[MAZINKAISER SKL] bitchfest
Posted by Sanjeev
Stumbled on this today. Already been posted?
Here's a comparison shot of Super Robot Hobokin SKL next to Great and Z.
It just looks like Mazinkaiser with Devilman's head on its tits. Ho-hum.
What bugs me is that SKL doesn't even look like it comes from the same design continuity as the other two. Z had a half-a-dozen acute angles at most added to it in creating Great. SKL has that many added to just one forearm. Feels like someone wrapped a super robot in a bad heavy metal poster...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/17/2010 12:19PM by Gcrush.
It just looks like Mazinkaiser with Devilman's head on its tits. Ho-hum.
What bugs me is that SKL doesn't even look like it comes from the same design continuity as the other two. Z had a half-a-dozen acute angles at most added to it in creating Great. SKL has that many added to just one forearm. Feels like someone wrapped a super robot in a bad heavy metal poster...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/17/2010 12:19PM by Gcrush.
Y'know, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, my mom let me wander into this metal record store adjacent to some discount clothing place she wanted to hit up. I knew nothing of this "metal", but my eyes were having a feast everywhere I looked. I started looking through one of those big "books" of posters...and I eventually found the cover art for Iron Maiden's "Somewhere in Time" LP:
Blew my motherfucking mind apart. The impression it made on me has lasted my whole life. Just the techno-organic detail of Eddie's design, his guns, the night-time/urban alleyway setting...all burned into me. It would be years before I learned what that artwork was all about (hell, I'm not even sure if I've ever heard an Iron Maiden song! :P ). But either way, the damage had been done!
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All that said...I find absolutely nothing interesting, original, or compelling about this Mazinkraut SBD design. It's like what a thoughtless fanboy with very little design experience took everything he thought was "kewl" and "metal" and threw it together onto a vague Mazinger framework. I can't possibly imagine this having the same longevity as the original...or the longevity of an actual classic metal album cover.
Blew my motherfucking mind apart. The impression it made on me has lasted my whole life. Just the techno-organic detail of Eddie's design, his guns, the night-time/urban alleyway setting...all burned into me. It would be years before I learned what that artwork was all about (hell, I'm not even sure if I've ever heard an Iron Maiden song! :P ). But either way, the damage had been done!
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All that said...I find absolutely nothing interesting, original, or compelling about this Mazinkraut SBD design. It's like what a thoughtless fanboy with very little design experience took everything he thought was "kewl" and "metal" and threw it together onto a vague Mazinger framework. I can't possibly imagine this having the same longevity as the original...or the longevity of an actual classic metal album cover.
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