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Akatsuki Gundam's Destinyby =sandrum

Digital Art / 3-Dimensional Art / Characters / Machines & Robots

Series: Gundam Seed Destiny (Destiny Astray, etc)

This deviation is actually half of a larger image that I cut and decided to submit in this manner. The Destiny half is here.

So... what's to say about this mesh. Basically, I took the Strike Gundam that I made long ago and dressed it up to look like the Oowashi Akatsuki. This was done using ideas from a resin kit made by VICIOUS PROJECT in which the kit uses the Strike as a base while supplanting certain parts for resin kit parts of the Akatsuki variation. I rather liked the idea so I tried to simulate it by adequately modifying the Strike mesh. The real reason that I made the AKatsuki however is that I wanted to try out an idea I had for the Unicorn Gundam's frame. A variation of what I was thinking was applied to the "golden armor" of this mesh, though without all of the Unicorn's sparkles. To me it came out reasonably well. Unfortunately it tends to reflect too much of the surroundings so I used photoshop to try to darken it a bit.

The armor in the story is called - Yata-no-Kagami beam-reflecting which makes a strong impression on the viewer - is not only the Akatsuki's most distinctive feature, but also the cause of its soaring development costs. Made up of nano-scale beam-diffracting lattice layers and critical plasma suppression layers, this system not only protects the Akatsuki from incoming beams, but also uses the machine's sensors to track enemies and automatically redirect these beams back at them, thus combining offense and defense. It also means that the armor isn't a simple "mirror".... which is why it doesn't "heavily" reflect in this deviation.

Did I say that I didn't like this machine much? I'm more of a Hyaku Shiki kind of guy.
Anyway, too much going on in the scene. It was actually a lot worse before editing it with photoshop.

Software: Lightwave (modeling, rendering), Photoshop (UV texturing, throwing everything together), Hexagon2 (some UV's)

Gundam is (c) Bandai, Sunrise, Sotsu Agency

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~mobilesuitsoldier Apr 16, 2013

I love the golden paint job of this mobile suit. Keep up the brilliant work.

~demonokra Feb 26, 2013

~GameTagger457 Jun 14, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

At first I thought the golden finish was a bit TOO ostentatious. But after Cagalli took it out to defend Orb and seeing what it was truly for, definitely one of the most epic Gundams ever.

Its funny how you look at it in retrospect; almost all other Gundams (if you count the Astrays and Murasames) use Phase Shift armor to defend against physical attacks, and then there's the Akatsuki, which 'reflects' beam attacks.

~Aldark Nov 13, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Yeah, it is. XD Since in the SEED universe, before the gundam were born, everyone basically used bullets. Zakus had some beam weapons, I think, but not many - mostly using rockets and machine guns still. The phase shift armor was supposed to defend against that. But with the advent of beamweapons, they realised that something different was needed, in a new age of beam weapons, a defence against that became more important, so beam reflective armor was born, and Akatsuki [translated to 'Dawn', as in dawn of a new era] was basically immortal. XD
I love Gundam. =3

~Providenceangle Jun 5, 2012

It looks surprisingly like the Gundam Kyrios.

~Ippman475 Jul 19, 2012 Student General Artist

yeah now that ya say it it does

~justtam47 Jun 2, 2012

Any chance that we'll see a piece featuring Hyaku Shiki someday? (given that you're more inclined to it

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~Kamenrider1 May 20, 2012

no neosapian the chosen one came in the 80's hyaku shiki this mongrel is nothing but a wannabe like all of seed it should be classified nuclear waste

UNIVERSAL CENTURY FOR EVER
Hard Core UC for life

~Aldark Nov 13, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thats not very nice. All gundam series are good in their own way. I'm a fan of all series of gundam in one way or another.

~Kamenrider1 Nov 14, 2012

good for you, but that doesn't change the fact that seed stole much of its designs from Universal Century in some way in at least 3 cases outright copying them completely and with the changes disgracing the originals.

just go check mahq out to see the models they copied either completely name and all or just general look.

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