Japanese Sci-fi / Mecha inspiration needed
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Hey guys, I am working on a game with a japanese retro sci-fi touch and am having a really hard time finding anything on the internet and had hoped to find some connoisseurs here ; )
What I am looking for is:
Anything Mecha (not from the present) or sci-fi labor style
Robot or camera / Sci-fi interfaces / Huds / Displays
The common Sci-fi labor / facility stuff
Typography in such a setting
Weapons, military stuff, well anything
Preferably older things
If you have any names of blogs, animes, boards (...) to look up that would be amazing, some pictures for everyone would be cool too!
Artists there have very different impressions than we have here and I really
enjoy that feeling and want to try capturing that
What I am looking for is:
Anything Mecha (not from the present) or sci-fi labor style
Robot or camera / Sci-fi interfaces / Huds / Displays
The common Sci-fi labor / facility stuff
Typography in such a setting
Weapons, military stuff, well anything
Preferably older things
If you have any names of blogs, animes, boards (...) to look up that would be amazing, some pictures for everyone would be cool too!
Artists there have very different impressions than we have here and I really
enjoy that feeling and want to try capturing that
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You can search for games like: Ace Combat, Zone of the Enders, Omega Boost, Armored Core, Front Mission and their relative artbooks.
Also:
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actually Pascals entire reference board collection is great. https://www.pinterest.com/pascalblanche/
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Thanks guys!
If you have any anime names that would be nice to know too
I found:
Neon Genesis
Elfenlied
Gundam
Ghost in the shell
Appleseed
Venus wars.
Patlabor
Tokyo bubble gum crisis
blue gender
Modern:
eureka 7
red line
gurren lagann
last exile
full metal panic
Code geass (mechas)
Ride Back (bikes that can sort of transform into mecha-bikes...but not quiet transformers style)
Aldnoah.Zero
Eureka 7 (this one has some unique stuff - surfing mechas, cool planes, etc)
Guilty Crown (mechas and other stuff, cyberpunk setting)
Macross Frontier
Gundam00
Psycho-pass (not so much mechas and overall cyberpunk setting, starting with guns with interesting display)
Knights of Sidonia ....maybe
Sword arts online....maybe for some display ideas
Towards the Terra
Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor (similar to Evangelion)
that's about it for now....
i can really recommend the ghost in the shell series "ghost in the shell: stand alone complex"
really cool designs
To add to the list:
Overman King Gainer
Linebarrels of Iron
There is far too much reference if anything, everyone has countless pinterest boards of only mechs these days
Tackling things chronologically could be interesting too, like starting with 80s OAVs first.
Also, I feel like many of the cool backgrounds you will find in sci-fi anime are actually heavily based on real-life. Like this :
http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?genre%5B0%5D=18&q=&tag=&sy=0&sm=0&sd=0&ey=0&em=0&ed=0&c%5B0%5D=a&c%5B1%5D=b&c%5B2%5D=c&show=0
http://suidobashijuko.jp/
Great stuff.