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So finally, after many sketches and agonizing over what the hell his freaking head should look like, I present SD Obsidius. Frankly Ob's needed this pretty badly. He had a great concept that alot of fans agreed with and he brought something new to the Godzilla universe; its very first elemental kaiju. However his execution was rather flawed and for something named 'Obsidius' he didn't look like he had alot to do with the mineral's namesake. His roar was generic and his playing style in the game felt like he was trying to be King Kong. Whatever, point is he had problems and thus he has to best of my ability been remedied.

Those who have checked out my sketch studies already know about my comparisons between the Millenium, the Neo, and various hybrid versions. It was an important process that helped me figure out his key aspects and most glaring flaws. Things Obsidius must have are:
- head horns
- lack of facial features
- cavernous mouth
- powerful, brutish build
- a good sized tail with a asymmetrical 'fork' on the end.
- appears to be made up of volcanic plates divided by frequent lava cracks
Things that made Obsidius 'suck'.
- Entire body was rather dull and flat; looked more like a living mountain side than a volcano.
- tail was rather short
- mouth was unable to close thus invited weakness to internal detonation or freezing.
- Dude just wasn't mean looking enough.

Those things are apparent from just the Millenium version. The Neo by Matt Frank solved a majority of those problems but lost the powerful arms and despite his best attempt, still couldn't completely solve the issue of the unclosable cannon mouth. What's interesting about the Neo is how well it fits in with the story. Both Krystalak and Obsidius are said to be created from the space crystals that fall to earth. These crystals are apparently linked to Space Godzilla. Thus it would make sense that monsters created from the crystals would have aspects of Space Godzilla's appearance. Krystalak is rather obvious with the crystal tuft on his tail and being literally covered in crystals. Obsidius on the other hand got the tri-horn arrangement on his noggin and the massive shoulder structures; which in this case take the form of volcanic craters. Even then, I still wasn't feeling the 'insidious' aspect of Obsidius so I went to the drawing board...

And eventually came up with this. Its in SD form but the change is evident. Being made partly from obsidian, Obsidius needed to be sharp and jagged where it counted. He also got a darker color scheme that further accenuates his molten interior. The powerful arms are as much a part of his character as his mouth so they stayed and got layers of obsidian shrapnel sticking from them. You know how pit fighters wrap tape around their hands then dip them in shattered glass? Same idea. A back hand from Obsidius is going to leave VERY sharp blades in your face. His build is gorilla like, since he seems to like fighting that way. His tail is longer and a viable weapon. The spinal ridge from the Neo was very cool so that became part of him as well. The final thing was the mouth. Some like the cannon, some like the jaw. I'm a jaw person, I can't help it. If it moves like a gorilla, fights like a gorilla, and beats its chest like a gorilla than it should be able to bite like a gorilla. So Ob's has a jaw, and vertical obsidian fangs to make that feature useful. He can still open it to reveal the circular flame cannon of doom but when he doesn't need it, he doesn't have his insides visable for anything with a freeze/death ray to take advantage of. The tusks are a personal touch of mine, they make him look even more primal.

The background took effort. I drew those rocks damnit. I was going for a sense of perspective, movement and power. Something I haven't done since SD Gorosaurus. I tried several poses but eventually settle with this one. Its a little odd but it works. Being a elemental, he's got a volcano and lava and exploding rocks all over the place. I would have had smoke belching from his shoulder craters but there is just so much stuff going on here that it was distracting. Gregole is already disappointed that I'm not making a shwoop da woop joke but Godzilla actually shoots big blue lasers and I don't want to reuse material . Instead I'm making a Hulk joke. Obsidius is powerful, straight forword and just 'feels' angry. Sound familiar? Besides, any excuse I can come up with to show things exploding is good in my book.

Next Up: Megaguirus ( moment of truth! )

-RenDragonClaw

Description
So finally, after many sketches and agonizing over what the hell his freaking head should look like, I present SD Obsidius. Frankly Ob's needed this pretty badly. He had a great concept that alot of fans agreed with and he brought something new to the Godzilla universe; its very first elemental kaiju. However his execution was rather flawed and for something named 'Obsidius' he didn't look like he had alot to do with the mineral's namesake. His roar was generic and his playing style in the game felt like he was trying to be King Kong. Whatever, point is he had problems and thus he has to best of my ability been remedied.

Those who have checked out my sketch studies already know about my comparisons between the Millenium, the Neo, and various hybrid versions. It was an important process that helped me figure out his key aspects and most glaring flaws. Things Obsidius must have are:
- head horns
- lack of facial features
- cavernous mouth
- powerful, brutish build
- a good sized tail with a asymmetrical 'fork' on the end.
- appears to be made up of volcanic plates divided by frequent lava cracks
Things that made Obsidius 'suck'.
- Entire body was rather dull and flat; looked more like a living mountain side than a volcano.
- tail was rather short
- mouth was unable to close thus invited weakness to internal detonation or freezing.
- Dude just wasn't mean looking enough.

Those things are apparent from just the Millenium version. The Neo by Matt Frank solved a majority of those problems but lost the powerful arms and despite his best attempt, still couldn't completely solve the issue of the unclosable cannon mouth. What's interesting about the Neo is how well it fits in with the story. Both Krystalak and Obsidius are said to be created from the space crystals that fall to earth. These crystals are apparently linked to Space Godzilla. Thus it would make sense that monsters created from the crystals would have aspects of Space Godzilla's appearance. Krystalak is rather obvious with the crystal tuft on his tail and being literally covered in crystals. Obsidius on the other hand got the tri-horn arrangement on his noggin and the massive shoulder structures; which in this case take the form of volcanic craters. Even then, I still wasn't feeling the 'insidious' aspect of Obsidius so I went to the drawing board...

And eventually came up with this. Its in SD form but the change is evident. Being made partly from obsidian, Obsidius needed to be sharp and jagged where it counted. He also got a darker color scheme that further accenuates his molten interior. The powerful arms are as much a part of his character as his mouth so they stayed and got layers of obsidian shrapnel sticking from them. You know how pit fighters wrap tape around their hands then dip them in shattered glass? Same idea. A back hand from Obsidius is going to leave VERY sharp blades in your face. His build is gorilla like, since he seems to like fighting that way. His tail is longer and a viable weapon. The spinal ridge from the Neo was very cool so that became part of him as well. The final thing was the mouth. Some like the cannon, some like the jaw. I'm a jaw person, I can't help it. If it moves like a gorilla, fights like a gorilla, and beats its chest like a gorilla than it should be able to bite like a gorilla. So Ob's has a jaw, and vertical obsidian fangs to make that feature useful. He can still open it to reveal the circular flame cannon of doom but when he doesn't need it, he doesn't have his insides visable for anything with a freeze/death ray to take advantage of. The tusks are a personal touch of mine, they make him look even more primal.

The background took effort. I drew those rocks damnit. I was going for a sense of perspective, movement and power. Something I haven't done since SD Gorosaurus. I tried several poses but eventually settle with this one. Its a little odd but it works. Being a elemental, he's got a volcano and lava and exploding rocks all over the place. I would have had smoke belching from his shoulder craters but there is just so much stuff going on here that it was distracting. Gregole is already disappointed that I'm not making a shwoop da woop joke but Godzilla actually shoots big blue lasers and I don't want to reuse material . Instead I'm making a Hulk joke. Obsidius is powerful, straight forword and just 'feels' angry. Sound familiar? Besides, any excuse I can come up with to show things exploding is good in my book.

Next Up: Megaguirus ( moment of truth! )

-RenDragonClaw