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So Itano worked his ASS off drawing craploads of missiles to fix this one implausible split-second scene and make it more believable. He figured that giving Max's valk the firepower of a GBP-1 ought to do the trick. Now that's dedication to one's work!

He put in so much effort to the point of exhaustion, and you guys call his bloodwork an "animation error"... tsk!

And even after he so-called work his ass off, the valkyrie is till pure white instead of the blue in certain places?

Thank you for your answers.

I answered this way back on page 13 (see it helps to read the entire thread ).

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...=2&t=140&st=240

Think of it this way, if a tank's cannon wasn't mounted on a turret and was fixed, it would be forced to move the entire vehicle into a new firing position everytime. This would be quite a pain in the ass. What transforming does is increase the firing arc.

That's a good answer, butI don't think it's "official", is it?

Besides, it begs the question, why doesn't Battle 7 have a configuration which doesn't need to be transformed to swivel the cannon?

Thanks. It does make sense, but like ewilen pointed out, they could very well make a turreting cannon instead of transformation. Transformation takes alot of precious time which leaves the ship vulnerable for those precious few minutes.

But its a good answer nonetheless. Thanks.

Another few questions: What valkyrie was Basara flying in Macross 7 dyamite? It looks like Robotech's YF-1R with the 3 lasers and all, then I remembered in fighter mode, its a VF-19. So its basically a modified VF-19 eh?

And that planet Basara was on.....they aren't humans and I assume aren't Zentraedi either. (look more like a cross between elves and beastmen) Does this mean humans/zentraedi have made contact with other alien civilisations? Even so, it looks like they have soaked in human culture to the point of playing Basara's songs on their public radio and owning Valkyries. Thus, this means that UN Spacy has become some kind of intergalactic governing body??

Is there such a thing as "Meltrandi" in the TV series? Are all female Zentraedi referred to Meltrand?

The SDF-1 had to undergo transformation so power conduits can be connected to fire the macross cannon. But why does the Macross 7's Battle 7 have to undergo a transformation? It would be tons easier if it could fire in normal configuration. I just passed it off as "because it looks cooler in robot mode" but I guess there's always more to it.

And, what is M3 which apparently features Miriya and Max and VF-4s? Is it a game?

Oh, and as for Korean studios.... Hello, heard of Macross Zero??

Wasn't someone supposed to cough the name "Macross Plus"?

FV

They are Korean? What's the name of the studio?

The most difficult part of transforming the 1/48 is probably from battroid to gerwalk, where you had to coordinate everything at the chestplate area. Everything had to be in place, IE: the nosecone, the head and the swing bar/engines. I found it relatively hard to push everything in when transforming from battroid to gerwalk. But once you get all the positions of all the parts right, its quite easy with just one push and everything's in.

Gerwalk to battroid is easier, since you just have to apply pressure to the top of the cockpit (not on the cockpit itself), and everything comes loose.

I wonder who are those Tori No Hito (bird people). Macronised protoculture? And why was there no mention of it in SDF and Macross 7. I bet it somehow awakens and flies away while causing the whole earth to have amnesia or something. But not after Sara does something to calm it down from destroying the whole world. Hehe.

Long story short, three studios produced animation for Macross.

Animefriend, a studio under the umbrella of Tatsunoko, was one of these studios and did a lot of the work.

Animefriend sucks.

Really, really bad.

Although there are QC issues with all of the animation, most of it can be chalked up to simple oversight.

But animefriend can't even keep correct proportions (or even attempt them) in a single shot, let alone consecutive frames.

That's an interesting titbit. Thanks, Drew.

Any links to previous discussions/topics on this?

What's animefriends? Urmmm....no reply after 40 views....is this a stupid question?

Hi, i'm n00b here, so bear with me yeah?

Started rewatching Macross SDF after 15 years fast forwarded from my childhood. Things I never realised as a kid, the obvious cutting-cost animation. I was just wondering how much was Macross's budget when it started. It seems on certain frames quite oftenly, there will be animation inconsistencies, ie: colors change, gunpod not there, pure white valkyrie etc. Its like they had a whole buncha animators sitting in a room, but not all of them are following the color designs they were given or something. There was also a scene which I vaguely remembered, when Max and Hikaru was in Britai's ship....one of the valk's changed into the VF-1D.....or some other valk that wasn't supposed to be there. (i'm rewatching....these are vague childhood memories)

Are these mistakes due to inexperienced animation staff, low budget, or short on time? But Macross is not the only cartoon which suffered from art inconsistencies. Being a Transformers fan as well, there are alot of these inconsistencies in Transformers as well. Is it just something that happens often in old anime? IE: people not careful enough with QC issues.

Thanks guys for the warm welcome and advice, and thanks Dangard Ace for the cool DIY tips. I shall commence chopping my CD spindle soon.

Hello everyone. I'm a n00b here, and this macross community is scary to say the least. You guys have alot Macross swag, and I feel like a complete n00b. A poor n00b at that. Only Macross stuff I have are the Super Deformed VF-1S, the 1/60 VF-1S with strike packs, and the 1/48 VF-1S to complete the "set". Browsing the forums, this can hardly be called a set, looking at your mouth-watering collections...... I really wished that I had the cash to own more than one 1/48.....and buy fastpacks for at least one of them.

Well anyway, enough about the poor Macross fan which is I....I just wanted to know, where do I get them cheap fighter jet stands to display my 1/60 in jet mode? I personally don't like displaying them on landing gear , so I want a stand. I saw some of those tripod like crystal stands on some of the forum's pictures and saw some of them selling on TMP....but they were abit expensive for a poor unemployed kid.....

I did see these simple plastic stands at my local toy store's display, and on them were 1/60 and 1/48 Yammy Valks, so I asked the shopkeeper if I could buy them. He was rather unfriendly and said they were sold out and out of production, and no way I could ever get them, ever. (He then goes back to his PS2 game leaving me there at the counter.......jerk)