Paul Komoda 🇺🇦
@paulkomoda
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Sculptor and illustrator working in both traditional and digital mediums, with an eye for the weirder aspects of the biological and anatomical.
Studio City, CA
Joined December 2008
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These were the first drawings I did of the Heidi Klum worm suit.
We were looking for a direction , so I was just playing around here.
I was still thinking 'stylish and sexy', so these resemble inflatable fetish fashion ware.
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I was hired by Mike Marino of Prosthetic Renaissance to draw designs for
@heidiklum
's worm costume which debuted on Halloween night.
This was the final drawing I did when a direction was decided upon, though there were some interesting explorations, which I'll share soon.
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This surfaced from a few years back.
If I’m in an unfamiliar house, I’ll often imagine what the most frightening thing I could see in the dark might be.
This was a flayed man crawling up the stairs towards me. Reaching the summit, he expresses himself.
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Details of the Kaiju Remix Bemular sculpture from 2015.
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I liked the idea of drawing Godzilla the way I might have drawn him as a little kid, but rendered as they adult me would have done.
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"Skins of the Fathers"
Loosely inspired by the Clive Barker short story.....
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My paint reference for the Nyarlathotep statue produced by
@Gecco_Corp
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@obstetrician_M
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(Photoshop over photos of unpainted resin castings)
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Some creature designs for Kong: Skull Island that I'd done in 2015.
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And this is as far out as things got before we went Full Worm.
I had just seen the Alexander McQueen show at LACMA and was inspired to do a high fashion worm queen design.
After this, things began to take shape.
#HeidiKlumHalloween
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Garamon, based on the artist Tohl Narita’s design of the meteor monster which had small arms and a more fish-like face.
Finally was able to finish this today.
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Still at the stage where I was going with a slinky Worm Chic look for
@heidiklum
's costume, this version admittedly leans into Cenobite territory.
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Hello!
It's been quite a while.
I had my first bout with Covid, and that was a miasmatic funhouse if ever there was one.
The solo show at the
@phantasmic_com
Gallery had a spectacular opening night.
And here's a new ambulating tumor bouquet in that Big Book!
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Agony Man portrait made from a painted sketchbook drawing and some photoshopped background texture.
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The H.R. Giger ‘LI’ sculpture from 2004. This project had a long and storied history before it fell into my hands to complete. I drew some designs to depict it three dimensionally, and Giger, who was in NY for his show, made some adjustments in red pen.
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A design for I Am Legend 2007, which I did for Mike Marino's Prosthetic Renaissance when there was still a chance that they would be realized practically.
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The giant white tiger designed for Kong: Skull Island in 2015. This was done at an early stage , when this creature would be either a tiger or wolf. Carlos Huante told me that the director wanted something that evoked a Princess Mononoke feeling.
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A look at the head of Godzilla '98 from the time I visited Tatopoulos Studios in '08.
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Season Collingwood and Courtney sporting some leather fetish gear.
Sketchbook art from 2000 or thereabouts.
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A sketchbook riff on the giant yeti monster, Guigass from Ultraman.
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Ultraman kaiju Astromons and Aribunta from a 2019 sketchbook.
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A design for the Ursa creature from the film, After Earth that I did for Mike Marino at Prosthetic Renaissance in ‘15.
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The Ultraman monster Bemular as reimagined and sculpted by me for
@ACROjapan
's Kaiju Remix line.
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An Alien from 2017
(I just got my ass kicked in Alien: Isolation this week! )
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Some artwork that made an appearance in Frank H. Woodward's documentary, "Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown".
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At last we have arrived.
Full Worm!
It wasn't yet decided whether
@heidiklum
's arms would be free like flippers or bound like in the final suit, or how her face would be merged.
But wait, there's more.....!
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I brought this back for some much needed restoration. Besides being an ink drawing, there are layers of things that are making themselves known in unlovely ways.
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An unused transformation design done for the 2011 prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing.
This was my first gig at ADI.
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A detail from an illustration for Dark Horse's Creepy Magazine from 2010
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I feel honored to have assisted in rendering the tumorous skin texture on the splendid beast that Norman Cabrera, Noah Rivers, and
@AkihitoSculpt
sculpted for The Graveyard Rats.
the practical effects for the Queen Rat in GRAVEYARD RATS (a story in GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES) are a thing of beauty
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The emaciated hand of the Juliette Creature from The Thing 2011.
Sculpted at A.D.I. in 2010.
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Still in the alien worm fetish realm at this stage, with a touch of Pris from Bladerunner in the mix.
Mike Marino at Prosthetic Renaissance suggested that some translucent membranes around her face might be an interesting way of revealing
@heidiklum
's face .
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A second pass on the drawing I showed earlier. I'd been clearly been in visceral, fleshy rendering withdrawal.
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An early design for the pilot alien I designed for the 2011 prequel to The Thing.
Done at ADI in 2010.
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Today I recovered the sketchbook from storage that had my rough pencil drawings of the Heidi Klum worm suit. I had scanned these and refined them in photoshop.
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A drawing of Godzilla as I would have depicted him as a child, but rendered as an adult.
2015
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Mr. Wink and Sammael from the Hellboy movies, at Spectral Motion.
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Last year at Spectral Motion, I sculpted a pair of enormous fists for a ‘Muscle Monster’ featured in the Netflix series, “Sweet Home”.
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An apparition from 2017.
I'll flesh this one out at a later date.
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Sculpting the suit for the Juliette Creature for The Thing 2011 at ADI.
That's Sigourney Weaver's head cast temporarily in place.
Behind me, the torso of the creature that escapes from the ice block is being sculpted.
Yeah.... what could have been.
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Jelly Courtney with Jelly Impy, Sparky, and Giorgio, and introducing Jelly Ricky Bem.
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An aquatic beastie dating back to '96!
I'm still in the days of quill pens and watercolors, here. I knew nothing about computers, and I hadn't even played the first Resident Evil yet.
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A character described by me as having rotating spiny seed pods for eyes, and a typewriter-like device replacing his lower jaw, many years ago during an improvised spoken story woven between me and
@Armoredbaby
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A massive alien creature I designed for Michael Broom's graphic novel, "Membrane" in 2014.
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Mr. Richard Bem
We’ll be seeing more of him and his handiwork soon.
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The breakdown of the Ghoul design maquette for
@artofbryanmoore
's Pickman's Model Kickstarter which launches May 1st!
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The 'Agony-A-Gallery' logo I did for my brother Kurt's 'Agony-A-Go Go' site, somewhere in the late 90's.
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A creature designed at ADI when the studio was bidding on the fx work for Stephen King's Dark Tower back in 2015.
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Early designs done for ADI when they were bidding on FX work for The Thing 2011.
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The Demogorgon from Stranger Things at Spectral Motion.......
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The page so far.
I wanted it to look like the rub-on transfer sheets I'd get when I was a kid.
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Turned out that the areas in the room I thought would be the worst monsters to fight were, to my relief, easily dealt with.
I had done quite a bit of organizing during the lockdown.
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