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Gundam and pixelmator

zuco — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:06:07 +0000

This was my last visit to the Gundam located in Odaiba (Tokyo) I don’t know what they are going to do with it.
Maybe they will destroy it or send it to some recycle process? Personally I would love if they left it there, only two months…
It could become like a symbol, something that people can visit over and over again, a place where geeks and otakus will love to go for a picnic, to drink beer at night or just to try to find some moral and spiritual support in a difficult moment of life. Just imagine, it could become like an object of cult and devotion… Well I’m going too far away with this…

These are the latest pics I took to it and they got modified with Pixelmator.
I will talk about this wonderful application. Of course it’s not at the same level as photoshop but it’s really powerful for a reasonable price. I just applied a simple filter after post process it in Lightroom

After apply Edge filter on Pixelmator, increase exposure and change colors to green. I like the effect. I’ll use this filter for many other pics I had, the effect is quite impressive.

It’s amazing the level of details. They built every aspect of Gundam.
Japanese are so good to reproduce until the minimum detail.

The whole set of Gundam pictures here

Previous post about it.

This is the last post I’ll talk about it, I promise (maybe…) I hope they repeat this again, nowadays materials and technology provides us with the tools and skills to reproduce big sized objects with a great detailed level and people love that kind of things!

Gundam in the night

zuco — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:02:04 +0000

Yesterday nobody could resist again and we went to shot the big Gundam in the night also. Unfortunately I didn’t had my tripod but fortunately some guys came with the complete equipment.
Let’s see the pics!

Our Gundam! I’m sure I will come back here again to shot him!

Angry Danny. Here he is making use of secret powers…

Danny is ready to attack Paul

Jonny li doing his best with the lights. He is our strobe guy

More pictures and info about last nigh here:

Danny Choo: www.dannychoo.com
Steven Nagata: www.thewesternworld.net
Paul Papadimitriou: www.papadimitriou.jp
Jonny Li: www.jonnyli.com
Ken Lee: www.kenleewrites.com
Lester Ho: www.lesterho.com

Gundam 1:1 at Odaiba

zuco — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:18:08 +0000

This morning I found at Dannychoo blog that the Gundam in Odaiba is almost done. I could not resist and I went there to take some pics. Here the results, the day is cloudy so the quality is not so good.

Anyway this big guy will be in Odayba until the end of August so more pics soon. It’s still under construction.

This view is from the Yurikamome line

Information about how they did it

And the material is Glass-reinforced plastic

Home page of the project