After many hours of trawling the internet I had managed to grab around 50 reference images. All of which covered multiple angles, distances, some were concept art, some were proper renders and some was even fan art (fan art can be great ref material). It's all invaluable reference material when creating the 3D model, so it's worth spending time and getting a lot of it. From there, I grabbed a notepad to make my plan of attack so that the model would be able to house the LEDs for the eye and the 2 elbows and I could get everything clear in my head.
I decided to make this a model that is locked in a pose rather than one that has any moving parts. The reason for this was that I was concerned slightly about the weight on the joints of the model, as some would be quite small and thin.
Seong-Woon Shim draws inspiration from his childhood experience of building plastic models. In his current work, one can also spy a hint of RPG games like Neon Genesis Evangelion, where humans hop onto gigantic robots which stride into the horizon. Each of Shim’s pieces resembles something you’d see in a big budget sci-fi production, and despite their immense size, each part is painstakingly detailed.
Shim’s concepts derive from the marriage between humanity and robotics. Over time, sci-fi films and animation have seen robots increasingly evolving into human forms. Seeing this as a union of the human body’s organic form and the mechanical form machinery, Shim has dubbed his method “orchanic.”
This is a model suggestion for VF-1 Valkyrie; the distinguished variable fighter from the TV animation "Space fortress Macross". The Valkyrie is a highly admired pioneer of Japanese transforming robot. The first animation was broadcasted on TV back in 1982. It made a huge impact on both Japanese kids and adult fans alike with exceptional transformation capabilities of changing between the FIGHTER, GERWALK and BATTROID modes. Here I wish to recreate that same emotional ‘‘impact’’, through a single model offering that is able to transform into all 3 modes.
This is LEGO concept model of my project for LEGO CUUSOO. If I got 10,000 supports from worldwide, it will become real products. So if you interested in, and want to get the real product in your hands, Please visit LEGO CUUSOO site to sign-up, and support my project!
