| MacrossMartin | 18 Nov 2013 7:13 p.m. PST |
This is easily one of the best-painted anime mecha I have seen in 20 years.
Reproducing the 2D effects of painted cel animation on a 3D object is not an easy task. I know – I've tried, and failed! It requires a willingness to set aside all one's 'instincts' about realism, shading, highlighting, etc. But I am damned determined to have a go at reproducing this style for my Robotech Tactics minis next year! Full article here: link |
| Rudi the german | 18 Nov 2013 7:30 p.m. PST |
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Dr Mathias  | 18 Nov 2013 8:05 p.m. PST |
That's impressive, seriously. Wow! |
| BrotherSevej | 18 Nov 2013 8:54 p.m. PST |
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| evilcartoonist | 18 Nov 2013 9:54 p.m. PST |
Let me get a drink of water here so I can do a spit-take. That's wicked cool! |
| MacrossMartin | 18 Nov 2013 9:57 p.m. PST |
Think one or two of my Macross gashapon are about to be experimented upon… If the results are worthwhile, I'll post them here later. I wonder if scenery can be done in the same fashion? Time to haul out my Robotech DVD's and do rather a lot of still-framing! |
| Ivan DBA | 18 Nov 2013 10:10 p.m. PST |
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| haywire | 19 Nov 2013 7:09 a.m. PST |
After seeing that posted by Ninja Division, I can not wait to get my Robotech Kickstarter minis to give it a try… February can't get here fast enough!!! |
| Ron W DuBray | 19 Nov 2013 8:44 a.m. PST |
So you took a 3D object and painted it to look like a 2D object. On the good side you did a very good job. It looks like a paper mini or a drawing on a sheet of paper. I just don't understand why you would want a 3D mini to look like a paper cut out. |
| religon | 19 Nov 2013 8:55 a.m. PST |
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| darthfozzywig | 19 Nov 2013 9:54 a.m. PST |
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| Garand | 19 Nov 2013 11:37 a.m. PST |
So you took a 3D object and painted it to look like a 2D object. On the good side you did a very good job. It looks like a paper mini or a drawing on a sheet of paper. I just don't understand why you would want a 3D mini to look like a paper cut out. Have to agree here. No doubt the paint job is fantastic. But like NMM (non-metallic Metal), it looks good if you can control how it is viewed… Damon. |
| Augustus | 19 Nov 2013 12:29 p.m. PST |
Ok, don't take this wrong, but unless everything else on the board is painted in Non-Cell Animation (NMA), I wonder if it will work? It will look like strange camo. The level of work and the skill shows he pulled it off, but I'd really hate to paint an entire legion of models plus terrain this way. Yikes. Still, damn exceptional work. I'd really like to know what paints those are because the formulation/pigmentation looks incredible. Tamiya? Gaia? Which? Haruhiko Mikimoto box cover art is though, imho, still the best and has yet to be exceeded. |
| MacrossMartin | 19 Nov 2013 5:31 p.m. PST |
Hate to tell you this, Augustus, but Mikimoto didn't do the box art for the original Macross kit releases… maybe you're thinking of Takani Yoshiyuki? I'll hazard a guess that the paints are from the Gunze Sangyo range. (They do a line that replicates the actual colours used in cel painting.) As for doing an entire board in Anime style…
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| Covert Walrus | 20 Nov 2013 8:46 p.m. PST |
Some nice work there . . . |
| Capt Flash | 20 Nov 2013 10:59 p.m. PST |
Amazing. Not my style and I'd be lucky to even pull off a decent Anime style paint job. I may go with a basic Four Color comic book/cartoon style for mine… |
