Every so often I forget that Gundam is Gundam and I'll end up thinking something like "the people will love this Daiapolon piece I'm working on"
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Every so often I forget that Gundam is Gundam and I'll end up thinking something like "the people will love this Daiapolon piece I'm working on"
I was almost betting on Xabungle model kits being the origin for "mecha" in English, but it looks like they never wrote the title "Combat Mecha Xabungle" on the boxes.
...that from my understanding, included things like supercars and other non-anthropomorphized vehicles.
Seems like its modern Japanese use mostly refers to humanoid robots, probably because supercars and etc. aren't so popular now (all my examples of "mecha" used like that were '70s Tatsunoko anime)
How well tracked is the origin of the term "mecha" for robot anime? Was it the term that was used in earlier English animanga culture magazines, and did it (or rather its use in English) originate there?
It's no secret it's derived from the Japanese ใกใซ (meka), but that encompasses a wider net...
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a digital illustration of george akiyama's derorinman in a contorted pose. high on a building in the background is orokamen, calling derorinman a fool (he's saying "orokamonome")
I wish I could read Derorinman so badly
#derorinman #georgeakiyama #ใใญใชใณใใณ #ใธใงใผใธ็งๅฑฑ
I'm only just finding out about it now, but Sunday Press Books does collections of newspaper comics at full size. It looks like a lot of the largest size books are out of print, but "Sundays with Walt and Skeezix" seems like it's more easily available and it's the same big 16x21" size.
A mockup page in the style of "Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN" showing Combattler V fighting the Slave Beast "Zenda" from episode 3. The piece is done in a traditional watercolour style.
A "normal" page using the airbrush colouring style, showing a conversation between Garuda and his mother, Oleana. Oleana is given a minor redesign to appear more outwardly mechanical.
What if Yoshikazu Yasuhiko adapted "COMBATTLER V" into a manga?
#mecha #manga #art
a digital illustration of a woman wearing and holding a bunch of Shadow the Hedgehog merch. she's saying "I don't have 'brain worms.' There is nothing in my brain--except gray matter, which is supposed to be there."
Fangirl
the guncannon is now behind kai shiden. it looks naughty. there is text that reads "make love not war"
When I was figuring out the layout of the image, I accidentally saw this and I just have to include it as a bonus
a digital illustration of kai shiden on his hands and knees, with a ghost image of the guncannon doing the same pose in the background
Kai Shiden doing the iconic Guncannon pose
#gundam #kaishiden
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OPEN CALL! We want your comics and prose!
We are launching a new zine later this year called ZENESIS, featuring comics, prose, articles and more covering Mecha, Sci-fi and Space-Fantasy genres.
Deadline is the end of March.
an image of the inkvein.com main page
an image of the inkvein.com comics page, showing the website's scrolling cornerbox and color on hover gimmicks
an image of the inkvein.com comics page popup, showing ink vein presents #2 (coming soon)
an image of two inkvein.com pages rendered on a mobile device, labelled "and you can bet it's responsive to mobile devices, too!"
I designed and put together @inkvein.com's new site, and I had a lot of fun doing it! Web design is the bomb dot com slash careers!
Check it out at inkvein.com !
3d render of a monster with 6 limbs and 3 eyes. the flavor text reads: "It is relentless when something catches its attention. Believed to be the most human-like of all known monsters, countries and agency plan to exploit it as a weapon."
CGkaiju #6 GAGARIAH
a digital illustration of Doraemon, Felix the Cat, Krazy Kat, and Stimpy as catgirls(?)
Catgirls(?)
Yeah, it's the stinkfly eyes
a digital illustration of an alien girl with eyestalks and big hands. she's holding a rubix cube
Real ones will recognize which design element I just completely ripped off here
a digital illustration of all 3 of Geppy-X's forms, in a super-deformed chibi style
Omigod! New Geppy-X remaster announced! Maybe this means I'll finally play the game instead of just listening to the music!
#geppy-x #ใฒใP-X
70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X remaster announced for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Switch, andย PC
Publisher Bliss Brain and developer Implicit Conversions have announced 70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X, a remastered version of the 1999-released, Japan-only PlayStation game 70's Robot Anime Geppy-X. It willโฆ
My new manga one-shot just got published by VIZ, please check it out!
I also miss the feeling of superheroes fighting an endless fight that always has to be kept in secret, though I don't read a lot of newer comics so I wouldn't know if there are any comics like that nowadays.
I really miss the use of thought balloons in comics. People use captions for that kind of thing now, but it's not the same. They feel less personal and less immediate.
A Spider-Man fan comic's first page. Panel 1 features Spidey standing horizontally on a structure on a New York roof. He's thinking "IF ONLY THEY KNEW... that little old Peter Parker was Spider-Man", with the first four words in big title letters. Drawn and written by Cheerful Chase Burns Panel 2 features Spidey looking frustrated, surrounded by images of laughing heads. The city around him is at an odd angle. He's thinking "They wouldn't even believe it. They'd just laugh and laugh until I really proved it." Panel 3 features a closeup of Spidey looking sad, saying "If only...", trailing off into a sigh. Panel 4 features Spider-Man with a depressed disposition, turning away from view, rotating in space. Panel 5 features a closeup of his head in profile, facing upward. It's set against a background full of wavy lines. He's thinking "If I could just talk to somebody... really let it all out... have someone listen to me and just tell me I'm doing the right thing..."
Page two of the Spider-Man fan comic. Panel 1 features a low-angle shot of Spidey looking mad. He's thinking "As if that'd even do me any good! What do I need from anybody else? Knowing my luck they'd only get in my way!" Panel 2 features an extreme closeup of Spidey's eye, looking sad. He's thinking "Or worse... if I really told them everything, they'd be liable to get wrapped up in my terrible web and get hurt. I almost can't stand the thought." Panel 3 is a small panel, featuring him standing straight up, though with the cityscape around him turned on its side. He's thinking "But if someone were to get hurt, they'd really have to care about ol' Pete, right...?" Panel 4 features Spider-Man jumping acrobatically off of the structure, shooting a web. He's thinking "No. Spider-Man--and Peter Parker--work alone. it just can't be any other way. I can't let myself think so selfishly", and his head is half-Spidey half-Peter. Panel 5 is split up into 3 sections and features Spider-Man swinging on a web, contorted into a pose nearly like a cannonball. He's saying "Here I come, New York... and don't ever think that Spider-Man lets up, even for just a second!"
"IF ONLY THEY KNEW...", a Spider-Man fan comic
#spider-man
Model: Dai-X ("Big Dai X")
Debut: X-Bomber (UK: Star Fleet)
Year: 1980
Designer: Go Nagai
an illustration of a shiny hyaku shiki kneeling in an area that looks like a desert, labelled "MSN-00100 HYAKU SHIKI TYPE 100"
MSN-00100
HYAKU SHIKI
TYPE 100
#gundam #hyakushiki
If those arms had the pistons for the Sudden Impact in them... the Federation couldn't have won.
a digital illustration of a stinkfly redesign
a digital illustration of a four arms redesign
a digital illustration of a diamondhead redesign
a digital illustration of a ripjaws redesign
The new Ben 10 redesigns have got me thinking how I'd redesign the aliens. I was a huge fan when I was a kid, so it's hard for me to change any part of them. I think they'd be great if they maintained some of their abstractness and didn't look so "real", sort of like some of the aliens from Ultraman
#evangelion #nge #gendoikari #reiayanami #kozofuyutsuki
a digital illustration of evangelion unit-01 doing the pose of the misato photograph in episode 1 of neon genesis evangelion, complete with the text "look here" with an arrow pointing to the chest. there is also writing that reads "the top hole sits on the beveled edge... what a sexy design"
One of those often-forgotten details is the way the holes on the chest are arranged. It's a subtle thing, and it really doesn't matter that much, but once you realize it, it's hard to not look for. I had to draw this tribute to it.
