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So check out how Mazinger moves in the new upcoming Mazinger movie
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It looks fucking great
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But here's my attempt to explain WHY
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Mecha have basically two ways of moving, I think, depending on the series
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Either they're huge and clunky and mechanical because the designers wanted to focus on how they're big and heavy
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Or they just move like people
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Because the designers wanted to focus on the action and characters more than the mechanisms
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This
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somehow does both
Quinneapolis
they move with humanlike agility but they still feel heavy
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Like you look at that thing and it feels like it weighs a million tons and is a hundred feet tall
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But it's still doing flips and shit
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『劇場版 マジンガーZ ／ INFINITY』予告編1
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It just creates this amazing sense of "holy shit these robots are POWERFUL"
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they really pull off weight well
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thats always been the critical flaw for cgi mecha, its been too floaty
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yeah cgi mecha has had a history of not being able to like
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do 'weightiness' well
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but the deliberate timing really works
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which is why most cgi mecha fight scenes feel garbo
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YEAH THE DELIBERATE TIMING AND LIKE
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Some series have done it well
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APPARENTLY THEY'RE STRAIGHT UP DOING LIKE
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Macross Frontier worked great with CGI
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CGI KEYFRAMES?
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It was floaty as hell but also like
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In space?
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So that was fine
moontouched
oh yeah when the robots are meant to be floaty it works fine
Quinneapolis
yeah Frontier took the strengths and weaknesses of the CG that existed at the time and did something that worked well stylistically within those boudns
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but cgi struggled with big heavy mecha battles until now
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but that style would not at all have worked here
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but boy howdy
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they found something else
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Like that bit in the middle of that clip
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with Mazinger fucking flipping over a laser beam
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damn
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Also I hope they do a lot of those POV scenes from Kouji in the cockpit
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Since there's not like monitors and shit he's looking through, it's just a clear canopy
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Really puts you in the thick of the action
oh i'm scary
It looks so sick.
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side note, I love the sheer insane ham of Dr. Hell hacking into the comms and then saying
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IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME, MANKIND
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Is THAT what he says?
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Holy shit
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yeah
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I love how extra mazinger is
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I feel like this might actually get some attention in the US just due to being a movie and having insane visuals.
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it will, once they have a live action announcement for it
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Only you can pilot Mazinger, Kyle Turner
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The fight choreography in Majestic Prince was pretty excellent, though the feeling of weight did suffer a little.