Gundam Fans

[Texan2012]

Sorry for coming in late, but I too am a huge gundam fan from the Toonami age! I am a Zeon all the way, and I just love all the OYW suits, especially the Zakus and Goufs! I have alot of the UC shows, working on getting more.

The two shows that I don't like that I have seen are the SEED series and G Gundam. Seed is just a rip of all the other series and the pilots are all a bunch of whining emo teenagers who need a good old Bright-slap! As for G gundam, it was just stupid IMO.

Given the chance, I would love to build a wearable MS costume, perhaps a Zaku I or II, maybe even a customized Gouf!

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

Well, SEED was someone's attempt to remake and modernize 0079, and, really, it wasn't done well. I blame the fact that there was no Tomino in its production. And, yes, G Gundam was stupid, but it didn't TRY to be serious. It was all done in good humor, as a super robot anime. I don't compare it to other Gundam titles, because, to me, it's in a different genre. (Super Robot, vs Real Robot)

Anyway, I just wanna say, this is no Zaku, boy:

 

[Jester1014]

One good game for suit rips, if Nintendude can; would be Gundam: Crossfire, or over seas it's Gundam: Target in Sight.
Just an input I had.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

Have a Mecha Christmas, people

 

[Jester1014]

Festive GM Quel! Awesome!

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

Yeah, I color a mech festive every year for Christmas, for the last 3 years. Check 'em:
2009:

2008:

That one, there, I did when I was just starting out editing. It was done up in MS Paint. Took a good 5 straight hours to make that one look as good as it does. I've been meaning to redo my VF-1 line in GIMP, but I've misplaced my original lineart.

 

[Jester1014]

why don't you just go back over the colored areas with white to recolor the Lineart, would that work.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

Except it wouldn't. First off, the lineart's shadowed. If I went over it in white, that would get rid of the shadows. But, the further issue is that my method doesn't work that way. I don't color over the existing colors, I select an area and modify it's Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity values. This way, I keep shadows, gradients, and lines, with minimal work. However, increasing the Luminosity value past 0 makes the entire selection get lighter. That means the lines go wonky, too.

In any case, my works in paint have no anti-aliasing, and the amount of work to remake them from scratch, essentially, is less than the amount of work to find the uncolored lineart.

 

[Bountyknight]

im curently working on three gundams right now soon ill be making a zaku 2 rx 78 and gundam wing zero custom

 

[Jester1014]

Well they still look great. So pretty much remaking them from scratch is easier?
Should do a Zaku!

I'm getting some measurements together for a Zaku and Gelgoog Head, then once I have a better Idea on how to use my modeling programs, I'll run them through pep.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

Reminds me. RX-79[G] is still in limbo :/

Anyway, I got all kinds of lineart to color, especially for Gundam, but I'm trying to get a hold of someone who has the masters for the VFs I worked.

Oddly enough, I don't have any clean lineart of RX-78. Any of 'em. For that matter, I got NOTHING from SEED or Wing.

 

[Jester1014]

Yea I didn't know the file you posted was for 3d modeling, I thought you wanted it unfolded. I'm still working on the H3 Flamethrower, and my version of an unmounted M-134. but those're later.

Have you tried looking up the Gundam Mechanics Series manuals?
They have some pretty decent Lineart of alot of different suits. I can see if i have a few to email ya if y a like.

Also my camera takes pretty decent pics, and Lineart style pics would you like a few from What I have?

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

Well, I mean, I could get a fair bit of my missing lineart, if I was willing to clean up the scans of lineart from my MG and PG Gunpla manuals. (Almost all of my lineart is cleaned up versions of that)

Still, I really need to see about getting that broken and unfolded. I'm making a Shiro Amada costume, and I need the RX-79[G] arm to make an Ez8 forearm prop.

 

[Jester1014]

For the grab scene where he catches Aina? right?

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

No, for the scene where he rips off his left arm and beats Norris with it.

And I will marry Aina

 

[Jester1014]

Now that was a good scene! funny as heck to me.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

My cousin absolutely loved 08th MS, until that scene, at which point he completely gave up on it, much to my chagrin. He's obviously never heard of PTSD.

But, anyway, I wanna carry around a 1:12 scale version of that forearm, as Shiro, for kicks.

 

[Jester1014]

Ah you got the scaleing down for an ms to human size?
Sveetness!

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

It's pretty simple. 18m=60ft 60/5=12 so 1:12 scale. 60/6=10 for scale adjusted to 6 feet tall.

Great example is Ultra-Super-What-The-Hell 1:12 scale RX-78-2.

 

[Jester1014]

AHA! I knew it, see I kept doing it in meters and I was trying get my answer in feet.

Heres a suit I wouldn't mind Pepping to my size.