Dear poweryoga: I hope this pic can help make you realize how friggin ridiculous mounting 4 meter quad-cannon on a little manjuu girl is. Nitori? What Nitori? This is HEAVY ARTILLori!
*cough* Anyways. The barrel is supposed to be longer than that, but my poor ol' netbook couldn't handle the extreme resolution needed to depict that, so please fill in the rest of the length with your own imaginations :3 A lot of artistic liberties were taken here. I had pondered whether to use a railgun design for the barrel, but in the end I think tank gun like this is more badass lol. I also had intended to do another version, a helmeted one, but got lazy and scrapped it (lol).
@poweryoga Thors? A-aaaa...... That makes sense. So this probably looks a bit far off from how you pictured her, eh? Oh well, it's my own interpretation anyway, hee hee. Kinda make me want to redo it, though, but not enough to beat out my laziness lol
@harouki It's THAT obvious, huh? Well, frankly, I had designed it based on a shoulder mounted version of Heavy Arms' double beam gatling in the original sketch, but my brother pointed out that it looked more like Destroy's, so I decided to roll with that instead. Downside is now it'll be forever associated with that crudfest they call SEED (lol).
I took way too much inspiration from mecha shows on my works :\ The whole composition of this image, and Nitori's pose, is actually based on Gurren Lagann, of all things...
SEED/DESTINY is not bad if you take the Mobile Suit Designs into account. The storyline however... is just... Horrible(For Destiny anyway, SEED wasn't so bad). =/
Actually its not too far off. Only the cannons were inspired by thor, the rest of the armor is not. A lot of design ideas went through my mind, but ultimately its who he draws the armor that matters. :)
Whenever I think of powered armors I'd think of space marines, and this is a nice rendition of something I had been thinking. Certainly got the pistons right... Wouldn't be too far off when I think of Nitori as a tiny hellfire dreadnaught. With bigger guns.
Mokomoko, you color really well. Just curious, how long did this take you? Personally, it takes me forever and a day to do grayscale art, let alone color art.
@terminexia Design-wise, yeah, with Okawara on board, of course they'd have good designs. Those BuCUE, LaGowe, GINN and whatnot still look fucking atrocious, though. Zeke grunt design (and mech design in general) is and will always be the best lol
@poweryoga woot! Glad to hear that. I'm planning to eventually make a fanart of all the main yukkuri, so let's see just for how much longer I can keep the design true to the narrative ( ´ ▽ ` )ノ
@Fly Thanks! This took me about 12 hours I think. Didn't really time myself, but I was doing it for 3-4 hours a day over, uhhh, I think 4 days. Yours might took a while, but damn if the end result isn't anything short of awesomeness. Your lines are so tidy and straight, sigh, I JELLY. My lineart is crap compared to yours (´Д` )
Are you using an image editor to draw or is it good ol' pen and paper? I'm using SAI to colour, which is so easy that it almost feels like cheating. You should try it out too if you haven't, it really makes coloring easier and faster.
@Mokomoko To tell you the truth, i prefer the GINN and Blaze Zaku Phantom(SEED-D) over the standard UC Zaku, they look a whole lot better. =/ Of course thats just my opinion. xD
@terminexia FUCK YOU CE FAGGOT UC IS BEST ALL OTHER ARE CRAP RAAEEGGGHURRDURRHIUOAEAWG
lol, I kid, I kid. The CE mechs look too stylized and fancy for my taste, but I can understand how some people like that sort of design more. To each their own, I say! Then again, I'm a huge super robot faggot, so who am I to speak about stylized and fancy, har har har.
Super Robot? As far as my knowledge go its King Gainer, and thats because i saw it him the Youtube comments. Thats and SRW:OG. Besides that not much. Got any to recommend? And to each his own. I agree so much with you. Hopefully theres more people like you out there. Many a times i've seen the many fanbases attack each other to "prove" theirs better. It saddens me to see such things.
@terminexia Gainer is a bit meh, imho. Fun and good as a unit in an SRW game, but the show is pretty bland. For recs, you can never go wrong with Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. A lot of people had that as their first super robot show (and it revived my interest in the genre), and from there got sucked into the genre, so try that out. It's pretty recent so the animation is pretty awesome; just don't go around claiming that it's the best thing ever after watching it, like some of the fags who've watched it.
If you found you enjoyed TTGL, then you're ready to watch King of Braves GaoGaiGar, which imo is the pinnacle of super robot and mecha in general. You'd probably not enjoy it if you're not acquainted with the genre, but dammit it rocks if you like hotblooded and epic stuff. Anyway, if you want recs or discuss stuffs, feel free to shoot me an email
About the pic, pretty kickass, and way more over the top than how i pictured the power armor, but maybe i was restraining it's aspects for something more in the line of the Starship Troopers power armor or the Spartan power armor of Halo.
Keep up the great job Mokomoko
Now about the side discussion. . .
>Pinnacles of Super Robots >No mention of Mazinkaiser or Shin Getter Robo, or any Go Nagai/Ken Ishikawa material.
Oh YU! lol.
Since this gives me an excuse to show my full blown mecha aficionado side i shall take advantage of it.
Seed = Evangelion = AOK (good but notoriously flawled)
Destiny = EPIC RAGE INDUCING DEIBU TIER FAIL (only SRW can make it likeable, being the best case SRW L)
Man we need more mecha to gundam stuff on yukkuri works, hell i would dig some of the SD Gundam stuff like having SD Zakus gunning down shitheads or something.
@JIE Thanks! I actually took inspiration from Spartan armor and Space Marines, though lol. But ultimately I based it off of Uragaan armor from the new Monster Hunter game, if anyone plays it here.
Eh, terminexia was asking for anime recs, so I deliberately left 'em out. Be honest with me, all of the Getter ovas were nothing compared to the mangas, and they're pretty bland as an anime, imo. The Mazinkaiser ova was fun, but then it requires knowledge of the original series, and I imagined it wouldn't be that enjoyable for non-SR people. Don't even get me started about SKL. Shin Mazinger was the best for me, but then that one is lolImagawa. On the other hand, TTGL is pretty entry-level stuff, so yeah. You gotta poison 'em slowly as not to kill him, yeah? Start with the light stuff and introduce the good stuffs one at a time, you know? :3
SRW Z did a pretty good job too at GSD. Then again, Z did a pretty good job at everything, so yeah. You saw the trailer for Z2? Personally I can't FRIGGIN' WAIT FOR IT SHIN GETTER SHIN MAZINGER GURREN LAGANN GODANNAR OMFGOMFGOMF-
Uhm, sorry about that. On the grunt talk: Norris was here, Gouf superior, everything else is gay. But since we're never gonna find a consensus on this, let's just agree that the Saku is the best friggin design ever, followed closely by the Zogozuazz, okay?
Oh god the Zogozuazz-thing... It came from Gundam-San right? That this is just... Gah... But yes i agree, the Zakus are probably the nicest Grunt Mobile Suits out there. Char Zaku II Real Grade is out too, so you know what i'm gonna get. ;)
=3= I prefer GMs, specially those touched by Katoki. GM3 is sex and Jegan, specially the Stark Jegan, is kickass. Which reminds me, Jegan vs Yukkuris could use a sequel, >_> maybe Jegan vs a whole Bigass Clan of manjuus all getting killed by themselves being retards and the Jegan not being able to pull out it's beam saber or beam rifle.
Also my comment was about "Pinnacles" not "good starter series for new people".
While i like SRW Z, i still didn't like much, well, how they handled Destiny, and how Destiny issue forced ALL the other series to act retard for a bit (aka the whole good guys vs good guys thing), i didn't like that part in SRW Z at all and it was all Destiny's fault, >_> in SRW L there is none of that, SRW Z is overall a better game, but SRW L has the better "Destiny treatment" for me.
When it comes to designs... Katoki is a God... I really love his redesign of the Wing Gundam. How 'bout Wing VS. Yukkuris? Total overkill. I like the GM Custom from 0083, and lets not forget the Braves and OverFlag from the 00-Series. One of my few favourite mook designs. Imagine a Zaku and Over Flag duking it out. It'd a sight to behold. :D
Hmm since we are talking about mecha and all, i always wondered how a "SRW" like game would be for yukkuris and it's fandom, i kinda picture some anons and such being the player's units and in general shitheads and scum yukkuris being the enemy units. An example could be the Combat Mikos being pretty much Arm Slaves of Full Metal Panic (that or some sort of god tier GMs)
Though i bet this would be a discussion we should do in the Yukkuri Fanfic Group instead of here >O>
Hey! If i could read what Skribulous was hiding, maybe that means i'm a Newtype! YEAH! NOW I CAN SEE THE TIME!. . .and it's kinda messy and meh. . .could also use better furniture and some drapes matching the carpet. . .Time i'm Dissapoint!
the madness that will spawn stories of manjuus being slaughtered by robots. . .oh wait i already did a story like that o-o well it would be cool if it spawned more, specially comics, need moar graphical stories.
@Moko^2 Please realize the JELLY is mutual. I see your colored art and I turn Parsee. I'm actually a fellow SAI user! Anyway, you're turning out some fine things. Please keep it coming; we're loving it.