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ATOM Stop Motion Puppets: Ullawdra and Sombarvot
Since I’m working on the chapters where they debut, I figured I should finish up the puppets for the last two Martian monsters in ATOM, Ullawdra the red weed and Sombarvot the space lizard! It’s fun seeing the full quartet together at last.
That just leaves the nine Beyonder Alliance kaiju left! And since their chapters are coming up nest, I’d better get cracking.
Last night kinda left me in a @tyrantisterror Tripod Martian mood, and since there’s only like three canon ones currently and TT’s deviantart (which had a bunch of Martian sketches) is gone, I decided to make my own.
Starting from the top is a swimmer, which evolved it’s tail for swimming and angled it’s pelvis so all of its limbs (except two tentacles modified for steering) can grab prey. This body layout can be modified a bit to make something that hangs from trees using its tail and has its limbs set up similarly for grasping things, or to make an aquatic Martian that moves both forward and backwards like a squid.
The middle is a runner. Because of the way the Martian body plan is set up, we can assume that land bound Martians aren’t really great at running really fast in a straight line (at least from what we’ve seen). So I made one where the hip joints for the two front legs are angled forward instead of slightly outward like Kemlasulla and Sombarvot. The result is a fast Martian that can run in the Martian equivalent of a cheetah sprint. I also added a backwards facing spine on the tail, so instead of tackling prey and risking injury to itself, it can simply outrun it and skewer it with its tail.
On the bottom is a hilariously proportioned biter. It’s basically specialized for killing in one bite.
TT probably isn’t gonna add any more martians so that the current three we already have feel more special. But if TT made a hundred of them, I’d still love every single one of them and never grow bored of the Martian tripods. And to be honest I’m kinda jealous that I didn’t come up with the Martians first. I’d totally copy the body plan if I wouldn’t feel guilty about it and people wouldn’t call me out on it.
So in summation
ATOM Stop Motion Models: Podritak
It’s Kemlasulla’s close friend, Podritak! The Rodan to Kemlasulla’s Martian Godzilla, Podritak homages the martians from the 1953 adaptation of The War of the Worlds, being a sort of organix take on their warships, having a three-part beak that vaguely resembles their three-lobed eyes, and of course sporting those three fingered, sucker-tipped hands that were made so iconic by one of the movie’s final shots.
This model was fun because it was one of those instances where my sculpture brain was super pissed at my drawing brain, because yeah, it’s easy to fucking draw a three part beak, TT, but actually making it is a pain in the ass.
Still, it’s nice to see some more bodies on the alien invader ATOM kaiju shelf.
The third batch of for-funsies 90′s toyline kaiju recolors focuses on Tyrantis’s Frenemies.
This is just a sketch. The finished piece is supposed to be @tyrantisterror’s Kemlasulla taking a picture of himself, and Kemy will gotten ahold of Podritak and Sombarvot and dragged them into the picture. Sombarvot will look uncomfortable and Podritak will just look annoyed. Ullawdra will also be ominously leaning over them.
I still need to fix Kemlasulla’s face to make it more obvious that he’s smiling. I also need to make Kemlasulla’s torso get wider near the base among other things so it looks like he/she (Martians only have one sex) is looking down.
I’ll finish the art after I come back from camp, but before I go to camp I need to work on a little announcement.
I wanted to learn how to draw toothy grins… but then it kinda just turned into full blown fan art of a certain majestic manic Martian belonging to @tyrantisterror. I’m actually pretty happy with this, even though I forgot to make wrinkles in the eye socket. I think this went from a sketch to a complete piece because I associate psycho grins with Kemlasulla, plus Kemy has what could possibly be my favorite design for an alien.
Now I need to do a head sketch of a certain dragon belonging to @theload.
@godzillakiryu91 I see you have many unillustrated Kaiju… and I’m going to fix that. I’ll do sketches for like maybe three of your monsters, so tell me what three to do and give me information on their designs.
Then I’ll do head sketches of all the characters in the GUARDIANverse with a little bit of information on each character to boot. It’s a huge post so It’s going to need some work. Whatever character people like the most is the one I’ll release a bio for.
Also, does anybody with the Tumblr app know if your post take up memory space?
Aliases: The Red Weed, The Mean Red Vines from Outer Space, “God Mother” (rough translation of her Martian name) Date Discovered: July 29, 1958 Place of Origin: Mars Notable Stomping Gr…
As we finish up the last dozen ATOM Kaiju Files, we climb into the heavens with twelve wonderful alien monsters! Our first four come from our neighbor, the red planet of War, Mars! Yeah, you know it’s old school sci-fi when aliens come from Mars.
Our first monster, seen in the link above, is Ullawdra, a red martian weed. She’s inspired by both Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors and the red weed from The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Role-wise, she’s the Martian equivalent of Mothra - a kaiju that defends the native civilzation of Mars from other monsters.
Of course, like Mothra, she does not extend that protectorate to the civilizations of other races, which becomes a little problematic when she lands on Earth...
Next we have Kemlasulla, the leader of the bunch. He’s the Martian equivalent of both Godzilla and Tyrantis - the first kaiju to be discovered by the native Martians, who went from “scourge” to “champion,” and who enjoys befriending other monsters as much as fighting them. He’s a bit more manic than either of his terrestrial counterparts, but he’s a good guy.
Kemlasulla is basically an organic version of the tripod war machines from The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Or rather, my interpretation of what an organic version of those tripods would be, since, y’know, it’s a book and all.
Podritak is Kemlasulla’s chill flying ally, a monster who doesn’t really have a direct equivalent among the terrestrial cast. Her personality is more designed to be a foil to Kemlasulla’s than anything - she’s the level head to his manic one. They’re good friends despite their differences.
Her design is basically an organic interpretation of the flying machines from the 1950′s War of the Worlds movie adaptation.
Finally we have Sombarvot, who’s a sweetheart in a murder monster’s body. Like Podritak, he doesn’t quite have a clear analogue among the terrestrial kaiju - we could say he’s the Martian Anguirus or, like, a hybrid of Bobo and Tricerak personality wise, but the comparisons would be a little forced. His design is sort of a reference to the multi-limbed lizard horses from the Barsoom books.
For our final nine alien kaiju, we’ll be going to some galaxies far far away...
ATOM Stop Motion Puppets: Kemlasulla
This one made me excited as I was making it. I mean, it’s Kemlasulla, my best alien! My weirdest alien! It was so fun bringing this guy to life, complete with all his weird anatomical quirks! He’s got an articulated eye! He’s a tripod! His jaws and ear shield move! It’s great. He’s great.
