3D Macross VF-Prototype

[bamboo-learning]

Hi,

I've been doing this piece this last week after work, hope you Macross/Robotech fans like it.

It's my own design based on the styles from Macross super artists Kazutaka Miyatake and Shoji Kawamori and a bit inspiration from Patlabor:

Still needs TWEAKS.

Cheers.

[bamboo-learning]

Texture test:

[Zinjo]

^Interesting.

^{I am curious as to how you will make it transform with those big pipes in the back...}

[chillyche]

I think the modeling work is pretty good. Nice detail. But I feel like there are certain elements working against your overall design. Obviously, the thing has a very big barrel chest, which is not necessarily bad. What feels strange to me is that the arms feel mounted low, and the upper arms and shoulders/deltoid segments feel really small in relation to the chest. It gives the robot a sort of "fat man with tiny arms" appearance, even though the lower arms and hands are fine. Also, the head feels a bit large. Perhaps not so much as a human, but we're at least used to the slightly more heroic proportions of giant robots (which tend to have at LEAST superhero proportions, where a character is about 7 or more heads high, if not crazy G1 Transformers proportions with tiny heads on massive bodies).

That said, I love seeing original designs, and this is going in a direction we haven't really seen yet, so I look forward to seeing more.

[bamboo-learning]

Zinjo: The pipes are sucked in when the transformation begins but I won't post that here, only on deviantart. But I'll let you know when I do that

Chillyche: I know where you are coming from, this mecha also holds Patlabor insights, mainly the size and proportions. But yes, very true. On this mecha I didn't want to follow "human" anatomy. Most my work follows that rules but not this one, hope you don't hate me for that lol

You can check a new mecha on my other topic =) I'll post an update of this one, when it's done.

Thx for the feedback, means a lot.