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    Huh, neat! It's minimal new tooling but still something actually new! Guess we'll have to wait until next year for a 100% new kit to happen.
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    Nope. It's been a long and sad trend of 4K anime BDs to completely scrub the grain out. We did have a good ride of a lot of BDs giving us wonderfully preserved image quality as it is on the negatives but in the end the grain haters have made the studios submit and start DNRing the life and detail out of everything. Especially with their new "AI" crap. As for the claim of even the blurry scene being in focus now I don't buy it. Most of those scenes are blurry because of poor photography during adding the zentradi subtitles optically. That would still be in the final negative. To properly fix that they'd have to dig out the original animation-only negative elements, scan that and re-add the subtitles digitally. I don't see them going through that much effort when they can just oversharpen things with "AI". Honestly willing to bet upscaling the original BD release to 4K with a simple bicubic resample will have better detail in places than the overfiltered new scan. EDIT: oh god damnit, replied without seeing there's a 2nd page to the thread. bah. But yeah those comparisons show how dire 4K animation trends have become. frakking RIP to actually preserving art.
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    https://hjweb.jp/article/1627713/
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    Max painting the Max Battroid the Max way
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    So this is the first side-by-side with the Hasegawa that I see and the vertical chonkiness is interesting. The person is also using a old Bandai head on the PLAMAX
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    During the live show they had the Hasegawa 1/72 and Bandai 1/100 side by side and boy oh boy Hasegawa really puts Bandai's big gaps and oversized panel lines to shame
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    Runner photos
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    YEEEEESSSSSSS https://twitter.com/MXF_official/status/1788004436868219026
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    Seems they're building up hype for May 9th and going to actually reveal things at a webcast during Shizuoka Hobby Show weekend
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    Fully transforming kits are definitely out of the question, that's way too fancy for Fujimi. Speculation on Japanese twitter so far has been: 1/700 Prometheus and Daedalus Ozma's and Mylene's cars They've recolored some of their nature kits into Evangelion colors as seen above, so if they're lazy they might do that for Macross. If they're not lazy some are hoping for Vajra kits
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    Fujimi, another one of Japan's long time plastic model companies is joining Macross Modelers members Hasegawa, Wave, Aoshima, Bandai and Max Factory. Exactly what they're doing will be revealed on a webcast on 25th of April. While Fujimi has made all sorts of military and civilian models in the past I feel like they're most famous for their ship models....so are we going to get some very high detailed Macross ships with a disgusting amount of photoetch? Time to speculate!
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    Welp, and here we see exactly why Valk proportions do no work for a Battroid
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    Given the Macross Modelers initiative I'd say the coexistance isn't awkward at all but is actively coordinated. Hell, even Fujimi just joined so who knows what they will make from the franchise?
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    While I agree for the most part, I do think occasional accommodations need to be made if there were artifacts of a specific process. Look at it similar to the Star Trek TNG remaster. Originally it was a combination of beautiful film footage with old low-ish resolution 3DCG that was edited together on video and the final master was SD. To do the remaster properly they had to re-render all the 3DCG at HD resolution and re-edit it back together with freshly scanned high-res film footage. Lot of extra effort but absolutely worth it for the final product being as good as it can be in the modern day vs the day it originally came out. Maybe for DYRL's 50th anniversary they'll see the benefit of doing an in-depth remaster going back to all the best original film elements, if those are still around. Once can only hope.
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    YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS! I can sell off my extra YF-19 valk kits that were meant to be bases for converstions to battroid! Now....now just announce the VF-19kai valk kit....
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    Test shot pics from Hobby Japan
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    You'll notice that the extra grainy and soft scenes are almost always the ones with the Japanese subtitles for the Zentradi speakers. That's because those were optically composited the same way OP/ED credits would be back in the day. You're taking the animation film (yes the film, not the cels), stacking it with the text film and then photographing that to get the final image. This is inherently a lossy process and if done quickly can look sloppy. For a truly great DYRL remaster they would have to dig out the original negatives for just the animation for all those scenes, but given how quickly the production went and that we've never actually seen those scenes unsubbed I'm not sure those negatives are still around. That and it's just easier to run a complete reel or two of the "final" thing instead of digging out potentially hundreds of individual scenes and then having to re-edit the whole thing together again.
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    Macross Modelers webcast didn't exist when these kits first came out 😛
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    I'm honestly quite amazed that they're doing completely new bodies for each, limbs included because the size difference is significant and they thought it worthwhile.
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    Someone else seems to have been slowly whittling away at making the existing kit into a 1/20 Battroid.
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