Roboculture

Despite the tremendous failure of the release of my fanfilm due to it bombing in terms of viewcount the previous day (a measly 187 views), I decided to push on with the announcement of my other pet project - The Robotech Art Book. I realized that is is impossible to make Harmony Gold-dependant fans care about fan projects unless I get an endorsement from HG's Creative Director or Web Guy or Marketing Guru (I'll still bitch about that, don't worry) but I will press on! If this won't interest the fandom, I don't know what would.

This art book will feature all new, never before seen art by Studio MMG and its sole talentle... I mean adequate artist, namely, me, MedMapGuy. The focus on this fantastic collection of art will be all generation of Robotech (Note that fantastic is used, I like to think I am Harmony Gold's Marketing Guy once in a while) with the possible exception of that Shadow Chronicles thing. I am hoping to release this completely-free PDF-file sometime on June, if time permits. I currently have a few pages available for your perusal.

I was inspired by digital art books such as "Expose" and some of these amazing Korean digital painting books. I was also inspired by several amazing artists I encountered on DeviantArt. Their work has inspired me to create art for my favorite generation, Southern Cross, a property only one person in Harmony Gold actually appreciates. Everyone else grew up lusting for Macross or New Generation.

Since the release would probably be sometime during June 2007, I have been toying around with the idea of folks handing me some of their own art to go with this art book - sort of like the grand collaboration that was done for Robotech Art 2. I'd really like that and perhaps when I get back, folks around the community would produce art that I could add in this "book". Remember, it'll be in PDF format so it could be printable, if you've got a printer that could print like the professionals!

I am aware that the new Harmony Gold run by "The Creative Director" are incredibly jealous and protective of their property and despise fan projects, but I will ignore these folks who couldn't care less about the fandom. Conventions are only there to pimp the company, not the fandom and to get their hard earned dollars (I will never forget the 20 dollar mediocre poster, a grave and unforgivable sin).