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Published: 2009-02-20 03:53:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 8311; Favourites: 162; Downloads: 52
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So I wanted to draw more. Sue me
Anguirus is Β© Toho Ltd.
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impressive most impressive.incredibly detailed,shaded
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Awesome,looks very saurian and aggressive.
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I prefer the original face, like the one you chose here, simply for aesthetic reasons.
When I watched Final Wars for the first time, my mother and I said in unison "His face looks like a pig."
We can only figure it had something to do with the shortend snout and how beady they made his eyes. Angu normally has huge, anime eyes.
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I don't think I made Ang's eyes that big here
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You achieved a nice balance.
Not Sailor Moon big or Piggy little.
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I have to agree with MM here. When you get right down to it, being a predatory, low-built, spike-studded scrapper is more important to Ang's character than being an ankylosaurus, which was more of an excuse to feature the monster than a desire to have a monster based on the dinosaur. A herbivorous beak isn't going to suspend its entire body several thousand feet off the ground.
Which is why I like this design. It's true to the character and doesn't go out of its way to be accurate. It preserves the classic image through and through. I especially like how the anatomy not only works as a real quadruped, but still manages to mirror the old days where he crawled on his hands and knees. It's that kind of respect for classic images that make me enjoy this series so much.
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You say that as if an ankylosaur isn't already a low-built, spike-studded scrapper XD
At any rate, have we seen Anguirus eat meat? I say this because back in the day, any dinosaur regardless of its diet was featured with sharp teeth to make it look more menacing, even the long-necks.
Thanks for the compliments either way. Essentially, I want to keep true to the original designs for this series while simultaneously giving them the natural mobility and polish they lacked in the films.
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Yeah! Like how in the original King Kong, they have a long neck eat a guy right out of the tree just for the sake of shock value.
I watched the Ray Harryhausen (I apologize if I misspelled that) commentary and he laughed, "Guess no one told that Brontosaurus that he's supposed to be a herbavor."
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An ankylosaurus and Anguirus are both low-built scrappers, yes, but they operate in dramatically different ways. Ang is more of a crocodile/monitor lizard, who uses his jaws and his body, while an ankylosaur prettymuch just turned around and swung its tail when it could.
And in all fairness, Ang was never seen to eat anything. Just the same, his huge, incredibly powerful, toothy jaws suggest a carnivore. The point is, an anatomically correct ankylosaurus wouldn't have them.
Regardless, I admire the fact that you're putting the monster's character ahead of scientific accuracy with these designs.
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My God, somebody hit me! It's Ang and he doesn't look like a damn Ankylosaurus! AWESOME.
Ahem.
Yeah, awesome. *Adores it*
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o.o what's wrong with looking like an ankylosaur?
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Nothing if Ang was ever actually designed as an Ankylosaurus and not an armored, spiky predator. Same reason I have issues with designs that give Biollante huge Godzilla spines, ones that make Titanosaurus and Gorosaurus look like real dinosaurs, and more. *See my journel for more*
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well, you need to realize.. Anguirus was made in the 50's, when dinosaur information was very primitive, and we thought members of the t-rex family stood up straight.
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And in the 1960βs to 2004, where Ang was featured, we knew what Ankylos were. We even did in β50s. We knew they were herbivores, had beaks, and didnβt have spikes. Anguirus did. Calling Anguirus an Ankylosaurus is the same as calling Rodan an eagle simply because an eagle and Rodan both have wings. Redesigning Anguirus to be an Ankylosaurus, beak and all, is retarded. Done these rants too many times here, so letβs just leave it at that.
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...it's not retarded if they got the name FROM an ankylosaur. And Rodan(originally called Radon) from a pteranadon. I'll just leave it at that.
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So you would support fan designs of Godzilla that make him into a furry whale because his name comes from the Japanese words Gorilla and Whale?
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either way it doesn't matter.. if my recent drawings have been any indication, I'll be keeping relatively faithful to the original incarnations of the kaiju for these drawings.
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No, because the combination of Gorilla/Whale was meant to imply that it was a hulking monstrosity, not a gorilla whale, and we already have the creators' words on that so your argument's dust.. just like Anguirus and Rodan's names were meant to imply that they were in some way related to their saurian counterparts, just like kumonga, kamakuras and ebirah all have names derived from their original species, etc. etc. etc.
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nice anguirus, I like the slightly serpentine head
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no beak? what? o.o
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What kaijux said. There is a trend of adding a beak to Angurius. It makes him look too much like a real ankylosaur.
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I think he means on how the Goji Neo Angy has that beak.
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oh..
Well it was closer to an Ankylosaur, which is what Anguirus(Angilas) was supposed to mirror so
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