The makings of a monster, Or giant killer rabbit

The making of Frankzilla 


On the first day of college we were told to make a form out of clay, and that was it. So after a few minutes of throwing a few ideas around the group we decided to make a giant mutant rabbit which was destroying a city.

I got to work along with some of the others on the main body of the rabbit, which we named Frankzilla, while the other half of the group started to build the city which Frankzilla would be destroying. It was the first time id properly used clay to make anything so it took me a short wile to get used to the texture of the clay and how to mold it. We make the main body by placing a tall and slim cardboard box within it, stuffed newspaper around it so that it wasn't too heavy, and then molded clay around it to make the shape of the rabbits body.





After constructing the body and head we added the ears which we had to hold up by sticking wires in the ends and through the box inside. We added mark-making by softly scraping the clay to give the effect of fur on the body. We then decided as a group to have it so Frankzilla had his paw on a destroyed building. to do this we had to place more wires through the box in the front. After this we painted the eyes to make the rabbit look more mutated with a cat-like pupil along with painting the teeth so they were clearly visible. Looking back i wish i made the teeth slightly smaller as they look too large for the face, but it is a mutant rabbit.
 We started placing the buildings around Frankzilla and slowly built the city up, even adding a skyline. However, we soon realized that it didn't look like much of a chaotic scene.
We added more blue tissue paper to resemble the water under the bridge, stones, red and yellow tissue paper in the buildings so they looked destroyed and more broken buildings. We also added dramatic lighting so that it looked more realistic and dramatized. In the end i'm really happy and proud with how the scene looked.

After creating the Frankzilla scene and took multiple photo's for it, we took those photos and created posters from them which resembled those of old movie posters such as the original Godzilla.

We created them by using Photoshop and adjusting the curves, lines, hue, saturation and multiple effects.
It's the first time i'd used Photoshop and naturally found it quite challenging, but after some time I gradually began to understand the software and liked the end effects.
For the font i placed the image into illustrator which i was more confused about than Photoshop. Clearly i'll have to work on my understanding of the program as it's the only part of the final product that i'm not happy with.