LazerWhale

I have a Tumblr blog, now.

Yep.

The Whale With Lazers

That'd be me. I'll be using it to post more of the writing blurbs that I like to type up, and maybe even go more in depth with my art.

So, y'know, if you like my work or just want to get a sense for what I like or how I think, go ahead and check it out.

Thank you all, and have a wondrous day.

To any Godzilla fans who haven't seen it yet, a T.V. spot for Shin Gojira has just aired in Japan. It boasts some new footage which I'm just in love with, as it really shows off the kind of cinematography that we can hope to see in this picture.







I personally think that this is easily some of, if not the best effects I've seen from a Toho picture, and if nothing else this should be one of the best looking films in the kaiju genre, I'd say.

Here's the best-quality copy of the T.V. spot that I know of:

If you're like me, you like one or all of four things; scientific accuracy, collectible items, great artistic talent and dinosaurs. I'm going to guess that just about everyone I know likes at least one. A while back, I stumbled upon this project that combines all four;

Beasts of the Mesozoic: Raptor Series is a Kickstarter project to bring 1/6 scale, scientifically accurate and beautifully detailed raptor figurines out on the market. For every person who's ever complained about no-one ever trying to introduce accurate dinosaurs to the mainstream public in an enjoyable way, this is what you've been saying should happen. Just look at these.


Velociraptor mongoliensis


Atrociraptor mashalli


Tsaagan mangas

Pledging enough to the Kickstarter can get you a resin prototype of one of these figures and/or a piece of awesome art like this, and every donation gets us closer to getting the real thing. There's still a decent amount of money needed to reach the goal, but the amount of pledges is slowly increasing. As of the posting of this journal, there are just 20 days left. If you're like me, you don't just want this to happen, you need this to happen.

Also, if we pledge enough he might start doing other prehistoric animals. He's currently teasing ceratopsians, which has me just giddy.

So, please, make a donation if you can, or at the very least spread the word.

Out from the dark,
Nearly forty storeys high,
Bringing terror,
Grim head in the sky,
Godzilla! Godzilla! Godzilla!



So, after a very long wait, we have a trailer! This has honestly made me want to see the movie, though I'm a little worried that it won't be shown in theatres up here. I'm also going to hope that it balances being grim with being entertaining, or rather with being impactful on an emotional level; dark plots are meaningless if an audience does not care about what is happening, after all.

In any case, what do you fans think of the trailer? Does it reinforce your opinions? Change them? Does it incite your interests, or turn you off? I'd love to hear.

And so, here it is, the design for the upcoming Godzilla 2016/Shin Gojira/Godzilla: Resurgence. Admittedly, this is the first thing that's actually made me anticipate the film, as until know I'd just stopped caring about it. Actually, I hadn't much cared about the actual film itself to begin with; I'm not a fan of what work I've seen from Mr. Anno thus far, and so much of the material made me feel as though it was going to try to outdo Legendary's film in the most childish ways, not helped by the fact that some people were saying that it would be without a doubt inherently better simply because it was Japanese/made by Toho/made by Anno while at the same time remarking that they had had too high of expectations for Godzilla 2014. I still believed that the film could be good, but there was nothing to build excitement for me.

Now? There's something. This is probably going to go down as one of the most divisive designs out of any Godzilla film. And I agree, it's quite ugly; Its skin texture looks like exposed, blackened and tumourus muscle strands: its dorsal plates look almost like fungal growths bursting haphazardly from its back: its teeth have no rhyme nor reason, and sprout like weeds, crowding and choking its jaws: and last of all its eye is dead, insignificant, soulless.

And I think that's the point. It's a walking tribute to decay and rot, devoid of life and spirit.

It is not a symbol of destruction, but the echoing emptiness that follows.

It is the city left silent and abandoned. The corpse left rotting. It is all the things we come to mourn.

It is not the atom bomb. It is the ugly, sombre husk that the bomb left behind.


Well, sorry for going all 'writer', there. I can't help it, sometimes. So, what do you all think of the design? Like it? Love it? Hate it? Or are you remaining neutral?