PERSONAL PROJECT — 2D ANIMATION

Two movie titans, redrawn and animated before the film even confirmed the fight.

A self-initiated animation imagining a battle between two of cinema's biggest monster-movie icons — hand-drawn, colored and animated frame by frame, then published to YouTube ahead of the official film's release.

Project Titan Showdown

Type Personal / fan project

Services 2D Animation, Illustration

THE IDEA

What if we just animated the fight ourselves?

Months before the movie confirmed how it would actually go, fans online were already arguing about which titan would win. Rather than just pick a side, we decided to draw it — designing our own take on both creatures from scratch and animating a short fight sequence, entirely as a personal project outside client work.

These creature designs are original illustrations inspired by well-known monster-movie characters. This is unofficial fan animation made independently by MurFx for practice and portfolio purposes — it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or commissioned by any film studio or rights holder.

Hand-drawn, fully coloured illustration of the first titan mid-roar

Hand-drawn, fully coloured illustration of the second titan

Line art sketch sheet exploring poses for both titans

Six-panel animated fight sequence between the two titans

WHAT WE MADE

From loose sketches to a finished fight scene.

Original character redesigns — hand-drawn line art and pose studies for both creatures, built from scratch rather than traced from official art.
Fully coloured, shaded renders for each titan, locking in a distinct palette and lighting style for animation.
A six-panel fight sequence used as the animation's keyframes, choreographing the clash beat by beat.
Frame-by-frame 2D animation bringing the sequence to life for the finished YouTube video.

Fully coloured close-up illustration of the first titan in a forest setting

CHARACTER ONE

Getting the silhouette right before touching color.

Every pose started as line art — clean enough to read the creature's silhouette at a glance — before moving into flat color, shading and the glowing dorsal effect that had to hold up once it was animated.

Fully coloured illustration of the second titan, an icy quadruped kaiju, in a dark forest

CHARACTER TWO

A second design built to read as a genuine rival.

The second titan needed its own identity — a colder palette, a different silhouette and its own signature effect — so the eventual clash between them felt like two distinct designs meeting, not a recolored copy.

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