Pagem 35: Mazinger Animated
Lemniskate on Nov. 12, 2009
I was quite surprised when I discovered that some of the robot head designs of Mazinger Z (one of the progenitors of the humongous mecha genre, according to tvtropes) fit quite seamlessly into the style of Transformers Animated. So I designed some robots around them and tweaked the design anyway.
Original Mazinger Z designs can be found here, here and here:
This was really MUCH work. And well yes, I could've added shadows to the robots, but… no. Just no.
Another pic of the fembot now baptisted Markhor is here.
Did you notice the background? I painted it with acrylic colours. Sadly the characters obfuscate so much… for example the complete air vent in panel 2! So here's the background without them:
Lemniskate at 6:16AM, Oct. 25, 2010
Aww man, they took down the manga pages, and I wasn't clever enough to save them! Yes, in the anime the designs differ remarkably, colourwise too. I also tried to find out what they were called, but didn't succeed (at least I think so; if I did succeed in finding out, again I wasn't clever enough to note the names down :/).
Abt_Nihil at 4:51AM, Oct. 25, 2010
Yeah, it looks great, but... these are Mazinger robots??? I never would have guessed. But probably because I only watched Mazinkaiser. Which was awesome.
Lemniskate at 2:37PM, Nov. 14, 2009
Heh, I guess you're already used to the fact that Transformers are popping up here from time to time ;) The comment about the background made me happy :)
Zephyrion at 7:37AM, Nov. 13, 2009
Yay, Transformers! That is a pretty background.