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What are your thoughts on the Cloverfield kaiju? Aswell as its parasites?

Cloverfield and his parasites are extremely cool and the lore around them is interesting; being creatures that eat seabed nectar being disturbed because a slushy company was mining for their food on an oil rig.

What they are depends on the adaptation, and I think the manga makes them aliens.

At the time the movie came out they were incredibly unique designs, but most modern Hollywood original monsters try to mimic the vibes of it and the Future Predator from Primeval. If they came out today the design would be a dime a dozen and I’m kinda sad that there isn’t as much wild variety in creature design as there used to. The only monster I can think of that really benefits from this archetype of design are the MUTOS.

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What are your thoughts on the new Leviathan Balahara?

This damn thing is literally me coded, fleshgodcore.

Like, I would design this for Gverse. This is how I make guardians. Luminescence, fucked up mouth, unique and dynamic design and movement? Checks all the boxes. I also have a soft spot for spinning drilling things. The first four GUARDIANverse stories already have characters with features present on this monster!

As for what I think it is, I’m tempted to say proto snake.

Burrowing is ancestral to snakes and many burrowing snakes lost their eyes. The only vertebrate I can think of that can achieve this three lobed jaw very easily are snakes (and I did use burrowing species for reference when making the giggi skull).

Jointed teeth are usually associated with viper fangs, but are also found on some deep sea fish.

Also Balahara has clam eyes.

I love this horrendous beast

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What do you think of the official Legendary godzilla skeletal anatomy?

Also based on the skull anatomy Legendary seems to be some sort of Archosauromorph but im not sure since i cant find any close up photos of the skull but this is the best i can analyze

Oh dang how come I never heard about this till now?!

The skeleton seems really chimeric, with the skull being very diapsid-like, but the hips and lack of gastralia are very mammalian or synapsid-like. A view of the top of the skull might be the deal breaker, since whether or not it has 2 or 4 temporal fenestra would determine if it’s a diapsid or synapsid.

But legendary Godzilla also has gills (although whether or not they’re homologous to fish gills is up for debate), and considering such a large species would have a long lifespan and thus evolve slower and that Godzilla’s species evolved in the Permian, there’s also the possibility that it’s descended from something much more ancient and just convergently evolved these skeletal features. Amniote of some kind is a potential answer, but an amphibian shouldn’t be ruled out.

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what are your thoughts on Taikun Zamuza, about its design biology and ecology?

Taikun Zamuza is one of the few frontier monsters that genuinely fascinates me. It’s an electric crab, a subterranean creature, and the shell mechanic is interesting.

Ecology wise I think Taikun just kinda eats what it can get plus the occasional ore, but considering all the mold and barnacles growing on it, it probably spends long periods of time sitting around. It might rely primarily on ambush predation while also sometimes eating some of what grows on its back to round out its diet, and then occasionally making trips to areas with flora or detritus rich in nutrients it can’t get elsewhere. Taikun has a lot of defenses though, so it’s very likely that it’s far from the top dog in its environment, and might have many predators.

At first I thought that the orange eyeless outer shell might be the carapace of another monster it wears for protection, like how some assassin bugs wear their prey, but then it occurred to me that it actually kinda looks like the Megalopae life stage in crabs.

If this is the case then that means it wears the shell of its previous life stage for protection, and gets smaller as it gets older. This shrinking with age thing does sometimes happen in nature, like with the paradox frog. This Megalopae exoskeleton also seems to still be in one piece, meaning that when Taikun molts it doesn’t actually leave its old skin.

This got me wondering how they reproduce though. Surely they leave their shell to do it, so do they just break out of it and spend the rest of their life without this second shell? Or maybe they slip out of it like clothes and then put it back on even though it would be a little loose now that it’s fully opened? If it really is a Megalopae exoskeleton, then is the creature that’s inside actually just a juvenile? Have we never seen an adult Taikun Zamuza?

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What are your thoughts on the Tree creeper from primeval? how does it compare to my reimagined version of the it and what would be your take on the Tree Creeper?

The tree creeper is kinda cool but there’s no way in hell that thing’s a raptor. I like yours much better because it’s more raptor like though, although raptors don’t have a fourth finger.

I personally wouldn’t have gone the dinosaur route if I hate to design it just because the way dinosaurs do arboreality is very different from primates (stiff spine, “hugging” trees, clinging with the feet). If I had to though I probably would have gone with a megaraptor since they’re the only dinosaurs we know of that can pronate their hands.

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what are your thoughts on the arachnid monsters like Nerscylla, Rakna Kadaki (includes their subspecies), Akura Vashimu and Akura Jebia (includes Zenith)?

Genuinely love the mainline spider monsters. Nerscylla has a ton of personality and the tidbit of her wearing the skin of her prey for protection is excellent. Rakna has a little less personality but I like her more just for her design (obsessed with her head design) and gimmicks. I like her subspecies most.

The scorpions I’m a little iffy on since scorpion monsters are awesome on paper. I just don’t like the crystal ailment, it feels too fantastical for monhun. I also don’t like how their claws are designed, they animate more like fingers than an actual arthropod claw.

I also have a phylogenetic tree I made. It’s one of my older ones but it still holds up. Only change I’d make is remove the puppet spider, since after closer inspection it has an actual cephalothorax and might just actually be a giant spider.

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here some images of the Abio and Giao's heads for you to make skulls for them since in my question about them you said you wanted to do skulls for them so i offer you some nice renders of these models for you!

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Hey thanks man!

I’ll keep them around here on my blog in case anyone else wants to use them!

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what are your thoughts on Shimidah the kaiju that never made it to GvK?

and what kind of invertebrate you think its supposed to be?

It’s pretty cool looking but also really chimeric

It doesn’t actually strike me as an invert, just something vaguely insectile, and feels more like a vertebrate than came onto land independently from tetrapods. But following this idea and judging by the jaw anatomy means it probably evolved jaws independently of other vertebrates, and so it’s last common ancestor with all other vertebrates was probably a jawless fish

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What are your thoughts on the Whip flying wyverns such as Berukyurosu, Doragyurosu and Zenaserisu? What do you think of their design, biology ane ecology? What do you think of Dora's variations such as Supremacy, phantom and Zenith?

I’m kinda ehhhhh on them. I think the idea of whip wings is really cool but something like that only makes sense as like a defensive adaptation an herbivore would have or a weird sexual display feature, and the whip wyverns are active predators.

In some ways I actually like their design but they still kinda have that frontier angular-ness and clunk that a lot of later frontier designs have that I’m not a big fan of, in comparison to the more organically shaped silhouettes of mainline and portable. Berukyurosu and Doragyurosu being incredibly smart is actually pretty cool and I’ve always wanted to see a monster with advanced problem solving abilities; able to change up strategies in battle. I don’t really know much about supremacy “species” or phantom types but they seem like more over the top frontier nonsense. Zenith seems okay though.

Zenaserisu has large ears, webbed feet, lives near water sources, and can shoot pressurized water. I want to say it’s a small prey specialist that listens for any potential meals and possibly uses the water jet to incapacitate prey. The webbed feet indicates some aquatic habits, and maybe it wades around in running water and waits for prey to come close before water jetting it to stun it. It could possibly even use the wings as cover to make shadows, which would lure in fish.

Berukyurosu and Doragyurosu are pretty similar and ecology wise they probably overlap. They seem to be swift predators of mountainous regions, and probably use this to stay out of trouble from more robust and powerful predators in their environment. Doragyurosu has dragon element, and if we run with the theory that dragon element usually helps with the immune system, then Doragyurosu might get a good chunk of its energy from carrion. Maybe specifically in harsher seasons.

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What are your thoughts on the Godzilla Analog Horror series made by the youtuber called Unknowingly?

I appreciate it for what it is and I think it’s interesting, but I wouldn’t call it exceptional. But also I don’t think it’s trying to be groundbreaking so that’s okay. It’s okay to just have a spooky Godzilla story.

I commemorate it for not using jumpscares and relying on the viewer to imagine the more horrible bits, because the human mind will usually imagine something much worse. And for not relying on distorted faces too much like with other analog horror.

But it doesn’t really make me scared in my own home like say, Vita Carnis.

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what you think Boggis are? they look like weird chimera of hyena and theropod, personally i have them as bizarre paravians but im curious on what you think they are.

Also is Najarala is squamate?

(i may have asked alot of questions recently but you can take your time to awnser them and maybe continue on your series of God children of ana and i gotta say i love this series soo fucking much!)

So when I say I have flying wyverns and most bird Wyverns be descended from a paravian ancestor, the greats are the ones I’m excluding from the equation. With the exception of Maccao, which I put in the paravian family with most bird and flying wyverns.

The rest I’m torn up on making them either ceratosaurs of some kind (possibly noasaurs) or even herrarasaurs.

Najarala is… I’m not too sure on. I’d have to look further into it.

Also I love questions even if I take awhile to get to them! Also

I’m so glad you love the god children! Be sure to like and reblog them!

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What are your thoughts on the Exotic monsters from frontier and what do you think of their ecology? is it different from the others or pretty much the same and what do you think of the biology of Exotic Seregios, Nargacuga,Magalas and Amatsu considering they can apparently transform?

Most of them are just “this species hasn’t been recorded in the Mezeporta area before so they’re kinda new to us”, so ecologically they’re probably not super different. Same stuff different area.

As for the ones that transform I’m torn on because some of those transformations like the magalas are design and ability choices I’d give to my guardians so aesthetically I love them, but within the confines of the setting of monster hunter its just a continuation of late frontier’s trend of abandoning the series’s core philosophy of taking a naturalistic, if extravagant, approach to its monsters in favor of over the top anime arena battles.

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I’m glad I can be of inspiration! I have similar tech issues too. I use ArtStudio for my digital pieces which has a limit on canvas size and layers, with bigger canvases having fewer layers. And when I mean few layers I mean few layers. The canvas size I usually use only allows 6 at max, but the biggest only allows 2. So it can be frustrating trying to work around it all.

As for the god children, it’s meant to be an introduction to my GUARDIANverse setting (the god children saga itself is a spin-off side story) to get people introduced to it. Mainly the aliens, stakes and darker themes, as well as what guardians can do as well as making the kaiju (guardians) themselves major characters.

I actually hope to turn gverse into several book series! After the god children are finished however, I probably won’t be making any major GUARDIANverse content for awhile aside from silly self indulgent crossover stuff. I have a list of both writing and art pieces I need to do that I’ve been trying to chip away at for a few years. But in between them and definitely after I’ll probably be illustrating characters and making character profiles! I have a lot I want to show! It’s just gonna take me awhile to illustrate and write it. So definitely stick around for the long term!

The next god child should drop maybe tomorrow

Anyways thank you

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The new world raptors I’d also place in the Wyvern paravian family for their forearm flexibility. Similarly as primitive as Maccao but probably not within its subgroup. Maybe Maccao and the new world raptors are two separate sister groups to bird and flying wyverns that both lost their styliforms. The Wyvern paravian family would still be closely related to dromeosaurs, troodontids, and birds though by virtue of being paraves.

Dalamadur definitely seems to be a proto snake of some kind due to its skull flexibly. It probably split off from true snakes before the loss of front limbs. Najarala it could be related too, but like you said, raviente is an anatomically unusual outlier. Again, I’d have to look into it at some point.

Kirin I don’t think is a horse because it has 3 toed feet, but! I do think it’s an odd toed ungulate which would place it among horses and rhinos.

Gobul is literally just an anglerfish. Every one of its features are shared with irl anglers. Most anglers have turned their fins into feet like gobul. Many Sea toads and frogfish have spines as well like Antennatus sanguineus. Goosefish have barbules on their chins to imitate plants too. Batfish and monkfish are also dorsoventrally flattened. The sargassum anglerfish also leaves water to escape predators (onto mats of seaweed) as well. Several species of anglers can puff up in defense. The sargassum anglerfish also secretes a neurotoxin that it gets from its diet. I’d say that Gobul are just part of a unique group of anglers related to monkfish, and it’s closest relative is the new world andangler. Nibel feels like a primitive amphibian to me.

Midogaron are apparently divorced male Orugaron. Honestly any of the three canid families could work but since I have Lunagaron in Hesperocyoninae as well then it could be that both it and the Orugarons form a late surviving family of them.