XENOFAUNA
@xenofauna.bsky.social
Atlanta-based analog special effects & illustration, focusing on old school-style suits-and-miniatures creature features. https://ko-fi.com/xenofauna
Really old Ultraman doodles that I still find relatable 💀
Gujiller sketchbook commission I took at this past weekend's @charliescollectibleshow.com artist alley!! Trying to start channeling a little bit of the original storyboard Godzilla into my personal design.
Resharing my Patlabor painting to celebrate today's announcement that @discotekmedia.bsky.social is bringing Patlabor on Television back into print, so all of y'all be sure to go buy it when it drops because it is the best.
Quick lil Mothra marker sketch I did last week(?), exploring different ways to pose a very difficult-to-pose character. 6x8 and available for sale, DM to inquire!
Can't remember if I ever shared this here but it's a poster edit of one of my monster portraits from last year. Considered turning it into a print but never did.
At my market on Sunday an elegantly attired and shockingly beautiful woman asked me if I had any Yokai art for sale and it was among the greatest shames of my life that I had to tell her no, not currently.
Ruki@skiesofarcadia.bsky.social · 3w agoArt by legendary mangaka Shigeru Mizuki
I'm gonna be tabling at AWA!! NICE! However, the table fee just took all my money so here is a Ko-Fi bump: ko-fi.com/xenofauna
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Shot the last shot of DREAD PLANET today. Super gnarly FX shot, turned out so sick.
Screenshots from our upcoming practical effects monster short DREAD PLANET, including some of the new sequences we completed this past weekend. There are a couple more pickups I'm wanting to shoot to finesse the film's middle section but I feel really good about its current state.
I wish making my own films paid at all. It's frustrating to technically spend hours & hours doing ~art~ but because it's my weird little films & doesn't have the financial immediacy that my illustration often provides, it doesn't feel like real work. Like in a bad way. Even though I prefer doing it.
I suspect we only have one more shot for DREAD PLANET before we finally have picture wrap, though I won't know for certain until we shoot that shot and see how it meshes with the edit.
I shot a practical element for DREAD PLANET that looked so uncanny someone assumed it was rudimentary CGI and honestly that feels like some kind of bizarre success??
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujja... I put together a lil travelogue video from our trip to Kaiju Brooklyn back in May, hope y'all enjoy!!
XENOFAUNA X NYC || Feat. Kaiju Brooklyn 2026!!
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It's finally slacked off now that I've built out my FX portfolio a bit but for ages whenever I'd tell people about wanting to make practical monster movies, they'd just insist I'd be better off learning to do CG instead. Even someone I dated in college would really harp on it to a weird degree.
S R Jones @aegisimmemorial.bsky.social · last mo.If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.
~Gamera, like the house, always wins.~ Latest commission finally completed. Conceptually one of my favorites, logistically a nightmare to paint at the relatively small scale I work at. 😂
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Kamen Rider Kaixa pen & marker sketch. 6x8", for sale, DM to inquire~
Kamen Rider Blade pen & marker sketch. 6x8", for sale, DM to inquire~
Kamen Rider Agito Shining pen & marker sketch. 6x8", for sale, DM to inquire~
Kamen Rider Den-O pen & marker sketch. 6x8", for sale, DM to inquire~
Kamen Rider Kabuto pen & marker sketch. 6x8", for sale, DM to inquire~
Kamen Rider Decade pen & marker sketch. 6x8", for sale, DM to inquire~
Only today while doing some sketching did I realize that Kamen Rider Decade's face design is intended to have oni horns.
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Two new commissions from a regular patron!! Kaiju Fanatic PIRULIN and her monster companion PLESSNER!!
