Godzilla emerged from the sea in black and white, and was played by actors Haruo Nakajima and Katsumi Tezuka wearing a 100kg concrete suit using the groundbreaking 'suitmation' technique through ...

Godzilla (1954) pioneered the “suitmation” technique, where an actor would wear a handcrafted monster suit in a meticulous miniature set, with shots of live actors added in post-production.

His "Suitmation" innovation looks more realistic than the stop- motion animation used in two American influences on "Godzilla," "King Kong" (1933) and "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" (1953).

"Godzilla: King of Monsters" is not competing with its Toho suitmation predecessors, but it does owe a lot to the past while also being important for the future of the aforementioned Monsterverse ...

Toho has insisted on using physical effects rather than CGI, and while Godzilla aficionados may treasure the way in which this limits the films to puppetry and so-called ‘suitmation’, they ...

Wow, Godzilla is really showing his age. Some 60 years after he first stomped on Tokyo, the big green lizard has been given fresh scales for the rebooted “Godzilla.” Yet despite a few f… ...

Warner Bros. recently released some “Godzilla” fun facts (he’s 355-feet tall, his footprints are 60-feet long, there are 89 dorsal fins on his back. . .), which prompted us to come up with ...

There’s no question that Godzilla and King Kong are kaiju A-listers. Whenever the King of the Monsters and the Eighth Wonder of the World face off, it’s a big deal. Their first bout in the ...