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I love how you used light and slightly washed out colors, then BAM, rich blues.
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I love your signature Starblazers arrow motif that points 'down there'. Mark and Derek were always working over Nova by drawing her attention into their pants with those arrows.
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Hahah, I usually draw the arrow in where you'd expect a zip on a coat/hoodie - It's branched off into logo territory on that phone. Also, I'd love to see Starblazers/Space Battleship Yamato at some point.
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I personally cough balls of derision and venom at the Japofiles who believe the original Japanese was best. Maybe it is due to the fact I grew up on Starblazers around 1978-1980, but I really feel the voices and editing improved the series in America except for a few of the death scenes that were edited out, like at the end of the Comet Empire arc. No one was REALLY fooled because of the lines like, 'TAKE THAT YOU DAMNED ROBOTS!' as a marine shoots a humanoid through the head. It was a series that was so emphatic and dramatic it caused heightened enlistment in the US Marines and Navy. I remember one HS senior when i was in 10th grade that was so drilled up over Starblazers he was jumping around in class, raring to join the Marines.
Though the animation is a little clunky compared to the more modern stuff, I feel Starblazers was that watershed moment in anime when art began to overtake industry and become its own progressive entertainment community. Made in 1974, then 1977, it was a series that put America to shame in story, characters, art and animation effort. At the time it came to America in the wake of the Star Wars craze of 77-78 Hanna-Barbaric was churning out most all American animation with sliding levels filled with dust and miscolored sections, every drawing misconstructed and vaguely defined. Star Blazers did similar simplicity, but with craft. They were using xerox machines in clever ways to animate the Yamato back into perspective, etc. Japan was also paying attention to effects animation, which is key to enriching any film with little effort in precise drawing, if you have precise timing.
Anyway, the American version did some nice things that revved up the kiddies. Stuff I would love to do if I ever had an animated series myself. They made a very rousing title sequence edited better than the Japanese series, then made an extremely rousing end credit sequence that made the kids get all wound up, run off after, beating each other up in frustration of waiting until tomorrow's episode. And the fact it was a cliffhanger-drama-action-adventure-journey series was brilliant in a time of humorless comedy animation. The use of melodramatic language in 70's dramas in Japan and UK was always stirring.
i recommend you see the series while in school. I also recommend the Giant Robo series, Golden Boy, Cowboy bebop (bet you already saw this), Robotech's Macross (the start of Gainax), and if you love cheeze on a grand scale, find the old American dub of 8th Man from the mid-60's. 8th Man's dub will drive you mad with awesome. The art is awful, and hilarious, and the enemies all sound like JFK.
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future clothing is so strange.
hehe
i seriously love your clothing designs.
really awesome.
is he by any chance into anti gravity racing? (wipeout)
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I do love the work The Designer's Republic have produced for the Wipeout games, but I've never really played them.
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no way! O_O;
you must!
they are awesome. I'm loving WipeOut Pulse for the PSP. It's the newest.
really cool track designs, and great speed. You should try it out sometime.
btw. Designer's republic did the newest installments too? or just the playstation 1 games?
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its brilliant..love the atmosphere..great stuff like always
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im tempted to guess chalk, but based on saturday im going to hazzard a guess at a potato stamper.. sorry.. i mean photoshop brush.
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Photoshaaaaaawp brush it is. Not a potato stamper D:
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Practically the same thing though.
Nothing is brushed on.. its all just duplicated and stamped on.
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You should try playing about with the settings.
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I want a hoodie with the stylized arrow you draw going down the back of the hood. Or just on the back.
make me one pwease? Haha
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then make two. And then give me one for...uh.. i guess valentines day. But in a guy to guy as friends way.... unless...perhaps............
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i love how you made that background work with everything in the picture.
and of course, your colors and designs are awesome.
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It reminds me of a camp counselor I once had, except my camp counselor was more confirm-ably male. His name was Karem, but his high school yearbook wrote Karen. He wore large sweaters as well.
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