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  1. aceoftherebellion
    That looks amazing. I'm still so blown away by the whole idea of ready-manufactured plastic on these printers. It's like we're living in the future or something!
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    Really, the less people panic about trying to get ALL OF THE PREORDERS, the easier it will probably actually be to find one anyway. Things work funny like that... Still, good luck everyone! hopefully everyone who wants one here is able to get one!
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    No worries, man! It was just an interesting topic I happened to have some knowledge of, since I've taken some classes in 3D animation and rigging. As for the preorder window... Honestly at this point it's almost comedy. How does it manage to get worse every time? It must take some serious EFFORT to be that shitty.
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    That is SO COOL. That lit console screen effect? ALL OF MY DO-WANT. ALL OF IT.
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    Plus there's the fact that I'm sure in this case it was entirely intentional. The scene required Luca's valkyrie to have a gunpod, so they used a model rigged with a gunpod. Whether his Valkyrie is actually equipped with one or if they just used one for that scene is ultimately irrelevant as far as the animation staff in that case would be concerned. They'd just be doing what the story-board called for. I mean, it's not like people are going to come in and nitpick every last scene, right? All jokes aside though, as Chonocidal said, just because they're using 3D models now doesn't mean that they just have one CG model for every mech. They'd be using many, each rigged (set up with joints and vector information) for specific types of scenes. There's no guarantee at all that anything is going to be entirely consistent across all models used for filming. It's a different kind of animation, but it's still prone to just as many accidents and errors as any other type of animation. Let's say, for example, they want 'robot A' to be in gerwalk mode for this specific movement, but they only need to do it once so they don't have a dedicated model for that? No problem, just skin this model of 'robot B' that was rigged to do that so that it looks like 'robot A' and call it a day. That sort of shortcut is extremely common in CG animation. That's not necessarily what they did here, but it's a good example of how you might get things like that. tl;dr, CG animation isn't a magic wand that makes animation errors and shortcuts go away.
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    Looking at it again, he also couldn't make up his mind on that illustration. The striping on the nacelles is chocolate, while the engine vector/feet things are slate grey, so it looks like he couldn't make up his mind on what color it was either. Really though, that's just a one-off illustration for those binder inserts, so I wouldn't take it as anything more than that anyway. Especially since, as said, it's hardly his best work. He has been known to make mistakes, as well. Like the one illustration where he got the markings on Hikaru's VF-1S wrong and had to revise them later...
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    My understand is that it wasn't a colony world so much as a recently encountered 'friendly' world that had recently been contacted and brought into the fold as a part of the U.N. government, with their planetary defense force working under the U.N.Spacy. If they weren't a part of the U.N.Spacy, it seems unlikely that they'd have been supplied with a unit as new as the VF-19...
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    Tenjin's art is amazing but it's not the end-all be-all. He's just another artist offering an interpretation, after all. I'd go off of what I see in animation before I took production or promo-art into consideration personally, especially when building/painting models or toys.
  9. aceoftherebellion
    Exactly that. Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike Docker or anything, I thought he was kind of a cool character, but his VF-19 is pretty much dead last on my list of 7 mechs to buy... and I'd only be getting it to set up group-shot photos with Basara and Gamlin valkyries. I mean it's a pretty enough robot... I like the blue and all but eh.
  10. aceoftherebellion
    If they did it as another web exclusive like the VF-4, units made to order, they wouldn't even need to worry too much about unsold product. That's the one thing that really makes me hopeful about seeing one someday. Don't let us dream in vain!
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    What exactly is a profile feed and why should I post one? Questions for the ages.

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    Touche, good sir! On a whim I went over to look at the color lineart on the Macross Mecha Manual, and that uses the same colors in two out of three pictures (...but not gerwalk). I don't recall if that particular set was custom lineart or if it was official, but hey.
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    It takes effort to put in animation errors when you're working with CG Models, it's true... But where there's a will, there's a way!
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    Hidden inside of an animation error until it's needed, maybe? All giant robots come with extra storage for plot devices...
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    That's not really how colors work. He's right, just went to look and it's definitely a chocolate tone. If it were a shift in color hues, the entire fighter would take on a warm-tones look. As in, the entire frame would have to be bathed in warm light for grey to appear as a brown, and in all of the frames we see the VF-4 appear, that's not the case. In fact, the background in those shows is mostly cool tones, a lot of blue and purple. If it was a case of the colors being 'washed out' (I.E., light oversaturation) if anything it would make the real thing MORE brown. You gotta love color-matching for animated media, huh?
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    LOL, Looks like opinions on 7 are as Mixed as ever. Personally, I love Basara and am much more interested in his red Fire Valkyrie and the Zola fleet version than I am in either of the Emerald Squadron production versions... But this is what was awesome about Yamato, they made all of them so it's easy to just get the ones you like.
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    I think it's just a case where any design is going to have fans who love it and anti-fans who just strait up don't like it, so I'd say 'fair enough'. Sure would love any quality Macross II toy, though. That's another easy case where so many people might think it's just not appealing but I think that's one beautiful spaceplane and robot
  18. aceoftherebellion
    That's fantastic, that makes this game an absolute must buy for me! I was already excited about this, now I'm on edge of my seat. Thanks!
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    My biggest question about this game is how dialogue and story are handled. How much of the dialogue is actually voiced, and how much is just text? I can understand spoken moon just fine, but I can't read all of the Kanji, so this is the single biggest factor on how accessible this game is going to end up being for me...
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    I like being able to see the reissues right next to each other like that. It makes the various changes and tweaks that have been done to this mold really stand out!
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    I'm with you on that, it's really how I feel about it too. As nice as the VF-19 mold looks, I wouldn't personally buy a YF-19 made from it. For my taste, they already knocked it out of the park with the YF-19, and the transformation and movement is certainly 'good enough' for my liking. I know they're meant to basically be the same machine for all intents and purposes, but M7 and Plus had very different art-styles, and I think the existing toys pretty much capture the differences perfectly. Sure it's got flaws, but they really don't bother me. It'd still be nice if they did a v2 for this just because I know there's enough people here that would be really happy to see it, but personally I'm good. More to go around for everyone else, right?
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    You probably need to disassemble the whole thing. On that note, I wish there was more documentation available on how to take these toys apart, with the number of hidden screws and such that some of these things have
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    Odd that they'd be such random colors... Has anybody considered trading one set for the others?
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    Not counting Robotech (I watched it but was too young at the time to fully appreciate it until later), I actually came into the fold thanks to the old dub version of Macross II more years ago than I care to count (Suffice it to say, late 90s.) I was so good for so long, I stayed away... I kept my purchases mainly limited to gundam models... Then I finally joined these forums after lurking for so long... and then an HLJ sale happened... And now I'm somewhere around a grand and a half deep on Yamato/Bandai/Misc. offerings, even buying things on sale/used. My name is Ace, and I'm a Mechaholic.
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    Yes, but the change is pretty minute. This old thread on another site has some photo examples- hopefully that helps.
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