for realism with characters like Godzy that once reached, they lose their identifying marks and uniqueness. That's what I like about the 2014 Godzilla. They pushed the realism right up to the edge but not over, keeping him still very much Godzilla, but a "realistic" take if he coyld be that big, have the heat ray, etc. Please don't think I am attacking you btw. Just pointing out why the reaction is so negative, and trying to explain it in a more adult and rational manner. Anyhow, hope you like my version!
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Klomonx In reply to thereal9thdoctor [2015-10-21 14:30:19 +0000 UTC]
Haha, it's fine. I made him realistic with the intention of not following his design because in my humble scientific* opinion his design wasn't realistic to begin with. I wanted to create a more viable T-Rex mutation than a Kaiju, which is why he doesn't look like Godzilla as we know him. Haters gonna hate, I'mma sit here and shrug.
I'll have to check that book out, btw. I haven't heard of it before.
As for your design, I do like it - but as I've said, I wanted to go with a more Rexy mutation. Anything exposed to that amount of radiation as Godzilla was just won't live. The chances of anything being hit by a blast like that and coming out better than he started as is, well, frankly, impossible. Yeah, so I destroyed a fantastic Kaiju, I think people forget that I love Godzilla and his other family members of Kaiju, I just wanted to experiment with something more feasible.
* = I am, sadly, not a scientist and my knowledge is limited.
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thereal9thdoctor In reply to Klomonx [2015-10-21 16:14:48 +0000 UTC]
I get that. Ironically, the '54 film portrays him with radiation burns and the heat ray was originally gonna hurt him whenever he used it. Most people don't know that. The heat ray hurting him was ditched before production but the burns are why he has the tree trunk texture to his skin. That slowly got turned into just scales. Oh and the book is The Godzilla Compendium by Marc Cerisini. Been out of print since the late 90s, but might still find it somewhere.
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Klomonx In reply to thereal9thdoctor [2015-10-22 04:07:49 +0000 UTC]
Huh! Interesting, didn't know. And, well, I'll keep an eye out for it. I tend to find out-of-print books.
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thereal9thdoctor In reply to Klomonx [2015-10-22 10:21:56 +0000 UTC]
Cool. Feel free to look over my gallery, btw. Most recent posts are my figure collection stuff(simply cos I don't have a laptop right now) but I do alot of 3d fanart as well as stuff for my comic I hope to get published.
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thereal9thdoctor In reply to Klomonx [2015-10-20 10:31:25 +0000 UTC]
I used to be of the dino posture school myself, but read an article in the Godzilla compendium written by Palentologist and Biologist Kenneth Carpenter where he talks about what a real Godzilla might be like. He even came up with a plausible(though unlikely) explain for the heat ray... basically acid that is rendered flammable due to contact with air. It's a neat read.
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Tyraka628 [2015-10-19 23:25:59 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, this version is horrible and you should feel bad for making it.
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Klomonx In reply to Tyraka628 [2015-10-19 23:33:12 +0000 UTC]
Nope, on the contrary I feel great about making it.
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Indominus-zilla [2015-10-19 22:59:43 +0000 UTC]
well now that is disgusting in more ways than one and I'd actually prefer to see Zilla than this thing
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