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More Macross fanart

The first generation of starships produced by the U.N. Spacy, they are the Oberth Class Destroyer (top left), ARMD Class Carrier (center), and the SF-3A Lancer II starfighter (right and scattered, there are six of them).

The destroyer and the carrier are similar in length (400 and 430 meters) and I decided to add the starfighters to try and convey their size relative to each other, but don’t know if I succeeded.

I have lost track of how long this has taken me, it never seemed finished. The ARMD platform was the first thing I finished, it was all I wanted. But it felt alone, didn’t really tell a story; so I added the destroyer, which seemed larger than the carrier, so I toyed with adding a second carrier in the foreground, but that wasn’t working, and I didn’t want to have to rely on any blurring effects to force perspective.

My biggest complaint is that I painted this at only 72 dpi, a big mistake, as it limited the level of detail I could illustrate. Live and Learn, I guess.

One of the eight mentioned here [link]

PSCS2 and art tablet

Edit: 4-16-2008

At the time I felt it was finished, I was also tired of looking at it. Lengthened the Lancer star fighter and added the U.N.Spacy insignia just forward of the cockpit. Also added a bit more detail to the hull of the destroyer and its bow facing thrusters.

No more edits to this one, I promise.

Edit: 2-11-2009

I lied. Fixed issues I had with lighting.

Macross is property of TATSUNOKO Pro.

Description
More Macross fanart

The first generation of starships produced by the U.N. Spacy, they are the Oberth Class Destroyer (top left), ARMD Class Carrier (center), and the SF-3A Lancer II starfighter (right and scattered, there are six of them).

The destroyer and the carrier are similar in length (400 and 430 meters) and I decided to add the starfighters to try and convey their size relative to each other, but don’t know if I succeeded.

I have lost track of how long this has taken me, it never seemed finished. The ARMD platform was the first thing I finished, it was all I wanted. But it felt alone, didn’t really tell a story; so I added the destroyer, which seemed larger than the carrier, so I toyed with adding a second carrier in the foreground, but that wasn’t working, and I didn’t want to have to rely on any blurring effects to force perspective.

My biggest complaint is that I painted this at only 72 dpi, a big mistake, as it limited the level of detail I could illustrate. Live and Learn, I guess.

One of the eight mentioned here [link]

PSCS2 and art tablet

Edit: 4-16-2008

At the time I felt it was finished, I was also tired of looking at it. Lengthened the Lancer star fighter and added the U.N.Spacy insignia just forward of the cockpit. Also added a bit more detail to the hull of the destroyer and its bow facing thrusters.

No more edits to this one, I promise.

Edit: 2-11-2009

I lied. Fixed issues I had with lighting.

Macross is property of TATSUNOKO Pro.