Thanks *everyone* for great shots and comments! We've had so far very good ideas, and will start designing the Earth Fleet ships based on your ideas.
We're going to need further assistance later on, and we'll put more specific tasks as we move along.
Great stuff!
In Iron Sky, the Earth will stand up and defend itself against the Nazi enemy. In 2018, many of the countries have developed their space program - maybe in the shadows, maybe in open - to also be able to engage in a fight in the orbit or in deep space, if necessary.
In this task, we need ideas for what the space ship of Japan would look like.
We'd request everything from descriptions to concept drawings, from crude ideas to finalized artwork - whatever is your game.
Few guidelines:
- The film is set in 2018 - so don't get over-excited on tech!
- There's no such thing as "interstellar travel" or "antigravity" invented.
- Be reasonable - try to be functional, and limit your ideas to feasible technologial advancements.
- For ideas, you can look for example the "Venture Star" -program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_Star
- Also, the ideas can be pretty wacky ones - maybe some huge project a country has been working on is, instead of being what it looks like, a battleship?
We've already discussed the weapons technology in the previous task:
http://www.wreckamovie.com/tasks/show/52
Maybe reading through the thumbed-up -shots (you can sort them in the task) would give some ideas as well.
Included you'll find some concept art of stuff our concept artist Jussi has done. You may use them non-commercially and share them with others, but not claim them your own or charge money from them. Here's more info on the CC-license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
As the licence in Iron Sky production requires, you need to give all the rights for derivative or original work you do for this task to the Iron Sky team for us being able to use them.
Go for it, people! Let's design the greatest space fleet in the history of film!
Oleg
April 21, 2009 14:14
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Well dont know if such an idea went to others brains but I think that Japanese battleships must be small & quik, hi-tech look + great functioning... For example they can be a part of something big one ( 3-5 battleships turns into something MUUCH bigger & deadliest - watch "Power Rangers" :) ) .Probably they can have some morphing structures or screens to make them look like other ships or objects ( hi-tech-hide&seek ^_^) Also they can use some hi-tech weapons such as lasers, IMP cannons & powershields as defence... Material must be some sort of metal+ceramics ( or analogical - ligt but hard to destroy)... and IMHO all the batleships must be with national Japan Flag on it becaurse Japaneese are wery proud of their country...
P.S As a secondary idea - names of the vessels must have some sort of "samurai" or philosophical names - "Bushido" "Sakura" "Banzai" or even "Kami Kadze" ( sorry if i pronounce some words incorrect & not loke they sound at Japaneese)...
In some Godzilla movie the Japanese had a single experimental green clumsy looking ship. It's main weapon was some weird energy cannon. Maybe an impoved version is in a hangar and waiting of a new Godzilla attack. This ship could be called the Big Lizard. I believe it's ookii tokage or something like that in Japanese. There could be these small lizard or monster symbols under it's main cannon, one for each monster that have been killed in Godzilla movies by a ship like this.
MajorD
July 01, 2009 03:26
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Luigi Colani designed an airplane for a Japanese company and I think that design would be rather awesome as inspiration for their ships. It looks like leaves, it's a crazy design and really says Japan to me. Or, anime, which is also Japanese.
Also, the bullet train is very Japanese. So, how about launching their ships by way of either bullet train or magnetic accelerator rail. The story can be that their research into magnetic levitation trains or bullet trains is really research into space launchers. One day, the Moon Nazis are on their way, and out of seemingly no where, stretches of Japanese rail lines angle upward, or shift to seemingly abandoned routes up the sides of mountains. All of a sudden, they launch space ships by the dozens!
As for giant walking robots, please avoid them as a serious weapon for the Japanese. Although, I have absolutely no doubt that some Japanese group or guy will build a fully functional giant walking combat robot, I doubt in the extreme it will be anything but a giant toy. That doesn't mean the guy won't try using it to fight, but their military won't have them, and it would do horribly. It would be a reverse of the idea that giant walking robots are somehow better than tanks and wheeled vehicles if the giant walking robot were to die from the first shot of the ground portion of the war.
I could see them having human size power armor, if we're assuming massive secret government spending. That would actually be practical, but not superior to tanks or armored fighting vehicles.
things are comin' up in my mind:
1.i agreed for what kris said 'bout abandoned spacecraft project in 2003.
2.The Japanese spacecraft design should be more like captain harlock's ship mixed to what we got now. Perhaps it so called,THE FUTURE IS NOW. SCI-FI things but still realistic kinda style.i know 2018 is not too far (thats why you wanted to be more realitic) but its still a sci-fi (eye catchy things ALWAYS HELPS!).And it would be looked much much cool to fight the nazis flying saucers (of course the naziz got the retro style,coz they 're bit lost contact to the earth).
3.EMP canon?
4.Fast enough to intercept
5.Or big (but not too big) spaceship carrier
6.Or the fleet should be like the way the fleet we know: mother spaceship carrier,battle(space)ship,cruiser,destroyer,interceptor vessel/fighter
7.The last thing but its THE IMPORTANT THING IS: The Japanese govermnt tried to bought the U.S. f22 raptor but they dont gave it. and the japanese govermnt said: " if we couldn't buy those raptors we'd like to build/developing our own". it started in 2010! that's what i've heard.
based on point 1&7 we could run point 2 to 6.
geeks/fanboys on earth are behind you!!
(null)
June 26, 2009 12:49
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If you want to be authentic, you might want to include this craft:
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/hope-x.html
It was supposed to be Japan's first manned spacecraft but it was abandoned in 2003 apparently.
EDIT: Apologies for posting on a closed task, I didn't notice the date at first and there's no delete option. Sorry. :-)
The japanese build human look-a-like robots, that can ride a bicycle, play football or do karate moves even in 2009, by 2018 they will have fully functioning robo servants ... which probably all look a lot like teenage school girls with extremely short skirts.
The japanise could use somekind of suicide vessels. Maeby an upgraded version of this:
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November 18, 2008 16:23
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Jykke
November 18, 2008 17:41
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Maybe the ships could could have the same feel as the aibo robot.
You can say that it does look like it was made in Japan.
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Has anyone played Red Alert 3? The Japanese army is very feudal/anime-styled, and has several transforming mecha units (a walking robot that transforms into a plane, for example) I'd like to see some Japanese planes come together to form a spaceship and fly into space to fight the nazis ;D
OMGs that's perv :) :)
Ships combining into a robot or a bigger ship isn't just Power rangers (or Super sentai as the original is called in Japan). It's a time honoured tradition in Japanese kids anime. If there will be a Japanese space fleet It NEEDS to spoof this. :D
I read a funny Power ranger spoof in the Sluggy freelance webcomic. When they tried to combine to the big robot everything went to hell, because the guy with the ship that made up the big robots crotch were in a shaggy bar banging a hooker or some such, so they couldn't attach the legs.
*slaps forehead*
Hybrid materials, yes.
Ship names, yeah.
But please, not the Power Rangers.