XenoTech Lifeform: Rear Guard (featuring Zoids)

[destrongerlupus]

Greetings all! Long-time Zoids lover (Really long time if you count all the way back to my 80's childshood of loving Starriors and oogling SOME huge thing which I can only assume in retrospect was a Robostrux model), but thus far I've not had much to contribute to the community. Just the odd garden-variety custom.

But I've come to join the forum, because I'm working on a fairly ambituous animation project that will be featuring Zoids fairly prominently. "In Fiction" these robot animals aren't Zoids per-se, but the physical models certainly are.

Anyway, I hope you all will find the project fun!

The first episode is well into production, but not yet finsihed, so for now I'm going to simply share a brief animation-asset, which will hopefully give you all a sense of the style I'm working on:



hrrrmmm, my "youtube" tag doesn't seem to be working, so I'll just drop the link.
youtu.be/4ODnu5mjh6o

Does the Youtube tag require the embed code, or am I just doing it wrong?

And if I can manage to make the attachement work, I'll also add the early design sketches for one of our main characters, who is built of Zoids.

More to come!
D/L

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[Maethius]

Embed depends on the version of Proboards and if there are features turned off (on my boards you can't post videos because... well, there was a rash of fairly disturbing content being posted!)

Great animation quality. I've always wanted to get into the real deal, myself.

[destrongerlupus]

That's understandable! I'll just stick to the links then

And thank you so much for the kind words, I've been working on the style and developing my skills as an animator seriously for about 2 years now, and I feel like this is what all my years of robot (animal and otherwise) collecting has been leading up to.

Hopefully the community here will enjoy the final product once it's released!

D/L

[destrongerlupus]

New Zoids-featuring test animation posted:

youtu.be/pFzx0HBOTWA

Shell Karn as "The Turtle Dude"

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[Maethius]

Makes him look like a battery operated kit.

(this does, however, demonstrate his limited use as a combat platform! )