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Here's that lovely Rekira teaser poster again, but with slightly fixed Japanese text (thanks to Instagram user "masked_elone")!

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Today is the 34th Anniversary of when I started the project that ultimately became Rekira the Super-Monster, my own original kaiju project! Production is still underway, and to mark the occasion, I did two versions of the teaser poster, in Japanese and English! This has my current V3 Beta model of Rekira, done in Blender (with which I'm animating the project), and the posters were done in FireAlpaca.

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Huh. So I got a thousand likes. :)

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Huh! So I got 1,000 likes on Tumblr! :)

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My first art of 2025 has Rekira, my original kaiju, celebrating the Year of the Snake (in a snakelike physique)!

Drawn on tablet in FireAlpaca.

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Here's my final art of 2024, with my original kaiju, Rekira, waving goodbye to his inspiration/hero, Godzilla, after the King of the Monsters' 70th Anniversary turned out very well. Despite its problems, 2024 was still a very good year!

Done on tablet in FireAlpaca.

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Art Highlights of 2024!

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So as of today, this movie is now exactly as old as Godzilla was when he starred in it! 😉

TOKUTEMBER SUPPLEMENT: The movie that brought Godzilla into Japan's then-new Heisei dynasty (1989-2019), here's the innovative Godzilla Vs. Biollante (Toho; 1989)!

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Despite these difficult times, I still have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving:

-Mom and Sissy being in good health. -My big brother Peter and his friend Panda had a great and safe two-week trip to Japan, and showed me all sorts of stuff! -I went to two Galaxy-Cons this year and met wonderful guests. -This is, to date, the best Godzilla Day I've ever had (the Godzilla Fest livestream, going to see Godzilla Minus One for the 4th time, and watching my Criterion Blu-Ray of the original 1954 film)! -I'm making very good progress on my original kaiju project, Rekira the Super-Monster! And for Thanksgiving, I'm sharing a bit of it: I'm unveiling the final look for the eponymous monster, as completed in Blender! Assembled in FireAlpaca.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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20 years ago today, one of the greatest animated films ever made was released in theaters nationwide! Brad Bird's The Incredibles (Pixar/Disney; 2004) has become not only the most influential animated film ever made (showing that CGI is capable of doing appealing cartoony humans), but also one of *the* greatest superhero movies of all time! As far as I'm concerned, this film remains Pixar's crowning achievement.

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Today is the 70th Anniversary of my favorite character of all time (tied with Snoopy), Godzilla! This was a super-quick sketch that I did (on tablet in FireAlpaca) while watching Godzilla Fest.

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Tokutember 2024 Day 30 (Final Day): Congratulations to Takashi Yamazaki and his crew for a huge win for both the Toho Godzilla and the world of tokusatsu; the awesome, highly-acclaimed, Oscar-winning film, GODZILLA MINUS ONE (Robot/Toho; 2023)!

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Tokutember 2024 Day 29: Bridging between Japan's Heisei and current Reiwa dynasties, animation and FX auteurs Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi bring Hollywood-style FX techniques to the Big Three of Tokusatsu (Godzilla, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider), with highly successful films praised worldwide! Here they are as the Shin Japan Heroes!

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Tokutember 2024 Day 28: Right after 1991's JETMAN saved the then-flagging Super Sentai franchise, the next entry, at least what would ultimately happen to it, would make an even bigger impact around the world! Here are the heroes of DINOSAUR TASK FORCE ZYURANGER (Toei; 1992)!

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Tokutember 2024 Day 27: This Kamen Rider changed and updated the look of the franchise, in the twilight of Japan's Showa dynasty. Here's Shotaro Ishinomori's KAMEN RIDER BLACK (Toei; 1987)!

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Tokutember 2024 Day 26: By 1982, tokusatsu has entered the Star Wars age, and with it comes new characters, including the first of the Metal Heroes (the one-time brother franchise of Super Sentai), SPACE SHERIFF GAVAN (Toei; 1982)!

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Tokutember 2024 Day 25: The beginning of the Super Sentai franchise (at least noted in the early 1990s)! Here's the 5 heroes of Shotaro Ishinomori & Toru Hirayama's SECRET TASK FORCE GORENGER (Toei; 1975)!