Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 / ZAYAZ - Afterburner 

It does seem the whole OVA is about showing off cool mechanics with the "plot" being haphazardly thrown out there in order to fill time. Not to say it isn't worth it to see those cool mechanics. But that's _all_ there is to see really.

I'm not gonna complain.

I mean it was Shinji Aramaki. The guys got a huge history of mecha shows with more sakuga than sense.

Mid 80s Japan was so rich with their strong economy that passion projects were plenty. How we got things like Robot Carnival and the OAV boom. So incredibly possible that it was just for the mech animation.

If you pay it, You will get it. Engineers will be very glad to provide every detail of mecha, clearly the technology of 50 years ahead. Perhaps the AI CG drawing will run through long route back to the hand-painted itself.

Yep, even some of the technology is stuff people are experimenting with or making prototypes of for VR instead what they were designed for in the anime but that can be done for IRL later with less physical consequences.

Yeah... i need more of this... Sci fi need more grounded hard sci fi stuff like this. Why arn't they making those anymore?

Let’s just all remember that it isn’t the motivation or effort on the part of the design teams or animators that has gone down but the increased pressure from companies to make more in a much smaller timeline on a much smaller budget

To this day...... the, "Snow Base Raid Scene" from the original "Spriggan"..... I watch it once a year and continuously have to say out loud, "this was drawn by hand".

@@commanderoftheratlegion3181 Indeed, it's not the fault of the artists, it's the fault of corporations crunching the artists to death. Ironically, now living the dystopian cyberpunk nightmare that was animated back in the day.

I work around military aircraft: cassette futurism is very real. “All glass cockpits” are a thing as far as displaying information goes, and there might be some integrated touch screens but it’s not for anything critical. Well worn seats, scratched steel joysticks, triggers, safeties, Chunky, clicky, buttons, switches and knobs are still front and center.

08th MS is the most realistic that I’ve seen

@@crispy_338 thats why its my favorite

I dont have a BA or Masters in ME. I WISH I could design things remotely as well as this with my 3D modeling skills

@@dayaninikhaton You don’t need an engineering degree to design stuff like this. An industrial engineering degree would help but being a good artist and visionary is more important

@@dayaninikhaton You should pick up a reference book for animating mechanical parts! There are tons of reference books that show how things work and how to animate/draw it.

back then it was quality over quantity. now its the other way around, everywhere you look.... even worse is that wand something decent? pay premium price for mid tier shit at best.

so much

This is sad because with digital animation, it would be far easier to achieve a higher level of fidelity mechanics but we rarely see them

@@HOSAS_Gaming I'm not an expert on animation so could you explain why that is?

@@Samtastrophi Because digital is the tool the engineers use to design the machines

This was an anime back in the 80's, and according to a comment I came across years ago, it was technically feasible with the technology we had at the time... the attention to detail was unreal.

Thing about those days People want it to be as authentic as it can be.

I have a pet theory that the reason me has anime is so good is because Japan was pushing its education system to focus on mechanical engineering. A lot of manga art supplies are the same as those used in mechanical and architectural drafting back in the 70’s and 80’s.

​@@InternetGravedigger it would've probably had like 30 seconds of fuel time and I'm sure there weren't motors with enough torque that were small enough for it

None of this shit is remotely accurate in an engineering sense 😭

It all makes sense now, my mind goes back to the part in Eva where Ritsuko goes and unhacks the supercomputers and has to take it apart to climb inside first. Both are basically mech/tech hentai.

Insane bro. Damn I miss the stunning visual beauty of 80’s & 90’s anime. Throw in that synthwave music, and you got yourself a certified masterpiece

Since the move to digital production in animation, I feel like the floor for quality has been raised, but the ceiling for that quality has also gotten a lot lower. It's improved somewhat in the last 5 years or so, but we still haven't seen the kind of quality and fidelity we got from the best anime of the 80s and 90s.

Yeah, Even one of the Best animated animes of today "fate" doesnt habe Even half of the absurd amount of details that this animation has, and it whas made like 30 years ago ​@@bastage5932

Gotta thank the 80's bubble economy of Japan. Studios were thrown crazy money and purchasing power was a lot higher.

The last modern Cel animation I've seen is the Redline movie

The 80s and 90s had the best animation in history. Things went downhill from there because they started relying more and more on computers.

This was made in 2016

​@@KCJbomberFTW Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 aired in 1987 dude

​@@KCJbomberFTWsit down kid

they would straight out ignore us, too busy to notice...

❤😊

sadly when it comes to humans ...yes. However once AI reaches a certain level everybody can and will be able to use it to make their dream animes the way they always wanted to... We will see an explosion of true creative anime content

@@cmbaz1140I always keep hearing this same line from AI proponents, but at the rate it’s going I’m super skeptical of that claim. AI can’t even get finger poses right, so, I have my doubts it can do something as visually dynamic as this even in the long term.

@@guyfromboracayFinger posing is not longer a problem for AI….emmmm…a year ago……

@@ShawshankLam yeah, I’m unfortunately exposed to the latest AI generated images and the only thing that’s improved… well, nothing really. It’s still the same over-rendered, overly-colorful, overly-detailed, mishmashed products from a year ago. Still skeptical. 😐

@@guyfromboracay Those are rookie level usage of AI image generators if you can tell it's AI-generated. For the skilful artists with AI tools, you can't really tell the difference.

You're welcome 😊

Huh?

Awesome! Someone else noticed. :D I just happened to leave a slightly more detailed "hunt" on how to find it, in a comment I just left. Yeah it's a fun little Easter egg. Too bad when I first caught it in the late 1980s, there wasn't any internet (google) to decipher it. Found out a few years ago, going " huh...I wonder...(google search) on all the key words. :D

Looks like someone had good taste in music.

分かる、CGが悪いとは言わんけど セル画の最高品質には比べられへん

not all like this

It's never about the budget. It's about who works on these scenes and how dedicated they are. Some animators are just fanatics of these things so they go all out animating it.

@@HaohmaruHL Some are successful (like Ghibli's films), some are flops (Redline movie). Overall, animators are as valuable as everyone else in the studio. Also, it feels like the framerate of anime media has dropped since the dawn of digital animation.

The answer is money. Anime made in the 80's and 90's wasn't always passion projects, but the margins were not expected to be what they are today, and with little exception were made for local audiences. Today everything must make X amount of money or cause Y amount of shareholder growth, and anime is a globally popular medium. As a result the intersection of passion, time, investment dollars, and talent to produce such high quality animation is rare. Add in new technology for computer generated imagery and other animation related advances, the explosion of popularity in anime in the last couple of decades, the retirement of those that used to do everything old school and hand drawn, and the ever marching needs of our capitalistic society and it becomes clear. No one does this level of detail anymore because its not profitable, or at least not as profitable as a "good enough" version of the same thing.

昔、ビデオテープ持ってました。１万円ちょっとした様な？ 知り合いに貸したらそれっきり・・・ メタルスキンパニック マドックス01　Huluで観れるみたいです。