#mecha bs art

[keferon]

I got bored lol

[blue-mirage]

Gala night for @keferon Mecha AU be like

Based on this post: this post

Also thought First Aid would get drunk at the gala then go into Vortex to vent about how boring the party was and how much he didn’t want to be there. He just seems like the type who definitely hates social gatherings lol

And Swerve would be in full panic mode at all times seeing Blurr. The fanfics get better every single day.

[keferon]

OH MAN OH MAN OH MY GOD O H

You know how like you watch a movie and then open its artbook to discover all the behind the scenes concept art???? Like all the sketches made by creators?? And they capture this crazy amount of this. Fucking. Essence of the story??? YEAH. ITS LITERALLY THIS.

My brain shut me out of the world, so doodles

[keferon]

Something something I like his shapes haha

[w0mped]

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently, and this feels like the proper place to say:

Outside of art style and soundtrack, there’s no reason to watch Evangelion.

It wants to be so many things and fails at every single one.

Do you want a post apocalyptic show that delves into the major ramifications of 2 previous events and a possible third??? Evangelion’s not that. Half the time it forgets that the first or second impact even happened!!! They’re in a new version of Tokyo and so much is done to make everyone forget that their world has *RED OCEANS* and *MILLIONS OF CASUALTIES*. The apocalypse is ignored. I understand that some of that is themeing, yknow what do governments and people in power hide from us, but dude at some point it gets jarring when they have a whole episode about the red oceans and then they’re never seen again. The show doesn’t even tell you its lore. Subtext and context are definitely interesting ways to deliver information. Natural world building rocks, but there’s a difference between that and what Evangelion is. Evangelion has so many conversations that just kinda loop in on themselves and don’t help explain anything. I had to look at the wiki to understand anything that’s going on.

Do you want a cool mecha anime where they fight stuff and win the day? Evangelion’s not that. We get crumbs. Absolute morsels. Tiny bits and pieces of genuinely amazing fights. Again this isn’t an art rant the arts awesome The limitations on the Eva’s usage gives a reason behind it, but there’s a severe lack of mecha in this mecha anime. I understand that mecha anime do this where the mechs are a metaphor and all that. There’s merit to sneaking people into a drama by having cool explosions and robots, but the writing can’t carry the show. When they do fight, it’s ok…definitely not worth all the talking and philosophical bs. Philosophy is fine but it needs to be actually demonstrated. And will they explain the mechs at all? Not unless you mean WE PUT YOUR MOMS SOULS IN THE MECHS????? AND THATS WHY YOU CAN PILOT THEM???? I am willing to suspend my disbelief and engage with he story but that’s insane.

Do you want a character driven drama dealing with depression, anxiety and self improvement through hardship? Evangelion’s not that. 90% of the characters have no depth, and the ones that do aren’t that complicated. Shinji’s the most compelling and his journeys probably the best in the show….but Asuka and Rei are nothing… Asuka is the must stubbornly written character. I understand that the point is to show her immaturity and differences from Shinji, but that should not come at the expense of character depth. The fact that her and Shinji go through the same experiences and she doesn’t develop at all is frustrating. Rei, on the other hand, does nothing. She makes no active choices and is in a hospital bed more than she’s in the plot. So what if she’s a CLONE OF SHINJIS MOM?????? if she has no impact of the plot. If she died in the first episode, nothing would have changed. Kaowru is his own bag of worms but at least there’s a consistency. Misato, Kaji, and Ritsuko have their moments and actually offer a unique parallel to our current trio if you fully ignore Rei and Ritsuko but whatever. Will this ever be explored? A little? There’s some backstory about them but it’s extremely shallow imo. Kaji gets a decent amount of depth bc he talks about the plot with Shinji. He makes an effort to be a character. Penpen has more distinct character traits than the majority of the cast and that’s WILD.

Do you want a show with an ending????? Evangelion’s NOT THAT. Both the End of Evangelion movie AND the original series ending and notoriously confusing. The ending of the original series was meant to evoke a sense of overcoming your fears and connecting with others. Is this demonstrated well?? No. They do a bunch of trippy stuff and have an actually really wholesome sequence where everyone is in a different more classic school anime, but forget that they have to…yknow…conclude the show in a satisfying manner. The last 2 episodes feel entirely separate from the main show. I know about the production problems but that doesn’t make up for this There’s no through line. The writers were just like “uh oh yeah this needs to end. Now it ends now it’s over done good bye” and tried do cram all the philosophy into the final 2 episodes. On the other hand…the movie is made out of spite. The entire end of Evangelion film is made to tell the audience to go fuck themselves. I’m not reading into anything that’s the creators words. It’s a kill fest that is just there for the sake of being sad. There’s no plot and no explanation of anything occurring in any way. Just “look everyone turn to orange Fanta or get shot :3”.

If you want a show with depth that cares about its viewers, watch Code Geas or Madoka Magica. Genuinely masterful in their execution and theming.

Edit: this came off as super harsh yall, my b. New to tumbr so I don’t know the etiquette. Evangelion has value in what it’s trying to portray but there are parts I felt dropped the ball. I’m glad people like it, it’s just not for me :)

[kinopioa]

Noticing lately people that people are saying "Chris isn't bad, 4kids ruined him", then post this scene out of context

Where toddler Chris is lied to by his parents, and then he says "they never came for me, just kept buying presents"

Here's the problem, it's bullshit retconning

We have literal photographic evidence showing his parents being there for the early part of his adolescence early S1 in bgs (this is literally Ep 2!). This wasn't a goof, it had several pans focusing on it, and was common in other bg art in other eps

This bs statement also ignores later eps where his mom personally invites him and his friends to her work, his parents dropping everything when he gets sick, etc. His supposed emotional angsting is extremely trivialized throughout most of S1. His parents constantly check on him even at work, his extended family and servants are very involved with him, he actually has friends in a public school, it overall feels barely in check when he cries to Sonic in the end of S1's finale. Like, he says...

You ain't alone kid. I weirdly prefer 4Kids lines here- worse music aside- he's more accrediting Sonic's coolness by saying "he had so much fun" and "Sonic's the best friend he's had" rip Tails, Amy, Cream

But yeah, barely passing it. If it was a legit finale I'd be fine

S2's insistence on him being in the already iffy Adventure adaptations and later retconned angst aggravates me. He went from "mostly boring maybe spoiled" to "aggravatingly trauma faking spoiled brat" over the course of of season

But because of the out of context toddler sob clip being removed in dub, people think "oh no, 4Kids solely fucked him up"

No, it didn't. His basis was already fucked, S2 made it way worse then tried gaslighting. Congrats

Honestly him getting super attached to Sonic is weird. Sonic's pretty damn aloof and unaware of in house shenanigans that Amy, Tails, and Cream deal with. Like he's cool, but he's barely there. Honestly it'd be funny/genius when he starts recounting his memories and realizes how Sonic's other friends were more involved with him than Sonic, and then Chris realizes how much he takes people that are actually near him for granted

Overall I find him mediocre. If you hate his voice in dub and prefer OG it's whatever, but I absolutely can't say his existence or writing is good in sub.

Side note, saying Helen should be the protag is still a problem. As much as I like her, the justification of having Sonic and friend's lives revolve around her is still iffy. The reason Chris has a mansion and grandpa's lab is cuz it's the easiest way to not deal with "where will most of Sonic's friends stay" and "where can Tails park Sonic's plane, then his mechas?". Helen can't support that, so either

-Realize two worlds is stupid, and focus the series on Sonic and friends like what the pilot hinted, having him be nomadic and encountering new people every other ep. Helen and Chris can be episodic chars with their own dev

-Make Helen rich, which...ruins her overall struggles

Sonic X gets me... @semi-sketchy

[keferon]

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD THIS IS MY BOY BLURR THIS IS MY KFMGNGKFNF OH THIS IS AMAZING

i uh…. i think i got a little carried away… (i just had to, its my boy)

the blurr brainrot never ends (thank you so so much @keferon for designing mecha au blurr, i’m on my knees hes so perfect)

i’ll finish rendering it in the morning or something….

designs from @keferon’s mecha au, illustration inspired by that one cover from veil

[zogingu]

Somerville Review

A cinematic puzzle game in a similar vein to Playdead's INSIDE and Little Nightmares, having gathered a mote of clout by having former Playdead founder Dino Patti. Unfortunately, his credentials don't seem to have helped much, because even discounting the awkward technical execution of Somerville, the game's creative concepts and art direction don't offer much, even compared to the more amateur entries into the genre.

⬇⬇ Full game spoilers below ⬇⬇

Visuals

The fidelity of Somerville's visuals is quite impressive, and in the game's few cinematics the filmic framing, animated backgrounds and special effects come together to form some pretty impressive sights. HOWEVER the visual design of the game is often either boring or the tackiest flavour of scifi.

Environments

The bread and butter of cinematic-type games are the scenes, the sets, the environments. The best examples are not only well rendered, but tell a story, or elucidate some novel concept or theme. Somerville's environments are mostly very basic, and even worse is that they are often just tedious to get through. A summary of the game's scenes (Spoilers):

The family's house has lots of little details and some novel interactive bits that create a unique feeling of presence. Opening drawers, unplugging wires and other small details do a lot to heighten your awareness of the space and make it feel rich and interesting.

The countryside quickly felt repetitive. Samey fields and woods that take a long time to move through. Empty video-game-level feeling space.

The music festival was probably the most novel location. The wind effects were fun, and the different "rooms" were varied and mostly didn't overstay their welcome.

The mine was by far the worst. Extremely repetitive. Felt like a level in a game, as opposed to a plausible real world location. No build-up to anything. No novel ideas or even a hint of storytelling.

The town had very nice set decoration, but the interactivity is heavily lacking. You lift the same shelf out of the way three times. I see why people bemoan The Last of Us' ladders now.

Underwater base/alien area is where the tacky sci-fi stuff gets turned all the way up. The base's exterior is cool, and the reactor sequence is mysterious, but switching from a man stumbling through a conflict zone to an Aperture Science lab experiment felt like it broke the tone.

Alien Stuff

Across the game are alien "growths", which are manipulated in many of the game's puzzles, melting and hardening them to achieve various effects.

While their technical quality is impressive, I think they're conceptually boring—They don't have any kind of novel adaptation to the Earth environments and visually are just geometric noise. It's a really squandered storytelling opportunity, especially compared to other alien-invasion literature.

In War of the Worlds, the red weed is overriding the Earth biome with alien ecology. In Half-life, giant conduits tear through human architecture to connect monstrous industrial machines. In Alien, the xenomorph hives are an ironic repurposing of the tunneling structures humans inhabit.

The growth in Somerville is the closest thing the game has to a visual motif but it doesn't do much more than tell us "aliens are here" and provide a kind of cool looking visual effect when it's dissolved or solidified.

Badass Military BS

Power armour ninjas... so cool and Badass... wow look at the undulating geometric pattern their armor is made out of... soo cool

Science fiction is an important topic to me. One of my recent favourites is the show Obsolete, which provides a socially-conscious and material lens on the silly concept of mecha, creating a story which approaches war, technology, industry and the humanities with nuance. Every fictional and real-world technology and social system is measured and contextualised. The role of the story's technological concepts isn't superficial—every piece fits together and enriches the other.

Somerville is a story set in modern society, driven by the struggles of everyday people. There are power-armoured dudes doing impossible acrobatics and rapid-firing laser rifles at geometric alien lions. Not only does the fictional technology LOOK bland, but the meaning and contextualisation of its concepts are pathetically shallow.

I know this is a really subjective mode of criticism; preferring stories that are lensed on particular subjects does not invalidate others, and it's not necessary for a story to be intricately laden with subtext to impactful or even just entertaining. But I am VERY TIRED of science fiction that pivots around slick, shiny "badass" WEAPONRY and WARFARE. At the very least, they could have semiotically rich designs, but instead it's just geometry. Bleh.

Visual Telegraphing

The hitmarker is the posterchild of overbearing telegraphing in games. It's wormed its way even into low-stakes single player shooters, where, in the AAA space, graphics technology has developed to offer incredible, high-fidelity depictions of violence that tell the story of injury and evisceration through stunningly detailed models and animations, only to suck all focus away from those incredible depictions to prioritize immediate feedback from the system. Hit. Armor hit. Kill. Damage numbers.

The absence of such overlays is one of the keys to a good cinematic game. Their systems are constrained to only work in ways that can be represented without interrupting or obstructing their immersive world. The drawback is that doing this successfully puts a lot of constraints on the both the audiovisual and the ludic elements of the game. But, when done well, the result is a fantastic, compelling harmony between the aesthetic experience of a cinematic story and the dexterous-cognitive challenge of playing a game.

Somerville doesn't achieve this harmony. You may be inclined to explore the large, open outdoor scenes, but doing so will poison the game's attempt at expressing cinematic pacing. Big yellow post-it notes on interactive objects make it so your controller isn't an interface with an immersive world of diegetic objects; it makes it so you're pushing buttons on your controller to push buttons in the game.

[a-mecha]

Decided to post the past 7 days of daily gundam posting. So here is day 1 which was the Nu Gundam.

I’m new here so let me get this shit out:

My name is Mecha I’m a college student currently studying film at RCAD. I love to draw and mostly gundam BS so I thought I would post here where most 20-30 something can see my goofy art. I’m mostly active on IG @Mecha_Tsuyo which is where I started posting. Hopefully y’all enjoy this journey.

[keferon]

GLITCH???? GLITCH THIS IS ABSOLUTE INCREDIBLE???? IM RUNNING CIRCLES AND CHEWING CONCRETE OH MY GOD IM IN LOVE WITH YUR ART

Yall, I diagnose creative energy of the mecha pilot au community as highly contagious and suspiciously inspirational,, here! Have some art as compensation,, TuT🫶

- My legs don’t work.. Don’t worry!,, Mine do <33

- Another angle ^u^🫶

- Coming to you live from Shockwaves cockpit,, T^Ť7 *cries*

- Doododoo 🎵,, something probably blew up recently <3, 🔍👀✨

I can’t even with all the art and shenanigans! It’s everywhere?? You are all some little creative geniuses! 😭🙌

[abesarsapos]

WIP. In the middle of the process of making the videos where I show how I do this MECHA step by step. Phew!! En mitad del proceso de realizacion de los videos donde muestro como hago este MECHA paso a paso. Uf!! #scratchbuild #junk #manualidades #handcraft #trash #kitbashing #maquetas #modelismo #arte #artesanias #Tutorial #mecha #robot #transformer #robotech #reciclajecreativo #upcycling #shampoobottles (en Bahia Blanca, prov. Bs As.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgE6Mi4OuUW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[drawingpotatopenguin]

I posted 184 times in 2021

41 posts created (22%)

143 posts reblogged (78%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 3.5 posts.

I added 177 tags in 2021

#art - 29 posts

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#digital art - 24 posts

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#dl fan content - 14 posts

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Longest Tag: 80 characters

#sheesh potato you're doing so much better than me at this whole art prompt thing

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

For more information you can DM me,

No mecha, NSFW please!

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#4

Somehow keep forgetting how to count/hj

I love my friends for putting up with my bs

@changeling-rin here's the list again

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#3

Dub of one of @wolfy1298 's comics, I really like art

And reblogs don't let me put videos so I can't reblog the comic like I wanted to

26 notes • Posted 2021-04-22 17:53:08 GMT

#2

Drawing of @changeling-rin 's Dimensional Links Realm

More like doodles, I was bored in class haha

29 notes • Posted 2021-08-23 17:13:54 GMT

#1

@liccy let me color this, her drawings are amazing!

Go check out @scribb-dibbs as well, they colored Hyrule and did the background! It's very pretty 🥺❤️

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[keferon]

THIS IS. OH NY GOD I'M MESMERIZED

OH MY GOD THIS THING IS SO LONG THE AMOUNT OF TIME AND EFFORT YOU PUT MUST BE FUCKING INSANE?????

OH MY GOD MY DAY IS FIXED AND MY SOUL IS SAVED

ODDITY. ODDITY PLEASE LGKFBFOGJRH THIS IS AMAZING AND I LOVE IT AND I LOVE YOU AND AGHHHHHHHHHHH

Starlight - Blurr and Swerve

Ooooohhh it was a long project !

It all started with my will to make a playlist for every pairing/group of this AU i found/hj. Starlight was an epiphany for me, because i could find a meaning for ALL THE LYRICS with Blurr and Swerve.

This Video is a lot of love for the ship AND certainly for YOUR A.U. Keferon, and your brain, and your style, and Tapa.....

All of these hearts and love are presently tapped together with my non existent animation skills (i just make comics lmao...some of my dearly beloved friends teached me how to edit. And its ugly)

*slap the animation* look how much hyperfixation this bad boy can fit in !!

I’ll credit basically all the people who send asks and arts about the gay bartenders, because I took references and ideas of a lot of them :))

Like the shockwave part or at the end, where we see the ‘real’ (?) Swerve.

I’ll credit @keferon because that’s his AU hehe but also @somerandomcockroach who fed me with their incredible artstyle, it’s so incredible the job you guys do, I’m amazed….!

Some cuts I like behind this one !

This scene is based of the ‘I see you Jake’ scene from Avatar (movie with the Naavis) because it’s kind of them for me. Blurr is even Blue !

Shockwave. Make a short appearance but I love his character. And I love drawing him. He is terrifying.

And finally swerve…..Ah swerve……I loved drawing his bedroom hehe. I never draw Background !

Im stupid because what do you mean I wanna try animation and go straight for the 3:00 minute song ???

And I learned how to make the characters slide like PowerPoint half way HAHA

I don’t care, I loved doing that ❤️

[minnesota-fats]

Commissions Prices

Line art:

Head n shoulder: $5

Head n waist: $10

Full body: $15

Full color:

Head n shoulder: $15

Head n waist: $20

Full body: $25

Extras

+ (1) one person: $5

Detailed background: $10

Detailed background in color: $20

Will do:

Fanart, oc’s, anthropomorphic/fury oc’s, casual nudity (NO MINORS), ships, blood, guts, vampires, monster oc’s

Will NOT do:

NSFW, mecha/robots, fetishes/kinks, minors getting saucy, antis bs, hate, resists/sexist implications, political cartoons, politics, real people ships

Payment up front

NO NEGOTIATIONS!

Depending on time and how many commissions I get it will take about 1 day to 1 week for me to draw. If I need an extension I will tell you.

Dm me if interested!

Don’t just like please reblog!❤️

[bramblie]

A reminder: I’m smol poor Ukrainian art student that takes commissions!

A wallet I use is Paysend since Ukraine is on “Send Only” list on Paypal and I don’t know any other alternatives.

Character price list:

 - A portrait - 10$

 - A half-body - 20$

 - A full-body - 40$

+50% for another character

Background price list:

 - Easy background (sky and/or landscape sillouette) - 5%

 - Detailed background (interior/exterior/landscape) - 10-40$ (depends on foreshortening) (for example, 5th picture would be a solid 40$ bc it’s a full room, 6th would be about 30$)

I don’t draw:

 - Fetish/gore/any 18+ stuff (but i can draw some light stuff like b**bs)

 - Mecha/over-detailed stuff

 - w/o character reference,based on textual description/bunch of photos/moodboards, etc.

DM me if you’re interested.

Reblogs are very appreciated.

[keferon]

OH GOD THIS IS SO COOL I CAN EVEN

WhAT

OH FUCK THE COVERS. TH E COVERS

MECHA BLURR BUT IT'S SPOTLIGHT COVER. TAKE MY HEART IT'S YOURS NOW

BREAK TIME ARRIVED, used what little free time I have from the real world to do this cuz the jazz mecha pilot AU by @keferon ate me since its conception

I wanted to make a little something ever since I read the Blurr side story while waiting for the 2nd chapter and then I just saw it drop so now I’ll be reading it on the side (I’m not emotionally prepared yet)

and some extra sketches I made

Art block be damned even if it sucks, don’t mind the obvious way my brain was degrading

Magazine is roughly based on F1 Magazine formatting, 2nd one is based on the Transformers Spotlights comic featuring Blurr