My last art for the year!
Here's the Elite Staff of Olympus Tower in NY (secretly the superhero team Dynamic Heralds), the main (super) human characters of my original kaiju project, Rekira the Super-Monster, saying goodbye to 2022 in this group photo, looking forward to next year! The background is very Super Sentai-ish (which is partly the intention), but is actually based on the huge, colorful performance set from Season 2 of The Monkees. Done on tablet in FireAlpaca.
See you on New Year's!
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My Christmas present to all of you! Rekira shines the way again.
Done on tablet in FireAlpaca.
A collection of recent artwork for my original kaiju, Rekira! All of these were done on tablet in FireAlpaca.
Done on November 23rd (and finished on the 25th), here's a stylized 1950s-style "stencil" art of Rekira.
Finally, an even older illustration. A rough, abstract, silhouette-style ad poster of the Rekira project I have in production. Dated July 27, this one was done while my family and I were vacationing at a relative's home in Tampa, Florida.
I've always wanted to draw my original kaiju, Rekira, in this style!
Here's Rekira with a "November" color scheme. The eruptive background evoking the feel of both autumn and the Thanksgiving season, and Rekira having an "American" palette (much like Election Day). Very warm colors for a progressively cold month. (And Fall-Winter is my favorite season!)
Inspired by the beautiful, colorful poster for Italian filmmaker Luigi Cozzi's bizarre 1977 re-edit of the 1954 Godzilla (from its 1956 US version), which was also featured on the cover of the first issue of the horror magazine Fangoria in 1979! It does have sort of an autumn November color scheme! Godzilla also has a great red/blue tint or sorts.
Drawn on tablet in FireAlpaca (from the 18th to the 21st).
From my original kaiju project, Rekira the Super-Monster, here are the two main human characters, Raitaro Hayama and Verena Freston, in their Olympus Elite Staff uniforms!
Figures done in Blender, collage assembled in FireAlpaca.
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ADDED BONUS (9/16/2022): Here's three versions of the central pic; black & white, faded "retro" color, and normal color versions.
And a pic not seen in this collage; one in black and white, and in normal color.
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I have finished remodeling the Blender CG figures of Mysti-Girl and Dengekid, the superhero forms of Verena Freston and Raitaro Hayama, respectively! They look much better!
The helmets/goggles/masks/accessories are unchanged, but the bodysuits were completely redone, and look much smoother and more to my liking.
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I just recently finished remodeling my Blender figures of Raitaro Hayama and Verena Freston (two main characters from my original kaiju project, Rekira the Super-Monster), and are both much improved!
Raitaro's entire mouth was remodeled, and the facial expressions are much better, not to mention I redid his entire body from scratch, and it looks much better proportioned.
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Verena, on the surface level, doesn't look too dissimilar from her previous model; the head/expressions are the same, but the body was entirely redone from scratch, and is far more refined. You wouldn't know that from the clothes she's wearing (which were slightly tweaked to accommodate the new body)! ;)
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Last time, you've seen Raitaro Hayama and Verena Freston. Now, here are their Dynamic Heralds superhero forms!
Here's Verena as Herald 3/Mysti-Girl:
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And Raitaro as Herald 6/Dengekid:
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Here are the finished CG figures of the three main characters in my original kaiju project, Rekira the Super-Monster! I'm very excited to share them. Character portraits assembled in FireAlpaca.
You know, the more I think about it, with the "cartoon" look I was going for, these characters look like Rankin-Bass Animagic-style characters (which were crafted/animated in Japan)! Except that the subject matter is a bit more serious (although there will be, er... humor). ;)
The enigmatic Tatsuo Kongoji:
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Raitaro Hayama (AKA: Herald 6/Dengekid):
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Verena Freston (AKA: Herald 3/Mysti-Girl)
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More characters to come as production progresses!
Today is the 31st Anniversary of the creation of what would eventually become my original kaiju creation, Rekira! In honor of this, with the project still in production, here's a new teaser poster I assembled over a month ago. Assembled in Flash. Rekira, of course, was done with Blender and FireAlpaca.
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Some new designs related to the Dynamic Heralds, the protagonist superhero team in my original project, Rekira the Super-Monster.
First up is a speculation design: WHAT IF... the Dynamic Heralds wore matching suits? This is what it would look like. Naturally, the Super Sentai influence is still there, though I also imagined not only the Fantastic Four and early X-Men (both by Jack "The King" Kirby), but also the Beatles and the Monkees (the latter became a superhero team called the Monkeemen, with matching costumes/capes).
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And next, here's something that will actually be used; the Heralds have special work uniforms (the Olympus Elite Staff uniforms) at their tech-industrial workplace/default residence, Olympus Tower (underneath which is their secret command center). This is influenced by the Beatles' Pierre Cardin suits, the blue uniforms of the Science Special Search Party (Science Patrol) from Ultraman, as well as something Wes Anderson could create if he did a 1960s-style sci-fi movie!
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Here's a sketch I did on February 8 of Dengekid, drawn in a style reminiscent of Bruce Timm! (There's also a vague Tatsuo Yoshida and Jiro Kuwata style to him as well.) Drawn on tablet in FireAlpaca.
Here's a sketch I did nearly a week ago of Therma-Gal, drawn in a style reminiscent of Bruce Timm or Dan DeCarlo! Drawn on tablet in FireAlpaca.
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Here's a sketch I did tonight of Mysti-Girl, drawn in a style reminiscent of Bruce Timm or Dan DeCarlo! Drawn on tablet in FireAlpaca.
My first post/art of 2022! Quick Rekira silhouette sketch on tablet in FireAlpaca.
