#burodon

ATOM Stop Motion Models: Karamtor

Been a while since the last one of these, huh?  Karamtor was a bit overdue - unlike the other unfinished models, I’ve actually finished Karamtor’s debut chapter, as all the other unfinished ones don’t appear until the last eight chapters in Volume 2.  So getting her finished was kind of a milestone - I’ve “caught up” to the draft now, which gives me a good chance of completing the rest in time for whenever I finish Volume 2.

I got a lot of kaiju files posted yesterday!  Starting with Karamtor(above), we also have:

Old Meg

Kutulusca

Burodon

Kurokame

A.T.O.M. Stop Motion Models: Burodon

Ok, NOW we’ve done the last retrosaur.  Well, maybe not if we count Pathogen, but he’s really a whole lot of things in one.  Burodon takes even more liberties than his kind - fitting for a retrosaur that’s an homage to the creations of Eiji Tsuburaya.  He’s not alone today, as we also two other monsters in this batch:

Kurokame, seen above, is basically a crocodile and tortoise fused together with a little bit of Bowser thrown in for good measure.  His name is a combination of the Japanese words for crocodile and tortoise/turtle, though a friend of mine pointed out it could also mean “black turtle,” and thus be considered a reference to the mythological monster Genbu.  That’s a lot of stuff going on for a big freaky turtle, but appropriate considering the chapter he’s in is even more Godzilla/Gamera inspired than the others are.

Finally (for this batch), we have Nastadyne, a great big beetle monster.  Nastadyne’s design, like Crustakra’s, is repurposed from a Godzilla monster redesign I did years ago - specifically one for Megalon.  While A.T.O.M. focuses on Tyrantis’s journey, it’s my intention that there are actually a lot of OTHER kaiju running around independent of him and the ones he encounters.  Nastadyne is the hero of one of those other stories - or, perhaps more simply, he’s to Japan what Tyrantis is to the USA.  In older drafts Godzilla filled that role (this used to be fanfiction), so... I guess that makes Nastadyne Godzilla’s stand in, in a way?  Huh.

30 Day Kaiju Challege Day 1: Burrower

So I'm doing the 30 Day Kaiju Challenge.  I need something that'll be creatively stimulating enough for me to practice with my horrible tablet, but at the same time low stakes enough for me to be ok with fucking up.

It's worked just as I hoped so far, as I got this sucker done in just a couple of hours!  I dare say it was actually quicker than my traditional methods of making monster doodles this time around!  Progress!

This sucker is named Burodon.  It's partly a play on words - Burrow Down, Burodon, get it?  It's also an homage to Baragon from the Godzilla movies, who influenced this design more than a bit.  I think this guy and probably some of the other monsters I make for this challenge may end up in A.T.O.M., because I really like how he turned out - especially since he turned out quick.