This artists is so shit at drawing mechs. Literally the worst "mechs designs" ever conceived by anyone. So tryhard and pretentious.

I also greatly dislike the art and the official setting but but the game is fine.
Also It's a tabletop game, you can make the mechs look any way you want, same goes for the setting you are playing in.
I recently DM'd a oneshot and used Zoids and Ma.K mechs as enemies

I feel like I'm missing context as to how this is supposed to function. Is the black hole orb some kind of energy source that powers the thing as a drone?

Lancer is gay. The point of it is that it's gay (gay as in bad and gay as in homosexual both at the same time) and ugly. It's made like this on purpose. Its objective is to be gay and ugly.

>>23388544
same as WH40K

>>23388559
Truth nuke.

>mech
Of course its shit, retard.

>>23388176 (OP)
it's because abaddon is primarily a fantasy artist and not really at all mechanically fluent
he can pose shit real good but his mechanical detailing is unconvincing. it unironically strays into the duane loose battletech "just chunk that shit up into grid textures" cheap scifi-ification at times. so you end up getting designs that are, let's say, good at being enemy battle sprites in an RPG but are pretty bad at being mecha
this really fucks with you when you're into JRPGs and know that a lot of the enemy designers there fucked with mecha pretty hard. so abaddon's designs are worse at being mecha than dragon quest and final fantasy enemies
despite that i'm unsure of how you'd properly "fix" lancer because even though lancer and its mainstream design culture should be steered away from fantasy, the efforts of people like peyton gee to "gundamize" lancer's designs feels like a terribly cheap copout

who?

>>23388176 (OP)
pretty sure this one is fanart

I like seeing unorthodox mecha every now and then instead of generic humanoid bipeda

>>23389921
oh I thought those were Balls at first AND NOT THE ONES WITH THE 120MM RECOILESS CANOON!

>>23389921
You don't have to make ugly dogshit to be unorthodox though.
And this is even worse because much of lancer is clearly "guy in armor" type. There's like a handful of monstermechs in between what are clearly just guys.

>>23388176 (OP)
I don't know anything about the source material but it looks ok for a dark fantasy-scifi type setting, moreso if it was something for ceremonial use than a combat unit though

>>23388176 (OP)
Buy a banner shill faggot.

There are some designs I thought were cool. But I still don't really understand the setting, and I almost played it (game fell apart because scheduling conflicts)

>>23391045
What are those!?!? ThE guy is literally an aestheticss reppelent and can't make cool designs for shit. Like fr what are those hideous hoovs/highheels? I'm not an expert artist by any means but I can definitely tell when something is not right and I'm convinced this artistis is an autistic zero test nu male who makes weird tilted half smiles when taking selfies

>>23391118
>artistis is an autistic zero test nu male who makes weird tilted half smiles when taking selfies
What?

>>23388655
this. I adore his concepts but yeah he needs an assistant or editor moer versed with traditional /m/ stuff to polish the designs.

...but I suppose the grotesque part is part of the charm

>>23388559
40k more suffers from:
>being made by a company with no dedicated mechanical designer
>recycling as many hyper simplified miniatures from their previous wargame projects and trying to string them along with a central aesthetic
>never being allowed to make their mechanical designs better out of fear of alienating nostalgiafags who actually like things looking like shit (pretty much your point)
>completely dropping the ball when they do try to update the models through messy controversial writing (see primaris)
>Having their multimedia franchise be such a mess with so little producer oversight that the exact same robot/armor has a dozen different official designs that don't resemble eachother
>A fanbase that is per capita more retarded than the average /v/igger

>>23391138
eeeeh
maybe just like, vehicle art in general
people into traditional /m/ have already done their takes on lancer stuff and it's like. okay, just shove the zaku gun and foot designs onto it. just phone in the landman rodi head.
there has to be a third way where it's not complete ignorance or complete regurgitation

>>23395098
Where can I find lancer mech designs that have been fixed by /m/

>>23388655
>duane loose
This is the fucking moron that was told to design a hovercraft and so he shit out a nonsense, antigravity style design instead of the skirted hovercraft that he was supposed to. God I hate that fuck and his designs.