#Royal Space Force

[omercifulheaves]

Studio Gainax

#anime #mecha #studio gainax #hideaki anno #neon genesis evangelion #nadia secret of blue water #gunbuster #royal space force #daicon iii #daicon iv

[midddoriya]

80s anime

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[videoclubs]

ROYAL SPACE FORCE - THE WINGS OF HONNEAMISE ‘王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼’ dir. Hiroyuki Yamaga

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[why-animation]

If you follow me, there's a fair chance you're well familiar with the rocket launch scene animated by Hideaki Anno at the climax of Royal Space Force: Wings of the Honneamise – and if so, there's a fair chance you know the rocket is essentially a Soviet R7/Soyuz family launch vehicle with fancy calligraphy.

But lately I noticed something cool.

Ryusuke Hikawa, who is something of a scholar of Japanese effects animation, notes for the BD release that Anno and his friends appear to have paid close attention to gas temperature gradients when animating all the scene's many excellent explosions.

That's pretty neat. Let's take a look at the gases at not!Soyuz's booster and core stage nozzles.

There's a curtain of cooler gases near the nozzle, which transitions rather sharply into very bright and hot gases depicted using toukakou. Toukakou literally means "light transmission," but I like rendering it as "cel glow:" simple and evocative. I'm mentioning this because it's translated a million different ways in a million different sources, including as "filtration" in the BD notes above.

In any case, this is typical of rocket engines which use film cooling to keep their nozzles from melting – and a specific type of film cooling too. This looks like what happens when you dump a lot of cold gas – for instance, from the gas generator – through a manifold down the lower portion of the nozzle.

It's a fascinating detail, but it's a bit weird, because no engine used on a Soyuz family rocket looks like that.

There's a good reason for it though. The Soviets were all about Great Scientific Accomplishments, but they never really believed in the "pics or it didn't happen" principle. As far as I'm aware, they didn't bother sticking expensive high speed high resolution engineering cameras near their rocket launches, and they were selective about releasing what they did have for national security reasons. Anno would not have had great close-up reference footage of an RD-107 family rocket engine burning.

There is one very famous, very well documented rocket engine that uses this cooling method, however.

In fact, from the timing of how the gas curtain flutters, I'm pretty sure Anno had this exact footage.

It'd figure too. Yasuhiro Takeda mentions this while talking about a small, trial run convention his SF club hosted before Daicon III:

I could certainly see Anno or someone else hearing about these materials through Takeda and either borrowing it themselves or making a copy. Not that similar footage would've been hard to obtain otherwise. Using the sophisticated research method of "search アポロ11号NHK on youtube," I can find a documentary from as early as '94 which includes this footage, and who knows what tapes Anno would've been able to bring back from his trip to Kennedy SFC?

Thank goodness for VHS.

#royal space force #wings of honneamise #hideaki anno #sakuga #topic: effects animation #Youtube

[cityboysclub]

#Royal Space Force #ryuichi sakamoto #anime #classic anime #art #animation #film #cinema #cinephile #japananime #box set #4K

[shizukais]

Royal Space Force, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.

#anime #royal space force #yoshiyuki sadamoto #artbook: alpha

[panzsan]

Evening Flight

My final film for my Animation II class. A lot of things inspired this, so I'm glad Tumblr lets me write really long blogs (b^_^)b

The Style

The spark of this whole idea was Royal Space Force, a 1987 film by Gainax. I've seen some gifs of it, and finally watched it during the semester. I was blown away by the animation and world-building. I haven't seen anything really like it before, and it reinforced my love for traditional 2-D animation.

I used the movie to guide the style I wanted: Grounded, realistic movements, painted backgrounds, a focus on detail, etc. It was a massive challenge, since I haven't done things like landscape paintings before, but it taught me a lot and I think I'm a better artist now because of it. It also really made me appreciate the work of past artists a lot more. Painting backgrounds and drawing cels was already hard enough digitally, I can't imagine it doing it by hand!

My first idea was to do a dogfight sequence. Thankfully I realized that would be way out of my ability so instead I took inspiration from this flying sequence in the movie. It would let me focus on painting backgrounds and limit the amount of detailed animation I had to do, which turned out to be invaluable once the deadline started approaching. It would also let me take inspiration from those edits people do of fighter jets flying to synthwave (like this one)

The Plane

Since this whole thing was about a plane flying around, the design of the place took precedence. I based my idea off the planes from Royal Space Force as I really liked the idea of their unorthodox design showing that they come from a world different from ours.

I went through a couple of designs. I kept the rear-placed wings but wasn't really sure exactly what type of plane it should be. I considered a push propeller design but couldn't get a look that was satisfying. It did, however, lead me to finding some interesting designs from WW2

Eventually I decided on roughly an early-Cold War interceptor. The F-86 played a big role since it was an example of an early jet. I used the A-4 for reference when designing the engine and intake layout. Although its not designed to be a fighter, it did have the short and compact look I wanted. The X-29 also showed me how foward-swept wings could be set up.

Eventually I came up with this, a single-seat, single-engine interceptor with two small cannons in the nose and two larger ones in pods on the wings.

The Pilot

I knew from the get-go that I wanted my pilot to have a tomboyish look. This is because I watched Gunsmith Cats and thought Rally was really cute.

Early sketch:

First Design:

The design of the helmet was tricky. I wanted something that also felt unorthodox, so I looked at some interesting designs I found on twitter

I also took some inspiration from Patlabor, another classic anime series I watched. I liked the look of the "headband" the mech pilots had on their helmets, and decided to include them on my design

The design of the flight suit was largely based off this artwork by @Zen_jirakun on Twitter. I loved the look of the large jacket combined with the sleek undersuit. I tried to give it my own spin by using the aesthetics of fighter pilot gear.

As I started working however, I quickly noticed that the helmet was way too over-designed. Noticeably, the cheekpads were a weird shape that would be hard to keep track of during movement. I had to scrap that design and come up with one that would be easier to animate. Luckily I stumbled upon the Russian GSh-6, a high-altitude helmet worn by Mig-25 pilots. Not only did it have the unorthodox look I wanted, but it was also a lot easier to draw, and thus became the basis of the revised design.

Some Background Paintings

To close out this post, I'll share some BG stills, cause I worked hard on them and want to make sure people can see them d(ﾟｰﾟ@)

#animation #classic anime #student animation #indie animation #fighter jets #royal space force #2d animation #hand drawn animation #Youtube

[karla72]

Wings of Honneamise

#retro anime #anime and manga #royal space force

[animenostalgia]

News - Sentai Filmworks announced that they have partnered with Bandai Namco Filmworks to officially sell the import version of the new Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise 4k Remastered Memorial box! The box set includes a region-free version of 4k bluray & regular bluray, audio version of the pilot film, BGM collection, storyboard collection, document file, and more. The memorial box will be $130 USD, and will start shipping November 4, 2022. Please note that Sentai’s store only ships within the United States.

#Royal Space Force #the wings of honneamise #80s anime #news #anime on bluray #sentai filmworks #links out #long post

[mep4]

待ちに待ったオネアミスの翼、まもなく！まるで新作封切りのような自然な佇まい

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[junithys]

Passing Thoughts 8

Main Characters That Are Morally Questionable

Recently I saw a video essay criticizing Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise for having an MC that is not a good person. This thought process kind of baffled me because it's difficult to really say that anyone in Evangelion is really black-and-white good... one of the prime examples being the main character, Ikari Shinji. But does that make a story worse? Especially in worlds that are on the brink of destruction, empathizing with a character who breaks under pressure can act as an ego dissolution for the viewer (since you're seeing things from a POV where you can relate to them, and yet you detest the things that they do).

This trope is often employed in literature as a powerful device, it's not pleasant to experience things from a first-person POV of someone who is wretched or does abhorrent things but I think it is humbling because it causes the consumer to check themselves, have a moment where you wonder for a second, "If I can emotionally understand this character and they are capable of doing bad things, maybe I am capable of them too?" Because, after all, aren't we all the protagonists of our own respective lives? Rather than tear into this narrative technique, I think (though it's uncomfortable), we should use these types of stories for introspection.

Learning to Sing Song of the Ancients

Oh boy, so I recorded a bad quality (via my flip phone) practice cover of "Song of the Ancients" from NieR:Replicant today... I eventually became too shy after leaving it up for almost an entire day, but I plan to post an official cover in the future since I adore that song!

#evangelion #royal space force #nier replicant

[dagmartoons]

The ✨MAJESTY✨

#royal space force #wings of honneamise #dagmar’s anime collection #the most i have ever spent on a bd set #i regret nothing #look at it #it’s so beautiful

[randomrichards]

ROYAL SPACE FORCE: THE WINGS OF HONNEAMISE

Dimbulb astronaut

Long journey to space mission

Learns about living

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[terebifunhouse]

If you were lucky enough to attend the Wings Of Honneamise premiere in Los Angeles in 1987 you might have come home with this big full color folder and an English-language handout explaining exactly what you were going to watch and why it was now called "Star Quest." I wasn't there but a friend was and this is what he brought back.

#1980s anime #wings of honneamise #royal space force #gainax #ryuichi sakamoto

[chasedbybuildings]

#ryuichi sakamoto #The Wings of Honnêamise #royal space force #soundtrack #ost #80s #80s music

[music4thebasshead]

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Fade

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