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I cannot belive you actually tried doing it the traditional way, but we are animating this completely in digital, except we are drawing the cells with the wacom tablets! No need to Dry!!!

I must be seeing things.... I was watching my macross Dvd set and just happen to be the last episode (36). WHen the zentradi ship is about to ram into the Macross, I found an Orguss mech defending the macross, i am like huh??? Can you guys see it??

Well the project is still on, just a little slow, after all this is only a hobby ; ) Animating frame by frame is not fun but we are all enjoying it. We will keep this project info posted. The funny thing is that none of us in this project are artist. Thats probably why it is taking so long. There's no estimated dates for completion but we will keep the digital cell posted. By the time we are done we are probably 60 LOL!!! One side project that we are currently doing right now is remastering DYRL. We are frame by frame removing dust and specks, resize the film to 720P, color correction, brightness and such. Parts that are off colour we are touching it up. The Wacom LCd tablet comes in handy ; ) So far we removed 11,900 specks and dust and scratches. The source of our dyrl is on DVD. We will post a few re-mastered frames pretty soon

This is the latest animation cell that we produced! We are actually very proud of this since this is the first character and interior of the VF4 cock pit that we ever drew. This cell is drawn in a procedure that we developed to emulate the tradition look and feel of anime even though our technique is done digitally. I don't know if you guys out there can tell but our team certainly can comparing to some of the drawings that we did previously. And this cel pic is actually part of our trailer production. Not something we just do on the side as a test. We kind of feel that we are giving away a little bit too much since this animation is only between 1 to 2 minutes long. We might just post one last picture *may be Misa* until the final trailer is released. This cel is actually not finalized yet, well not yet certified by our touch up DUDE. Like shadow check and lighting checks, and little things that makes each cel better. "I still cannot believe we are doing this, insane project"

Since we are so busy with the drawings, we have not thought of a good name for the trailer production. If any macross fans out there have some ideas, bring IT!!!! I guess the beginning title has to start off with "Macross ". Any Ideas? Don't say legend of the MegaRoad since it belongs to Type Alpha. And Macross DYRL II is definately out the question. Thanks people!

For those already know about the Macross MegaRoad Project, here's a question we would like to ask the macross fans. Which macross music album you think we should use for our production? Thank for your votes!

Current progress update: We are currrently developing a coloring , painting technique that will make the animation's colors and look and feel more like the traditional style. For example the dept effect when you overlay the character cel to the background cel. Less digital looking the better. I hate digital but no way we are painting 2880 manually on a clear plastic cels, unless haha lol.. we get fan fiction volunteers to help us paint 2 frames each then all we need is we need is 1440 volunteers. We took the contrast, brigtness and HUE levels from DYRL and seems to be looking pretty good so far. If successfully we will apply the new look and feel technique to the next production cel posting.

To answer (the white drew carey's) question, yes we are trying to keep it in line as much as possible to DYRL and FB2012. Because the reason why I am doing this is i didn't not like the way they ended it. I mean the story could be pushed for a little more. And try not to bridge to much to macross 7 ..... kind of getting complicated. Didn't even watch the series and it looks complicated... Protodevlins and supervision army is drive us all insane. And Skull Leader, thanks for the support. I should say people like you helps to keep driving us through out this project. I pesonally think that it will be very cool once we finish this. And we will make sure a high quality version is there for download. Although we are not some mighty artist, some or us are not even artist at all, but we do our best as a fan art project. We will not slap some poor quality stuff and throw it on the net. If we can't draw characters properly we will learn how to. 4 hours a day 7 days a week , we will get it done. Gosh.....we need a website for this soon .....

Here's another production cel showing a bottom shadow shot of a VF-4 flying in the sky. We will keep posting up to 3 more cels then the rest will be on our future web site.

We did wrote a few version of the megaroad short stories with one that indicates they did misjumped durning an emergency situation. But one issue that we are having right now is with the supervision army. We really want to get them involved in this 2 minute production but really lacking information. Not much data are on the internet as a resource. The only thing that we really have is the orginal SDF1 ship crashed landed on earth, the orginal design before it is rebuilt into SDF1 Macross. All we know is that their ship crashed landed on earth and they have been fighting against the zentraedi for thousands of years. Are they giants? Or are they like Microns? And also the protodevlin side, are the protodevlin the supervision army? So confusing. If we are to get the supervison army involved we might just have to create the characters on our own.

This is just a correction to the previous posting reply regarding to the disappearence date for the megaroad-01 it should be (2016) not (2012). I appologize for the mistake.

Yes it will be animated, frame by frame painfully. LOL considering the MegaRoad image took my friend 2 days to draw the outline and 3 days to paint it. I mean there are always frames or cels that are reusable. Yeah story set between after DYRL Movie and 2012 (Day of disappearence) We are looking for anyone pretty much have suggestions, story ideas, art work anything basically to help use finish this, of people who helped will be credited in the end of this short productions. We are actually locatedin Alberta, Canada. We try dedicate about 3 to 4 hours a day for this project. I don't believe in too much 3d animation how ever we don't actually paint on the actual cels. We still hand draw the necessary frames and we color it in photoshop with the wacom intuos 2. Painting it on the actual cels will just take too long and there's no undo button LOL. We are not good enough of an artist to paint directly on the cels. One thing for sure though, most of use are not good character artist I think we will run into problems once we get to part when characters are require so hopefully we can find someone by that time. If you want to help EXO, you can mail us at macrossproject@hotmail.com Tools We are using: Photoshop 7 Premiere 6 Wacom Intuos Macross dyrl, 2012 flashback, macross tv series and what ever we can find on the net

Unfortunately we don’t have Macross perfect memory books, so we don’t have any good technical source to use. Pretty much we have to improvise by using what ever we have from movies and few pictures from the internet. Create what ever we are not sure or can’t really see. Considering from scratch and with out much source, I think my friend did a pretty good job for the SDF2. It is still not an easy project. Frame by frame animation is quite a challenge. Is the perfect memory book any good for use as a technical referencing for our project?

Macross MegaRoad Continuation Story 2 minute Animated Trailer Production On June 1st, 2004. Me and a couple of friends officially decided to create an animated fan fiction continuation story of MegaRoad-01. But we realize that with the current men power that we have it will take us 10 + years to finish our originally planned 90 min film. Since we are doing it in the traditional way we have to choice but to create a short trailer instead to show parts of the story. But it will be a fun project. Main Characters that will be included are Misa, Hikaru, Minmay and a new group of bridge officers. As far as mech goes, the VF-4 lightning III will be there but we are not to sure if we are going to put in the VF-14 heavy bomber. We are also thinking getting the Supervision army involved in this short trailer but again we are not to sure since the story is kind of under development. The video format of this trailer will be 864x480 NTSC wide screen with mpeg 2 compression. Audio will be just plain stereo. The sound tracks used will be from macros collection and the DYRL soundtrack. The target release date of the trailer is currently set some time between January and May 2005. Well wish us luck and hopefully we can finish it by the target date. If any Macross fans out there who would like to help up with this project you can email us at macrossproject@hotmail.com. Background artist, sound effect artist, fan fiction story writers, character artist, 2d animators etc are all welcome. All comments and suggestions are welcome. It will be interesting once we finish this small project. Maybe we will create a movie out of it, maybe a mini series, who knows what might happen With this topic we included a capture of one of our product cels (actual output size) from the first 20 seconds of the trailer. Cheers all!

It is really amazing I have stumbled across the entire Macross series DVD. What’s even more amazing is I purchased the entire series and finished the whole thing in like 1.5 days. Talk about Macross overload (little VF-1 flying around my head and then the dream that I had about earth getting annihilated by some alien with big ships) go figure it is 36 episodes after all. And my mark on the final at college the next day is … like….. It sure brought back many childhood memories, I mean lots. After watching it, the DYRL movie suddenly makes a little bit more sense like why there is a city in the Macross and how it got there since I totally forgot how it goes. What drove me nuts is that why the DYRL ended the way it is with Minmei tapping on her feet counting 1,2,3,4 plus the ending of the series with Gloval planning about sending Misa on a colonization vessel (SDF-2 Megaroad 1) to ensure mankind’s survival. I just couldn’t take it the way they ended the series and the movie because I knew something is just missing I mean you can’t just end movie and the series like that. Especially with the colonization vessel mentioned in the series it just totally drove me nuts. I MUST SEE MORE. Then came the flashback 2012 which almost made me cry. Wait a minute I did shed some tears….. ah well and things starting to make even more sense. I never seen Misa, Hikaru and Minmei that well animated. It is really good to see them all again. And watching the MegaRoad 1 taking off and to finally see it with my own eyes was absolutely breath taking. One thing that still lingers in my mind is that, some of the things that I have read about the MegaRoad-1 on the internet about it losing communication and it’s disappearance during their mission after a course change is really an official story line of macros or not. I was a little pissed off after reading it and think how they can ever think off ending 2 historical characters (MISA and Hikaru) in the history of Macross like that. It’s like so tragic. I mean just the MegaRoad-1 story from it’s taken off to the exploration of uncharted space could be just an awesome movie or even a TV series it self. If I had the chance I will definitely create a movie based on the Megaroad 1 or even a short movie series as a continuation series of Macross SDF. - Long live to SDF-2 MegaRoad 1 - flashback2012pics.zip