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[fleabit]

[SPEC] - Why can't the "fan art" be the actual creature art?

[suckaH]

I hope to God it is. I've always stood by that being the most terrifying monster I have ever seen, concept or not.

[Kraker]

Re: [SPEC] - Why can't the "fan art" be the actual creature

[Saiyan King]

ACCEPT THE FACT

[Euchre]

If the fan art you are speaking of is what I think it is, the fact it's still up on the artist's site says it's pretty much not a 'leaked' image by a disgruntled employee or commissioned artist. Paramount would have ordered it down long, long ago. Same applies if it was stolen, and more so really. If it was an intentional leak, I would think they would try to mislead in some other way to more strongly dissuade suspicion that it is the actual monster. There are also scale issues with the art vs the monster's clawmarks, and if you think those are tooth marks - why would they come from a baleen whale?

The artist never claimed it was official, but did say it was their idea of what the Cloverfield monster would look like - and thus is fan art. I see no reason to question their statement at this point, as so much more notoriety could be gained from claiming it's the real deal.

[xboyonfirex]

We're talking about that giant whale right? I got people in the Facebook group that says that it just looks like Final Fantasy's "Sin." I dunno... what's so damn scary about a whale that eats plankton? Doesn't even have teeth.

Wasn't the creature's code name: The Parasite? Shouldn't we be focusing on why it's called that?

[fleabit]

Thanks for the intelligent response Euchre. Kraker, perhaps learn to not be such an uptight wanker. Seriously.. you don't come off looking intelligent when you "dissect" a post so pathetically. If you were seeing where I was coming from, you'd understand I already thought all that through. This was an idea that for whatever reason, this was a ruse or misdirection. Heck, maybe this was orginal concept art, and it was changed.

The addition of "parasites" (which does in fact, match one of the codenames) was the kicker that made me wonder. Mostly I don't have a clue simply because I don't know the timeline. Was that art done after the "parasite" title was given the movie? I think it was done well before any talk of "smaller monsters" was announced, but I'm not certain on that one.

Euchre, I had been on that artists site, and I missed where he made a disclaimer that this was not related to the movie at all, and was just his own fancy.

Also, this monster is not like Sin from Final Fantasy, other than they are both big. I don't see many similarities at all (having played that FF all the way through).

Anyways, just some rambling reasoning, it seemed slow around here.

I agree a whale-head seems a bit tame. What's it going to do.. filter everyone? But I could see that as orginal concept art, which has since been modified.

[Itsumo]

Well the fanart of the whale is listed by the author as fanart and just his own (Very cool, want to see that monster in a movie) work.

I'm sure anyone connected with the film has had to sign some pretty hefty non-disclosure agreements, and there's likely an even more terrifying monster than MGP (a legion of lawyers) backing that up.

For that reason, I expect people very close to key concepts such as monster design would never dream of opening themselves to the liability of allowing a single scrap of design detail to be publicly disclosed, even as early concept art or as fan art.

[terrapinbear]

<rant>While the "fan art" could be the actual creature art, I personally don't care for the idea of a skyscraper sized mutant whale as NYC's pants spanker. In my mind I see a centipede-style creature with various appendages waving around and occasionally knocking the heads off of notable landmarks. The biggest problem I have with the fan art in question is that it looks like a man in a rubber suit. In this era of CG there is no excuse for another two-legged rubber godjira...</rant>

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[m_talon]

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