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Federico Makabenta (yenm@iconn.com.ph)
Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:06:34 +0800
He's also the chara designer for Macross, Macross II and Macross Plus. Very
skilled with watercolor as a medium. He has a lot of illo compilation books.
Have a question too... didn't he do the chara designs for V Gundam as well?
Fed
----- Original Message -----
From: -Z- <z@gundam.com>
To: <gundam@aeug.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 12:32 PM
Subject: RE: [gundam] Mikimoto art
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gundam@1u.aeug.org [mailto:owner-gundam@1u.aeug.org]On
> > Behalf Of Juan Alberto B. Mercado
> > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 00:39
> > To: gundam@aeug.org
> > Subject: [gundam] Mikimoto art
> >
> > I'm asking this cause I really don't know...
> >
> > Looking throught the net I've seen lots of UC Gundam illustrations by
> > Haruhiko Mikimoto. In fact, I think they're the most numerous of all
> > UC pictures I've seen.
> >
> > Why are there so many Mikimoto drawn Gundam pictures out there (not
> > that I'm ungrateful. I love his designs) Just puzzled.
>
> CD and book cover art, mostly, plus the odd "splash page" magazine
illustration.
>
> Mikimoto started out as a Gundam fan, doing a strip for Gundam Century
that was
> so much like Yasuhiro Yoshikazu that, on first sight, I thought it was
his. So,
> when the opportunity came up to do Gundam illustrations professionally,
Mikimoto
> didn't hesitate.
>
> He's done pencil sketch mini-posters for every Gundam the Movies book and,
of
> course, was the character designer for Gundam 0080, for which he also did
a lot
> of promotional art.
>
> -Z-
>
>
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