A Vulne Pro visual gig

genocidalpenguin’s (Karl Östlund) original mecha design that he and I collaborated to adapt into the FOILjaeger Gottheitzerstorer for the Theos KE Polemos project.

Collaboration I did with MeganeRid (Ridwan Chandra).

Mecha design and illustration by MeganeRid

Colors by Vulne Pro (Mike Majestic)

My original Deviant Art posting can be found here: http://vulnepro.deviantart.com/gallery/4161499#/d29osvo

It’s been awhile since anything was posted on the Vulne Pro studio tumblr so I thought I’d share the EBEJEEBIES web comics we did back in 2004. They had a run on Coast to Coast AM.com

Here’s the first episode. Doesn’t look like it’ll display full resolution on tumblr so here’s the Deviant Art posting as well.

Cheers!

Inspired by Super Mario RPG, Star Ocean: The Second Story, and many more of my fondest memories playing role-playing games growing up.

My goal was to be funny, draw inventive designs with a lot of personality, and be a bit bolder and more unusual with color schemes.

Basically, these are the kinds of characters I would make if I was making a mecha-themed fantasy RPG.

-Nick (NIDARAM)

FRB-7 Cyclops (Force Reconnaissance Battliod)

More Robotech Masters (Southern Cross) mecha I illustrated (along with Nick Meridan handling other bots) for Palladium Books Robotech Masters RPG source book.

Original posting here with more info: http://vulnepro.deviantart.com/gallery/318018#/d1zrhmj

Upgraded Blue Bioriod Soldier (TBr-I Mk.Ia Neue Nous’ dohl)

One, of many Robotech Masters (Southern Cross) bots I illustrated (along with Nick Meridan working on other bots) for Palladium Books Robotech Masters RPG source book.

Original posting here with more info: http://vulnepro.deviantart.com/gallery/318018#/d1zql6b

This was the second collaboration between myself and Karl Östlund http://genocidalpenguin.deviantart.com/. Illustration and mecha design, by Karl, colors by me. This guy got a more pattern breaker camo and retained the same desert hues the Zidharta had.

Original Deviant art posting here: http://vulnepro.deviantart.com/gallery/4161499#/dgc48z

Photoshop 7.0 and Painter 9

Robotech/Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross Bioroid illustration, by Vulne Pro’s Nick Maradin, created for Palladium books Robotech Masters Saga RPG sourcebook.  Nice to see the art is getting around but re-posted to properly source it.

- Mike «*»

nickmaradin:

In February I submitted this entry for Udon Entertainment’s MEGA MAN TRIBUTE book, and it made it in! Now that the book has premiered at Comic Con, I have permission to post the piece online.

The book features over 300 artists paying tribute to one of video-gaming’s most cherished characters. I’m proud to have made the cut and am honored to be featured among so many fantastic artists. For my piece, I wanted to focus on a relatively unusual character (i.e. not just draw Mega Man or Zero). I decided to draw Tengu Man, one of my favorite Robot Masters doubly featured in “Mega Man 8” and “Rockman & Forte.” The illustration depicts a mecha-styled Tengu Man design in his stage from Mega Man 8, accompanied by a Tencrow and a trio of Metall SVs.

UDON has uploaded a number of the entries to their Deviantart gallery: http://udoncrew.deviantart.com/gallery/

You can also find the piece on my own Deviantart gallery:
http://nidaram.deviantart.com/#/d3n3dgk

Here’s how you can get your own copy:

MEGA MAN TRIBUTE LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER

-You can order the limited hardcover edition book at UDONstore.com (http://www.udonstore.com/Mega-Man-Tribute-HC-Udon-Store-Exclusive-p/mega-man-tribute-exclusive-hc.htm)


MEGA MAN TRIBUTE SOFTCOVER

-The standard softcover edition is also available for preorder on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1926778308?tag=udoent-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1926778308&adid=0DS0GBZB0YWZK4H62YZM&)

nickmaradin:

Robot DJ mascot commission for the San Francisco-based band SpekrFreks.

Band website (with links to Twitter, Myspace, FB, etc.): www.spekrfreks.com

The second robot is just a twin of the first, with some minor changes to the design.

You can also find this on my Deviantart: http://nidaram.deviantart.com/#/d45zq1s

Work I did for Palladium Books Macross Saga RPG souce book release.

https://palladium-store.com/1001/product/551-Robotech-Macross-Saga-Sourcebook.html

The art in the book was grayscale but I did a few in color, this being one of them. 

This piece was done pretty quickly using one of the basic Kawamori model sheets as a ref but still drawn by me by hand. I thought it would be kinda ace to see a Valkyrie breaking the sound barrier so that’s what I did. Also seemed amusing to make it one of those inspiration “join the so-and-so” type posters  Though it’s a Veritech here they’ll always be Valkyries to me.

©1985-2009 Harmony Gold USA, Inc.

©1981-2009 Palladium Books Inc.

Palladiumsbooks.com 
Robotech.com

Old pre-digital traditional media illo of a post apocalyptic walkabout gal and her stylish hover-bike… thing. Pencil illustration painted with Winsor & Newton transparent water colors. Still amazed my patience held doing those cracks in the ground.

This piece is the first collaboration I did with Karl Östlund http://genocidalpenguin.deviantart.com/ even before he asked to contribute to the Theos KE Polemos project and become a part of Vulne Pro studio. Illustration and mecha design, by Karl, colors by me.

It was his unique mecha design aesthetics that drew me to his work right away, reminding me of old school mecha designers like Kobayashi and Yokoyama. This is, of course, the same visual territory I love to inhabit  so I had to color one of his designs. From this piece on we have collaborated ever since.

Original Deviant art posting here: http://vulnepro.deviantart.com/gallery/4161499#/dfk6al

Photoshop 7.0 and Painter 9