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OperaGhost21 [2012-07-02 21:16:40 +0000 UTC]
Awesome, they all look great!
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Vagrant-Verse In reply to OperaGhost21 [2012-07-03 01:12:18 +0000 UTC]
Thanks much, they were a lot of fun to put together
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RenDragonClaw [2011-09-16 23:26:35 +0000 UTC]
I think you did a novel job in addressing a lot of the GAS-yness that some of his kaiju had, especially Rama.
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Vagrant-Verse In reply to RenDragonClaw [2011-09-20 18:25:40 +0000 UTC]
Rama was one of the major reasons I did this in the first place, he just needed a little something extra
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AkityMH [2011-09-16 21:31:03 +0000 UTC]
Sweet, glad you haven't forgot me.
This is absolutely one of the best things I seen all week long. Being my birthday and all. Zenus is a win, Keekaw is, Parry, everyone. Hell. Yes.
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AkityMH In reply to Vagrant-Verse [2011-09-20 20:49:37 +0000 UTC]
I might go and redo some monsters after this. Mainly just the four main ones that are GASy.... Gasy... ... we seriously, have to think of a brand new word system for that.
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Vagrant-Verse In reply to Pyatt [2011-09-20 18:41:02 +0000 UTC]
Indeed, I'm rather glad I took the extra time to finish this in the end. I helped get DOM off the ground but over time I weakened my grip on creative guidance, I practically guided his hand until right around Oko which was when some of the designs started getting bland and the story became formulaic, so as the weaker designs came about I felt I needed to do something and this provided a perfect opportunity. For whatever its worth I take a small measure of pride in my monster designing, I don't want people to think I just downright approved of the extreme cases of GAS-yness.
Yeah, the size is a BIT over the top. As mentioned I do think her being big is a bit of fun irony, most kaiju films have opponents bigger than the main monster so its fun to see the other side, but overall its just too easy to rain down hell on most monsters when the scale is that different.
MY biggest issue is the story prose, really. It honestly annoys me at times that he's got it where the children act like adults and garner lots of sympathy whereas the adults either act like jackasses or like children. That can work in the genre when its written for kids in a more campy way, don't get me wrong, but combine that with the overdone sexual content and adult situations and it just seems paradoxical to the extreme. I find myself screaming 'pick one already!' when I reading sometimes.
But all things considered the 'verse isn't bad, Ak tries too hard to please sometimes but when he's in the right place he can make some great stuff. At the risk of carpal tunnel, I will stop here.
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AkityMH In reply to Pyatt [2011-09-16 21:31:12 +0000 UTC]
So you are still looking at my stuff?
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ProfessorCene [2011-09-16 20:48:24 +0000 UTC]
Very nice. I never noticed just how much larger Thanatos is than Hera. He was a little god-modded when he first appeared, but I bet that won't happen when he next appears. And his design is pretty cool.
Out of all of AK's kaiju, the only one I really don't like is Hunter. He's a karma houdini as far as I see it.
I never really noticed it before, but Misoko really is the big bad of the first arc. I'm betting Vorion will be the big bad of the 3rd arc. And I wonder who it is that will top Hera in terms of destruction.
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Vagrant-Verse In reply to ProfessorCene [2011-09-20 18:27:11 +0000 UTC]
Well, Thanatos doesn't feel the need to show aggression being as big as he is. The only reason he vaped the Xenus swarm was because he was rudely awakened. The world rapidly adopts a leave him alone policy, yet they do have to learn this the hard way.
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FakaPokeBio [2011-09-16 20:37:26 +0000 UTC]
While some of the redesigns are hard to recognize, (read:Gilgramesh) these are all very cool!
And really, looking at the lineup of the first two Arcs alone, you can't really say that AK isn't creative, even if the designs may occasionally be lacking.
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Vagrant-Verse In reply to FakaPokeBio [2011-09-17 19:01:40 +0000 UTC]
Indeed, Gil was a bit difficult to render right, the only reference image I had at the time was very small so I couldn't go to too much detail.
I've always thought Ak had a lot of good ideas, its just sometimes he doesn't go far enough with them. Even more rarely too far, but that's rare.
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FakaPokeBio In reply to Vagrant-Verse [2011-09-20 23:34:35 +0000 UTC]
When I first saw 'im here, I was like, "Wait... since when did AK have a mosasaur in DoM?"
And then I remembered Gilgramesh, and was like, "Oh, it's that kid, okay.
That's very true.
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Vagrant-Verse In reply to FakaPokeBio [2011-09-20 23:42:59 +0000 UTC]
Funny, there was a mosasaur in his first attempt at a kaijuverse. No idea if she'll transition in yet but still.
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Ravensaurs-Rex [2011-09-16 19:08:04 +0000 UTC]
This reminds me a lot of that chibi-esk spread sheet of Aka's you did a while back.
In any case I have to say this is a bloody brilliant job!
Out of all your slight redesigns, I have to say Xenus is the most interesting, though in your bid to make him look different, he instead looks pretty much like Orga's brother. But that's not really a bad thing.
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Vagrant-Verse In reply to Ravensaurs-Rex [2011-09-17 19:03:16 +0000 UTC]
I remember that, I wasn't nearly as competent on photoshop back then so I couldn't fit full sized ones into the paper.
I can live with that, Orga is a favorite of mine.
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Ravensaurs-Rex In reply to Vagrant-Verse [2011-09-17 19:28:50 +0000 UTC]
True enough, and we wouldn't be able to compare all the little critters.
Eh, can't say I'm too fond of him, though I don't hate him.
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