Google honors creator of 'Godzilla'

Google is paying tribute to the creator of Godzilla by helping users learn how to make their own monster movie.

The company's latest logo "doodle" honors Japanese filmmaker Tsuburaya Eiji on his 114th birthday. The interactive features a 10-step series of mini-games that end with the user making their own film featuring "tokusatsu," which features special effects involving miniatures.

Eiji is best known for his work on Godzilla and the action series Ultraman.

The doodle takes users through a series of challenges, such as gluing buildings, stomping on tanks, and attaching harnesses to Ultraman. Once the 10 challenges are complete, users will see the end of their film.

"Tsuburaya’s legacy was much more than just the monsters he had created—he had pioneered this whole way of making movies that was still being used today," says Google's Jennifer Hom in a post on the company's Asia Pacific blog. "So we decided that the more unique and educational approach to take was to make the doodle about the tokusatsu movie making process."

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