Editing Kaiju (section)

==Monster techniques==
[[File:Godzilla Raids Again (1955) Anguirus suit.jpg|thumb|upright|An [[Anguirus]] suit used for the 1955 film ''[[Godzilla Raids Again]]'']]
[[Eiji Tsuburaya]], who was in charge of the special effects for ''Godzilla'', developed a technique to animate the ''kaiju'' that became known colloquially as "[[suitmation]]".<ref name="Weinstock, Jeffery 2014">Weinstock, Jeffery (2014) ''The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters.'' Farnham: Ashgate Publishing.</ref> Where Western monster movies often used [[stop motion]] to animate the monsters, Tsubaraya decided to attempt to create suits, called "[[creature suit]]s", for a human ([[suit actor]]) to wear and act in.<ref name="Ed suit">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/yfSARjZ0OXc Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20121030144039/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSARjZ0OXc&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSARjZ0OXc|title=Making of the Godzilla Suit|last=Godziszewski|first=Ed|work=Classic Media 2006 DVD Special Features|date=September 5, 2006|access-date=July 30, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> This was combined with the use of miniature models and scaled-down city sets to create the illusion of a giant creature in a city.<ref name="Allison, Anne 2006">Allison, Anne (2006) ''Snake Person Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination.'' Oakland: University of California Press</ref> Due to the extreme stiffness of the latex or rubber suits, filming would often be done at double speed, so that when the film was shown, the monster was smoother and slower than in the original shot.<ref name="Martin"/> ''Kaiju'' films also used a form of [[puppetry]] interwoven between suitmation scenes for shots that were physically impossible for the suit actor to perform. From the 1998 release of ''Godzilla'', American-produced ''kaiju'' films strayed from suitmation to [[computer-generated imagery]] (CGI). In Japan, CGI and stop-motion have been increasingly used for certain special sequences and monsters, but suitmation has been used for an overwhelming majority of ''kaiju'' films produced in Japan of all eras.<ref name="Allison, Anne 2006"/><ref name="Failes">{{cite web|url=https://www.inverse.com/article/22234-special-effects-in-godzilla-movies-history|title=The History of Godzilla Is the History of Special Effects|last=Failes|first=Ian|work=Inverse|date=October 14, 2016|access-date=July 30, 2017}}</ref>
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