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Totally freakin sweet. Is that myan island?

OK, That is cool. Also all the custom decals are killer.

In terms of un announced items the ones I want most are: 1/60 PT VF-4 1/60 PT VF-0D 1/60 PT Super/strike Minmei guard Paris act

Yeah, Money is a huge issue for me, as is space. But the two I am holding out for are the Elintseeker and the Ostrich. Two of my favorites. Unfortunately it looks like I will not have enough $$$ upon release unless I sell a whole bunch of stuff.

Panties and Mech, Panties and Mech, Panties and Mech!!! Great displays Ruskii.

If we got Shoji Kawamori to come I think people would fly in from all over the place. That would probably be the ULTIMATE appearance ever!

Maybe YAMATO was too busy working on their SDF-1.

Sweet! Thank you. I will PM you now...

Sorry if there is already a thread about this but OMFG this is a crazy show. It is called vermilion pleasure night and it is available for "watch it instantly" on netflix. Macrossworld member (and good friend) Buckettron Megahead (Garret) showed it to me last night and JUST WOW!!! Somewhere between RoboGeisha Saturday night Live and Southpark. CHECK IT OUT!!!

Hi there macrossworld, So I was unpacking my stuff and realized that I must have left the gunpod to my 1/55 valk at the convention. If anyone finds it could you send me a PM? It is a reissue 1/55 gunpod by bandai and I put extra stickers on it. Thanks.

Welcome to the forum. It was really cool that you two showed up and in cosplay too. I hope to see you next year. And yeah, Bee, please dont retire. You did an excellent job.

I love the cannon fodder colors and was wondering when someone would do a vf-25 CF scheme. Great work.

Funny. So earlier today after this thread had gotten started I noticed that my rating went up to 4 stars. Then I gave >EXO< and prometheum a 5 star. Now I am back to 3. Now I am just looking at this as a game. But still I dont know what it is supposed to mean and how people look at it. I know that we have the SSL but do you think that if someone who wants to do a transaction with us will be swayed by a low star rating? hmmmm......

Thanks Kirik. I know I forgot some stuff for sure and I also had to go to the bathroom at one point so I missed a bit of it. I am finding it interesting that he mentioned during his talk about the live action robotech that he thought that the F-22 would be decommissioned soon and then in the news today we hear that is true. He must be deeper into this than we know. Maybe Harmony gold is owned by the defense department. j/k....

Trying to remember what happened next... He showed us another graphic with all the characters together in the cockpit of the beta that I think he said was part of the box graphics for the toynami beta toy. (correct me if I am wrong). He showed how he put shadow effects on the characters behind the forground ones and how he used a mirror effect on a background where symmetry was involved instead of drawing both sides. I am sure that I am leaving stuff out from the photoshop presentation so if anyone else remembers who was there they can contribute to this thread..... As for the talk he did about the Live action Robotech movie that is posted on some robotech forum the link is somewhere around here right?

He showed made the other two characters visible and applied a mask the the group of 3 characters to make a feathered shadow of black to transparent going from the bottom up so that they faded into darkness downwards. He said that this is better than feathering the selection of characters and deleting because if you change your mind later you still have the original. He showed us how originally the girl was in the back behind the two male figures and once they submitted it, it came back to put the girl in front because pictures of hot girls sell good. He also commented about how this was his charlies angels version with the flames behind. Then he showed us the alpha fighter and how he did dodge and burn effects on it to create more depth to the colored line art. Also he did not put the highlights at full opacity, a bit of an homage to the way that in the original series there would be some line art behind lighting effects. . . .

Trying to remember what came next. .. He showed us the whole face all colored in and applied a blur to a copy of the group at a 30% opacity above the original to give a bit of a photographic film look to soften the clean clear sharpness of the animation. He also showed us about using lighting effects by putting a white highlight on a black background using screen mode on the layer which allows you to utilize the hues and get a "lightsaber" type of colored glow. Something that can not be done on white alone. . . . what was next?.....

I am going to try to remember some stuff off the top of my head. However it is possible that someone videoed. I dont remember >EXO< holding his camera at that point though. He started with a Photoshop presentation projected on to a screen showing us a graphic for the special edition release of the shadow chronicles. The document had many many layers and groups. The first thing was the scanned sketch. He said that scanning in as Grayscale is best at 300 or 600 DPI. He also mentioned later that for the photoshop document to use RGB mode for good layer effects and to flatten the image before converting to CMYK because the layer effects look different in CMYK mode. He went to Levels to make the whites more white and the blacks more black. Selected the white background and then select inverse making the actual sketch the selection. Then I think he copied that selection on to a new layer. Then using the lasso tool slected the area of the face that should be flesh toned with a manual selection. Exo pointed out that the magnetic lasso would be a good option. Yune said that it would be but with areas where there are gaps in the line drawing the manual lasso works better. Then filled the selection with flesh tone on a sperate layer. Then he selected the area of the face where shadows would appear and put a deeper flesh tone color there. He mentioned that for older girls characters the cheek bone lays higher and in younger it lays lower. cont soon....

I would have posted the pics of Gubaba and Mitch at jungle anime but I have to respect the wishes of the managers of that establishment as they started shouting, "no photos!" while I was shooting. Because I am hard of hearing it took me a few shots to realize what was going on. But that place has tons of great stuff.

More pics yet... The guy with the shades is my good friend Adam who gave me my first viewing and copy of DYRL? in 1998(9?) (Thanks Adam!)... more pics.... NMB4M Orguss Valk in Gerwalk.... Gubaba and Mitch in Little Tokyo downtown after the con... Mmmmmm.... Teriyaki fries.....