Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 / ZAYAZ - Afterburner

[@kindlingking]

I'm convinced Madox was just some animator REALLY wanting to draw an amazing looking mecha machinery with everything else being haphazardly thrown together afterwards.

[@andrewowens4421]

It does seem the whole OVA is about showing off cool mechanics with the "plot" being haphazardly thrown out there in order to fill time. Not to say it isn't worth it to see those cool mechanics. But that's _all_ there is to see really.

[@john-Ro]

I'm not gonna complain.

[@kendrakirai]

I mean it was Shinji Aramaki. The guys got a huge history of mecha shows with more sakuga than sense.

[@jimwatson1013]

Mid 80s Japan was so rich with their strong economy that passion projects were plenty. How we got things like Robot Carnival and the OAV boom. So incredibly possible that it was just for the mech animation.

[@sina697alpha]

If you pay it, You will get it. Engineers will be very glad to provide every detail of mecha, clearly the technology of 50 years ahead. Perhaps the AI CG drawing will run through long route back to the hand-painted itself.

[@3dartxsi]

I'm not usually one to go on about "the good old days" on any subject, but goddamn, the eighties and nineties was a golden age of ridiculously detailed, high quality anime.

[@VoidedEmptiness]

Yep, even some of the technology is stuff people are experimenting with or making prototypes of for VR instead what they were designed for in the anime but that can be done for IRL later with less physical consequences.

[@mandrac2]

Yeah... i need more of this... Sci fi need more grounded hard sci fi stuff like this. Why arn't they making those anymore?

[@commanderoftheratlegion3181]

Let’s just all remember that it isn’t the motivation or effort on the part of the design teams or animators that has gone down but the increased pressure from companies to make more in a much smaller timeline on a much smaller budget

[@bikehunter82]

To this day...... the, "Snow Base Raid Scene" from the original "Spriggan"..... I watch it once a year and continuously have to say out loud, "this was drawn by hand".

[@subtlewhatssubtle]

@@commanderoftheratlegion3181 Indeed, it's not the fault of the artists, it's the fault of corporations crunching the artists to death. Ironically, now living the dystopian cyberpunk nightmare that was animated back in the day.

[@Samtastrophi]

The fidelity of kinetics in hand drawn animation is sorely missed in the modern genre

[@paprigunchikXB360]

back then it was quality over quantity. now its the other way around, everywhere you look.... even worse is that wand something decent? pay premium price for mid tier shit at best.

[@KJ-ho6sb]

so much

[@HOSAS_Gaming]

This is sad because with digital animation, it would be far easier to achieve a higher level of fidelity mechanics but we rarely see them

[@Samtastrophi]

@@HOSAS_Gaming I'm not an expert on animation so could you explain why that is?

[@HOSAS_Gaming]

@@Samtastrophi Because digital is the tool the engineers use to design the machines

[@j4ck3t]

Using real life engineering into the mechs make them so believable. Sunrise studio has a few Gundam shows where they underline this as well and those are always my favorite to watch.

[@crispy_338]

08th MS is the most realistic that I’ve seen

[@12AcreSunshine]

@@crispy_338 thats why its my favorite

[@dayaninikhaton]

I dont have a BA or Masters in ME. I WISH I could design things remotely as well as this with my 3D modeling skills

[@crispy_338]

@@dayaninikhaton You don’t need an engineering degree to design stuff like this. An industrial engineering degree would help but being a good artist and visionary is more important

[@j4ck3t]

@@dayaninikhaton You should pick up a reference book for animating mechanical parts! There are tons of reference books that show how things work and how to animate/draw it.

[@darkninjacorporation]

“Cassette Futurism” might’ve been the most incredible aesthetic for sci-fi in general. No matter how old it gets, it *still* looks futuristic! It honestly feels less believable seeing so much sci-fi with touch screens, holograms or neural implants or something. There’s something about wires, switches, latches and hydraulics that just feels like it may still become real.

[@Gillymonster18]

I work around military aircraft: cassette futurism is very real. “All glass cockpits” are a thing as far as displaying information goes, and there might be some integrated touch screens but it’s not for anything critical. Well worn seats, scratched steel joysticks, triggers, safeties, Chunky, clicky, buttons, switches and knobs are still front and center.

[@Литрович]

Славно бы, только дороговато выйдет собрать такой экзоскелет-броню... ={

[@porterbennett7041]

​@@Литровичprobably I think the hardest thing would being how to power the damn thing. I don't think the cost would be out of this world, expensive yes but probably as expensive as a jet or a modern tank. With more maintenance.

[@Литрович]

@@porterbennett7041 согласен, в данный момент самая большая проблема - это отсутствие достаточной ёмкого аккумулятора

[@MorphBaller388]

@@porterbennett7041One word: NUCLEAR.

[@tiagocrypto]

As far as i know, the director of this movie was a mechanical designer himself. On top of that he hired the mecha designer for gundam series. The result is just perfection. So beautiful

[@aspopulvera9130]

whoever animated this, is a mechanical engineering person

[@InternetGravedigger]

This was an anime back in the 80's, and according to a comment I came across years ago, it was technically feasible with the technology we had at the time... the attention to detail was unreal.

[@junreaksaa]

Thing about those days People want it to be as authentic as it can be.

[@thenoisyninja]

I have a pet theory that the reason me has anime is so good is because Japan was pushing its education system to focus on mechanical engineering. A lot of manga art supplies are the same as those used in mechanical and architectural drafting back in the 70’s and 80’s.

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

​@@InternetGravedigger it would've probably had like 30 seconds of fuel time and I'm sure there weren't motors with enough torque that were small enough for it

[@orcastrike7750]

None of this shit is remotely accurate in an engineering sense 😭

[@fajarastanaprima2771]

The detail, the movement, just really great. The effort to make such visual, just crazy

[@blaxpoitation8528]

Insane bro. Damn I miss the stunning visual beauty of 80’s & 90’s anime. Throw in that synthwave music, and you got yourself a certified masterpiece

[@kazunoriN]

The quality of the animation is still surprising than today.

[@bastage5932]

Since the move to digital production in animation, I feel like the floor for quality has been raised, but the ceiling for that quality has also gotten a lot lower. It's improved somewhat in the last 5 years or so, but we still haven't seen the kind of quality and fidelity we got from the best anime of the 80s and 90s.

[@UnboludoCualquira]

Yeah, Even one of the Best animated animes of today "fate" doesnt habe Even half of the absurd amount of details that this animation has, and it whas made like 30 years ago ​@@bastage5932

[@yellowprime8491]

Gotta thank the 80's bubble economy of Japan. Studios were thrown crazy money and purchasing power was a lot higher.

[@boi7316]

The last modern Cel animation I've seen is the Redline movie

[@rhiethreal]

The 80s and 90s had the best animation in history. Things went downhill from there because they started relying more and more on computers.

[@RyMaNF0v]

This is my ASMR, man I miss the good old days. Everything from the designs, fluid movement of the animation, and killer soundtrack. 🧑🏻‍🍳💋👌🏻

[@森蝦密]

0:51 California girls We′re unforgettable

[@白丸-h7s]

すげえな90年代アニメ

[@ああああああ-y7f]

昔、ビデオテープ持ってました。１万円ちょっとした様な？ 知り合いに貸したらそれっきり・・・ メタルスキンパニック マドックス01　Huluで観れるみたいです。

[@ironclad4451]

armored core 6 was a good game, but I feel like the armored core series desperately needs the grittiness and character that retro mecha anime brought to the table.

[@alterac1541]

It's even crazier to know the one that animate the mechanical sequence is Hideaki Anno. The creator of Evangelion himself

[@fungisrock8955]

It all makes sense now, my mind goes back to the part in Eva where Ritsuko goes and unhacks the supercomputers and has to take it apart to climb inside first. Both are basically mech/tech hentai.

[@MrBratkenSolov]

Evangelion is overrated

[@n0isyturtle]

This entire sequence is dope as fuck. Hand drawn frame-by-frame in 1987 Damn, that attention to detail is just crazy.

[@Demonskunk]

Man, I miss this stuff. The high detail hand-animated machinery of the 80s and 90s really just has a feel to it that modern CG can’t match.

[@KCJbomberFTW]

This was made in 2016

[@gorden2500]

​@@KCJbomberFTW Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 aired in 1987 dude

[@pinkpenzu]

​@@KCJbomberFTWsit down kid

[@TRDGE]

it's a damn SHAME that we don't get more mech anime like this anymore. Imagine if Gundam internal mechanics were showcased this way.

[@funky_dude709]

It blows my mind how incredibly talented these animators were. This was 1987. Before you could just google a quick reference image or have access to vast digital libraries. Imagine how cool it would have been to just walk into the room(s) where all this was happening.

[@haritmohansaxena732]

they would straight out ignore us, too busy to notice...

[@sunso1991]

I couldn't believe Madox was a one episode anime. Just what all that builtup and detail for 1 episode?! I need moooore

[@plixplop]

Wow, not only the animation but the sound design is on point too. All the mechanism SFX sound heavy duty, precise and fit the environment they're set in

[@LordRaine]

The worst part about this is that a lot of the techniques and methods for drawing like this have either been lost or are starting to be lost, because it's such a specialized field. All the old masters are dead, dying, or retired, and most of them didn't pass on what they knew. The industry didn't think it needed to BE passed on. The same thing is happening in the practical effects industry in the West. We're only just now starting to realize the limitations of CGI and computer effects, but we may not be able to immediately jump back to these older levels of quality. You forget and lose everything you don't make an effort to preserve. And that includes artisan skills.

[@tylermorgan5230]

Yes couldn't have said it better myself

[@DoctorPhileasFragg]

@@tylermorgan5230 Then why didn't you?

[@tylermorgan5230]

@@DoctorPhileasFragg he beat me too it

[@DoctorPhileasFragg]

​@@tylermorgan5230 I'm not sure if you realize that I was mocking your grammar

[@lux2625]

You are an exaggerator. These techniques and drawings have not been lost to time. It still exists and the information is still available, it's just that companies don't want to use it and prefer to use modern technology. It's like what happens with disney, is their hand drawn animation lost knowledge? no, they can make a hand drawn animated movie again. But they prefer to make animated movies made by computer, faster to make and their workforce is just made up of 3d experts because that's what they are looking for nowadays.

[@Alpharius93]

I did not expect this in my feed today but omg I needed some good ol' hyperdetailed engineering anime with synthwave ASMR. Thanks for putting this together!

[@hanahakiblank]

You're welcome 😊

[@kaoru288]

this level of detail reminds me the reason as to why everyone loved Iron Man 1. seeing all those mechanical details move in tandem and would make sense as to why theyre there and all form into the suit seamlessly, tis leagues better than the future iterations of the suit

[@mitchjames9350]

The attention to detail Anime in the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s had.

[@BigdaddyBigfoot-km9hr]

Oh this is back in the days of the 90s pornographic levels of robotic details. Every button every switch every knob has a purpose that you can figure out just looking at. A far step from the later Gundam series where it's a two-button joystick that were supposed to believe pilots are maneuvering these giant robots with perfect human movement

[@ptassa270]

Animations like these do a good job of making mechs like that feel like real machines.

[@blaxpoitation8528]

An awesome, visually magnificent piece of anime nostalgia here. Gyat damn I miss the intricacy and attention to detail of 80’s and 90’s anime. Throw in that synthwave music, and we got a certified hood classic. Beautiful.

[@GuiltyOSheep]

Miss when Japan had a fetish for making crazy stuff, a hard on for details on details and you know all those frames were made from literal sleepless nights. 80s/90s Japan artists/animators had some hardcore passion Thanks for sharing means a lot! ; )

[@hanahakiblank]

❤😊

[@1moblin2]

Japanese technology, innovation, creativity, designs, engineering, electronics, ideas, animations, anime, schematics, cultures, traditions, art style & direction, food, video games, gaming consoles, smart phones, cameras, TV's, headphones, computers, movie production films, cars, hell everything Japanese people create are the most out of this world Greatest Stuff to Ever Exist......Long Live Japan!

[@TeoTH80]

It pains me to think that no matter how much our technology advances, animation will NEVER look this good EVER AGAIN.

[@cmbaz1140]

sadly when it comes to humans ...yes. However once AI reaches a certain level everybody can and will be able to use it to make their dream animes the way they always wanted to... We will see an explosion of true creative anime content

[@guyfromboracay]

@@cmbaz1140I always keep hearing this same line from AI proponents, but at the rate it’s going I’m super skeptical of that claim. AI can’t even get finger poses right, so, I have my doubts it can do something as visually dynamic as this even in the long term.

[@ShawshankLam]

@@guyfromboracayFinger posing is not longer a problem for AI….emmmm…a year ago……

[@guyfromboracay]

@@ShawshankLam yeah, I’m unfortunately exposed to the latest AI generated images and the only thing that’s improved… well, nothing really. It’s still the same over-rendered, overly-colorful, overly-detailed, mishmashed products from a year ago. Still skeptical. 😐

[@ShawshankLam]

@@guyfromboracay Those are rookie level usage of AI image generators if you can tell it's AI-generated. For the skilful artists with AI tools, you can't really tell the difference.

[@DeterminedGoat]

There's more animation in this sequence than an entire episode of a lot of series that come out these days

[@sticky170]

So much detail and it looks totaly functional.

[@Xport9]

Love the pure spectacle in the Olden Days and attention to the Craft. Now, the anime we get are all made in Power Point. Sheesh.

[@bikehunter82]

....and this was all hand drawn.... amazing.

[@wakamoto361]

animes with METAL and PANIC tend to have the craziest animations for no reason whatsoever

[@mr.libluckiestinfinitebene2589]

Animations back then always GREAT GOODNESS

[@madoxb9555]

As Madox, and a mechanical engineer, I’m happy to carry on the torch

[@MarwinO3]

That's badass. I miss this type of animation the gritty mature mecha feel.

[@EarlHare]

For me its the shadows. They are so much more realistic than anything made in modern 3d software, they completely capture that fuzziness and the contrast between light and dark. It's hard to explain, i'm not an art nerd sorry, there's just something about these scenes that tricks my brain into believing it might be real or traced from a photograph or something.

[@DarkCamui]

Oh damn the 80s era when animators graduated from mechanical design school or learned from Kawamori like designs. Wait didn't the artist and director for this go on to make Appleseed?

[@RealNotallGaming]

80s level

[@_Jay_Maker_]

When you wanted to go to school for Animation, but your parents made you go to school for Engineering.

[@stratometal]

I had seen this ages ago, and when Iron Man came out and they did the same detailed techpron, I knew I was not the only one in love with such a technological visual spectacle. Masterpiece.

[@SrAntonio301]

This era of anime is never coming back

[@alexburr7970]

Old anime is superior. All those details... Just o my god!

[@abduljilanids]

This movie has so many iconic scenes that I still find in video games and movies.

[@satoshiprinston9184]

なんだろう、手につけるセンサー類をテープで留めてたり完全に電子化していない部分や吸気口？の網とか小さいロックだから2個付いてるんだとか、矢印が赤く目立つように表記されてるなとか、妙にリアリティがあってすごいな あくまでも人間が使用することをベースに考えられてる

[@LinkiePup]

I’m not the biggest anime fan, but there’s something about 80’s Mecha-anime that just… hits that part of my brain that leaves me in awe. Maybe it’s because these are all hand drawn, and now-a-days would end up being cgi?? idk.

[@Lavendeer201]

Why do I keep seeing you everywhere lol! Mishmash, on the gw streams, stop following me lmao 😂

[@ILoveYou-uj3vs]

80s anime looks like this ?😱 Wooooww 👍👍👍👍

[@waskithonugroho3955]

not all like this

[@SpankzVonSpankington]

This art style and those old animes are why Im still obsessed with mechs and human piloted machines

[@grebodya]

Как же я люблю японский техно-фетишизм в старых аниме, каждый механизм прорисован ❤

[@joseaca1010]

I dont know why YT recommended me this, but i just realozed something, the intro of Metal Gear 2 is heavily inspired by this anime

[@the_blue_dragon_bd]

proof that anime peaked in the late 80s-90s

[@maxis_scott_engie_maximov_jr]

The amount of mechanical details that were hand-drawn, my eyes are melting from the awesomeness

[@chthulu27]

I have never seen the sort of hyper-articulate work this represents in any medium other than anime.

[@themidnightbanshee5927]

It is baffling to watch this and just well I'm at a loss for words cause this is on another level

[@feb1839]

yall, its not better because its hand drawn, its better because the people who made it were masters of their craft, and cared deeply for what they were making. the reason why we rarely see things on this level anymore isn't about weather its drawn on a screen or a cell, its that the industry in its current state doesn't allow for passion project like this

[@justinpeterson7246]

That was beautiful 😍

[@fl00fydragon]

This is definitely the fetish of one of the animators Gods bless them for that

[@genir-uc7bh]

1:16 Animators used Mike Oldfield albums as technical captions, nice

[@boi7316]

Huh?

[@animationcycles7109]

Awesome! Someone else noticed. :D I just happened to leave a slightly more detailed "hunt" on how to find it, in a comment I just left. Yeah it's a fun little Easter egg. Too bad when I first caught it in the late 1980s, there wasn't any internet (google) to decipher it. Found out a few years ago, going " huh...I wonder...(google search) on all the key words. :D

[@Spudtron98]

Looks like someone had good taste in music.

[@Ocram-marco-y4c]

The drawing is better than in the modern one piece Change my mind

[@vice.nor.virtue]

Why isn't there anything that looks like this anymore? The anime of the 80s and 90s was built different and it felt different and it hit _different_

[@l1ghtd3m0n3]

Back when everything was experimental and artistic and not profit-driven like the new anime industry. The passion here shows in all the painstaking detail they went into.

[@maikeldekwant]

This has that metal slug feel to it :3

[@ashade2877]

You know, it would be awesome to have a compilation of animation and sounds like this. There is something very satisfying and incredible about both the animation and sound effects

[@duraeusentenu]

You'll never get this quality of animation again

[@sharky-1992]

That middle finger was priceless

[@rojingavril3197]

И всё сделано вручную. Сейчас даже имея технологии не могут повторить что могли в 80-х.

[@Koz4k]

Pure art

[@queefcheif9306]

i love old mechashows, i wanna see how people invision humans being intergrated into a machine

[@oatmeal3013]

as much as i love gundam, i adore the intricately detailed and purely cold and grey aesthetics of this style of mech.

[@electroeel148]

For an engineer, this was monsterous. For an animator, this was absolutely brilliant.

[@승패판독기]

확실히 요즘 애니랑은 비교가 안된다 시대를 초월한 하이퀄리티다

[@bigshan5806]

Glad to have grown up when this was IT. Robotech was my morning cartoon, then technoman. Such a lvl of dedication to art was truly amazing

[@MILDMONSTER1234]

Power armor exoskeletons are underrated in anime. Sometimes I think they are cooler then large mechs

[@brianbergmusic5288]

This hand-drawn montage makes me imagine that if you gave this animation to a crew of engineers and industrialists (with a fat budget) that this weapon could ACTUALLY be created. And ZAYAZ *Afterburner* being paired with this... chef's kiss. Radically inspiring badassery in the Deus Ex-Machina spectrum!

[@vevans0009]

Engineer: "We have all the materials to construct one and even work. The problem we are trying to solve is HOW to get the pilot to safely handle it without getting crushed."

[@_kazu1444]

これが当時手描きだったのがまた凄い。 現代でこれ再現しろって言ったらどこのスタジオもCGで誤魔化すでしょう。

[@鍋-j5r]

分かる、CGが悪いとは言わんけど セル画の最高品質には比べられへん

[@connorcooke1502]

This is basically how I thought power armor in fallout would work like

[@rosem7538]

0:16 Sound spirit Gun 👉

[@AnuragTumma]

This is simply superb, now one of my favourite videos

[@hanahakiblank]

Wow, thanks!

[@KevinStPerea]

Y por eso soy fan de las series de mechas ya sea los robots, la parte política, la militar o la trama siempre con el realismo imaginativo que se puede. Uff

[@darkwulf4862]

I love this, the fantastic detail.

[@racineg33]

This is my kind of ASMR. All the wizz pops, clankity clanks, bop bip bop, fwooosh...etc. Let's not forget how mecha animations like that are a rare breed. Top notch. Gonna have to find this anime, hope there's a good english dub.

[@Th3ba1r0n]

This should be a genre of anime ASMR. :3 Mechanical Suit montage.

[@RexWort]

*Old anime:* Inspires you to turn fiction to reality *New anime:* Inspires you to forever be alone

[@archentity]

The artwork is so good that the thumbnail looks cg.

[@Dem_Can]

i make sure to crank a few ones to this video every time whenever i catch it on my other social media feeds thanks broder

[@noahdigit430]

This takes a ~somewhat~ grounded approach, it being more of a exosuit-mecha hybrid concept (Mecha are often way to oversized, square-cube law and such). love the attention to detail, Sci-fi needs more credit than it deserves.

[@sassysaddles9981]

Details are crazy, i miss good old days

[@rashawnjackson9489]

....😶🤔 Is it just me, or did anyone else catch that part where the pilot might've flipped the bird.... I think it was at 2:03 🤔

[@magnum7385]

I wish animation was still this good. The CGI nightmare ala Berserk 2016 makes this look all the better.

[@vapa117]

Growing up animes like this is what got me into engineering.

[@hewhoshallnotbenamed5168]

You just don't see this level of detail in anime anymore.

I love this! every.. freaking.. second..

[@icefire5799]

Perfect scify player outfitting/engineering music

[@KENDRICKREVIEWZ]

Buried in a metal coffin No room to move Need to be naked Sealed inside Forever

[@truth-12345.]

Getting stuck and compressed in that mecha when it is being hit is terrifying.

[@GiGatoQ]

Studio artmic. I just found the anime author, there's a lot of retro anime. Thanks for the anime title

[@Duraltia]

They *_RARELY_* make Animes like this anymore 😭