July 7 2015 Google's Doodle Eiji Tsuburaya’s 114th Birthday

[RoboFestivus]

www.google.com

"The lights dim. Cameras start to roll. A film crew silently watches. Suddenly! From behind a hand-built skyline, a towering beast appears! Shaking off a layer of dust, the massive foam-and-rubber monster leans back to act out an amazing roar (the sound effect will be added in later). Then, stomping towards the camera, the giant moves closer, and closer, until…”Cut!”

Seen this film before? This live action genre, known as “Tokusatsu” (特撮) in Japanese, is unmistakable in its style, and still evident in many modern beast-based thrillers. In today’s Doodle, we spotlight one of Tokusatsu’s kings, Eiji Tsuburaya, the quiet pioneer who created Ultraman, co-created Godzilla, and brought Tokusatsu to the global cinematic mainstream. Doodler Jennifer Hom led us through the inspiration behind the interactive Doodle"

www.google.com/doodles/eiji-tsuburayas-114th-birthday

[S_Gokin]

yea it was a brilliant idea and still

their most famous work is Ultraman series, they also did Aizenborg which is much more famous in my region

[Mr. Ginrai]

I don't know about desktop or laptop but if you guys are on mobile like tablet or smartphone, you click the doodle and instead of taking you to the info page it starts a little mini game where you get to "make" then watch your own tokusatsu movie.