Open an image of your favorite mech and black out all the positive

>>13466102
Hambrabi looks fucking retarded.

>>13466102
A good design can be identified by its silhouette alone, with no need to rely on colors or detailing to look good.

>>13466374

I find that's not such an absolute as the internet has lead the world to believe

I mean you go throw a lot of shit onto something the the silhouette will stand out just as much

>>13466383
It's a cheap way of achieving that reault, but I wasn't implying it's the only way.

It's just that a silhouette is like the most important aspect of design. If you can't identify it by the silhouette, then you run into problems.

Though, some designs might not be immediately differentiable off a raw silhouette. Military weaponry tends to get a whole lot of IT ARR ROOK SAME from those not invested in knowing the differences, one person might be able to tell a difference instantly where another is left confused...

But still, a distinct profile is a key design thing. The shape of a mech is quite important in, I guess you could call it the "character" of the machine?

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>>13466374
not mecha but explain this shit then

>>13466102
Should be fun to do with muv luv stuff

>>13466374
Cal Art, go fuck yourself .
Silhouette design leads to toony garbage.

>>13466411
>ARR ROOK SAME
Every crap post Katoki that isn't the antagonist,

>>13466437
The opposite side of the coin, and I'll concede that color is part of identity too.

That said your example assumes the viewer knows enough about the subject matter to make the connection using size and color as reference.

I'm sure there's been entire books written on this stuff by art majors.

>>13466337
fuck you

>>13466470
Go violate yourself with your fish insecticon

>>13466440
Definitely.

Hard mode would have to omit weapons, they'd be the biggest giveaway for outing certain models as being their export version.

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>>13466102

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>>13466102

>>13466586
Easy, that's the Dark Gundam.

>>13466534
Kalamari
>>13466511
Gay On
>>13466478
B Gundam

>>13466517
/m/ is same-face fujo garbage.
/co/ is that away ---->

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Yeah, it's pretty damn recognizable.

>>13466751
Sahelanthropus!

>>13466478
its haro

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>>13466860
You got it

>>13466478
PIKACHU! IT'S FUCKING PIKACHU!

>>13466457
As long as you don't go full-retard with silhouette bullshit, it's a good rule of thumb. When you focus 100% on silhouette, you do end up with blobby, shapeless nightmares like Adventure Time and Wander Over Yonder, and I even like those shows.

>>13466478
Top of Jigglypuff.

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>>13466984
>When you focus 100% on silhouette, you do end up with blobby, shapeless nightmares
That's just plain wrong. Silhouettes are all about the interplay of different shapes. Wander Over Yonder and Adventure Time are apples and oranges anyway. The former has very strong silhouettes while the latter relies entirely on colors to differentiate its spoondoodles.

>>13466478
haro
>>13466511
>>13466534
idk but knowign you its reco shit
>>13466586
the dark gundam
>>13466751
jehuty

>>13467961
gerbera tetra?

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>>13467974
yes.

>>13468001
Aestivalis

>>13468054
Testament?

>>13466440
It shouldn't be too hard.

I think Gun Parade March and Gasaraki or Votoms and Layzner would be harder.

>>13468651
Shokew
>>13468578
c'mon...

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hhhehehehe

>>13466478
iserlohn?

>>13468666
f90

>>13466478
tangram

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Sorry, but I have to do it in this kind of thread

>>13468578
Small D

>>13468745
Raftclanz

>>13468710
IT'S PIKACHU

>>13468781
Dangaioh?

>>13468781
CROSS
FIGHT

>>13468710
It's clearly a ditto.

>>13468781
gurren lagann

>>13468789
JUST CROSS YOUR DREAM

>>13468797
ATSUKU ATSUKU ATSUKU TATAKAAEEE

>>13468785
Yep

>>13467961
First thing that popped into my head was that metal warriors snes game

>>13468690
Nope!
>>13468666 is RXF-91 Silouhette Formula Gundam

>>13468991
Berserga

>>13468991
Barzam

>>13468998
You're in the right ballpark.

>>13468999
Way off.

>>13468991
Something from Code Geass?

>>13469255
Throne Zwei

>>13469255

Throne Zwei

>>13469113

Nope! Similar in size though

>>13469268

Either Build Fighters or Full Metal Panic

>>13469271
Very close.
But what mecha exactly?

>>13469268
ARX-8 Laevatein?

>>13469268
Laevatien

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I think it is pretty easy to tell with the shoulders, feet and pose.

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>>13469273
>>13469274
「Roger」

>>13466457
>Cal Art, go fuck yourself .
>Silhouette design leads to toony garbage.

Japanese designers have long held this view. It's not just CalArts b/s.

>When it comes to the mecha in anime, you need the silhouette to stand out otherwise it will leave no lasting impression. It was important to realise that by simply looking at the silhouette the viewer would know that it was a “mobile suit”.

Kunio Okawara. https://vanishingtrooper.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/interview-with-kunio-okawara-from-the-sankei-newspaper/

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Hint: this is a trick question.

>>13469276

Compatible Kaiser

>>13469280
Bubblegum Crisis?
One of the super Power Armours Priss uses I think.

>>13468991

Nobody's gotten this one yet...

>>13469283

Good guess, but you didn't take the hint into account.

>>13469280
Geara Zulu Angelo custom?

>>13469280
>>13469283
>>13469292

Nobody's ever gonna get this one. If anyone does, I'll eat my hat.

>>13469297
Give us a better hint please

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Add a single glowing eye and it would Obari standard pose #1.

>>13468065
yup!

>>13469327

UCHUU SPACE

NUMBER ONE

>>13469357
How could you even get this wrong?
Look at its feet.
Look at its head.

>>13469327
Daizyujin

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>>13469327
>>13469388
Faith in humanity restored.

>>13469463
Best Nep.

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>>13469463
That one from Neptunia

>>13469463
It's Romhack Eldoran!

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>>13468991

>>13469508
Mastama, Xenoblade X coming soon *cough*plug*cough*

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>>13469572
Correct.

>>13469674
Cloudizer

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>>13469686
Yup.

>>13466478
FUCK OFF JUPITER

>>13469832
verdant

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>>13469878
Yep.

>>13469280
MD Geist from MD Geist II

>>13469986
GM III?

>>13469538

Well done!!!

>>13470088

Correct.

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>>13469280
>>13469283
>>13469287
>>13469297
>>13469309

Rob Liefeld is a genius.

>>13470167

where the fuck is she hanging from? is her back suction cupped to the machine?

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>>13470167
Well done!

>>13470176

Difficult! Something from Armored Core?

>>13470167

Motherfucker... dude clearly didn't even understand what he was copying. Her left leg is overlapping the Motoslave's left leg!

>>13470189

Fuck. I got nothin'. Hint prease?

>>13470228
Waste of paper.

>>13470176
Either a wanzer or something from ACV.

>>13470218
>>13470233
Something from Armored Core.

>>13466586
KYOOOOOOJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

>>13469400
That's the Megazord though

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>>13470362

DaiZyuJin IS the MMPR MegaZORD

>Zoomorphic
>Overdrive
>Recombining
>Defender

>>13470229

Not some papercraft model, is it?

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>>13470422
Pretty sure that was resued somewhere.

>>13470176
GAN Sunshine.
Stock starter model, AC4.

>>13470502
No, but very close.

>>13470509
Oh how could I make such a mistake.

Merrygate

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>>13470519
Yup.

>>13470526
Sunshines arr rook same.

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>>13470502
>>13470509
>>13470519
>>13470526

>>13466465
>I'm sure there's been entire books written on this stuff by art majors.
There are.


I had to read a lot of them.

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>>13466374
>A good design can be identified by its silhouette alone
bad designs too.

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>>13471281
We can still see the shading.

>>13468578
Isn't its distinct shape the whole point of the opener?

>>13466437
That doesn't look good though. That doesn't mean it isn't artistic, but that is different from "looking good".

>>13471294
>pants on head gendum
>bad design

Pants on head retarded, more like pants on head amazing.

>>13471327
Liber Legis

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>>13470189

Never would have gotten this one. I had to cheat to figure it out. Riptide, a new TF from IDW's Transformers comics.

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>>13471400
Correct.

>>13466337
agreed

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this one is fucking easy.

>>13472720
Optimus Prime.

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>>13466102

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>>13472854
number 2

>>13472854
Gundam EpiPen

>>13472854
Master Gundam, probably the one from Build Fighters
>>13472861
Tryon 3

>>13472861
>leaving the hexagon and number
Come on, anon.

It's obviously R2-D2.

>>13472875
like i give a fuck. it doesnt need to be difficult.
>>13472867
just normal master gundam.

>>13471294
This almost looks like mecha Teto, with the legs being her hair drills. Very uncanny indeed.

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>>13472861
ok how about this one /m/

>>13472919

Star GGG with Goldion Hammer?

>>13472919
Gurren Lagann?

>>13472919
Arc Ginga Super Togga Gurren Lagann?

>>13472919
D-style star GGG with goldion hammer

>>13472854
The right-shoulder binder looks like a cowboy hat

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>>13472921
>>13472935
yeah this is actually pretty easy.

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>>13472783
FUCK HOW DID YOU KNOW?

>>13473147
A Great Pyramid of Giza?

>>13473147
This thing was surprisingly terrifying. I really wish we got to see more of the crazy lost UC doomsday weapons.

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>>13473199

>>13473652
i will forever forget the name of this SRWZ2 OG. was it brasta or something

fuck none of these OG names make sense

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>>13473252
spacenoids drop all the outdated imac onto earth

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>>13466102
Yes, it is.

>>13473657
The Z protagonists all use mechs named for their signs. It's not hard. Virgola, Gunleon, Librasta, Geminion.

>>13472507

Can't place it exactly, but that's simply got to be monster-of-the-week from some Toku. Probably Go-Busters.

>>13472720
Qubeley
>>13472854
Master Gundam
>>13472861
Gundam Tryon 3
>>13472919
Super-deformy Star GaoGaiGar with Goldion Hammer
>>13473147
Ramiel?
>>13473531
Mortar Headd Engage Octaver Mk2
>>13473652
Brasta
>>13473683
Now this one is difficult... is it from SRW?
>>13477920
Ugh. I know it, it's all clockworky, from a video game, really cool and unique... it'll come to me...

>>13478122
>>>13477920
>Ugh. I know it, it's all clockworky, from a video game, really cool and unique... it'll come to me...
OK, I finally remembered! Jade Face from Xenoblade.

>>13473683
>Satisfactory Performance
>>13478122
Now this one is difficult... is it from SRW?

Genion.

>>13473147
it's the nord tree senpai

>>13471281
Paper machie

>>13478122
>Ramiel?
It's Yggdrasil from G-Reco, IIRC. It was a stupid mobile armor that died in the span of an episode because Tomino needed to get rid of some of the most useless characters.

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>>13478312

You're right. Goddamn.

>>13472507
Quester robo canon

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>>13473683
Genion

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>>13478360
Yeah. Love that show.

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>>13478152
Recognizable as fuck. Also best robot in that game.

>>13478573
>Quester Robo Cannon

>>13478085
>simply got to be monster-of-the-week from some Toku

Well, definitely in the right area.

>>13478573
Does it actually transform into a tank, or are those just thematic bits?

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I choose Meroplex :)

>>13481678
Nice job reading the thread.