Godzilla vs. Axor -- Kaiju Fight Fan Animation

A straightforward monster fight featuring an obscure character from the franchise's past that many fans might be unfamiliar with.
The 1978 Hanna-Barbera cartoon show was what introduced me to Godzilla. Most of the monsters in the series were forgettable, but Axor from the episode "The Beast of Storm Island" always stood out as one of the more imaginative ones. I always remembered him as "that big, curvy black monster with a thing on his head". His design, powers, personality and his connection to a mystical source of power protected by his personal temple make him unique among all of the franchise's monsters, and I think he is one obscure kaiju that deserve to be revisited.

This isn't my proudest work because meaningless monster brawls aren't usually my thing (which is why I added the ending gag), there is little sense of a coherent choreography (the fight lacks rhythm, it's just a long back-and-forth until one of them gets an arbitrary power-up and wins), the editing at the end could be tighter and my music options were limited. But I needed to take some time off from other animation projects to make something smaller and self-contained. I also need to keep this channel alive with new content from time to time. And it was nice to experiment with trying to add a stronger sense of weight and heft to my animations and to test out all kinds of effects and compositing filters.

Characters belong to Toho Co., Ltd. and (probably) Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros.
Animated in Blender 2.74, edited in Sony Vegas Pro 14.0. The video took about 5 months to make, including modeling the characters and environments.