I remember as a kid thinking "man those would be the ultimate weapon of war" as an adult "I don't care if they are totally impractical, I would love to see if it was possible to make one" As an older adult "I hate you engineering limitations"
The one thing that i know that didn't exist when macross came out in the 80's is thrust vectoring which was a thing in macross. Now in 2023 thrust vectoring is very real and used on all modern American fighter planes. Funny how alot of anime back in the day made up alot of tech that didn't exist at that time but alot of does today.
@@AYEcorolla Doesn't matter. In a dogfight or BVR combat, the VF-1 in fighter mode will outclass today's fighters. No need for the gerwalk and battroid modes.
A rather well done animation, showcasing some rarely seen angles of the transformation sequence at a speed you can seed the various parts in motion. Also, an interesting take on the UMM-7 Micro Missile Pods, one that keeps the box-look, yet making it hollow like that adds that little bit of plausibility for use in-atmosphere.
"Robotech" came out in the U.S. when I was in the 5th grade. There had been nothing like it before in my part of the world. Everyone, boys and girls both were sucked into that world it was so different and amazing. It came on a local channel, channel 41. At the time it wasn't affiliated with any of the big channels or anything. It was local only. It showed a lot of cartoons, weekly creature features and reruns of the great shows like MASH. Anyway, we had a really bad ice storm that year, the worst in recorded history up to that point and the tower for the tv station iced and it fell over. The station couldn't afford to get it fixed and the channel was gone. Many years later it came back on the air as UPN41, and many years after that it became WB. Some useless history from a former massive Robotech fan.
ONE Critique. Only One. Stylistically the Rove 20 Gun Barrels on the head (camera unit) typically are angled back but they really should be either facing directly up (so that they dont hit any part of the folded tailpack assembly when the head camera cycles in directions) or canted slightly forward.... other than that? That was some seriously good artist work...
Nicely done. I never cared for the flight suits from DYRL, especially the illuminated shoulder pads being a very 80s concept and only used once in the zero gravity scene with Minmay. Transformation was good, but I wish we could see more fighter mode performance and maneuvers.
Good job with the animation and likeness of the valkyrie veritech fighters sorry only mainly watched the Macross copy and largely altered robotech and only a tiny handful of the Macross movies. Still great job keep up the good work.
The D version was built by Stonewall Bellcom, the J version was built by Shinnakasu Heavy Industries and the S version of the video was Northrom. Source: Macross mecha manual
I liked the invade trooper. Liked when the Zentradi an and humans were in the veritech fighters in humanoid mode shooting the breeze on guard duty. That was surreal.
"Can it take off and land vertically as a gerwalk and then transform in flight?" "Yes." "Can it take off and land vertically as a robot and then transform in flight?" "Also yes." "Then why the HELL did we build a runway for it?"
Was this one sky channel or super channel? I know it was an english channel you could watch in the netherlands back in the mid 80s. Iirc, the same channel also showed denver the last dinosaur, transformers, beverly hills and jam. Not completely sure about this, been too long. I learned english and german from watching cartoons lol, was correcting my grade teachers gramaticl errors in english.
Muy buen trabajo...te felicito!!! una pregunta: los personajes caminando en el video los descargaste de algún lado o son hechos por vos? quiero poner algo así en mi actual proyecto del VF-1J y nunca trabajé con animaciones de personas, muchas gracias!!!
En el caso de las personas use Mixamo, baje uno de sus modelos lo modifique y volví a subir a la página para descargar animaciones desde el sitio en formato FBX. Saludos!
That's right man, Shōji Kawamori was based on this fighter to design the VF 1, in Macross Plus he also designed the experimental fighters which were based on the YF-23 black widow and the Russian Sukhoi Su-47.
VF-1S Variable Fighter... Designate Skull One. 1st Pilot: Commander Roy Fokker. Stationed to the Super Dimensional Fortress Macross . Piloted bu CMD Fokker till his death from wounds received in battle over the Pacific Ocean 2nd Pilot: Admiral Rick Hunter. Stationed on the Super Dimensional Fortress Macross originally one of the refugees from the Battle over Macross Island. "Brother" of Roy Fokker, enlisted into the UN Spacey service during the SDF-1 Macross' return trip from Pluto. Highly decorated pilot who became a key figure in the Earth's victory of the Zentradi forces. Lead Vermillion Squadron at the rank of Lt. Commander, Took over as Commander of the SDF-1 Macross' air wing after Fokker's death. Rose to the Rank of Admiral and lead the SDF-3's expedition to find the Robotech Masters. Skull one retired from Service after the Destruction of the SDF-1 Macross and the SDF-2 by the Malcontent Zentradi Khyron. Speculation has it that the fighter was eventually destroyed during the Invid occupation of Earth during the Invid's first strike which destroyed the Museum where the plane was on display. (No records to support claim exist) *Thanks for indulging in my fan fiction *
In reality, VF-1 can't even transform because it's too skinny without space to house the robot actuators, power packs, endoskeleton. Also the Valkyrie has design of aircraft with very bad aerodynamic rather than a spacecraft. If there's VF-1 Valkyrie being built, it would fly slow and unstable at high risk of crash. Transforming to gerwalk would lead to instant crash without enough surface to generate lift when the legs thst housed the engines are down adding serious weight imbalance. If you pitted VF-1S against the real F-14A that VF-1S copied from, the F-14A would dominate even in dogfight. Robotech macross missiles being housed in rocket pods (aka thrashcan) would reduced aerodynamic and would be ripped off when the aircraft flying faster than Mach 0.9. However, VF-1 can never reach Mach 0.9 with that kind of aerodynamic.
@@jayjay53313 Obviously, a "VF-1" being built with real world materials will fail. However, I'm talking about a VF-1 with all its tech, or overtechnology, weapons, and capabilities from the Macross universe. No modern fighter can beat it.
@@Tadoka_Inamo even in sci-fi world, macross VF-1 doesn't possess gravity drive and anti-gravity technology as seen that it doesn't have deflector shield nor levitating capability relying entirely on its legs engines with failed physics logic. How does the mech legs extend when it has air intake with notable compressor that works like jet engine rather than spacecraft propulsion engine. 2nd, the part that supposed to mount fuel tank being used for mecha head so where does this VF-1 receive fuel from? There's no room for main endoskeleton which means this mecha is like anthropod relying on joining aircraft fuselage to stand on its weight which would badly dent the whole plane. The whole concept failed logical common sense
@@jayjay53313 You fail to understand that it in the Macross universe, they have overtechnology (basically new sciences that they gleaned from their understanding of the crashed alien ship). It's the reason why humanity is able to develop variable fighters and spaceships, among other things. Does the VF-1 perform at all in the anime? Yes. Now, bring that to the real world. It will still function because of the materials and technologies it came with.
@@Tadoka_Inamoact is Macross designer and storyline plotter don't have much engineering and military technology knowledge. The designer inspired by F-14A and aircraft carrier operation so he made a single seater mecha transformable F-14 without any engineering knowledge and named it Macross. Even if you had the most advanced real alien technology, the grays or Sirius alien engineer will tell you that macross is not feasible and not logical to build. You want a transformable starfighter with gravity & anti-gravity drive technology, it would look like robotic aerodynamic spacecraft that doesn't have air intake nor swing-wing, no rocket pods on external hardpoints neither.
KFX조만간 양산됨. F-3는 아직도 설계조차 못함. 보스턴 다이내믹스도 한국에 팔아먹음. 지금 미국경찰에서도 결국 로봇견 채택함. F-2는 404기반의 엔진인데 일본전투기밖에 쓰지 못함. F-50은 이미 많은 나라에 수출함. GE-414엔진의 단가는 훨씬 저렴함. 성능은 훨씬 우수한데 가격은 800억밖에 안함. 가능한 기술력으로 먼저 도달하는건 한국임. 아마 F-3가 나와도 3천억이상 넘음. 2030년쯤에는 웬만한 국가도 KFX급 전투기가 보편화됨. 계획중인 GE엔진기술력은 외계인 기술력이라서 인류의 과학기술로는 택도 없음. 차라리 그랜다이져 마징가처럼 원반로봇이 더 가능성 있을듯?
Only those being fooled would buy from aircraft manufacturer that can't build most of the components on their own. That's why Indonesia withdrawn from KAI KFX programme. You buy from manufacturer that relied entirely on another country for the engines, avionics would end up paying extra twice to thrice markup and shipping cost. I would rather buy from China or Russia if I can't afford to buy American fighters
Cool but too unrealistic, Armored Core mechs or even Code Geass KMF mechs are much more plausible than this, the VF-1S is too complicated and over-engineered and dam the cockpit is weak, a single hit on that and it's done (pilot dead).
Idk about the VF-1 being weak remember how it was able to smash through about 2-3 multi story buildings with out taking any major damage except paint damage in the first episode of SDF Macross/Robotech. The ECA armour of Valkyries make the VF's have armour similar to modern battle tanks and higher. Idk about armour core being more plausible when they too also be flying like maniacs especially in amour core 6 and the bullet hell that gameplay has all I am saying. More plausible mechs I have seen are the ones in Avatar movies. Either way the Macross Variable Fighters will still be my favourite mechs of all time. A jet that transforms and you can pilot is cool af and the fighter modes of the VF's actually look like a fighter jet unlike some other transforming mechs like gundam.
