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VFX SUPERVISOR SEAN KONRAD SHARES THE SECRETS OF GODZILLA’S TV TRIUMPH IN MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS

NICK SETCHFIELD

FOR SEAN KONRAD, GODZILLA IS something large, green and primal. “I know that I saw Godzilla at an age when I didn’t understand it all,” he tells SFX, remembering his first brush with Toho’s Tokyo-trampling kaiju superstar. “I think I saw the narrated American version on TV when I was seven or something. It was like, ‘Whoa, that’s scary!’, but I didn’t really grasp what an important thing it was. “I think I really started appreciating Godzilla properly after watching Bong Joon-ho’s The Host, which is a really terrific, emotional movie in the way that the monsters are used. It made me start thinking about monsters as a parable. I went back to Godzilla and I’ve been a devotee since that point.” A digital effects veteran with credits on everything…

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SFX (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2024

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