GODZILLA VS. KONG Concept Art Reveals New Look At Mechagodzilla As Artist Explains TERMINATOR Inspiration

Godzilla vs. Kong concept artist Jared Krichevsky has shared more of his Mechagodzilla designs, revealing how the classic Terminator movies inspired his work on the crossover event. Check it out here...

By JoshWilding - Apr 14, 2021 02:04 AM EST

Filed Under: Godzilla vs. Kong

Godzilla vs. Kong may have primarily focused on the fight between the titular Titans, but the final act saw them forced to team up in order to battle the formidable Mechagodzilla.

Visually, that sequence proved to be an absolute blast, and the movie delivered a cool take on the metallic Kaiju. Now, concept artist Jared Krichevsky has returned to Instagram to share even more of his work from Godzilla vs. Kong, and that means we get an even closer look at the impressive design.

"'It has to be a Terminator.' That's what [Legacy Effects] Co-Head John Rosengrant said in our meeting with [Adam Wingard] as we reviewed images," Krichevsky explains. "Being [Legacy Effects], [there are] lots of T-800s about and so I studied what made them terrifying. So that became my main source of inspiration. The skeletal structure, the eerie but uncanny similarity of man with the cold steel of machine. Mechagodzilla had to look different than any other previous versions."

"He couldn't look like an exact machine version of Godzilla, which was my first attempt. So I went to opposites, Godzilla has a thick body, so I went with a lean, fish-ike body and skeletal tail, Godzilla has stubby arms, so I gave him extra reach. The claw hands were something I pitched in the room, but I knew they needed to see it to understand it. One note was that the hands needed to be unique."

Regardless of how you felt about the movie, there's no denying that Mechagodzilla delivered (even if it might have benefited from a little more screentime before being destroyed).

Check out this Godzilla vs. Kong concept art below along with Krichevsky's comments in full:

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38 Comments

dracula - 4/14/2021, 2:34 AM

That world had some massive leap in technology between King Of The Monsters and Godzilla vs kong

bkmeijer2 - 4/14/2021, 3:08 AM

@dracula - how Apex managed to built all that tech could've explained a little better. It's all "illuminati shit" didn't work for me

dragon316 - 4/14/2021, 3:32 AM

@bkmeijer - there is comic being for this made it probably be explained in there

bman263 - 4/14/2021, 2:46 AM

OKAY SOMEON EDIT IN ARNOLD'S "AAAHRG" INTO THE FINAL FIGHT

Origame - 4/14/2021, 6:16 AM

@bman263 - if you listen closely it's already there.

bkmeijer2 - 4/14/2021, 3:10 AM

Sounds like made the right choices in the design process. I like the design, no need to make it more complicated than necessary

tylerzero - 4/14/2021, 6:18 AM

@bkmeijer - *cough*Bayformers*cough*

bkmeijer2 - 4/14/2021, 6:47 AM

@tylerzero - that's exactly what it shouldn't look like. Overdesigned and messy

dragon316 - 4/14/2021, 3:30 AM

Still inspiration came from transformers he looks to much like trypticon from transformers cartoon and video game war for cybertron

Matador - 4/14/2021, 5:05 AM

@dragon316 - Without due respect

No it doesn't and I own this bad boy.

GothamSon - 4/14/2021, 3:38 AM

Ooof, glad I didn't pay to see this in a theatre. Can't believe they went from a somewhat grounded take in Gareth Edwards' movie, to... this.

TheMandalorian - 4/14/2021, 5:25 AM

It was too skinny, and this explains why.

He was fighting Chunk-Villa and it just looked off that Mecha-Chunk-Villa wasn't Chunky... instead it looked way skinnier and lankier. . . loosing the wow/cool factor and looking way more like a Bay-Former. . . womp womp, should have studied the old designs more and not been watching Terminator. . . not the same thing.

MrDandy - 4/14/2021, 5:58 AM

I liked the new design. Looked really skeletal.

HeavyMetal4Life - 4/14/2021, 6:29 AM

There should have been more Mechagodzilla in the movie.

JosephCronos92 - 4/14/2021, 7:00 AM

And he was acting like a terminator indeed, SOB was punching ma boy like a pimp who was owed money lol

Loved the design, loved the movie. Really like how the Monsterverse has had the same transition as the Toho classics, from a more serious take to full Kaiju extravaganza, it was meant to happen at some point, and I love how Legendary is embracing it instead of shying away from it, with all the respect and honor Godzilla deserves as well as for having a different take on Kong while keeping it classic. Really hope the Monsterverse continues, and takes advantage of HBOmax to create more content ( like Marvel Studios is doing) whether that be live action or animated, there's so much more for The Monsterverse to give and I'll be here for all of that.

HeeroG - 4/14/2021, 7:03 AM

Should have gone mor Kiryu

or even

m1doriya - 4/14/2021, 8:15 AM

I can rewatch this fight all day

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