Anime Fighter Poll
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Anime Fighter Poll
The urge came upon me to make an Anime style fighter the other day, i made a rather organic and muscley engine and need a fighter to attach to it. I've made a basic body shape and stuck some basic wings and shit on them to show the configurations I've come up with or have been suggested to me, but as this is the most anime-obsessed board i'm a member of I thought i'd get your opinions. Which configuration holds the most promise, the single, twin or 4 engined variant fighter? Suggestions and comments are actively saught, my Anime experience extends no farther than Akira and Ghost in the Shell.
Quad Engined Variant
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Quad Engined Variant
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For someone who claims only to have seen GITS and Akira, those are pretty damn Macross-like...
I kinda like the four engined one. The single engine solution looks a little impractical with the engine undeslung, and the twin-engine one all the joints between parts are really thin, it looks like it's just waiting to tear itself apart...
I kinda like the four engined one. The single engine solution looks a little impractical with the engine undeslung, and the twin-engine one all the joints between parts are really thin, it looks like it's just waiting to tear itself apart...
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Point...Vendetta wrote:For someone who claims only to have seen GITS and Akira, those are pretty damn Macross-like...
I kinda like the four engined one. The single engine solution looks a little impractical with the engine undeslung, and the twin-engine one all the joints between parts are really thin, it looks like it's just waiting to tear itself apart...
Beef up the linkages between the parts in the 'Twin'. The Quad (Damage? ) is good.
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The single engined sucks. Either with 2 of 4 engines.
How about making the 4-engined a heavier version?
How about making the 4-engined a heavier version?
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These are just quick mock-ups, the wings, joints, etc are all just there to let you see the basic shapes, nothing more. The only part that's fairly developed is the engine itself, and that's more the look I was going for. Once I settle on a configuration I'll begin to detail the sucker properly, but for now these are just like rough sketches. I've never seen any of this Macross stuff, but a few people have said the same thing, that it looks like something from Macross.
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You could try looking at Ace Combat 3 for more fighter designs...
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OK, the concensus seemed to be to go with the 4-engined sucker, and that Macross/robotech would be a good guide when building this kind of anime fighter craft. Therefore I spent the afternoon cruising around the internet looking at the available sites and came up with a completely new model this evening, one based heavily on what I saw as the Macross design philosophy I had gleaned from my research. This is still a 4-engined fighter though, so plenty of potential speed and power, although i have no clue how anyone could turn it into a fuckin huge robot, nor why they'd want to. I also rendered the pics with cel-shaders added for that Anime look, but this is just one big sub-divided model and I haven't frozen the shape yet for texturing or detailing. I think most of the detail now will come from the textures, but only time will tell. Did i do good?
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For the original post, I perfered the quad-engine. (Possibly because when I design/model fighters, I by far perfer more solid designs than most people.) The twin-engined one is also interesting, but looks a bit fragile.
As for the next set of pics, I like it. Admittedly, the neck wings do seem a bit odd, when used with the neck/cockpit combination. Also. with the cel-type shading used, it's also hard to see the angles in the wings. Particularly, the wing-tip angle in that's obvious in the first and last pics don't seem to be noticable in the second and third ones.
As for the next set of pics, I like it. Admittedly, the neck wings do seem a bit odd, when used with the neck/cockpit combination. Also. with the cel-type shading used, it's also hard to see the angles in the wings. Particularly, the wing-tip angle in that's obvious in the first and last pics don't seem to be noticable in the second and third ones.
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I may be weird, but I actually like the single engine fighter in the first post. It's far more unique and interesting than the other two. The two and four engine planes are more practical, sure, but the single engine has it's charm.
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Hmm... I wonder if some of the elements from the twin-engine and the single-engine models can be combined, to make a triple engine?
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Hmm, kinda like a Silpheed?Cyborg Stan wrote:Hmm... I wonder if some of the elements from the twin-engine and the single-engine models can be combined, to make a triple engine?
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Where the hell did you dig that up from? It only appears to have 2 engines in the pack shot. I'll finish this version off before I do any more, then we'll see about other engine configurations.
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Re : Silpheed design. There's more than one design. The design you probably saw (And the one I remember, from years back. Never did get past the final boss.) seemed to be the older one. There appears to been some other games in the meantime with other designs, which was probably what was referred to.
Older Design (Incidently, there does seem to be a very flat intake-like thing on the bottom, which might make this a triple-engine design.)
Older Picture (Looks to be two engines here.)
Another design (More obvious triple engine)
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An even later model for the PS2 era. (Incidently, it reminds me somewhat of the Banshee from Wing Commander IV.)
Older Design (Incidently, there does seem to be a very flat intake-like thing on the bottom, which might make this a triple-engine design.)
Older Picture (Looks to be two engines here.)
Another design (More obvious triple engine)
Ditto
An even later model for the PS2 era. (Incidently, it reminds me somewhat of the Banshee from Wing Commander IV.)
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Here's the thing I built now at an almost finished stage, I need to add a little more decal detail and add the weapons and some cockpit detail. i dont think I'll do landing gear, too much faffing around for my liking. This is my 95% complete Macross/Robotech fighter without a name. Enjoy...
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http://www.axeman3d.com/posts/fightfull2.jpg
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