2013 December - One particular Sofubi caught my attention. Little did I know that it will change my hobby entirely. I started off collecting Hot Toys, Lego and ThreeA but due to that sofubi and the knowing of more Designers Sofubi, I slowly gave up on Lego, Hot Toys (partially) and last but not least, ThreeA gave up on me.
That Sofubi? “Vincent Vs Liquid - Blackout” by Instinctoy.
Unfortunately, I didn’t win that particular Vincent but that didn’t stop me from trying to know more about the designer toy culture. I finally bought my first designer toy, Muckey and later on, Maguma, Realhead, Uamou huck gee james groman etc!! Most of them goes by online lottery sales. Winning the more popular ones like TkomArt are simply impossible at that point of time. It was only after 2 years of participation before I finally win ONE and that was the 9th colorway already. I can still remember the feeling of receiving the winning lottery email, pure happiness like winning the basketball championship and trust me, the feeling is very different from walking into the store to pre-order a piece of hot toys. It’s just different.
2015 - I watched clips from the movie “JellyFish” Eyes by Takashi Murakami in Youtube. I went to find out more about the movie and the whole story line was intriguing and interesting to me. I googled more of the characters and decided to come up with a story of my own, my own characters and hopefully in future, I get to see them come to life.
A world with only Kaiju. Instead of apes evolving, Kaiju gaining intelligence and grow instead. What IF, a comet hit the world of kaiju, no huge damage was done but it did left them a little souvenir, a little alien. Will the kaiju welcome him as their own or will they try to get rid of him like a threat?
what will they do, what will you do?
With this story in mind, I went on to do random sketches everywhere but unfortunately, my wish didn’t came true. I simply don’t know who to approach and also, my Budget is a bitch.
Fast forward to November 2019. I happened to meet 2 very nice collector/ toy creators during a toy con. We spoke and they agree to help me after listening to my kaiju story. I bought a brand new sketch book and went on to draw for weeks. My character came into 3D form less than a month. I am scared at the pace that we are moving on but it is exciting at the same time too.
Here are just some sketches that I did.
1st sketch of the body. Mouth on the tummy. butt at the back. Eat Fast Digest Fast Poop Fast.
1st sketch of the back view. The 2 holes on the upper body was meant for the wing joints. vein filled clenching butt.
My initial design for the arm.
scales wider apart this time round. Tentacles hand?
This symbol is important to the upcoming character. Likewise, it is also very important for the whole story that i have created.
Thank you so much for reading my back story. I will upload the first sketch of the full characters tomorrow.