Eighty years ago, in 1933, the film King Kong introduced the concept of a giant gorilla captured on a South pacific island rampaging through New York City. This is why it is considered the “ancestor of all kaiju movies” today.

This pivotal special-effects film showcased the work of stop-motion animation pioneer Willis O’Brien and deeply influenced the creators of Japan’s first kaiju film, “Godzilla” (1954).

King Kong was remade in 2005 with state-of-the-art digital effects by the New Zealand-born director of the “The Lord of the Rings” series, Peter Jackson. Jackson harnessed the technologies he had perfected on the “The Lord of the Rings” to re-create King Kong, the 7.5 meter terror of Skull Island.

In an effort to portray Kong as an expressive and intelligent living creature rather than simply a crazed monster gorilla, Jackson also added new emotionally charged situations involving King Kong heroine Ann Darrow, portrayed by Naomi Watts.

The sculpting of the new King Kong was overseen by Jackson’s longtime friend and collaborator Richard Taylor, the founder of the world-renowned special effects company WETA Workshop. Although portrayed entirely with computer graphics in the film, Taylor personally sculpted the prototype used as the basis for the digital models. Taylor used a variety of techniques to bring the monster’s essentially tragic character, including the contours of his face during battles and the use of dog fangs not normally present in great apes.

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S.H.MonsterArts King Kong 旨在複製 Richard Taylor 的驚豔雕塑。 毛皮的「體積」已被以精緻細緻的細節捕捉到。 即使是與骷髏島恐龍戰鬥的傷痕也與螢幕上出現的一模一樣被複製。 這些是描繪彼得傑克遜對金剛的獨特看法不可或缺的細節。

S.H.MonsterArts這款模型充分運用了技術來描繪金剛獨特的四足動作和雙足戰鬥姿勢。因此，這款模型能夠在視覺上捕捉到所有必要的關節。因此，這款模型能夠捕捉到金剛在螢幕上的所有威力。

Special attention was paid to his expressiveness. In addition to his normal, contemplative face, a roaring and threatening face, and the playful face are included as well. By combining these three different faces with different poses, you can re-create nearly any of Kong’s expressive scenes from the film.

We look forward to your experiencing the brave and mighty King Kong, painstakingly replicated in three dimensions as based on the computer graphics.