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Published: 2006-01-29 13:21:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 3603; Favourites: 72; Downloads: 227
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Another example of that early, older, batch of CG sketches. We have 2 more FOIL head concepts, these moving a little more into the feel the new stuff has. They’re both still reminiscent of familiar classic and modern mecha designs, and that’s ok to a degree I think overall as I have no problem tipping my hat to that a little. In the end I plan to keep pushing the new stuff into a familiar yet unique look and feel. The top one is obviously the illo I have used for my FOIL “boo!” Deviant Avatar
I rather like the top one, it’s more dinosaur like which was is the primary inspiration for the base concept of the FOILs, everything launched from there and it’s always good when you arrive somewhere unexpected. Digital Wacom paint.
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sorta reminds me of the eva's from neon genesis.Really good by the way!
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Seems two FF comments, guess they must be vibing that look. I remember thinking the Bahamut's head, in the Advent Children film, looked as I had been thinking some of the FOILs might look so I guess I'm not surprised these were giving that impression. As I sated a few times though, it was pretty much Dinosaurs I was looking towards but I wouldn't be surprised if Dinos inspired the FF designs as well, it would make some sense.
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hey have you ever played FF8? becuas the bottom head looks kinda like raghnarogh's head.
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I used to own the game but never finished it. That said it wasn't inspired by the game, pretty much dinosaurs were what I was looking at as I noted in the original posting
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Man, I dig on your colors. Very subtle and your schemes are top notch.
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I love the first one, you've definitely got a dinosaur feel down. Really cool. Yeah, I used to be crazy about dinosaurs, and now I like mecha, and seeing this is just nice. ^^
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Glad it's coming across. The stuff isn't going to be flat out Dinosaur I suppose but the notion of such a thing is going to be apparent in some of them. All in all the FOILs will have some interesting design ideas running throughout. has begun contributing some of his concepts and designs and as you see he has concepts with their own aesthetics and feel both similar and wholly uniquely differing to mine. I like the idea of having varied perspectives and aesthetics with a unifying theme. But ultimately these machines are like a hostile beast, a war mount so a dinosaur notion works to a large degree.
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Right, but the inspiration you're bringing-- the same sense of awe that you get when you look up at the dinosaur skeleton and imagine the thing as it used to be, walking and breathing-- that sort of emotion can really bring a project to life.
Both of your stuff is amazing. *g* Makes me think I should post some of my own concepts, although they're not nearly as original or nice.
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Well thank you again and I'm quite happy this stuff is inspiring others, it means I must be doing something right 
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really cool. the second one is awesome
I’ve got some head skeches as well. I’ll put ’em up in my scraps section.
I’ll get back to you on the script when I’ve finished reading it. just got back home.
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Cool, I take it you were away? Hope you had some good off time if so
It's great everyone seems to be diggin' these FOIL heads. The cool thing with the FOILs is the fact that the heads are all different so designing heads of varying types is a blast to do. Of course the designs have to fit the design style of whatever FOIL body and manufacturer they get stuck on but that’s an easy thing to do. Also the occasional nod to classic mecha designs is cool being that all the FOILs don't look the same, that bottom one certainly was more an old school nod in the face
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i really like the head
especially the second one
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Glad you dig em, they're earlier ideas but I do dig them, just never got around to posting them till now. I have a lot of stuff floating around the studio here O_o
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Yes, there are a lot of things I haven't posted yet. As much as there have been a pile of mecha postings expect to see a lot of other things, characters, vehicals, locations and such.
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hummmm... can't wait to see them
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very cool.
sorry, but i currently suck.
are these for/from your own storyline and ideas.
or are they just based on the things you needed to design for whatever/whoever you were working for?
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Thats interesting and awesome I have nto seen anything like them before.
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Thank you a ton man
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By CG, do you just mean the digital-painting media you created them in? Or are they based on CGi maquettes (using the usual term of CGi, meaning 3D)?
Does any of your work get based on CGi models? As in used as a "scaffold"?
Very cool BTW.
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Thanks again for the comments. Yeah, I should clarify as I have gotten used to some folks calling digital paints CG as well and really no 3D involved here, bad habit I got saying CG. The illos, all of them, are primarily fully painted right on my 9x12 Wacom Intous, no guides, just sketching em out. Strangely some of them have been looking 3D-ish but I'm not remotely as perfect as a 3D model would be and looking closely you will see things might be off to give that away. All that said these designs are concepts intended for realization in #D for the animation. if the show is 2D hand-drawn characters I would like for the mecha to be 3D so the designs can have the creative freedom to be as wild as possible. I plan to dip into doing some actual 3D modeling some time this year, time permitting so you might actually see some of this stuff in real 3D at that point
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