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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE CHARACTER THAT TRANSED MY GENDER

#THIS RULESSS #the colors????

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Newmann in 2023? well literally !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

#millenial bracelets 💀💀💀 i own those and Not for cosplay i already had them

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Into the Breach! Storyboarding PACIFIC RIM

Along with working on concept for Guillermo del Toro’s PACIFIC RIM (you can read about my kaiju designs for Otachi and Slattern here) and some prop work, I also worked on storyboarding the film with Rob McCallum, Francisco Ruiz Velasco and Raúl Monge. Below are a few sample pages to some of the sequences did.

After we were done with most of the concept work, Francisco Ruiz Velasco and myself stayed on to help storyboard artist Rob McCallum with the final sequence to the film and rework changes to earlier sequences after Rob left.

For the breach sequence at the film’s finale, I did tighter color boards to also work out the concept of the “Throat” which led to the Anteverse. More Pacific Rim storyboards in a future post!

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An Otachi evolution ~ making a PACIFIC RIM kaiju!

This week Guillermo del Toro’s PACIFIC RIM came out on DVD/Blu-Ray, so now you can have kaiju alerts anytime you want! I had a great time getting to be part of Guillermo’s core concept team along with designing some of the film’s kaiju, Otachi and Slattern! Here’s a look at some of the early concept I did for Otachi and the evolution of the kaiju from sketch to screen.

All the kaiju designs I did started out with a blank piece of paper and few ideas for forms and character. Above (top), is the first quick sketch for a possible kaiju that would become “Otachi”, based loosely on a crawling bat with the twin blade horns inspired by the prehistoric skull of a Brontotherium. Guillermo liked the direction of that form and I worked it up to a cleaner design (center), fleshing out the details and character. With Guillermo’s input we worked up the bottom design, getting rid of her multiple side eyes and adding the glowing “eye spots” to the front of the horns and split chisel lower jaw. The hammer tail in the early drawings also became a snake like spear.

After that, the next pass at the designs tightened all those ideas into the final concept drawings above.

Guillermo also wanted the kaiju to have 2 silhouettes, standing and crawling so a rearing Otachi was also worked out (above). Along with a flying pose with her wings extended (below). 

The final details of Otachi’s head were also tightened, but the tendons connecting her jaws were dropped in the final model.

Once all these concepts were finalized and Guillermo approved, the drawings were passed to concept artist Francisco Ruiz Velasco who did a final rendered painting of the design and fleshed out more details like the glowing spots along her neck. Otachi’s attacking tail was also added in Francisco’s pass at the character, taken from the unused kaiju “Meathead”, an earlier character that I designed with concept sculptor Simon Lee.

From there the designs and rendering were given to concept artist/ sculptor David Meng who created the final maquette that brought everything together into the final Otachi that would end up in the film! And I’ll admit it’s still a big thrill to see her come to life on the screen. You can check out more of the all the concept that went into making the film with the official art book “PACIFIC RIM: MAN, MACHINES and MONSTERS”. And be sure to check out all the featurettes and extras included in the new PACIFIC RIM DVD release!

#oh this is such a cool find #otachi is design of all time to me so to see her process photos is so fun

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favourite scenes from pacific rim 3 💙

#aughhhh #pacrim 3 you would be so beautiful pleasee

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YESSS SHE IS MINE

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watched this movie for the first time in four years without realizing it was like two days away from the man himself's birthday

#oooh

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oh man, they made you defend your thesis? that's fucked up, they told me mine was perfect the way it is and just gave me the phd

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Here is my belated art for Pacific Rim’s 10th anniversary, happy anniversary of cancelling the apocalypse!

#HOLY SHIT THIS RULES #goddd i want a tattoo

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Have another DCWT Newt while I hack away at these commissions.

[ Commission | Patreon ]

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I guess this is a character study, of sorts. I think Hermann is a character who is often reduced into a trope: the stuffy, grumpy professor, in constant disdain of Newt’s free spirit. Things like him asking to be addressed as Doctor Gottlieb have led to him being reduced to a stuck-up killjoy. But there are reasons people have these preferences. And in the end I’d argue that Hermann wanting to be addressed by his full title is him attempting to accomplish the same goal as Newt’s tattoos. It’s not all about sounding or looking impressive. It’s about taking claim of an important part of you, and asking others to acknowledge it. 

#how have i never seen this??? god #its so interesting how similar they rlly are in having to Force people to take them seriously for very different reasons #and it manifests in such different ways

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So here's an interesting little detail in Pacific Rim: A lot of the people in the Bone Slums/Exclusion Zone are wearing face masks that are stained blue. Here's some pictures from the film (again, thanks movie-screencaps.com!), brightened to make it easier to see:

So what's up with that? Pacific Rim: Man, Machines, & Monsters has the answer:

During pre-production Costume Designer Kate Hawley sent Production Designer Andrew Neskoromny a photo of an Asian factory where indigo fabric was being dyed. "Everything gets stained," recalls Neskoromny. "People's clothes, their fingers, their nails, just everything. I said, 'Oh yeah, that looks great. We've got to do a bit of that.'" Hawley took the idea even further. "The idea is that the blue blood has got into people's bodies," she says. "and you can see bits of blue coming through their breathing masks, like a little subtle poison."

It's an interesting touch - and it's one that leaves me with some questions. Other sources have it that kaiju blue is so potent that it can dissolve sidewalks, and based on that information you'd kinda expect people who'd inhaled enough kaiju blue for it to show up on their masks to be a lot worse off than these fairly healthy-looking people. So do the toxins in kaiju blue break down relatively quickly? Or does Hannibal Chau have an effective treatment? Or maybe even the local kaiju church? Or is it something else?

#i imagine theres some sort of decon protocol put in place after a kaiju falls? #like a way of breaking down the chemicals in the near area in such a way its 'relatively' safe but would still be interacting w the lungs #and bloodstreams #and i also imagine the research on how safe/ effective this protocol is is plentiful but limited #considering as of 2025 the kaiju have only been around for 12 years thats the max that any research could account for the long term effects #of specific amts of blue exposure not to mention there were likely iterations on said decon measures that would have even less #effectiveness studies done #leaving people in certain areas Like hong kong that had landfall 9 years ago probably in the timeframe of when the decon measures likely #were decent but not as good as what would presumably happen with otachi and leatherback #considering people not in hazard suits were allowed near them basically immediately #if blue was this considerably toxic to people long term i doubt at least in this universe the respective governments would just allow them #to decompose near populated areas the way they do. they must treat the corpses in some way #this is all conjecture tho that got way longer than intended And i havent read the books or comics in a while so i may be forgetting stuff #this probably should have been a reply but im not retyping it all sorry lmao #i really am just spitballing take it all w a huge grain of salt obv #tldr: there likely is some decontamination system that isnt entirely effective leaving detectable kaiju blue in ppls lungs and minor damage

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Doodled the silly furry designs i did last year

#rubbing my little hands together like /I/ am the raccoon

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Odd question, but where did you get the best for your Hermann Gottlieb cosplay? I’ve been searching for accurate ones for ages…

Heya! It took me forever to finally track down, but it is a vintage K-Mart sweater vest from the 80s or 90s. You might find one in a vintage shop or Poshmark.

The brand is Hemingway Point. It comes in a few colorways, in a button up vest, a pullover vest, and a full sweater. Good luck!

Here is the saga of me finding it:

Alas, a recently sold one on Poshmark

#damnn i love costume sleuths whoever bought the newt pants to see they were lipservice brand 🤝 this op #you are doing such a service and now i want one #UPDATE I NOW OWN IT IN SWEATER FORM FOR 20 BUCKS #will still be on the lookout for the vest bc it is Too Hot to wear proper sweaters most days #also a second one on ebay rn for like 36 plus shipping if youre willing to give up the vest part and go whole sweater

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Newmann GIF sets I made for a project very last minute T–T);;, I wanted to fully animate this and had everything planned but just couldn’t cut it with the effort I had at the time, maybe someday I’ll return to it but it is what it is for now.

#HOLY SHIT???

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A drawing from Twitter :) Trans Newt is the best Newt 💖💖

✨👽Commission info!👽✨//  Buy Me a Coffee 💖☕💖

#i love himmm

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Watching Pacific Rim and I just love how Newt has zero survival skills. Kaiju tongue coming directly for him? Just stands there. Baby kaiju just ate a guy and is coming towards him next? Curls up in a little ball. This man would not survive a day in the wild

#dude could Not be rereleased into the wild hes too domesticated