/m/ — /m/ Creativity Thread

>>23899927 (OP)
Oh, if you insist, OP. I had a multi-generational mecha epic that I started "planning" (daydreaming about) in high school, conceived of as either an animated or game series. I'll dig up some art later, but the basic synopsis (with the music I associated with it):

Overarching: Invoke (TM Revolution)

>Gen 1: a native from a primitive planet accidentally activates an ancient draconoid "Xygguraut" mech and is recruited into a massive war that pits his society's space-faring cousins against a fearsome enemy: humanity.
O2 (Orange Range)
Meteor (TM Revolution)

>Gen 2: the human/furry peace is shattered by an attack by a third civilization. Abandoned in his first battle, A'ern Ktrin is saved by a passing junk collector, only to be thrust back into the conflict upon the discovery and activation of another legendary Xygguraut.
DDR{
B4U (all versions) (intros)
Drop The Bomb (all versions) (invasion)
Senorita Speedy Mix (LI's theme)
Daikenkai (boss)
era nostalmix (secret boss)}
Dimrain47{
A Question of Fate (battle theme 1)
Revolutions (battle theme 2)}
the WORLD (Nightmare)

>Gen 3: The entire cluster is threatened by the arrival of an utterly alien hivemind. A caravan of ships from all of the previous civilizations desperately search for a safe haven, protected by an elite squadron of Xygguraut pilots.
1998 (intro 1)
D2R (intro 2)
Suna no Tsuki (ending)

>Gen F: In the near future, the inhabitants of Earth discover their extrasterrestrial origins, inadvertently triggering the return of an ancient enemy. The protagonist, a product of genetic experimentation to resurrect an archaic species, is caught up in the invasion, saved by a mysterious mech. Inside is a waif, held in stasis for who-knows-how-long. Together, they'll find a way [beyond the bounds] of their fate.

Sorry, I never get to talk about this shit. It's an unabashed pastiche, so I keep it close to my heart but realize that it's not really worth developing. Fresh from '05.

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>>23900049
Also posted these a while back.

>>23899927 (OP)
The style is really charming.

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>>23900049
>picking the music
never once in all of my years of making up funny little guys and stories have i ever thought to do that. you're a neat guy, anon
>>23900066
thank you i drew this guy as well but this was really pushing how much detail i wanted to add

>>23900176
I find music to be excellent for concept development because it directly connects to one's emotions. If there's resonance between your concepts and the emotions you want, any imagery they inspire will also tend to be emotionally resonant. So, you just listen and let the images and ideas come. It's a bit like lucid dreaming (a lot of good ideas come from dreams).

>>23899927 (OP)
A super sentai team where each member is from different tokusatsu, with a theme of combining different dimensions. The team would be an alien, time traveler, cyborg, magic girl, and ninja. The combined mech would be made from the teams different elements, there would also be 3 team figuration based around the leader. These 3 teams would be inspired by different mecha genres and change the teams personalities becoming alternate dimensions of themselves. The sixth team member would have a summoning watch used to call a kaiju, giant robot, and alien super hero

>>23901193
why does this sound familiar?

>>23901198
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger. The 45th Super Sentai team was made of robots based off previous sentai that would become giant mechs. They had a left/right combinations. Funny enough I didn't know about the show when I thought of the idea, it would probably scratch my itch. All I knew about it was the dancing transformation.

>>23901211
a crossover sentai would be a fun idea, zenkaiger didn't really push it far enough since all of the kikainoids were from the same universe. give me a red dino lead, blue car secondary, and yellow ninja as the core team and they all only begrudgingly work together at first

>>23901238
My vision is heroes at the end of their journeys are entangled into a new one. Then entanglement has granted them new and unfamiliar powers. As they get used to it the team would unlock their full potential giving them super forms, with forms of their pasts and secondary colors.

Red is Ultra/Gridman inspired and like Gridman he would make up the core of the mecha, secondary colors would be silver.

Blue the technical time traveler with a Thunderbirds inspired time machine. Secondary colors would be gold.

Green or Black is the Kamen Rider who at the last moment turned the evil organization super weapon against them. The secondary color is black or green giving of the form of an iridescent beetle.

Pink or White is the magic girl who summons the full powered version of her flying familiar, I'm thinking something bird like. Second form would include magic dress elements added to her suit.

Yellow is the yokai slaying ninja with tools made from sealed yokai. The would be a batmobile like vehicle that could launch tools with an animal yokai sealed in it, maybe a rabbit. Second form would add black ninja elements to the suit.

With giant Red as the core the combined mecha would have Yellow as the legs, Green as the arms. Blue as helmet shoulders and back. Pink would finish it off as chest and abdomen. Each part would probably have moves, like yellow would a missile attack as legs.

For the 3 man teams there would be Getter, Disaster Rescue Valkyrie, Cloak mech with Dagger bits, Knight with shield that turns into bow for a finisher, Storm Dragon Samurai, and a Blazing Phoenix Fighter.

The 6th member's mecha would be made of a fusion of a Godzilla/Gamera like kaiju, a Tetsujin 28/ Giant Robo, and a Superman superhero/Brave. It would have a heroic theme of body, mind, and soul.

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>>23899927 (OP)
Plenty....

https://pastebin.com/pFQb6Hku

https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/21349828/#21367644

https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/21349828/#21367708

https://files.catbox.moe/moeuir.png

>>23900176
I would love to see them in motion. The vibe feels like some alternate reality where they were making 16-bit games in 2008.

>>23903177
Pastebin feels like a late-Gainax/Trigger thing. Comfy horror mecha, I kinda like it.

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>>23899927 (OP)
I'm an amateur drawfag with a big stake in classic /m/edia. Lately I've been revisiting alot of old favorites again and in doing so, inspiration struck me. Unfortunately I struggle to divine where best to begin with the robot's design, but I can at the very least relay the core concept of the story.
>A thousand years removed from our time, mankind has seeded the cosmos.
>Despite our great strides infighting led to war between major human civilizations. This opened them upto attack from extraterrestrial threats from the far side of the universe.
>Biblical reckoning follows as humanity get's it's shit pushed in and is forced to pick up the pieces after losing the first battle.
>Protag is a POW who goes onto inspire trillions in the fight against this alien threat. He started out as a bright eyed and bushy tailed young pilot but the aliens seared him into his mech. He can no longer live an ordinary life. Essentially he ends up becoming the /m/ equivalent of DC's Haunted Tank crossed with a 40K Dreadnought
Iic included as an example of my artistic ability. This is just one idea I've sat on for awhile now. I could share others if anyone's interested.

bump

makes me miss the old /m/sv days, i wonder where all those anons are now.

https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/23758473/#23758684
I'm just gonna link this here since idea guy posts are allowed and I wrote out all my thoughts for this idea when we last had one of these threads. I haven't thought of much more since.

>idea guy posts are allowed
i have several gundam fanfic timelines i'm tooling around with
>why gundams and not original mechs
i'm a fanboy

SITC: post-apocalyptic five-way smackdown in the ruins of earth and space. salvagers and bandits killing each other on earth, aliens show up to kill them sometimes. in space the aliens are fighting the spacenoids larping as feudal nobles who built zombie robots to fight the aliens, but the zombie robots went haywire and are trying to kidnap and preserve all human life while exterminating the aliens. very uc inspired tech, uses minovsky particles, newtypes exist, etc. main gimmick revolves around gravity tech, much of it stolen from aliens.
GFA: g gundam but it's between us states to decide who gets to be the next president. also in this timeline the immortal president who instituted the gundam fights and has won all of them conquered canada and mexico so their states get to participate too. there's an amish gundam.
SK: my take on the witch from mercury style school for piloting giant robots story. feuding noble houses pitting their youth against each other. duels at school where people die is normal. protag-kun is an infiltrator with the specific goal of bringing the whole system down. i've done less for this one than the previous two.
BDO: i've done even less for this one than for SK. it's about people desperately trying to get by inside a massive BLAME! style megastructure. the place is so big that you need a mobile suit just to flip a light switch, basically. people think of their mobile suit as part of their body. lots of weird black box schizotech, inexplicable horseshit, etc.

Like that anon above.
https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/21349828/#q21427701
>>23905372
Just lurking in /m/, mostly /m/play threads.
How about you?

>>23905751
wishing i would have saved some of those old pictures, i miss blexar and solid so much

>>23905823
Here, hope this helps.
https://desuarchive.org/m/search/subject/%2Fm%2Fsv/

Would sharing more art help garner interest in tnis thread? I'm very tempted to but I dont want to take attention away from anyone else.

>>23906477
>I'm very tempted to but I dont want to take attention away from anyone else.
not sure anybody in this thread is getting attention to begin with
post it

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dropping a new guy, just wanted to draw a cool knight robot so i don't have much in the way of lore. nobleman's son drafted to fight some epic generations-long war for his country with no experience of the horrors therein. at first i thought the war being fucked up and gruesome like nam would be interesting but that might stray a little too far from the cool robot action idea. he'd be a good SRW OC paired with the usual fantasy mech choices like rayearth and dunbine and stuff
>>23906477
yeah post it

>>23906493
That's pretty cool.

>>23906495
thank you, i think i need a lot of work when it comes to character designs and lore

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>>23906479
Coming right up
>>23906493
Sound's like the right decision to me. Chivalric knight fantasy with mechs isnt really something I've seen before. All the more reason to run with it.

Bumping with another related idea I had, Dracula X. Born out of my frustrations over all my favorite boomer mecha properties falling into disuse and wider obscurity, I cooked up a spiritual successor which combines elements from all three (Mazinger Z, Gigantor/Tetsujin, and Frankenstein Jr). It'd reimagine the story of Dracula into a super robot context, with Dracula X himself being more of a metaphor about Vlad the Impaler, will to power, and all the sort of junk.

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I drew bunch of Terminator and Robocop art for /toy/ over the last few months while enjoying a series of related threads.

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At first the conversation focused on just the old toylines but inevitably my imagination got the better of me and I found myself pitching a mess of toy ideas. Discussions of how a T2 saturday morning cartoon would have turned out inspired more toys there too. Some wholy original, others repaints of existing kenner product.

>>23906841
that's fucking rad holy shit

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Anyways I'll nip things in the bud here. I hope that brings some eyeballs to the thread. Pic related was a reimagining of the T2 toyline exclusive villain in a new body.

>>23906850
Thanks anon! I havent drawn him in awhile but I'm proud of the concept. Most of it is just random ideas in my head these days. One concept I've yet to draw would see an older Johnny Harker imbued with nanomachines and turned into a sort of cyber-vampire devilman.

>>23906855
as an untrained, unskilled, generally worthless anon, that idea sounds fucking sick as hell and i would love to see it fleshed out more. especially if it culminates in metal gear rising like it sounds it does

>>23906844
Would Kamina be Sarah Connor or Kyle Reese?

>>23904532
Same anon here, I made an attempt earlier to conceptualize this character's mech but it's feeling a little bland. The obstruction at this moment is my inability to realize a robot design which is both aerodynamic and brutal.
>>23906864
Should the thread survive I'll happily follow up on the concept sometime this coming week!
>>23906874
Kyle seems the most fitting to me, especially considering his early death. Honestly I mostly drew that pic because of how much I loved both TTGL and Terminator. (Crazy TTGL turns 20 next year)

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>forgot the pic
sorry boys

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About 13 years ago, /m/ had a oc challenge. Here was a couple designs from my entry.

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>>23906904

>>23906904
>>23906907
these are giving high-concept photonovel that never got translated to english vibes (compliment)

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>>23906904
>>23906907
They're very intimidating designs. I'm reminded of Elmedine from Dragon's Heaven, pic related.

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grendizer episode 1

do you think there could possibly be a thing that lets you make your own gundam show, but it also has the appeal of a game?

>>23907544
Anything's possible anon. Sounds kinda like Chroma Squad

>>23906904
>>23906907
Geez, these are fantastic.

Super Robot Wars /m/'s roster is starting to look pretty cool

Anyone who use AI Video to make their own mecha anime?

https://youtu.be/_xGp6Lh0dyY?si=IkVvTRsdXUWhinhe

>>23908327
Ask me how I know you're Indian.

>>23908327
that robot design looks like ass from the thumbnail and i won't watch the video. even if you think you can't draw you can probably come up with something better than typing 'cool robot' into chatGPT

>>23908345
Yeah, I would rather look at something bad made by hand than AI.