No.9092
What exactly separates good or especially interesting mecha designs from the bad?
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No.9093
>>9092
Well having a fucking windmill as a torso is one thing.
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No.9107
Were you that guy on /v/?
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No.9121
>>9093
In favor of good design?
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No.9122
>>9121
Clearly, Nether Gundam is top-tier in terms of design. Best of the best.
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No.9139
I feel like a good balance between detail, complexity, and readability is one of the most important things.
Some suits just go so nuts and get so overcomplicated you can't tell what the hell you're looking at.
Zakus being a good example, a Zaku II has lots of little details, but is simple and memorable. The Hizack gets a bit cluttered, but is still interesting and memorable. The Zaku III Custom is just a mess.
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No.9178
>>9139
Have to agree with you, being detailed,but simple is where mecha can really shine. There's only so many armor plates and shit you can add to an MS before it looks like an engineer just puked something on the blueprint and called it good.
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No.9180
>>9139
The entirety of ZZ's mecha design was fucking garbage
Even the warships suffered
The only good thing to come out of it was the ZZ and the GM III
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No.9181
>>9180
Yeah, there was a serious lack of good suit designs in ZZ. It had Zeta's problem (constant introduction of half-baked new suits that appeared only briefly) jacked up to 11 and then combined with horrible color schemes that made the readability problem even worse.
There were just a few good suits (pics related) amongst of sea of "what the hell were they thinking" suits.
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No.9183
A good rule of thumb with good mecha design, or any design, really… is an instantly-recognizable silhouette. If you squint and can still tell what it is, then the designer did his job right. Granted this is using a very specific definition of "good".
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No.9196
Personally, I adore something that seems fantastical in nature (which is already achieved a bit through sheer virtue of being giant death-bots), but is also reeled in and looks practical. I think it's why I tend to favor Gundam and monoeyes in particular. They have a practical, militaristic aesthetic while still indulging my desire for crazy, giant robots.
>>9181
The Zssa and Kapule speak to me on so many levels. I really wish we'd get a HGUC Kapule.
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No.9206
>>9181
>Zssa
>not within the sea of "what the hell were they thinking"
Why the fuck would you line your mobile suit's armor with fucking explosive warheads?
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No.9208
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No.9266
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No.9269
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No.9283
>>9269
Did English dub Quattro have a spanish accent? Or was it just the impression I got?
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No.9285
>>9266
Personal taste does account for a lot of people's favourite designs, but there is a point where the design is just objectively not very good or outright stupid, like the Gundam in OP's pic.
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No.9286
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No.9301
>>9283
No. Isn't the Deikun family from central Asia?
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No.9306
>>9301
They're from space, I'm not sure where they're from originally on Earth, but I'm pretty sure it was so long before Char was born that it doesn't matter.
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No.9313
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No.9320
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No.9321
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No.9322
>>9320
That's his soul being unchained from the pull of gravity.
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No.9323
>>9320
>I came here to elevate to a higher plane of existence at you
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No.11064
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No.11156
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No.11207
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No.14597
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