Super Macross Mecha Fun Time Discussion Thread!

[Captain Global]

Recently I've been rewatching Zero with the gorgeous new remaster and found this little guy. 

It seems like a mig 29 with sv 51 canards and micro missile launchers. 

I've seen Zero quite a few times and it wasn't until now that I saw it, also I have not seen it mentioned on the forums or the official renders on the artbooks.

Nothing spectacular, but I find it really odd they modeled it just for the final battle.  

[sketchley]

1 hour ago, Captain Global said:

Recently I've been rewatching Zero with the gorgeous new remaster and found this little guy. 

It seems like a mig 29 with sv 51 canards and micro missile launchers. 

I've seen Zero quite a few times and it wasn't until now that I saw it, also I have not seen it mentioned on the forums or the official renders on the artbooks.

Nothing spectacular, but I find it really odd they modeled it just for the final battle.  

 

There's two possibilities that I can think of:

1) they reused existing modelling assets and mashed them onto the MiG-29 (aren't the canards and micro-missile launchers directly ripped from the Sv-51?)

2) the publicity at the time of the remaster's release stated that they used AI to 'enhance' the images.  Could this be an example of an "AI hallucination" during that process?  Or could Kawamori-san possibly have used the tool to add additional details to the footage?

[RangerKarl]

No, the canard Fulcrum was there in the original release as well.

[Master Dex]

Besides the AI was used in upscaling, not generative imaging.

The only Macross product to date that has used any AI generative imaging was the clip of Angel Paints from Flashback that's on the 4K DYRL release and it's very obvious (and to be clear to those not aware, it's a separate clip, not in the DYRL movie)