Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Gorgon.

A long time ago on a message board called GojiStomp I was a moderator and the guy who made sigs. If you don't know what an sig is, it is an small internet banner that sits within a post on a message board. These little advertisements are usually of Avatars or sites a person wants to have representing them when they make a statement. I made a few and I was good enough to warrant my own forum for it.
I'm proficient with Photoshop and I can manipulate images on a professional level. I did it for friends and wasted some years on helping with generating looks for their sites. Of course they're all gone, so I have nothing to show for it, so Meh. 

On Gojistomp I was known as Dezerath and I was a nazi moderator, I admit it but when you deal with kids and fan boys you don't usually have a choice. It was good times. Now the site Gojistomp was run by a great kid by the name of Gary and he had a pretty reputable Godzilla Fandom following over his competition in Monster Zero and Mazer City. Monster Zero won out in the end, but with Godzilla 1998 we all lost a bit of our childhoods to two hacks. 

Unfortunately for Gojistomp it went and shut down due to Gary's school issues and having a life. When I was there I always found myself interested in creating American Kaiju. Giant monsters with hoaky alien invasions to waste those Sunday afternoons on those lovable Japanese movies sent to invade our sets in the 60's and 70's before buying everything in the 80's and 90's. 

When I started the outline on Chimera I always wanted to make a game where you were in those maser tanks fighting off some waddling rubber behemoth as it trashes the city. When I finished Chimera I got the idea for such a game and I started on the outline called Gorgon.
23 monster designs, but they had to be different over those normal Ultraman punching bags out of Bandia. So far three have made it to the block on Cs3.  
The image above was my first giant monster for Gorgon. I find that I need to look for a second job to get my hands on Zbrush. It's a sculpting program and you can get some powerful images with its use. These 23 designs would be easier to work with in this program than my basic 2d CS3 paste and color treatment. I already slathering at the mouth to try it out. Of course this means I'll have to convert Chimera over as well. DOH!


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