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A.T.O.M. Stop Motion Models: Burodon

Burodon is our last retrosaur in the bunch, and what a fun, wacky note to round the team out on!

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ATOM Kaiju File #29: Karamtor

Date Discovered: September 27th, 1954 Place of Origin: Venus Notable Stomping Grounds: Mt. Fuji, Typhon Island Height: 160 feet Length: 220 feet Biology: Hailing from the planet Venus, Karamtor is…

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

Old Meg

Kutulusca

Burodon

Kurokame

And last but not least, Nastadyne!

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ATOM Kaiju File #26: Burodon

Date Discovered: March 19th, 1954 Place of Origin: Mount Ibuki Notable Stomping Grounds: Mount Ibuki, Tokyo, Typhon Island Height: 35 feet Length: 140 feet Biology: Burodon is definitely a retrosau…

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.

Nastadyne’s “Burning Justice” form was inspired by some fanart a friend of mine made that interpreted the beetle’s original, gaudier color scheme as a sort of power up.  It was a cool idea, and also one that’s fitting for the star of the Japanese chapter of Tyrantis’s story - it only makes sense to have a DBZ/Burning Godzilla style power up in that chapter, and it allows Nastadyne to work even better as Tyrantis’s Japanese counterpart without just giving him a death ray or something.  The name “Burning Justice” comes from the Transformers fandom.

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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.

Like the last thirty monsters in thirty days challenge I took, I'm going to hang the rules and do as many of these as often as I feel like.  Some may come early, some may come late.  Rules are for suckers.