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More with the dog fight comic.Here I wanted to portray a jet threading its way through one of those ludicrously intense swarms of impossibly maneuverable, random trajectory missiles you see in every anime ever filmed!
Seriously, I think I saw one in Peach Girl the other day.
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Itano circus outmanuevered!Β Β That's how sort the aces from the fodder, men! Mad levels of detail here.Β
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*Googles "Itano circus"*
Wow! Now I finally have a name for this phenomenon. Thank you sir.
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Gotta make sure all the fans are up to date. 
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Itano?
That is a person?Β (Pardon my ignorance. You could say "Itano" is a non dairy desert topping, and I'd believe you at this point.)
Tell me more anything about this individual. 
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Ichiro Itano is one of the mighty men of mecha anime, without whom we would still be watching giant robots waddle across the screen. As a kid, he emulated an action hero from a TV hero by volley-firing bottle rockets from impromptu launchers taped to his bicycle. Later, as a young anime animation worker, he achieved the status of key animator. As a late addition to Mobile Suit Gundam, he helped the visionary but expensive SF series with its budget issues, and did some great animation work for it.
Sadly anime work is an on & off thing for people who are not stars, and Gundam took a while to become the Big Thing it is now. So by 1982 Itano was driving a delivery truck as a day job. Some other guys who had worked on Gundam were at Studio Nue, and they wanted him to be the animation director for this show they were working on. That show was SDF Macross, and Itano was able to quit his delivery job.Β
Here is his work record, which features some mighty shows indeed!Β
myanimelist.net/people/8268/Icβ¦
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Thank you for the link, and the lesson.
I appreciate learning about the people behind the works that I love.
Every time greatness is touched upon in any human endeavor, it is because of the participation of certain individuals who possess the right vision, the right grasp of their surrounding circumstances, or the right cocktail of unique talent to take their profession to the next plateau of excellence.
Every landmark achievement, whether it be a dynastic sports team, a successful car line, or an influential animated cartoon, have at their core these special people, and their story only enriches one's appreciation of their masterwork.
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With well placed flares, chaff, and a good sense of the stick, this could happen.
Most of the time though you'd better hope whoever chose the ejection seat for your aircraft didn't go for the lowest bid...
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Good luck with that. It IS a Russian built plane.Β
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Looking at the liveries, I wager there was some "post market" upgrades to correct that unfortunate pedigree. After all, whoever is piloting that plane hasn't been touched...
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Actually, I just remembered, little Miss VonΒ RichthofenΒ herself, was responsible for equipment procurement for Night Flight. It's very likely, she'd carry the best ejection seat.
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Not that she'd ever need it... but it's nice to have on hand.
Actually I think it would actually be fitting for her to actually hold her own, making everyone else go full winchester, but she ends up having to bail because of the one thing everyone has to worry about... fuel.
Of course when she lands in the drink she has a cute duckie float.
Not so sure how she made a milspec life preserver look like that... but cute tends to follow her everywhere.
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Well I did give her bunny patterned upholstery on the head rest of her pilot's seat. I'm sure she could manage a rubber ducky life preserver.
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Hehe, well that or a life vest that looks more like a pool toy style one... but is as rugged as a typical LPU.
With cute bunny things on it... because why not.
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Why yes, yes it is.
This is a panel from a Gold Digger annual submission that my lazy ass never finished.
It was to feature Skippy Von Richtoven showing off her preternatural flying skills.
They idea was that she would be flying the only non-stealth jet in a training exercise against other Night Flight regulars.
I figured that, with Skippy's unique heritage, the tri-winged Terminator would be the only appropriate ride for her--painted bright red of course.
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Wait... wait... Skippy Von Richtoven? The unholy merger of Poe "Muthafuckin" Dameron and Mobius 1? THE greatest pilot to touch a stick in the Gold Digger universe? (Death Boid ain't nothing, and Ace... he might be an equal, the only reason why the Skippster is so obsessed.)
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The one and only.
This was a panel from a fan comic that I never got around to finishing. I mainly drew it, because, with its small canard, forward of its main wing, the Su-37 TerminatorΒ has been referred to as a triple wing aircraft. It seemed so obvious that the successor to theΒ Von Richtoven family name should Β pilot the spiritual successor to the old Fokker Dr-1.
In the fan strip, the balance of Night Flight, flying Y--23's, (Think Raptors, only not ugly.)Β spar against Skippy, writing her off, due to their stealth advantage. She pastes them all of course, her skill overcoming the advantages of numbers and technology enjoyed by her opponents.
On the matter of Skippy, I recall reading an issue in which PennyΒ converses with what is apparently Skippy's ghost. I desperately hope she wasn't killed off. I loved that character.
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Penny is obsessed with being between Skippy and Penny. I highly doubt Skippy's dead... that's Penny fantasizing.
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That's certainly a relief to here.Β
BTW, your comments regarding this old picture have inspired me to fish out some of the other Skippy related artwork I had lying about.
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Enjoy.
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I see
Why not chose the Su-47 Berkut? I've seen that in the Ace Combat series of PS games
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Interesting.
While not a stealth fighter per se, it does have a reduced radar cross section. Plus, its reverse swept wing would give it extreme maneuverability, and there's also it's resemblance to the X-29 piloted by her beloved rival Kevin Koss.
Excellent suggestion. However, the Su-37 just looks cooler and more menacing to my taste, and its more pronounced moveable horizontal tails gives it a much more prominent three-wing look, appropriate for the descendent of the Red Baron.
But your idea has much merit.
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Thnaks
Also if I'm right what the US introduced on the F-22 Raptor the Soviets/Russians too adopted and improved for the Sukhois by not just letting move the exhaust of the engines horizontally but in every direction as well giving even extra manoeuvrability. Don't remember if this introduced in the Su-47 as well. And of course there is the new generation of Mig fighters as well the Mig-144 (or Mig 1.44?? )
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Let's just say that the majority of the enemy fighters forgot that they are supposed to lock on then shoot.
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Brilliant!
This one needs those vapors trailing the wing tips as the pilot spins to avoid collision.
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Haw.
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This thing is awesome (and what you said about anime missiles is absolutely true).
Don't forget the cliche teenage boy (or girl?) who instantly transforms into a brilliantly lethal ace pilot the moment he/she so much as touches a fighter jet/giant robot.
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Yea I know.
It would be fun once to do a comic in which some anime kid with a Zac Effron haircut stumbles upon a war machine "Unlike any he's ever seen before..." during the requisite alien invasion, and when he takes it out for a spin BΓME! is immediately blown into so many free-floating ionized particles.
Actually, maybe he's not disintegrated, let's leave a barely recognizable corpse in the twisted remains of the mech, so some grizzled veteran can survey the aftermath and say.
"Stupid kid? What he think he was going to do--beat battle hardened veteran without an ounce of training? What he should have done was run!"
Then out of nowhere Horatio Cain will show up, don his cool shades and say,
"Yea, every one knows how to do that.
But I digress.
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Anime Missiles are nothing but manueverable rockets. They rarely hit and usually it's only in Visual Range
It's for the choregraphy i guess~
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Yea, cartoon or movie battle has very little to do with the real thing.
For instance, the chief advantage of the aircraft carrier is the ability to strike targets well beyond visual range. In fact, many of the legendary carrier battles of WWII took place without the opposing carriers ever coming within sight of each other. However, in a fictional show, like Battlestar Galactica, battlestars and basestars slug it out within artillery range of one another as each vehicle's fighter compliment mix it up while trying to dodge flack and fratricidal ordinance.
Ridiculous, but it looks awesome.
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Yay finally was able to find your page. This is great work as usual. I didn't see the perspective issue that was stated in someones earlier comment. I guess my sight isn't that keen. Even now I just figured that the nose cone tilted down like the concord. Still great stuff.
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Missile spams are so much crazier if they use traditional missile designs (not micro-missiles) and if it were cel animated in an anime, most especially one in the 80's-90's. XDDDDDDDDD
Man, and I thought all those missile smoke trails in Ace Combat 6 were crazy go nuts...
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Hey the Missile spam is just awesome
Except in online servers. Everytime I'm flying my precious MiG-35 some noob starts flying some big missile carrier aircraft and starts spamming the skies with them. But the adredile rush is just the win
This picture is pretty awsome. Love the details on the Su-33/Su-35.
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"Missile Spam?" There's that phrase again.
Ah, I see.
I didn't realize there was a term for those crazy missile fusillades in anime. Considering they were old hat as far back as 1986, I really should have been surprised if there wasn't one by now.
That's going to save me a lot of typing in the future. However, I really do like the word "fusillade"
Thanks for the compliments on the jet. It's still got some tweaking before I hit it all with the inks, but I'm glad the reactions been positive so far.
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Well, I've come across another term (on the tvtropes wiki), although it's rather unwieldy. There's also an (incomplete) list of shows that do it, so I figure you may appreciate that. If not, I'm sorry for butting in.
[link]
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Hmmm, a Missile Spam Glossary. Thanks, This is SO coming in handy in the future.
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Oh, trust me, there's so much more on that website than just that: I have lost many hours in a wiki-induced haze, wandering from link to link. Be careful!
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You got me at least.
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Alas; it's a wonderful site, but even they admit that it will ruin your life!
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That's a good thing to happen to an artist
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That is a BUTTLOAD of missiles! Is that one plane firing all of them, and if not, how has it not been blown to smithereens? I'm not by any means an airplane buff, but the plane is fantastically well done.
...Actually, this sorta reminds me of this thing the U.S. military developed with a big, computerized frame that spins off seven guided bombs which in turn spin off several more bombs which themselves burst into clusters of bomblets. By the time it gets to the ground there's enough explosives to take out a tank division. Of course, each explosion is to the tune of 3 million dollars (or was it 30 mil?), but that hasn't stopped them from using it.
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Nope
I think I've seen those cluster bomby killamajigs you mentioned. It's awesome seeing them all fan out. It'll be interesting to see how they get protrayed in anime.
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sorry, but which anime had the hidden beer can? i heard about it on the news in my youth, but they never mentioned the title.
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It's during one of the space battles in Project A-KO.
Heh, that anime was made in 1986, and the missile thing was played out and spoof-worthy back then!
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Whoa. Even in pencil lines, my first thought is more that someone's in for it for shooting that many missiles without a hit than that it's a nice drawing. By which I mean, great realism and sense of motion.
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Awesome!!!
But maybe in order to improve on that "threading its way through effect" you might wanna put the plan on a more of an angle, add sum flashy speed lines, and have the wings or body bend a bit.
Like it looks really good, i can see you are really clinical with drawing. It just seems like the pilot is reading the newspaper while misconfigured rockets fly around him.
Nice work overall!
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That's funny, 'cause I drew the speed lines on a separate piece of paper to photoshop in later.
I was beginning to lose track of things with all the missiles. (So much so, I forgot to throw in the hidden beer can.
While there are some details I need to fix on the plane, I'm going to opt out of "squash n' stretching" it in this picture. I may add motion blur to a few elements, like the foreground missiles, but that can wait until I ink and color everything. We'll see.
Considering how bad ass the pilot's supposed to be here, I'm reserving the option to actually have her reading a newspaper during all this.
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Very very impressive work ^^
I like the little addition you've made to the F-15's airframe
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