Some illustrations from recent episodes of Off the Cuff!!
I've been forgetting to post these individually, so here's eight of 'em at once! I spend about 30 minutes on each drawing for this series, always talking about something I take inspiration from. Here's some stuff from Sonic, Snatcher, RoboCop, Mystery Skulls Animated, Trigun, Giant Robo, and Tetsujin 28!
You can check out all episodes of Off the Cuff so far over here!
I know that every genre to ever exist is really just a ever growing evolution process, every single thing within a genre is influenced by each other somehow just each thing retools things to make it its own identity, so seeing overlap between things isn’t shocking but I gotta say: Mecha’s influencing each other will always fascinate me because the tiniest detail will be used in something that was ripped from another show. What do I mean by that? Well it’s only DAWNED ON ME that Roger’s watch in Big O is CLEARLY inspired off of Daisakus in Giant Robo!
This is such a obvious detail given Giant Robo is the mecha influence Big O takes-it wasn’t just “Batman but mecha”, it pulled a lot from this-and the robot itself feels inspired by Robo, but I hadn’t noticed the watch detail because of how it’s retooled in Big O.
In Giant Robo, the watch is used to command the robot, but in Big O, since Roger pilots the robot, he uses it just to call his robot, so it’s way more minor in that show but it’s still so clearly inspired off of Daisaku commanding Robo in battle.
It’s not only a homage but it’s making something new, for potentially maybe another mecha to pull from, and more to come after. This genre is so fucking COOL.
YO so @ageofzero and I went ham on making a Giant Robo introductory powerpoint because we love GR so much. (I came up with the base and she got all the screenshots and refined everything)
if you were ever confused about this Giant Robo thing she and I talk about, here you go!! hope this helps!! go watch it!!!!
I simply think you all need to see the most gay betrayal arc incident from giant robo. these two characters are like barely plot relevant at all btw they only show up in the last 2 episodes of the OVA to serve cunt and kill eachother