Never Before Seen Showa Era Godzilla Fight Finally Released!!!

[Ron]

Okay, my apologies for the click bait title. This though is one of the coolest, most impressive pieces of animation I've ever seen. An animator whose channel goes by the name "TAIYAKI" made this using Blender. If you had told me this was old unused TOHO Godzilla footage, I would've believed you. It looks that authentic even down to the most subtle details...

 

[foj3000]

Okay, my apologies for the click bait title. This though is one of the coolest, most impressive pieces of animation I've ever seen. An animator whose channel goes by the name "TAIYAKI" made this using Blender. If you had told me this was old unused TOHO Godzilla footage, I would've believed you. It looks that authentic even down to the most subtle details...

There’s a making of video that’s pretty cool too:

 

[batguy]

It is impressive.

I'm not gonna say it's perfect (I see some physics goofs, etc) but it's better than I expected.


This stuff is the future, for better and worse.

 

[PoopaPapaPalps]

My biggest gripe is that they would never EVER have the holes for suit performer to see be so obvious like that. Other than that, this was pretty darn close to original Showa era stuff.

 

[Ron]

It is impressive.

I'm not gonna say it's perfect (I see some physics goofs, etc) but it's better than I expected.


This stuff is the future, for better and worse.

Do you mean like when Godzilla slams Muto down the first time? Cause that stood out the most to me.

My biggest gripe is that they would never EVER have the holes for suit performer to see be so obvious like that. Other than that, this was pretty darn close to original Showa era stuff.

I agree. I'm hoping that was a deliberate choice to make clear that he was giving a nod to the practice of placing eye holes in monster suits.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Okay, my apologies for the click bait title. This though is one of the coolest, most impressive pieces of animation I've ever seen. An animator whose channel goes by the name "TAIYAKI" made this using Blender. If you had told me this was old unused TOHO Godzilla footage, I would've believed you. It looks that authentic even down to the most subtle details...

That’s pretty cool!

 

[batguy]

Do you mean like when Godzilla slams Muto down the first time? Cause that stood out the most to me

Godzilla kicking the boulder stood out most for me.

There's a few other shots that seem off to me, although they were probably do-able with fast-motion (undercranked) footage. It's just not something the original crew would have done.


These are nitpicks in the big picture. It's a really impressive piece of work overall.

I wonder what kind of man-hours went into it.

Honestly, the realism of the early tank shots impress me as much as anything. That kind of "little stuff" really sells it.

I wonder what kind of human motion we're looking at. I doubt it's hand-animated. I smell mo-cap. Or at least I think it's traced over some human reference footage.

 

[Ron]

Godzilla kicking the boulder stood out most for me.

There's a few other shots that seem off to me, although they were probably do-able with fast-motion (undercranked) footage. It's just not something the original crew would have done.


These are nitpicks in the big picture. It's a really impressive piece of work overall.

I wonder what kind of man-hours went into it.

Honestly, the realism of the early tank shots impress me as much as anything. That kind of "little stuff" really sells it.

I wonder what kind of human motion we're looking at. I doubt it's hand-animated. I smell mo-cap. Or at least I think it's traced over some human reference footage.

Gotcha. I thought the boulder kick was an intentional goof though I may be wrong.

Yeah the tanks, both in appearance and their miniature-in-motion shuddering, was very well done. Even the lighting had the look of lighting on a miniature.

If the monsters are not mo-cap, then that's some incredible skill to animate them exactly like the real deal. The "making of" video appears to show that he's animating them. I suppose if you study the Showa films frame by frame, maybe you can get the hang of replicating it without the need for mo-cap or rotoscoping.

 

[CessnaDriver]

The wires looked fake.

 

[greenmachines]

I thought they were going for a round of football like his buddy had come to visit.