Designing DEAD gODS - Giants

Doing a deeper dive into giants by designing three of them.

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0:00 Intro
0:28 Beast of Burden
2:00 The Herdsman
3:24 Stories
4:37 The Palanquin

Music:
Father Time - Adam Bokesch
Legend - Ryan Taubert
Raqsa - Bytheway-May

[connendarf]

I've been loving the concept of Dead gOds for a while, and while I can't offer money as a broke grad student, I can offer support in the YouTube traditions. Rock on, brother! This stuff is really cool, and you bringing up "got an idea? start it" is kind & motivating, looking forward to hearing and seeing more

[onewaysaintlaika]

I loved the third Nephilim so much--I think I especially love the implicit storytelling of her choice to garb her servants and slaves in canine regalia. There's so much characterization from that simple choice: It shows a consistency of wealth and influence that she can enforce a "uniform" on her personal slaves, for one. Another aspect is that the masks and robes covering their faces are isolating and dehumanizing in both literal and metaphorical ways, denying them their humanity and making it harder for them to speak with and connect to others. But there's also a more insidious dehumanization inherent in the uniform, because she's essentially forcing them into her own culture and religion--a classical form of genocide. She lounges on her palanquin, literally above those who are beneath her in every way. They're her loyal hounds, rather than human beings---and that's a really fun mindset to show so simply with a single design. The interaction of nephilim and antediluvian societies is so far one of my favorite aspects of this project.

[Kaito]

Mammoths and Giants : It just works !!

[tripplejaz]

Not sure if you covered this, but it's interesting to note in 2 Samuel 21:20 giants appear to have 24 appendages (6 fingers and 6 toes). Would be a cool biblical reference to influence their designs.

[nairocamilo]

Hey Matt!
A suggestion for a future video: make one of those scale comparison videos people do with building, ships, spaceships, planets and what-not, but with all of your material when it reeeeally stacks up with stuff!

If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's those videos that start with the smallest subject in a category (let's say spaceships from fiction, you'd start with a simple shuttle from Star Trek or an eject pod), and then the camera pans continuously showing the bigger subject than (a TIE Fighter, maybe), then the next and so on (The Millenium Falcon, and so on).

I think it would be very interesting in the future to see the scale of things!

[kalez]

3:25 It is so hard to make it in the publishing world because there is so much out there. I have been writing for 15 years, and people say my writing is great, but my presentation and marketing sucks in a way that I don't know how to fix it. I have so few readers that it is depressing and makes it all feel like a waste of time if I'm going to spend all that time perfecting a story just for it to be stuck in a drawer.

But I'm glad your stories are becoming real and people love them. I love them, and envy you for it :P

[NurComments]

Since you love horns so much, you should also read about the Labrys. It's a ceremonial weapon shaped like bull horns and linked to the very first astronomical measures, so it fits historically.

[dexdixy]

3:25. I needed this honestly, I’ve got so much to put out there, and it’s coming along.

[Knight]

The idea of the Giants is just so mesmerizing. I love what you are doing with them!

[sir-sedeka]

Man you are pumping these out what the hell absolute speed demon

[byAlbyU]

Man, this makes me want to see a scifi iteration on the Anunnaki and the Sumerian myths from you! Like Zecharia Sitchin described them, go full in on the ancient astronaut theory

[joelyoung]

This really reminds me of primal and I’m in love with it

[Lydia-hctu]

These are all so cool. It's often tricky to find creative and fantastical Biblicaly based content. But you've found a fascinating way to do it. I cannot wait to see what stories come out of this.

I want Angel Studios or someone to turn this into an animated show.

[ReaganLodge]

Another fantastic vid! Love the kinda Stargatey vibe of the dog-masks worn by the third nephilim's servants.

[cadenautrey]

Love watching your worldbuilding! I’ve never seen anything done with the pre flood setting before!

[unholyyokai]

You are HUGE Artist! Thank you for all the inspiration you gave even for a tiny writer!

[elieassaf]

that is very beautiful especially the last one

[zachofthebattery]

Always a good day when dead gods updates.

[jasonpaul]

Just discovered this series a few weeks ago. It is such beautiful artwork, and I love the style, but it's the worldbuilding I love the most. The use of history myth and reality to build a realistic story that is inspirational. Keep it coming.

[gabrielaubry]

I imagine the Herdsmen Giant sounds like the Yeti from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, in the episode where the Grim Reaper, Billy and Mandy chases him as a guy who dodged Grim's reaping.