{"id":6213,"date":"2010-01-21T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T07:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=6213"},"modified":"2010-01-21T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T07:29:07","slug":"giant-space-chicken-the-upgrade-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/21\/giant-space-chicken-the-upgrade-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Space Chicken: The Upgrade Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scifi artist Frank Wu — whose story “The Tragical History of Guidolon, the Giant Space Chicken” was a highlight of the giant monster anthology Daikaiju! Giant Monsters Tales<\/em><\/a> (edited by myself and Robin Pen, Agog! Press, 2005; reprinted Prime Books, 2007) — has just released a sampler of design and animation work for the in-development Guidolon project:<\/p>\n

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He says of it on his blog Cheerfully Demented<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The sampler summarizes work done\u00a0over the last couple years by yours truly,\u00a0tech guru\/technomage extraordinaire Brianna Spacekat Wu, without whom this\u00a0project would have been impossible, Todd Tennant, who designed Guidolon, Number One, Jerora and Takashi\u00a0Tamaal (the world’s greatest Shakespearean actor in a chicken suit), Jonah Gray, who did tons of character builds and animation, Sergio\u00a0Sykes, who rigged the Takashi model, Terry\u00a0Rosen, who, in a flurry of activity just before the con, did massive work on projects he’d been working on before:\u00a0the weird centipede-like\u00a0“Eagle” ship, and the XK-Omega-10\u00a0Jet Bug, and David Fleminger, who did the music, as surf guitar versions of\u00a0“The Chicken\u00a0Dance”\u00a0(used with permission).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The animated film is about a giant space chicken who is making a film about a giant space chicken.<\/span><\/p>\n

An archive of earlier images — a sort of pseudo-history of the project — is available on the Daikaiju! part of my website<\/a>. This includes the first animation done.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new material is looking fantastic and certainly augurs well for the final product.<\/span><\/p>\n