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APU from the Animatrix's Second Renaissance short crushing some poor robot and dispensing further destruction.Related content
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This APU is a thing of beauty. Keep up the good work!
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One of a kind artwork I must say. Any chance you might make more of this? Perhaps the Final Battle of Osiris?
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Thanks!
I may return to Second Renaissance stuff at some point.
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hey wait a sec the Mech from that movie Sucker Punch looks almost the same as the APUs in the animatrix and can also fly!!!
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How tall is the suit and what do you think the caliber of the guns are?
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I'd say around 10-12 feet tall, for sure though it has 30mm cannons.
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Hmmmm sounds good. I'd think the 30mm cannons would be for anti-vehicle warfare. It could also carry 7.62x51mm guns as it's anti-infantry weapon.
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To be fair none of it did diddly.
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Np
Ps. Can you draw a MLP FIM character operating a APU please?
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i watched this in high school scared the hell out of me
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Shame that these suits were more of a liability than an actual benefit for the soldiers manning them.
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they never did stand a chance, in the end the pilots were more restrained by the mech they used than protected at all
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It's unfortunate to be sure :/
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i guess they weren't designed for fighting sentinals though, probably why they dropped the armour to let pilots escape quickly in the battle for zion
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Perhaps it was just that cockpit armor was by experience, completely meaningless.
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Well they get ripped off easily in the animatrix , so i'd say thats pretty much correct
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"Kill'em all! Kill'em all! Kill'em all!!! Bwahahahahaha!!!"
I'm sure you remember the quote
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One of my favourite little bits in the film
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I've been searching for a shot of these forever now. I had begun to think that everyone had forgotten these.
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I don't see how people can forget these! They're clearly more awesome then the Revolution APU's, and definatly my favourite element of the Animatrix!
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Agreed, they are the coolest mech designs I've ever seen. I guess its because the matrix has kinda did out over the years and the animatrix has never reached the mainstream population.
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shame because the animatrix was awsome, i liked the sequence with the APU's but i really liked the one that showed the machines making a choice to be free, then the sad outcome
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Nice work! I remember those APU battle suits from the Animatrix. They were quite different from the APUs seen in Revolutions. It's ashame that for the human army, those robotic battle suits were clearly out matched by the deadlier killing machines like the sentinels and the harvesters. As seen in a scene from that particular episode; "The Second Renaissance Part II" the harvesters could easily restrain the APUs with their tenticles, cut open the enclosed cockpit and then kill the pilot inside. Even an armored battle suit could not protect a mere human from those deadly tenticles which can easily tear a man to shreds.
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yeah, it a shame, but in the animatix, we did ask for it, shame though, those harvesters and the sentinals! they were completely devoid of mercy or compasion
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Yep. They are mere killing machines that were made spesifically to seek out and destroy without mercy. It's scary just to imagine living in a time when machines have taken over, and humanity struggles desperately to survive the aftermath of it all.
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indeed, and to add to that the sky is black , just to make it all the more scary, i supose in some way's its more pleasant to be in the matrix, that was kind of the point of the choice i guess
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I think so. From what Morpheus said in the first Matrix film, humanity was the one who covered the sky in a dark cloud in the attempt to cut the machines off from the sun. But as shown in that one episode of the Animatrix, the attempt failed becuase the machines somehow found a means to survive without the sun. And about the Matrix itself, I think you're right. The Matrix was basically a virtual reality dream world were a new generation of humanity was born. And one of the morals I caught onto when I first watched it was that some people don't want to step out of their comfort zone because they feel more safe in a particular place where no life threatening dangers exist. And for some people, they feel more at peace within a spesific environment rather than putting themselves at risk by going to places where certain death awaits them.
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indeed, in the animatrix they have to train people to resist the temptation to return to the matrix, which i have to imagine would be a difficult one to avoid
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It's interesting how, in the short, some robots were dispatched to battle only with pistols and there were many unarmed; what the hell were they supposed to do?
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I assume they were sent out like that mainly to distract, and harrass human ground forces, and to absorb human ground fire to make sure some of the more deadlier forms of robots such as the sentinels and harvesters make it into close combat to do the damage, I guess it worked X_X.
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But you see that sentinels and the harvester-like thing appear only after the tesla canons and mechs have smoked entire brigades of those puny robots AND fight the humans in pretty much the same way (head-on, with wave tactics) that the robots did (except for the flying skyscraper thing with lasers).So, what's the point of having half of your army killed if you're going to use the same tactic but with better weapons? they could have used the human-made robots as "medics" or engineers while leaving the fighting to specialized units.
My theory is that they were sent in suicidal attacks because they were too inefficient compared to the new machines, those robots suffered the worst fate of all sides in the war, they had emotions as humans but at least humans had good weapons and tactics and finally got plugged , but the robots were masacred by well trained human troops.
then again, that's just me. and this is a freaking long comment XD
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the inferior humanoid forms were 'decommisioned' becuase of the ancestry as human servants, the're use as fodder may have been a way to eliminate them at no extra cdrain on resources, or a way to make them useful one last time
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Lol, I guess there are many ways to look at it, maybe we should ask the director?
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The director appears to be somwehat inept at that, as he said in the director's comment that neutron bombs were used aganist the machines by the humans; No neutron bombs were seen on the short and neutron bombs are ineffective aganist machines. >_>
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Indeed, the only bombs seen being dropped in the short during the battle were nukes, and they were nuking our own men in positions that were about to be compromised.
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Judjing by how massive the machine numbers were compared to the remaining mechs and soldiers I'd nuke those places too O_o
Maybe the soldiers were used to gather as much machines in a spot, then nuke it. Which is a grim tactic.
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A grim tactic indeed, but if this was the last chance, either win everything, or loose everything, I would have to deem that as acceptable tactics.
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Yeah, me too.. it's actually pretty much the only remaining smart tactic when you think about it, nothing else than nuking would work aganist an army like that; there were even machine factories on the field! You can see sentinels and harvesters dropping out of the huge flying skyscrapers O_o
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Yeah, I noticed that! I thought that those skyscraper things were some sort of support unit/sentinel factory or carriers. Though nukes as was explained were only effective for the actual explosion, as the robots were unaffected by the heat blast, or radiation, but still, its better then nothing I guess.
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I think they were affected by the heat flash and ionizing radiation, but only the ones close to ground zero and the normal robots; sentinels, harvesters, skyscraper factories and that cube-headed thing (along with everything of the machine's "second generation" i.e. machines made by machines.) were pretty resilient; they resisted direct hits with tank guns and things like that.
Hey, your Animatrix art is so cool, why don't you try to draw the UN nuclear bomberes? they were pretty awesome.
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Hey hey, thats a good idea! Never thought of the bombers, and yes they are pretty awesome! Did you check out any other of my Animatrix art in my gallery?
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Yes, I'm saw it all, it's just so awesome
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Hehe, thanks a bunch, and hurray for adding me as a friend!
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