Huge scrapbook dump today. I'm still struggling to get the energy to do a full fledged deviation, so enjoy these sketches while you wait for the goods!

A long while ago someone made a comment about one of my concept art pieces for Tyrantis, asking if that was the "Showa Tyrantis." I'm still not entirely sure what he or she meant, but it got me to thinking. Tyrantis is very much a Showa monster. I did that on purpose, since the Showa period was my favorite of the Godzilla film series and, in my own personal opinion, the best. Tyrantis is meant to be an homage to the old school, 50's and 60's giant monster movies, and the Showa Godzilla series had some of the best examples of those movies.

So yes, the Tyrantis that has become my main character is very much a Showa monster. But the other thing that comment made me think about is what he would look like if he wasn't a Showa kaiju.

So I sketched a Heisei Tyrantis, Shinsei Tyrantis, and an old school stop motion Willis O'brien Tyrantis (based on my Battle of the Behemoths alternate universe version of the character). I have no plans to use any of these designs. They're just here for funsies.

The final bit of this scrap is a sketch of a Tyrantis plush doll pattern. It's basically the skin of my current Tyrantis stop motion model (the "Showa" version, if you will) without the skeleton. I may finalize this pattern and make a nice plush Tyrantis for myself some day... and maybe possibly sell them here as a print.