#gomuto

[larrytquach]

#Gomuto... I'll be honest and say that the for the previous post, Rokmuto, I had somewhat of an idea of what he would possibly look like. Also the Rok made me think of rock, so I designed him to have rock like elements. Keep in mind that I was still in school just coming back from my summer at the internship at Warner Bros. For this class which was one of 6 classes I had that term (semester), I had about a week to design 5 characters that I would have to flesh out along side other key scenes and storyboards in 6 weeks. Art/Design school was pretty brutal, and I was lucky enough to be attending Art Center College of Design, which was at the time known to be the hardest program to get into at arguably the best design school in the world. This particular class was fortunately a little bit more lenient on the workload, but honestly it was still more work than any other class I ever had outside of Art Center. Ok I went on a bit of a nostalgia tangent there sorry! Back to Gomuto... I was allowed to choose one story to adapt into a project, and fresh off my internship, I decided to use the script and the various rewrites they had as the basis of my project. In the film Gomuto was the big baddie of the movie. A dont think there were many descriptors of what he actually looked like or what powers he had. But I always felt like his enemy should always be a little larger, a little more intimidating, which really surprised me when the female muto onscreen was smaller than G. My Gomuto was mysterious in origin, possibly alien, possibly man made mutation. I wanted the anatomy to be very alien like. And in keeping in line with the creature being terrifying I wanted him to be like an anteater with a tongue that goes into buildings and licking up humans and then processing them into a growth that terraforms the planet to its liking. Im gonna be honest and say that I lifted the later part of idea from Spielberg and Cruise's version of War of the Worlds. As for the tongue idea, my first college was UC Irvine and our mascot was an Anteater. I just wanted to pay homage. In hindsight this creature was overdesigned, and even in my execution of the painting illogical. (at Monterey Park, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuRXUEUlR5x/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jz9xmfomcz42

[larrytquach]

#Gomuto part 2 One aspect of the script that I didn't particularly like was the lack of terror coming from the bad Kaiju. I had to look back and think about all the instances where I found enemy Kaiju to actually be terrifying beyond getting stomped. A few came to mind, the monsters from Clash of the Gargantuans, the creatures from Deep Rising, and as I mentioned before, the tentacles of the tripods from War of the Worlds. There's always the smaller versions of the big one that they use in G98, GvDestroyah, and Cloverfield... the latter which I actually found to be the most original and terrifying of the bunch. For Gomuto, i wanted him to be very terrifying and Alien like. Also the original script did diddly squat with the humans, not really showcasing how much of a badass the main dude is, even though everyone says he is. They somewhat accomplished this with the recent Rock in Rampage with that last act. Absurd, but that's the scale I was imagining the Kaiju in Godzilla to be. Anyway, Gomuto would have, in my mind, chased our heroes into buildings, trying to not only eat them, but take their macguffin, TBD. The tongue would have an eyeball at the end then split up into smaller fibrous tentacles giving some horrific chase scenes. Anyway... im not really a writer, but that's what I had im my mind to flesh out the very bare and boring, and lack of urgency felt in the original script. They sorta implied that the Mutos would send the world into the dark ages... which is quite terrifying if you think about it, but on a visual level... I think we're all more scared of getting stomped. #Godzilla #Godzilla2014 #gojira #WarnerBros #linpictures #L1N #Legendary #conceptart #conceptdesign #instaart #instagood #artcenter #artistoninstagram #illustration #digitalart #digitalpainting #drawing #paint #painting #sketch #monster #kaiju #tokusatsu #ゴジラ #特撮 (at Monterey Park, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuT6NfElGRL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ww24vd2o1yde