Godzilla: 'Gigan'

This is the "Gigan" design used in the Opening Title of the Godzilla Animated Series. (Requested by fellow DA pyatt.)

Now some facts and disclaimers that may clear up some confusion concerning this design:

It was never meant to be a representation of the original Toho movie creature. Way back in preproduction before we had scripts or even a concept to work with, and the Sony Godzilla movie was still a year away from release. I and artists from my Australian company Zoonimedia began a series of conceptual designs to audition them to join me on the series.

The artists on my team were Darren Roach, Dan Remmel, Milenko Tunjic, and Matthew Brady (who I renamed Gus, because we had two Matthews in our company, subsequently I named another creature 'El Gussano' after him because it was based off his design).

My team's brief was simple, go crazy and impress my boss Richard Raynis. I chose a few designs to redraw into the style I'd created for the show to give Richard an idea of how our process would work. We randomly named the designs with Toho monster names more as a joke than anything, (apologies to the classic film fans). This "Gigan" was one of the designs that made it into the main title.

Currently I cannot remember which artist's design this was based off, but the creature designs on this show became a very collaborative process. The careful inking off my pencils was done by Helen Maier. Helen, by the way, ended up signing away her likeness for the final look of Dr. Elsie Chapman.