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VulnePro — Macross Valkyrie VF-1S
Published: 2005-11-17 00:55:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 10708; Favourites: 201; Downloads: 870
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Funny how one thing can end up something entirely different when you’re producing it. Originally this piece was to be a speed paint, I planned to do yesterday, of an F-15 with a refueling arm attached (Needless to say not really a speed paint now but still completed in the past twos days time). While looking at the photo I planned to ref I thought, “This would be way cool if I made it a Valkyrie from Macross instead”, and this is what happened. The PSD file does have a refueling arm version as well and I may post it but ultimately I omitted it because it was too similar of color (the one thing I did keep from the F-15 ref was the colors, I ditched the angle of the plane and the rest). I liked the military gray the F-15 had so the VF-1S got it too. It's also kinda funny how, after all this time, this is the first Macross art I've ever done and I came to love animation watching Robotech in the 80s. Well Mr. Shoji Kawamori, I tip my hat to you, the Valkyrie is STILL a cool design.Straight to Wacom digital paint, Photoshop 7.0 and some touch up work in Painter 9
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Comments: 44
Saw this on the front page and loved it keep it up
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Welcome and thank you for the comment
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Hi.
I am fron the Brazil and I found its deviation very good.
Congratulations!
Please, it forgives my English, I am using a translator on-line.
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Olá.
Sou do Brasil e achei seu trabalho muito bom.
Parabéns!
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Thank you kindly and you're English was good enough
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excellent beautiful brilliant very realistic well done
visit my gallery please
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I'm most tickled with the fact that this just sort of 'happier'.
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Err, happened! Stupid multiple conversations in multiple windows! XD
Good choice of tones for the shading.
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My thanks 
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The attention to detail is absolutely amazing! Wonderful pic.
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Thank you very much
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aside from the minor perspective issues, its brilliant!
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Thanks
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My thanks. Had fun doing it, the nostalgia and all
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when i saw the thumbnail in someone's favs i immediately thought it was an F-111 aardvark.
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I can see how it might look that way in a thumb, I cropped the painting rather close, just thought it would be interesting to approach it that way. Thanks for dropping in though.
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Very cool!
Two issues that I believe myself to see is certain perspective errors and the shading is a bit flat - could have higher contrasts.
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I'm a big macross fan myself. You did an excellent job!!!
make some more!!!
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Thanks man, really appreciate it. I just might end up doing more at some point in the future. I just kinda did this one for fun as I grew up on Macross myself
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Danka! Macross, always a fav for me, always and thanks FOR the fav as well
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Macross! AAAAAA! 
Magnificent work! I'm not going to go all fanboy detailing-asshole on you, because I think you've done a great job bringing a classic back to life.
The only issue I'd address would simply be the composition. I think adding more to the left side, and putting Roy near the center axis a little more (but still off center) would create more balance and create a little more of a focal point. Just saying! This is still definately a favourite.
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Gracias. Yup, just felt good to do some Macross, some nostalgia for sure.
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Wow, that's awesome work! Very detailed.
And the wing's look fine to me.
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Thank you man. I just think Macross has a soft spot for a lot of folks so I figured people would enjoy seeing some art for it.
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o my ~ great painting
I think Roy Fokker should have the 'skull' trademark of his aircraft 
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Thank you much, I really enjoyed working on this one
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Dude WHO CARES ABOUT THE WING ALIGNMENT. I am a Macross fan to the heart and this hits the spot. Viva la Macross son.
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He is right though, it is a bit off but thanks for the support man, glad it hits the spot as far as the void of Macross art is concerned. At some poit I'll have to do the Batteroid mode too.
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The wing's not aligned I reckon. It looks like the left wing is a bit further back along the fuselage compared to the right one. I tried drawing imaginary lines according to perspectives and they aren't parallel in placement. It also looks like the left is shorter in span than the right but according to perspectives (especially if you want to exaggerate them) it should be the other way around.
The texture rendering is superb as usual, sometimes I prefer a painted look but getting a realistic lighting and feel to it has always been something I'm in awe of.
The pilot should be a bit bigger, making the cockpit feel more confined. For ideal aesthetics if not for realism. The background could've been much more inspiring too I guess. Since we're viewing from a high angle it'd be more interesting to see a landscape or a seascape instead of a plain sky. The current background is not showing much dynamism or speed, I don't think that's what you wanted to emphasise anyway so it could use a much more interesting background.
The best bit is the canopy reflection and bias. Do you just "know" how and where to place em' or do you use references for it? Is there a specific technique you use to accomplish this, which I hope you can share with everyone?
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Yup, the plane's not perfect, it's a bit off but seeing as I just started it as more of a Wacom sketch I eyeballed and then tightened it up I'm happy with how it turned out for the most part. As I said in the post I planned to just do a speed paint, just decided to pimp it a bit more. I can fix the wing though, might go in there and move it so thanks for the catch
For the most part the image is similar to the photo of the F-15. The BG was just a blue sky with some sparse clouds and actually I liked that as the plane is the focus, not the BG. In the photo, as with many photos you see of aircraft at high altitude, you don't and won't get any sense of speed, just an eerie sense of it hanging it the air, even if it's going over 400 mph. That said maybe I'll go in and add a vapor trail off the afterburners and some vapor trails in there to indicate movement, it is a painting after all and that wouldn't hurt
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cheers for an awesome job man!!!
wow
first off, OMG its a macross! xD
second, wow. the lighting and subtle texturing of the colors creates one spectacular pic! its pieces like this that completely inspire
and third, wow! nice attention to detail! the cockpit, the little panel lines. sweet stuff!
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Thank you man, very much, for the good words and the fav
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