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Science Fiction genre veteran creature designer & suit actor, Tom Woodruff Jr., has just been confirmed as the Creature Designer for Legendary’s Godzilla sequel, GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS!
The news was confirmed early Monday morning as the film’s director, Mike Dougherty, responded to a fan’s inquiry about Tom’s listing for the film on IMDB.
Woodruff Jr. is an Academy Award Winning special effects & design guru whose work is widely known in the industry. To fans, he’s best known as the man who brought all physical XENOMORPH suits to life for the Alien franchise, the venerable Pumpkinhead, GORO in Mortal Kombat, and many, many more.
What does this mean for kaiju fans anticipating Legendary’s sequel? Woodruff Jr. is now the man who will be giving the world it’s first “modern” CGI incarnations of Rodan, Mothra, and Ghidorah – as each are slated to appear in KOTM alongside Godzilla. Perhaps the Big G himself will also be receiving a bit of a makeover at the hands of Sir Tom.
Few in Hollywood are as capable as Woodruff Jr., and we’re struggling to think of a better artist to bring unique & updated looks to our revered titans whilst keeping their classic designs intact.
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Jon D. B.
so practical effects to some degree? or gonna be like last film 100% cartoon.. its godzilla.. a franchise started from practical effects.. people laugh think suits from 60s but look @ later g films, look at stan wintston stuff, suits are getting better n better.. not just that animatronics etc look at jurassic park when they used live action effects. spectacula. also i mean for minature buildings blowing up and smashing stuff do some real that real umff impact if better
im woreid hes just gonna make the merchandise.. and concept models that they will use to turn into CGI later.. thats what i mjworried about.. put some real live action effects in it for god sake do it!
Always been a huge fan of “suitmation” really looking forward to seeing some practical effects as opposed to all CG! Will really make the Big G look much better on the Big screen Roll on March 2019!
[…] Last year we learned that legendary creature designer Tom Woodruff Jr. would be sparheading to the m…, and we know VFX supervisor Guillaume Rocheron is continuing his work from GODZILLA (2014). Long story short, all of this combined with the confirmed use of mo-cap this time around points to an even stronger sequel. No doubt the re-emergence of giant monsters in pop culture has pushed Legendary to continue their excellent work with the franchise, and raise the ante on themselves, as well. The studio is even going as far as to pull in other mo-cap actors to take on the other attributes of Ghidorah, assisting Liles in bringing all three heads, two wings, tails, and legs to life. […]