Chris Trefz Art Blog

New Illustration by Chris Trefz of The Loch Ness Monster: The Titanic Underwater Terror That Almost Made it to The Silver Screen.   Nessie - Unmade Loch Ness Monster movie Here's a commission I received to illustrate Nessie attacking a Ferry. This is one of many scenes from an unmade movie planned in the '70s, which would have seen a collaboration between Godzilla's own Toho studios, and England's Hammer Films.  The plot would have been rather tragic, Nessie was originally a peaceful creature, but when exposed to some nuclear waste, grows larger and more vicious, ultimately needing to be destroyed. The movie had some exciting scenes planned, including this one, where the creature leaves the Loch and proceeds to overturn the Woolwich Ferry as it rampages through the Thames River in England. My development Process for this image: Nessie Line art Rendered Nessie head. Detail shot of sinking ferryboat. Detail shot of Woolwich cityscape

Zagotas is an original Kaiju design I was commissioned to draw.

Godzilla - Fire Breath Godzilla, unleashing the fury of his breath weapon.

The 19998 American Godzilla facing off against Bagorah, an enormous bat creature from the Dark Horse Godzilla comic series from early 90's.

Updated Jan 30, 2023 A new illustration of Godzilla, blending design aspects from the 1998 American movie, and Godzilla: The animated series. To help capture the monster brawls of the animated series I depicted Godzilla here defeating a giant spider opponent.  I recently went back in and added a sky background and added additional digital shading to the original pencil shading to make the monster more three-dimensional. Original version  Chris Trefz, Godzilla, Gojira, Kaiju, Tristar, Animated Series, Giant Monster, Mathew Brodrick,  

Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla  When I saw the first Godzilla resurrected as a cyborg in the monster wars trilogy of the animated series, I thought it would have been pretty cool if Godzilla squared off against a fully mechanized copy of himself like in the toho series. Here’s a sample of what a Mechazilla might look like.

Fanart of the 1998 American Godzilla.

Godzilla: The King of Monsters! This image I did the line drawing by hand, shaded and textured on the computer, and added an enhanced sky photo in the background.