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  2. azrael
    *Looks at note* So it took 2...two...dos...ni...deux...dyo...dalawa...dau...5090s to perform those renders. Yeah. You're gonna need the latest and greatest Nvidia gpu and a freakin' nuclear reactor. I know we joke about it but seriously...Nvidia is gonna make it a reality at this rate. As for DLSS 5...so Nvidia said "Frak your artists, let's AI slop your character faces." I'm sorry, that is not "photo realistic lighting effects" at play. It's literally AI slop-ifying game designer's work. This comment: 😄
  3. Big s
    Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop are still in my top ten anime shows list and they rank pretty high there. I don’t think this will look as great as those, but if the writing is still as good as the show, then I’ll be happy, but would really be happy if the animation isn’t just garbage cg designs like the Star Wars stuff. personally I skipped the show in its original run because I knew it would get canceled fast. Fox did not have a great track record at the time for sci fi and really most networks struggled with any Sci Fi at the time post X-Files. Kinda surprised that Babylon 5 lasted as long as it did. Anyway, a friend got me into the show with a big warning that there really wasn’t an ending at the time, it was before the movie came out. Personally was really surprised they put that on the big screen, it really had some basic tv levels of effects, but fit in with the low budget look of the series.
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  5. Big s
    That’s a bold choice in this day and age.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    For a professional translation, yeah.
  7. sh9000
    1/12 Dukes of Hazzard prototypes.
  8. sh9000
    Preorders go up tomorrow.
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  10. sh9000
    Cobra Commander.
  11. JB0
    Actually, I think Shrapnel's animation model is true to the toy there. In humanoid mode, he has guns hanging below his wrists, not bug legs. They magically turn into bug legs when he transforms in the cartoon.It's a hard detail to implement at most sizes, and doubly so at this size. And I actually like Shrapnel with bug legs, despite a general toy-styling preference. I think his undercarriage was the least bug-like of the three, and it stuck out to me when seeing my friends' Bombshell and Kickback next to my Shrapnel. For the size, this is a really good Shrapnel, and it is much easier to forgive the missing toy details in something so small. And honestly; with the cartoon being so faithful to the toys here, there's not really a lot missing, just some colored stripes and a pair of vents that are near-impossible to add at this size... but the cartoon chest window's very wrong.
  12. sh9000
    Looks cool. I'll check it out.
  13. Valkyrie Hunter D
    Animated Firefly? Smells like Outlaw Star or heck, even Cowboy Bebop. Not necessarily a bad thing. But yeah more Firefly would be great, I know I was bummed when the show was unceremoniously canned years ago.
  14. ispano6 started following VF-1S 3MCCS-2 Cockpit Build
  15. ispano6
    Do you guys both play MSFS2020 or MSFS2024? I am developing a VF-1 Valkyrie and have begun working on the cockpit and was working off of a game texture asset that I upscaled in GIMP. It would be awesome if I could use your models for the cockpit. If you ever plan on making them available for purchase for use as a flight simulator asset, please let me know!
  16. sh9000
    Star Wars MGS TIE Advanced Prototype and Series 10 Scout x2.
  17. PixelatedShinobi
    Also, wait, seriously - twenty five thousand dollars??? That's a car payment, holy hell. I'm gonna be a little clamshell on what I'm paying for this for now but its like. Absolutely nothing near that.
  18. PixelatedShinobi
    The translator and I have already talked pricing, and it's at a very reasonable rate that I'm able to pay - although I will be setting up a small donation box after the first chapter releases to help alleviate costs.
  19. ispano6
    I have worked on a few with basic Blender animations, however I'm not experienced in metarigs or bones enough to make the animations efficiently. I need someone like you who knows how to apply the poses and rigs. I've been working on other craft such as a full-size transforming SDF-1 as well as Zentradi/Meltrandi scenery objects/obstacles. I'd like to switch focus to the cockpit and internal switches. More to come.
  20. DONW999
    Update Leg update efeca61d991818d2905a4de923bc440b.mp4
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Well, that trailer certainly met expectations. That is to say, it's made the series look like a typical Filoni project... mindless fanservice wrapped around Filoni's masturbatory self-obsession and belief that The Clone Wars was the be-all, end-all of Star Wars. Original ideas need not apply. This is the third series where Maul has a story arc revolving around him attempting to groom an impressionable young padawan for his sinister ends. It's a good thing Kenobi put him in the ground permanently in Rebels, he was probably on some kind of list with a track record like that.
  22. mikeszekely
    As promised, we're continuing our look at Dr. Wu's itty bitty Insecticons with a review of Claw Worm, their version of Shrapnel. And here he is next to his Legacy counterpart. Once again, he's roughly knee-high to a shorter Deluxe. Let's zoom in. In some ways, he's actually more cartoon accurate than the official figure. He's thighs are Sunbow smooth, he doesn't have any of the random black on his hands and biceps, and unlike Grasshooper there's no random silver on his chest. The big deviation is going to be his bug legs. The ones on the sides of his robot legs, which swivel and can be positioned differently but never moved out of the way. They simply aren't present on the animation model. Although they're arguably not as noticeable, the small legs on the backs of his shoulders are equally absent from the animation model. Shrapnel does have legs on his forearm, as does Claw Worm, but Shrapnel's should be straight behind his fists while Claw Worm's are molded to stick out to the side at an angle. But hey, bucking the Dr. Wu norms, Claw Worm does come with a gun! Basically everything I said about Grasshooper's applies here... the sculpt is a little mushy. In fact, the G1 toy and the Legacy toy both have gaps between the barrel and the fins on the sides that aren't present on Claw Worms. Once again, though, this thing is tiny, actually a bit smaller than Grasshooper's. I'd imagine that including those gaps would have structurally compromised the end result. Claw Worm's head swivels, no tilt. Getting at his head can be a chore at all, what with the big horns flanking it and the fact that it's smaller than an up-popped kernel of popcorn. Shoulders are ball joints that swivel and move a bit under 90 degrees (or, if he's arms are relaxed at his sides, only about 45 degrees before the bug legs on his shoulders collide with the horns). His ball-jointed elbows bend 90 degrees and pull double-duty as his bicep swivels. No articulation in his hands or wrists, but his waist does swivel. His ball-jointed hips can go 90 degrees forward, backward, and laterally. No thigh swivels. His knees bend 180 degrees, and he has no foot or ankle articulation. As with Grasshooper, Claw Worm's gun doesn't peg into his fist, it clips around it. Claw Worm's transformation is kind of simplified compared to the Legacy toy or even the G1 toy. His horns fold up and cover his face; unlike the Legacy toy, the covers do not move separately. His waist swivels, but then instead of collapsing his robot legs they fold over at the knees. His arms tab into his sides, and that's about it. No legs to fold out from his back. Which, you know, is kind of a shame. Shrapnel's animation model was rather faithful to the cartoon, so the legs on the back of his forearms should be the rear legs, and the front four legs should fold out from his back. Instead, we have the front four legs as fixed, molded protuberances from Claw Worm's robot arms, and the rear legs are the one's on the swivels on his robot legs. I wonder, though, if it's again kind of a structural thing? For the legs to unfold from his back they'd have to be hinged, which would likely require a pin to go through them. On a larger toy, no problem, but pins don't really get smaller with the rest of the toy. So, the smaller the toy, the proportionally larger the hinges have to be. Also, because his legs fold over instead of collapsing, he's got visible robot feet just behind the yellow instead of sticking off the back, and the rounded lumps on his knees are visible on a surface that's normally flat. Oh, and once again there's no storage for the weapon in alt mode. Now, I point out these discrepancies because it's my job (that I assigned myself and don't get paid for), but I do feel like we're nitpicking fairly minor details that can be overlooked on a reasonably inexpensive figure that's only about two inches tall. The fact is, Claw Worm, like basically all of these Dr. Wu figures, is a bite-sized delight. I continue to adore the fact that we are getting G1 characters in Micromaster scale. Yes, they make official Combiner and Titan-class characters look way huge even more effectively than Hasbro's (abandoned) Core-class figures, but even in absence of that it's just fun to have simple, tiny figures to fiddle with. I'm all in favorite of Dr. Wu doing the entire Sunbow cast. So yeah, I'd recommend checking out Claw Worm.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    That could get expensive. Last time I looked into having a professional translation done, it was for Master File and the price was astronomical... around $25K/volume.
  24. Seto Kaiba
    Macross's official timeline has been updated several times over the years since the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross series aired to reflect changes in real world history after the 80's... like the aforementioned replacement of references to West Germany and the Soviet Union with Germany and Russia or linking the VF-1's development to design proposals like the Super Tomcat 21 that didn't exist until the early 1990s. No such conflict occurred in the Macross timeline, though. That's a Robotech-ism. The conflict in the backstory of the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross series is a period called the Unification Wars. The Unification Wars was a period between 2000 and 2008 in which a large number of small, regional conflicts erupted around the world as reaction to the damage caused by the Alien Starship 1's crash and the nations of the world moving to establish a world government (the Earth Unification Government).
  25. Roy Focker
    Maul died in Episode I. Everything your eyes saw indicated death. The retcon excuse of his hate for Obi-Wan kept him alive is the dumbest thing. Barely knew eachother. During the entire duel Obi-Wan wasn't a threat to Maul. He got cut in half because he underestimated Obi-Wan. Somehow During the time he was falling down that shaft he realized Obi-Wan was his most hated enemy and managed to think straight enough to magnify all of his hated? I
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  27. JB0
    Omigosh! He's almost small enough to ride in the original Insecticon's cockpit!
  28. JB0
    The collapse of the Soviet Union is a good marker for divergence.I know they've gone back and revised "Soviet Union" into "Russian Federation", but it is a huge change in the world they couldn't predict or account for.
  29. Big s
    If you’re looking at the vent on the side of the leg, it’s like that in the show. The battroid picture you posted is from the series and the other modes in the same picture are from the movie, you can tell from the skull markings on the boosters I figured that since there’s already the battroid pic with the vents here’s some from the other modes with the same vent. Figured it would be easier to see in this color. As far as the actual details inside the area, it’s tough to find any pictures that show the tv versions with much detail in there, the movie one puts three circular thrusters in there, while the tv one kinda looks just flat. Not sure if the vent kinda details were added or not because it’s tough to see in screen pauses, but the tv version doesn’t have the circular thrusters
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