Thread 23388176

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.

>>23395098
That's a rodi from IBO gecko

>>23391140
>oversight that the exact same robot/armor has a dozen different official designs that don't resemble eachother

It kind of makes sense when you consider that gear for the Imperium is sourced from all over the galaxy rather than from one central location. "Patterns" are supposed to be one regions version of something.

>>23388176 (OP)
What's with the multiple arms?

>>23395098
This looks better than any official LANCER mech tho

>>23388655
You don't have to be mechanically fluent to design good mechs. See: any super robot ever designed

It's stylistically inconsistent and there's no sense of scale.

>>23391138
That's honestly it. He needs someone to tell him "No dont do that". He clearly good at drawing but his ideas are all over the place

>>23388559
And also Battletech

>>23395098
>>23399775
>>23405288
Pretty sure that IS official Lancer art, or at least art by a guy who later worked on official Lancer material, not from /m/ or any other place here.
The K6BD guy isn't the only artist on the series, he mainly worked earlier on and still wasn't the only artist

>>23408239
Also official, from the same artist

>>23408240
bullfrog was honestly pretty good. it's obviously inspired by kondo's work on gundam but there aren't any details that were lifted 1-to-1 like on >>23395098

egh forgot pic

>>23406171
i would counter that by saying even that much is mechanically fluent
the bottom of tetsujin's shoes are red to evoke IJN ship designs

I feel like lancer artists are always drawing clean over the setting when they keep designing them with rust patches and juryrigged repairs and parts strapped on when they're all supposed to be 3d printed and your basic repairs are just generating new parts wholesale for effectively no cost but time. Literally everyone draws it like some rustbucket setting where everyone is trying to get the most of their parts when you can detonate your entire mech and just make a new one later from nothing.

Unless it's just another cases of people accidentally fixing lancer's gay lore with the obvious appeal people actually desire. No one really wants easybake mechs anyway.