{"id":22947,"date":"2023-03-31T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=22947"},"modified":"2023-03-30T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:00:02","slug":"industrious-illustrating-35-mecha-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/03\/31\/industrious-illustrating-35-mecha-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrious Illustrating #35 &#8211; Mecha Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve posted mecha art and mecha designs here a few times before, I haven&#8217;t posted an actual mecha design sheet akin to what would be used on a project such as a video game to guide 3D modelers and other artists further down the production pipeline when replicating the designs that will appear in the final product. As such, I fleshed out and designed Toshiaki Mizushima&#8217;s Oyoroi mech &#8220;Bhairava&#8221; to demonstrate my mecha and character design skills in a portfolio-ready art piece.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-22948\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bhairava-turn-around-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"857\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bhairava-turn-around-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bhairava-turn-around-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bhairava-turn-around-1024x573.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I referenced several different mech design sheets (such as color guides for gunpla and design sheets for fanmade Gundams) to inform what visual information I needed to convey with this design sheet, I took heavy inspiration from the information conveyed by this mech design sheet made for Honkai Impact 3rd.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-22949\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/honkai-mech-sheet-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"857\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/honkai-mech-sheet-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/honkai-mech-sheet-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/honkai-mech-sheet.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also, if you&#8217;re on campus on Saturday, April 1st, you can come see me and buy prints from me at the What the F Art Fair in the Kuenzel Room of the Michigan Union from 12:30-4:30. Yes, it&#8217;s on the same day as Hash Bash, and no, it&#8217;s not an April Fool&#8217;s Day joke! You can also come find me tabling at Con Ja Nai in the Modern Languages Building on April 8th from noon to 6pm, so there&#8217;s plenty of opportunities to come find me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve posted mecha art and mecha designs here a few times before, I haven&#8217;t posted an actual mecha design sheet akin to what would be used on a project such as a video game to guide 3D modelers and other artists further down the production pipeline when replicating the designs that will appear in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2255,"featured_media":20547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1884,1969,550,2024,1856,1922,1949,1885],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22950,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22947\/revisions\/22950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}