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Suitmation (スーツメーション, Sūtsumēshon) is the term used to describe the process in tokusatsu movies and television programs used to portray a monster using suit acting. The exact origin of the term remains unknown. At the least, it was used to promote the Godzilla suit from The Return of Godzilla. [citation needed]
The first foam rubber creature suit used in film was Gill-man, from the film Creature from the Black Lagoon, which released in 1954 and beat Godzilla by half a year. The suit, created by the film special-effects artist Don Post, was extremely hot when worn outside of the water, requiring actor Ben Chapman to be regularly hosed down, and ...
You're probably familiar with this: the sight of Godzilla terrorizing a city ... "CBS This Morning" introduced us to the man inside the original Godzilla suit from the 1954 movie. Haruo Nakajima ...
Haruo Nakajima (Japanese: 中島 春雄, Hepburn: Nakajima Haruo, January 1, 1929 – August 7, 2017) [2] was a Japanese actor and stuntman. A pioneer of suit acting, he is best known for playing Godzilla in 12 consecutive films, starting from the original Godzilla (1954) until Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972).
Shin Godzilla's various forms were done through CGI, while the fourth form was also portrayed via motion capture by actor Mansai Nomura. [3] An animatronic puppet of Shin Godzilla's upper body was created for close-up shots of Shin's fourth form, but this puppet went unused, its existence was only revealed when several photos and a single video were leaked online.
Godzilla (/ ɡ ɒ d ˈ z ɪ l ə / ɡod-ZIL-ə) [c] is a fictional monster, or kaiju, that debuted in the eponymous 1954 film, directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda. [2] The character has since become an international pop culture icon, appearing in various media: 33 Japanese films produced by Toho Co., Ltd., five American films, and numerous video games, novels, comic books, and television ...
A suit actor portrays characters that are inhuman in appearance, such as henshin (i.e., transforming heroes), kaiju, and robots, by wearing a performance costume. Notable examples include Haruo Nakajima, [2] [3] the first suit actor to play Godzilla (later succeeded by Kenpachiro Satsuma for the Heisei films [4] [3]) and Ben Chapman, [5] who portrayed the Gill-man in Creature From the Black ...
Many years later, Carter and Shiera's son, Hector Hall, made a suit of armor of Nth metal and took the name Silver Scarab as a founding member of Infinity Inc. The suit gave him protection from attacks, let him lift great weights, and allowed him to fly and project solar energy blasts. The current Hawkman and Hawkgirl continue to wear Nth metal.