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Oh a fall release. That least it's quick. Though if the makers had their head together they'd have subbed the episodes right after they did the japanese version! Cuts out the middle man and makes them more money.

Gnerl Fighter Pod update. Lots of little things changed and I'm about to extract the final main body mesh, so this is a milestone for the project. C&C is welcome!!! Had to use Photo Bucket for the images.

Still find it dead funny that people still bitch-'n-moan about material being dubbed. Especially given how the option to watch either version has existed for years now. Though I agree that translation can be iffy sometimes.

Thanks for the info! Gonna get this series and maybe take a stab at building the Exelion in 3D.

Just saw orginal series ep#2 and really like the designs and overall style. Especially the styles the ships have. Who did the designs for the orginal Buster series? And did they have any art books come out for it?

Saw this trailer when I saw the SWIII movie. Felt like I was watching a Buffy/Andromeda hybrid that had equally poor acting. Really campy. Hope the movie isn't so long that the directing and acting styles totally bore people.

I'm gonna try and see this one in the theathers but I don't know just yet. It was nice that I actually saw a trailer on TV about it though! Gives me hope that a local showing will happen. Oh and Baba Yaga is a Russian myth/folk tale, but is also found in the eastern parts of Europe.

A7, Why don't you just drop the SubvsDub bit. Your clearly bias so why even bother wasting the time typing and further slamming Dubs. If I get this series I'll pay the 200 or so bucks for it when ADV re-issues it 2 years from now. Like they did with RT & EVA(state side).

Well after seeing the first 3 episodes I figured out just why I like the show! It's the music!!! Sure the entire idea is cliche-EVA/Rah-Xephon by hey it's by BONES. Anyways the way BONES handles music in it's series is top noche and this one is no exception! The way it uses 80's, classical, and modern music is nearly at Star Wars levels and it really helps to off-set a hugh amount of the shows silly little cliches all the while helping to lighten the atmosphere when gags and sillyness abound! This series is gonna be a 'MUST GET' series for myself and will find it's home next to my Steel Angel Kurumi and Slayers series.

mac, good stuff! Gammera, sw33t! can't help but feel that their not scaled right with all the vehicles and people standing around. The_WOZ, Interesting way of doing afterburners. It's the bruteforce method though! A set-up of several layered cones with the right shaders will get you a better effect. If you've got a particle system use those with a mixture of layered shaders that are animated to transition from color to total transparency(if I knew the exact settings I'd tell you).

One of these days I'll actually get a website built for this stuff. FighterPod06102005side.tif

New project. The Zen Gnerl Fighter Pod This will be a quick little project because the reference is pretty through and detailed. Leaving little to figure out or puzzle over. My polygon limit will be no more then 175-225,000 and I doubt I'll hit that high a number given the main body is currently only at 47k. Right now it's early in the build so not much detail yet and there are some glaring errors. If anyone have any cockpit imagery they wish to share I can build an interior also. FighterPod06102005ang.tif

Well, he is doing a Gundam manga at the moment called "Ecole du ciel" or something. If that's your cup of tea (not mine, though). I reccommend Cherish and Reverb, they're both one-offs. GEK! He's drawing Gundam! Oh well gotta pay the bills somehow. One-offs of what type? GN's or single chapter story's?

Awww! Come-on, the only reason your watching it is because it's got what'shisfaces name on the designs. Besides it's big robot action who needs a plot!!!

Noticed the ugly(fugly) simplifacation of the newer anime too, huh. I'm still wondering why they stopped using black shadows. It's hard to tell whether it's the cost(time) involved with making a detailed anime, the lacking of skilled talent(across the board), or the style change that seemed to happen when computers became dominant for anime work(alot of the current stuff reminds me of crisp watercolors). Frankly I think it's the lack of skill that prevents his works from becoming anime. Damn I want more of his work in manga!

I downloaded Media Player Classic for screen capturing reasons. heh kinda of a mistake, because I could see the framerates with it. So I went back and post edited the firing animation getting rid of alot of the niggling stupid stuff. Now I'm happy with it! Beam7.35.avi

Yeah which doesn't make my point wrong at all. Just because it was coined as a negative phrase intially doesn't mean that the term covers 99% of media SF. It's totally subjective and dependant on the shows materials. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Space+Opera http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Science%20Fiction Just as the Science Fantasy term covers alot of material that has both fantasy & sf leanings. Phase Doubt, the Amber series, the vampire hunter & fairy detective novels by Hamilton, and Grunts by Mary Gentle are examples of such.

Actually, almost all animated SF is space opera. Not really. For example no Gundam series qualify's as a Space Opera. ZOE, Detonator Orgun, and Legend of the Galactic Heroes do. Voices of a Distant Star most certainly does. Manzinkaiser, Bubblegum Crisis, Trigun, AND GUNNM(though with the Last Order storyline it's beginning to) do not because they are 95% planet based and their story's have no ramificantions for other planets. Anytime you never leave near Earth orbit you don't qualify as a Space Opera. Space Opera has larger casts and requires alot more movement then singular nations and planets.

Because quite frankly Deep Paint doesn't compete(ie can't) with the higher prices packages which now have FAR FAR more options. Painter for example.

This program is one of the easiest texture making programs you'll ever find aside from costly professional packages. It's very easy to add depth to your textures with this program because it's native format saves MULTIPLE times and saves the different channels(diffuse,shine,base,etc) that make up the image. Which makes it great for 3D work! http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-21...tml?tag=lst-2-7

I REALLY hope that it's not about those two. Their story has been told. The author even said so! I enjoyed the previous series mainly on the bias that it was a Space Opera and there are DAMNED few of them that are decent(gundam isn't even on the chart) or even animated. More then abit surprised that people thought that it was told from a side viewpoint(Abh). When it was told quite narrowly from the Jinto's human viewpoint for well over 70% of all the series. But I can understand their view of it though because you only really see the Abh political side of the conflict. The author totally admits that the anime leaves out tons of extra material, and the fact that all of the series are short doesn't leave much for balancing the prespective either. It also doesn't help that the series has greater support in the States then in it's own country.

After seeing all of the trailers I'm not gonna waste my time because it REEKS of reimaged remake. I was going to see it but after seeing him woodedly talk to the Alfred-wannabe, I gave up.

I agree about the beam speed. I did try to adjust that in post but couldn't get the speed consistant across the animation. It's not so much that the renderer sucks as lack of documention. I was working on a missile launch, but it's taking ALOT of poly's to get semi-decent exhaust clouds!!! So I set that aside for building a zen fighter pod(Gnerl).

It sucked when the intial trailers were leaked and it sucks even worse NOW! This version of DOOM is just horrid and completely destroys the DOOM character making the entire movie more of a farce then it would've been. Decades of written materials and dozens of basic character designs, yet they have to re-imagine something that has already sold itself.

question #1. Dolores was in somewhat control of herself, how else do you think she had those weird semi-delusional dreams, with James Links guidance. Slightly off topic. I really liked how they had James develop as a father, but was still such an idiot that he had to practice his skills on a giant robot AI first. question #2. Druna Skass is right. Because Earth never lost control of Mars and nor did the political climate on Mars change much because of the Dolores story. question #3. Frankly unless they figure out how to reset the whole ZOE universe there really isn't much story-wise left to tell. Oh I suppose they could tell the story from the Earths viewpoint or even pull a Gundam.