Macross Iron Man Animation
Heres a little clip a friend of mine put together using the Iron Man trailer as the background. Enjoy.
Via Macrossworld.com
NASA’s Future Tachikoma.
It looks like people at NASA like Anime as much as we do. The ATHLETE (All-Terrain Hex-Limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer) appears to be the first step towards a full size Tachikoma. It walks and rolls on its wheels and has cameras on each leg. Now if only they replaced two limbs with arms and added a squeaky little girl voice to it……
Tachikoma is finished!
Finally it’s done. Its almost ready for animation too.
Tachikoma progress again.
I swear I will finish this before 2008, I mean it!
Robotech Live-Action Steaming Pile Of Dung.
I don’t mean to rant but this is bugging me. As a child, I grew up watching Robotech, I had to have been in 5th or 6th grade when it first aired. I remember rushing home from school day after day so I wouldn’t miss an episode. It was one of my experiences with anime. Some choose to flame it to no end due to the fact that it was dubbed by a company with shady business practices. All in all, it was a good series at the time and it stayed fairly faithful to its origins, Macross. Years later I rediscovered it a few months after it started being released on DVD. I quickly purchased all the volumes that were available and fell in love with it again. Now when I say I fell in love with it again, I mean the character and mecha designs, not the horrible voice acting that I was oblivious to as a child. I started poking around the net and began learning about its history. About how its American owners, Harmony Gold, had purchased the rights for it from the studio that had produced it, not the real rights owner, Big West. This led me to the original series, Macross, which in turn led me to all of the Macross offspring. I was already into computer graphic and 3D at the time but realized the mecha designs were far superior to 3d models I was currently creating. I began flushing out the old 2d mecha in 3D and had built up quite a following in both the Robotech and Macross communities.
After creating various mecha models, members of the Robotech community had talked me into seeking employment at Harmony Gold due to the company becoming more active with its “license”. I would login to their chat room daily, waiting for any of the employees to drop in. After a few days of this I finally catch someone. Introductions were made, I showed him my work and was basically told 3d models were not something they were interested in. My spirit was bruised. I continued on with my work but had moved more towards creating mecha from the original series, Macross, since there was more mecha to create. Months later a Robotech game was announced so I quickly log back into the Robotech chat room and show off my latest creations in hopes of getting a job again…. dreams crushed for the second time. Screen shots start showing up for the game on various gaming websites. I knew the designs fairly well at this point due to the months of late nights working my my own models. The studio that was involved with the game had taken a super cartoony approach to the designs and murdered the transformation animations. There I was, shot down twice. I tried to distance myself from Robotech as much as I could. I started working on models from other shows. About a year later they announce a new Robotech series is in the works. Slowly test shots and concept art start showing up on the Robotech site. You’d expect me to tell you about seeking work again but I didn’t even try. Instead I was horrified by what I saw. Remember when they told me they weren’t interested in 3d…. well, they lied. If you’ve seen Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles you will know where I’m coming from when I say the art sucks. Not just the 3d but the 2d as well. Simple textures, lots of models with no textures at all, satisfactory models and below par animation. Most people don’t like 3d in anime and if The Shadow Chronicles were the gold standard I would have to agree with them.
Now that all that is off my chest you’ve got a good idea where I’m coming from when I say the people in charge of the Robotech license have their heads up their asses. Much more could have been done with it in the last 10 years but idiots are at the controls. If anyone out their thinks the movie will be the greatest thing ever I’ve got some news for you. I don’t need to tell you though, have a look for yourselves. Crappy and expensive toys, 2 shitty games, a less then mediocre new series. I’ve tried to help with no success. If there is any hope for this film at all something drastic needs to be done. Don’t let Hollywood waste 100 million dollars on another crappy movie when there’s people like myself that can barely pay rent.
Drawing tutorials on YouTube
For those of you who would like to get started drawing or need to brush up, here are a few links to get you started. Most of these just cover some of the basics.
Learn to Draw Portraits - Ep.1 Introduction
This is the first in a series. The guy is an awesome artist. Basically these videos get into the human eye and how it works along with basic info on drawing tools.
Sketching a Face- Basic Proportions
How to draw a Human Man Tutorial
Recommended people to subscribe to on you tube.
If you have any good links to stuff I’ve missed feel free to add them to the comments.
2 New Shirts Up!
Its nice to have a few days off work, I finally had time to finish 2 more designs.
PetrolBOT
POW!
3D Video Capture Project
My girlfriend really wants me to do a time laps video project where I capture the 3D modeling process start to finish. I wouldn’t mind doing it but I don’t know what to model next. If anyone has any idea what I can make please leave a comment. It doesn’t have to be anime related but I would prefer it. And, no Gundam or characters please. The mecha from Gurren-Lagann or Haruko’s Vespa from FLCL are examples of what I’m talking about.
I’m looking for something like this…..
American Unaired Gundam Series: “Doozy Bots”
youtube link-> OMG!
