What are some truly avant garde or surreal mech designs?
I love this thing so much
>>23919199Half life turrets?
I know its basic to say but would Turn X count?>>23919275More like B1 Battle Droid
I feel like a lot of goofy 70s shit ventures into avant garde these days (pic notrel)
Wish I could find a bigger pic of this guy
>>23919377Didn't that thing give birth to the bad guy or some shit?
>>23919390Looks like something straight out of UNINSTALL
>>23919390>>23919399Fuck. I know it's from Bokurano, I just wanted to make a joke and leave the link but I forgot the link. https://youtu.be/-okZdA0xxYs
>>23919380Sauce?>>23919384This is just an exaggerated take on karakuri, don't think they're very surreal at all.
>>23919352the original Fighting Machine (forma do Brasil) is still a pretty out-there design by modern standards
All of Kobayashi's designs have a particular strangeness to them.
>>23919504Wells' descriptions are so great:"And not only did the Martians either not know of (which is incredible), or abstain from, the wheel, but in their apparatus singularly little use is made of the fixed pivot or relatively fixed pivot, with circular motions thereabout confined to one plane. Almost all the joints of the machinery present a complicated system of sliding parts moving over small but beautifully curved friction bearings. And while upon this matter of detail, it is remarkable that the long leverages of their machines are in most cases actuated by a sort of sham musculature of the disks in an elastic sheath; these disks become polarised and drawn closely and powerfully together when traversed by a current of electricity."
>>23919547Well now I think I know where Nagano got his inspiration
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These are the works of Kishi Omori. He does scratchbuilding. I do not know if this style of design has a name though.
>>23919539a unique blending of Moebius European comic art and manga
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>>23920136Baund Doc?
>>23919358Looks like something out of the MegaTen franchise.
Zaibach Guymelef were really cool lookingeven if they look like dick when folded
>>23921797That's ovaries, anon.
>>23921838You are a dick anon
>>23922354Where is the clitoris?
>>23920599You see the inscription? It says GAMPF.
>>23919539He has really good artstyle range, from the weird biotech looking mechs to standard toyetic mobile suits, he can do both.
>>23923361NTA, Gampf is Baund Doc's unused concept art.
>>23919402Fuck, I love Ishikawa's voice.
>>23923468What about Dragon's Heaven?
Anybody else?
>>23921791OP said avant garde or surreal, not absurdist.
>>23924468Same thing. He just removed the pillar thingy off Gampf because Kondo stole the design and made it canon. Shaian also seems like an unused concept art Gaza C.
>>23923468>>23927566Stop talking out of your ass. Dragon's Heaven predates Zeta by several years and that illustration is of Baund Doc III H, not concept art.
>>23927652It is Kobayashi's original take on standard Baund Doc, you fucking retard. It is not Baund Doc Hhttps://x.com/makomako713/status/1714240203660181897
>>23927652Kobayashi's Gampf design when he was 21 years old was very different. OVA Gampf resembles Baund Doc more than the silly rabbit it was in 1981. Sharper face and has a helmet's like head shape. The redesign was an influence from the time he worked on Zeta. The recolored Baund Doc artwork in Hyper Weapon 2013s >>23927566 more or less confirmed that it is a legally distincted Baund Doc.
>>23927690The little booklet that came with the Tama Factory 1/220 kit has illustrations of all the variants drawn by Kobayashi and Kondo, that one is the III H. The '87 summer issue of Hobby Japan Extra corroborates this. Again, not concept art. Dingus.>>23927717Okay? None of this disproves what I said.
>>23927717>legally distinctedPretty sure you can't plagiarize yourself.
>>23928328You can because if you make a design for Gundam you don't really own it. It's all Bandai's/Sunrise's.
>>23919447>Sauce?SD Gundam Force.
>>23927566Here is Kondo's Baund Doc
>>23927566That says GAMP F.
>>23919494its insane how impractical this design is:>arms too short with tiny turn radius for gun aim>vision ports aimed at the ground and sideways>leg movement only allowing tiny stepsstill kino, though
There's a series of garage kits that were released at WF in the 00s that I've been on the hunt for. they were released by a guy who goes by SCYTHE. Really interesting designs. I love how they approach a humanoid form but with such an unconventional structure. They remind me a bit of fafners.
>>23928328Sunrise owns Baund Doc and probably the non canon concept arts too. Kobayashi had to redesign his Marasai and renamed it into Marler.
>>23928018That's Kobayashi's twitter account, anon. He said it is just a Baund Doc he drew for New Type magazine, not the B club's Baund Doc H
>>23928018>Mobile suit from Zeta ( Original version )
>>23929877It's both. Kondo's illustration up above with the stahlhelm is the III F. He also did the Baund Doc II, the one with the fat ass.>B club's Baund Doc HESL or just plain illiterate?>>23929881Original as in "my original take".
>>23929872>They remind me a bit of fafners.At first glance I thought it was a Farmer. Really cool design.
>>23929934They're super cool. Really hope I can get my hands on a kit some day.
>>23929872Reminds me of some of the earlier Zegapain designs.
>>23929930He didn't mention anything about that drawing being III H. Baund Doc III H has a more simplified torso and shorter propellant tanks. The surface details are different too.>KondoKobayashi will strangle Kondo to death if they ever met, let alone working with him on friendly terms.
>>23929930Baund Doc is Gampf. Gampf is Baund Doc.
>>23929874He would've had to redesign it anyway since it derives so heavily from the Zaku II.
>>23928388>NRX-055The name card in the anime said its designation was MRX-055.
>>23930125It happened.
>>23929930>Kazumi FujitaWhat else is he known for?
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>>23933738This game seems sick as fuck, bought a copy of it a few years ago but I just never had time to play it.
>>23933738i had one of the most memorable gaming experiences cooping this with a buddy at like 13.
>>23933744Not sure how that qualifies as mecha other than the head looking like Ramiel with eyes.
>>23919199i'm reviving this thread
>>23935187The smaller ones looked more obviously mechanical.
>>23938024And amusingly, they DO have a Ramiel/Super-X -esque laser attack.
>worshipped machines, and mechanized war.The Futurists were no doubt the very first /m/en. The legs in pic related remind me a lot of the SUMO.
For all the shit Crossbone getsThe Jupiter Empire and their military designs shouldn't be one of them. Always liked how weird they were. Sometimes Crossbone takes it too far with the absurd design but sometimes they hit just right with surreal designs
>>23939217>BoccioniBased. His sculptures look cool as fuck in person.
>>23933744>>23935187>>23938024>>23938025what's the game?
>>23939341Clash: Artifacts of Chaos. It's on sale right now.
>>23939217Much much farther back
