What inspired the designs of Godzilla 2014 and the Muto?

Making Monsters Information Taken from the Book Godzilla: the Art of Destruction Filming was underway when Gareth Edwards drove by MPC's production office in Vancouver to see a three-the motion study of Godzilla walking by the Golden Gate Bridge. read more

A second Muto, born from a mythical Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in Nevada, was a wingless female, but nearly as big as Godzilla 340 feet. “The production art department provided very good reference as to what the portions are, and you take the design and figure out how to integrate all those things,” Rocheron explains. read more

From this, the design for the MUTO monsters kept evolving and "mutating", according to Edwards, into a design he felt was more cohesive. Edwards has credited artist Matt Allsopp for creating the majority of the MUTO's designs. Edwards stated, "The DNA of the MUTO is 80 to 90 percent from Matt, he was the main guy". read more

Here a new selection of great original artwork inspired by the upcoming Godzilla 2014 film by Legendary Pictures. On the horizon, you would see the storm front. They would billow massively, forks of lightning would tear through the ominous shapes squatting on. read more