Art Friday : Mecha Image of The Day (miotd.com)

Thursday, September 6th, 2007, 7:49 pmRoys

Mecha Image of The Day was a site I found recently while looking for technical lineart. While I didn’t really find what I was looking for at this site, I did find a lot of illustrations of mecha-related stuff like:

A very detailed Transformers artwork (not too sure about the original source of this artwork)

Battletech Mech technical lineart (Madcat shown above but there’s Loki and Vulture too)

High resolution Macross illustrations. Links are here, here, here, here and here.

Gundam illustrations. (RX-78-2 Gundam (above) here and Rick Dias (below) here).

And this classic Evangelion picture. Must have been drawn at least a decade back before the introduction of the M1 Abrams because the tanks in there are M60s (note externally mounted searchlights).

Major Motoko Kusanagi from the Ghost in The Shell series. (Just saw some Motoko Kusanagi wallpapers at Rendered Beauty quite a while back).

The good thing is that most of these pictures are at nearly 4:3 aspect ratio and so are perfect for the desktop.

In short if you love mecha, you gotta visit Mecha Image of The Day.

MORE @ THE DOWNLOAD MUNKEY:
Classic Transformers Storybooks
Kinetic Singapore : Robots, Ads and More!
Tetuya Watanabe’s Zaku IIs
MechCommander 2 Encyclopedia
Transformers Comic Wallpapers

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9 comments:

  1. Sentosa Girl, Thursday, September 6th, 2007, 8:36 pm

    This is amazing. Great.

     
  2. Kenny, Thursday, September 6th, 2007, 9:25 pm

    Great find. Love the Macross pics.

     
  3. Roys!, Friday, September 7th, 2007, 12:43 am

    Thanks :)

    @ Kenny, if you’re using widescreen monitors , this Flickr collection might be useful :)

    More eyecandy coming up, assuming I have time to write about them :)

     
  4. gnome, Friday, September 7th, 2007, 9:51 am

    Fantastic. Especialy the mecha blueprint…

     
  5. Kenny, Friday, September 7th, 2007, 10:54 am

    The Flickr collection rocks. Too bad my laptop is a normal 4:3 screen.

     
  6. The Elderly, Friday, September 7th, 2007, 3:36 pm

    thanks roys for link.. impressive find.. though mecha still hasn’t settled in my psyche.. I do love the rx 78 2

     
  7. Roys!, Sunday, September 9th, 2007, 7:29 pm

    Yep, the Transformers image and the blueprints are two of my favourites. I love cutaways and stuff :)

     
  8. The Elderly, Monday, September 10th, 2007, 5:26 pm

    i feel i’ve missed out, not having a grounding in mecha… i’m making up for it but the process is slow.. still pick up chromehounds now and again… purely for the customisation options and testing my creations on the battlefield… (note to self) must play more

     
  9. Roys!, Monday, September 10th, 2007, 6:18 pm

    I started with Macross and Getter when I was a kid. Back then I didn’t know their names though - only found out thanks to Google Image Search :)

     

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