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This clip was going to be featured in the 2nd part of    • Video   but it became so long that I decided to upload it as a separate video instead, similar to    • You Interrupt Godzilla (a Fan Animation)  

One idea for this animation was to attempt to portray how unsettling it would be to come across a giant monster in a mundane manner and how it could lead to a horrible death. The horror-angle didn't quite work though, because Godzilla would probably not care about attacking a single non-threatening human individual. Therefor I added a surprise guest monster to make Godzilla more active, and because so many comments have been asking for more monster fights. First I wanted to use one of the monsters from the 1978 or 1998 cartoon shows, but I ended up picking an unused preliminary transforming Heisei Mechagodzilla design because it was easier to model, had more varied attack methods, and it was fun to animate it transforming. This design was based on a sketch by Ryu Hariken, I stylized it a bit and shrunk it down to 50 meters. There are several transforming MG concept designs, I chose this one because it was the simplest and most of its details would be hidden by darkness, the environment and dust anyway.

I apologize for the darkness and the rendering artifacts present in the video. The idea was to have a moody night scene with deep shadows and a variety of light effects where the POV human character can't make out all the details of what's going on around him. Some of the effects worked, others are a little rough.