#whale kaiju

[leo-bandito]

my comic I did for the @edgeofhopezine !!!!!! this was a super fun project to be a part of, and I’m really happy with how this turned out ^^!

#kaiju #pacrim #pacific rim #Kaiju pacrim #Knifehead #knifehead pacrim #knifehead Kaiju #edge of hope zine #Whale fall #animal death #tw animal death #thalassophobia

[spotsupstuff]

"Can off the string puppets get sick from viral or bacterial infections since they no longer have a whole can to give them immunity?"

i swear to god anon, when i read "can off the string" i immediately thought of iterator cans walking around

horrifying suicidal kaiju

there Was some iterator design out there with some kind of walking can so like...

#spot says stuff #rw #guy looked sorta like sun wukong. had innovation in its name iirc #the design is cool as fuck but i cant stop thinkin about how much damage to nature that thing would inflict n i aint too big a fan of- #-kaiju films either so ycan imagine... es why i put em all into the sky with the whale designs

[pyrasterran]

finalized my criminal old man whale he's some kind of water demon maybe who's been around long enough to not give a $%&# anymore

#monster #kaiju #character sheet #whale #leviathan #sea monster #oc #art #original character #character art #character design

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Kaiju Weeks in Review (July 16-29, 2023)

Legendary announced a pair of Monsterverse comics during a panel at San Diego Comic Con. They've said nothing further since, and no one posted the panel online, so I have less to tell you than I'd like. Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted is the obligatory prequel comic for the film. From the pages they showed off, it looks like Zid has art duties again (well-deserved) and the monsters that Kong is fighting could be the "swamp kitt[ies]" cut from Godzilla vs. Kong. Release date is February 27. Monsterverse Declassified is going to spotlight some of the series' original monsters, with the previews showing Behemoth, Amhuluk, and Tiamat. (Supposedly Scylla, Doug, and the previously-unseen Abaddon will be in it too.)

Toho is finally letting Togen's 4K scans of some of its Godzilla films out of satellite TV jail as tie-ins to Godzilla Minus One. Godzilla (1954) and Mothra vs. Godzilla are coming to 4K Ultra HD on October 25, with Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster, Invasion of Astro-Monster, and Destroy All Monsters on November 22 and Godzilla vs. Hedorah and Godzilla vs. Biollante. Expect them to be as English-unfriendly as Toho's other releases - but a vague promise of "unused special effects footage", combined with some very crisp-looking photos in a recent book, means there's a chance the Frontier Missile sequence from Godzilla vs. The Thing will be included with Mothra vs. Godzilla. That'd be a godsend, considering how elusive an uncropped, uncut, high-quality version of the scene has proven to be.

These releases will easily be the best Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, Astro-Monster, and Biollante have ever looked on home video. But with Togen shutting down, it's unclear when the rest of the pre-Shin films in the series will get upgrades. (It's also unclear when Toho will permit anyone outside Japan to use these versions for streaming or home video.) So this announcement feels bittersweet to me.

We have a release date for GAMERA -Rebirth- (September 7), a second trailer, and a reveal for the final monster: Viras! As @starestream pointed out, there's a lot of Legion in that design (along with Iris in Zigra). And as Maser Patrol pointed out, this is the same enemy kaiju lineup that Trendmasters chose for its toyline back in 1998. Poor Barugon, no one wants to taste the rainbow (and it probably hurts that he's so visually similar to Jiger too). To be honest, this trailer didn't do much for me; a bit too chaotic. Hopefully it'll be easier to tell what's happening in the show proper.

Bandai, of course, has readied Movie Monster Series figures of Viras, Zigra, and Guiron already. We're also getting a prequel manga set 100,000 years before the show.

Decades after his rampage through the Marvel Universe, Godzilla is barging into the world of DC (where he'll finally meet Batman). Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong is a seven-issue limited series launching October 17, written by Brian Buccellato (who also penned the short "Fight or Flight" comic that will be included in Legends of the Monsterverse: The Omnibus later this year) with art by Christian Duce. The inciting incident is a battle between the Justice League and the Legion of Doom, which tears a hole in reality to let the Monsterverse through.

I'll confess, I was more jazzed for last year's Power Rangers crossover, thanks to the tokusatsu link. This could just be more of Warner Bros. Discovery bashing its toys together. I'm most curious to see if the Legion of Doom makes a bid to conquer the Monsterverse, which with Godzilla and Kong out of the picture is far less prepared for them than the DC universe is for a couple of giant monsters. Superman beats them all, as Ken Yano once said.

Hiya is stepping further out of S.H.Monsterarts' shadow with a figure of the female MUTO, a character long neglected by toymakers. They showed her off at San Diego Comic Con. Playmates meanwhile releases an ad for Titan Tech Rodan - I'm glad they're not giving up on this delightful subline.

Summer Smash concludes IDW's middle-grade Monsters and Protectors storyline, which has spanned the entirety of their second go-round with Godzilla. You can tell it was supposed to be another miniseries; Godzilla, Jet Jaguar, and Mothra send Mecha-King Ghidorah and the Xiliens packing pretty quickly. Art's still great though.

Godzilla Rivals will persist into October with Vs. Mechagodzilla, the magnificent machine being the last of the Toho's Big Five to headline one of these comics. The intriguing logline:

IS YOUR CITY BESIEGED BY KAIJU? DO YOU LIE AWAKE AT NIGHT ANXIOUSLY LISTENING FOR THE MONSTER SIRENS? HAVE YOU HAD ALL YOU CAN TAKE OF GIANT LIZARDS, MOTHS, PTERODACTYLS, AND SHRIMP? THEN CALL TRACER TECH TODAY! OUR STATE-OF-THE-ART ANTI-KAIJU TECHNOLOGY HAS ALLOWED DOZENS OF CITIES AROUND THE WORLD TO FEND OFF THE THREAT OF MONSTER ATTACK. San Palomar, California. It’s a sleepy city with not much going on. That is, until Tracer Tech built their new corporate headquarters there, displacing lifelong citizens and forcing out local businesses. But what is the source of Tracer’s amazing, almost alien technology, and why has it put San Palomar in Godzilla’s sights? And what can a couple of local kids like Alex and Jaz do to protect their city when the King of the Monsters and its robot doppelgänger clash?

SRS Cinema has opened preorders for The Whale God, revealing this cover art by Bob Eggleton. Special features aren't anything spectacular (they're vaguely described, but I think a couple of essays are included, plus the obligatory trailers). Should be out by the end of the year.

The disc replacement program for Cleopatra Entertainment's misbegotten Shin Ultraman releases has resulted in an only marginally better product. The opening montage has subtitles now... but like the rest of the movie, they're just copied from the English dub. Dubtitles in 2023... and for a film that already has a perfectly good official English translation, no less. Oh, and they threw in some new visual glitches too. If your local library picks up a copy, I recommend telling them about the disc replacement program (as I've done), but don't give these clowns your money.

#kaiju week in review #godzilla #idw #the whale god #gamera rebirth #dc #capes

[adikavita]

#painting #digital art #original characters #landscape #horror #kaiju #giant monsters #fantasy #whale #ocean #arctic #vent art #I am too stressed to be painting

[thepariahcontinuum]

Has anyone made an Orca Grimm for a RWBY Fic or would that just be redundant?

#RWBY #creatures of grimm #RWBY Fanfiction #Orca #killer whale #Kaiju #monster design

[origamiyoda]

im sooo intrigued by the kaiju in pacrim, specifically with the narrative of like. how humanity kinda got cocky and there started being like action figures and tv spots and kaiju grrroupies and like. idk theres something about romanticizing these behemoths that we dont understand and that r larger than life.? Same could be said for the jaegers I guess

idk like I grew up & live in a place where theres a lot of advertisement for whale watching!!! come see these whales!!! go visit the seal colony out on the abandoned pier!!!! get up close and personal with the local wildlife!!! and the horror stories of people being stupid and getting too close or too comfortable and people getting hurt or hurting or, god forbid, even killing? the animals?? Or getting themselves killed?

I worked kayak rentals one summer and we had to have this extra 10 min talk before we sent people out into the bay about not touching the seals and staying at LEAST 100 yards away from them and dont stick your hand in the water if one swims near you

like its I guess the same narrative with the jurassic park movies, with the hubris of thinking we could control or make them into entertainment of some kind. let sleeping dogs lie etc. or with like Nope, the idea behind making a spectacle out of everything and everyone yknow

thats part of the reason i think that pacrim feels so real is that like. Of course we'd make action figures and toys and these pilots would rise to superstar status and we'd have a favorite jaeger and a favorite kaiju while people, actual people, are fighting and dying and cities are getting destroyed and its just!! So so awful and interesting and so horribly horribly real

#idk where this went #recently theres been advertisement for whale watching tours down by the water again and it got me thinking about like #if the kaiju werent like. Actively terrorizing the world and were maybe just new weird megafauna #there would definitely be fucking. Kaiju watching or kaiju spotting boats and cruises & tours #or like a cruise where you track and follow kaiju around yknow #idk. The need to make profit literally everywhere at the expense of everyone else etc etc #leo yells #pacrim #pacific rim #pacific rim kaiju

[artofjoshuaclarke]

KAIJUNE DAY 19: HOLLOW

It came empty.

In the deep the Hollow waited.

The Dead Man’s Hand was ripping at the Hammer. The unholy crustacean was seemingly impervious to the obsidian nails and blows of the massive fists of the twisted flesh hulk. The Hammer was almost toying with it. Terrible claws ripping huge gobbets of stinking flesh, and delivering them to its gaping maw.

And in the deep the Hollow listened to the songs of giants.

The living Artillery had fled, guarded by Cassowary. Our own behemoths had reverted to their base humanity and we were frantically studying the open wound in the ground that had birthed the hand. What else would be birthed from our festering regret.

And in the deep the Hollow studied the ocean.

We worked on getting the Genesis Engine mobile, repairing the damage that had been done, preparing for what we did not know, but preparing nonetheless.

And in the deep the Hollow tended a garden of the unimaginable.

#illustration #kaiju #kaijune #kaijune2023 #monster #painting #artists on tumblr #creature design #godzilla #art #pacific rim #whale #creature concept

[spider-artdump]

#creature design #whale #flying beast #kaiju

[cheeseybeans8]

Under the light of the moon and stars, in a place far away from any other living soul, a beautiful song drifts through the ocean air and disappears into the night.

Art by @echollama

#whale #kaiju #cetacean #ocean #sea #wholesome giantess #leviathan #song #singing #music #night #gentle giantess

[icydesire-blog]

《 Whale Garula 》 Water ink on paper by : :

《 鯤· 鵬 》 水墨 淡彩 - by : :

庄子/逍遥游

北冥有鱼，其名为鲲。鲲之大，不知其几千里也。化而为鸟，其名为鹏。鹏之背，不知其几千里也；怒而飞，其翼若垂天之云。是鸟也，海运则将徙于南冥。南冥者，天池也。

#zhuangzi #dao #tao #daoism #taoism #caligraphy #water ink #watercolor #whale #eagles #karura #garula #giant bird #giant fish #xiao yao #Xiao Yao you #philosophy #wu wei #Kai #kaiju #monster #mythical creatures #roc

[treebeef2]

Kaijune 2023 - Day 25 - "Spine"

#digital art #art #my artwork #digital drawing #kaiju #kaijune #kaijune2023 #monster art #whale #skeleton

[themightyhumanbroom]

I've been thinking about why in giant monster movies people with guns always stop and shoot it when you know it won't work at all. It would obviously not work in the slightest but when you think about it this is a weapon completely unique to humans that can slay any other organic creature on the planet and so it's kinda understandable that even when facing down an actual kaiju they'd be like "oh surely this Man-Made Marvel will protect me." Hard not to feel invincible if you have a bunch of other folks with guns around you firing at will.

#poor bastards #PROTECT ME GUN #probably have trouble with whales #but what are whales but benign kaiju? #kaiju #giant monsters #monsters #guns

[pyrasterran]

While most Great Beasts are considered highly aggressive and territory, there are a few in the world who can be considered passive, and whose existence can even be argued to be a net positive for humanity. The coral-colored Ceton is one such creature.

Ceton has a hyper-advanced sensory system that that can locate areas of specific chemical compounds when they collide with water. What this effectively means is that elements such as plastics, oil and chemicals toxic to a sea's ecosystem fire up on Ceton's radar, and it will swim straight towards the largest source. Then, Ceton will begin to devour as much of the toxic contents in the water as it can sense, converting it into energy for itself, making Ceton a monster that eats pollution. 

Ceton played a large role in Earth's inhabitants being forced to invent and invest in new energy sources that were not targetable by Ceton. While Ceton did clean up oil spills and trash islands, it also had no qualms in targeting oil rigs and ships at sea, sometimes swallowing them whole, people and all.

Ceton's entire oceanic system is part of its territory, and it is often swimming from one corner of the globe to another in its hunt for pollutants in waters. Companies that attempted to pull processing plants further inland would find Ceton on their shores, walking on land towards rivers and lakes whose toxin-filled waters would spread into the sea and alert Ceton. Ceton always takes the shortest route to a new feeding ground, and if that means walking on land to cross a continent shore to shore, it will do that. A touring venture had been formed out of predicting Ceton's path and forming watch parties (from safe distances) to witness the beast move across the land. This had made Ceton a popular Great Beast sight in internet culture. However, sometimes a city or facility will be in Ceton's predicted path, forcing evacuations or more preferably Astral Drift Heroes to come and try to alter Ceton's course to avoid infrastructure.

#kaiju #monster #great beast #cetton #art #astral drift #comics #whale #sea beast

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Kaiju Week in Review (May 21-27, 2023)

When Arrow Video rifled through Daiei's tokusatsu catalog a few years ago, The Whale God was one of the big omissions. I've heard that Kadokawa wouldn't let them have it for whatever reason. Sort of a Japanese Moby Dick, it's not really a kaiju movie, but between the Akira Ifukube score and a bunch of familiar faces (Takashi Shimura, Kojiro Hongo, Kyoko Enami, Koji Fujiyama) everyone just gives it a pass. Oh, and Shintaro Katsu—Zatoichi himself—plays the human villain.

Anyway, SRS Cinema got their hands on it. They wouldn't have been my first choice, or even my fifth, but it'll be nice to finally see the flick in HD.

After months of silence, Netflix busted out a Skull Island teaser. I'm not really sure what the hook for this one is, other than it being the first Monsterverse show and not subjecting us all to substandard 3DCG, but the new monsters look neat and the voice cast is stacked.

Biollante's Flower Beast Form has won Bandai's third You Choose! Toho Kaiju Sovfi Figure!, beating Desghidorah and Zilla in the final round. Hilariously, the results were revealed a couple days after the 25th anniversary of the TriStar Godzilla film. Expect the rose's Movie Monster Series figure on November 3... and at the rate Bandai is making new sculpts, I doubt the other two will be far behind.

#the whale god #skull island #biollante #kaiju #kaiju week in review #Youtube

[ianhgoat]

Lobotomized whale monster for all your Kaijune battle needs!

#Kaijune #Kaiju art #Kaiju #Whale #traditional art #marker art #Another older piece #But one of my favourites