After 40 years of development, the gundam body has been very large, but those who designed them are often ignored by us, and many people may have heard of Kunio Ogawara and Uncle Ka at most, as well as some famous Ebaogawa in Recent Years. Let's briefly take stock of these designers who have paid silently, but it should be noted that the birth of some organisms may have been through the hands of many people, and I rely on subjective opinions on which designers these bodies should be attributed.
Kunio Okawara
Japan's first true mechanical designer, making mechanical designer an independent profession. The family has been engaged in machinery-related work for generations, so when he was a teenager, he always lived a life of using machinery as a toy. Sunrise's earliest original trilogy, "Samport 3", "Titan 3", and "0079", was designed by him. Due to the busy work, "0079" was basically only responsible for designing the gundam protagonist's body and exercising and cultivating new people.
Major works
RX-78-2, Steel Tank, Land Combat Gundam, F91, F90 Base Gear (26 equipment for Koichi Inoue proposal), Zagu I, Zaku II, Tiger, Big Demon, Ifrit,
God Gundam, Gundam X, W X, W, Seed, M1 Heresy, Stargazer, Pulse Gundam, Destiny Gundam, 0 Gundam, Ring Gundam
Kazumi Fujita
At the age of 21, he was promoted to the body designer of Gundam Z, and Kunio Ogawara greatly appreciated his design. Compared with the later deformation of various Gundam bodies, fujita's Z Gundam and Pumpkin Pie's deformed structure is exquisite, and it is still unparalleled in the entire Gundam series. However, at the time of the broadcast of the anime, Fujita was criticized by many people after the scene, and later in an interview Fujita spit bitterly that it was because Sunrise did not tell him that it was Amro's landline at that time.
Gundam Z, Baishi (based on Nagano's Z Gundam original case), Gundam Mk-II (based on Ogawara Kunihara's original case), Dijie, Pumpkin Pie (based on Ogawara Kuni's original case)
Koji Murakami
The first proposed the concept of superalloy, so it is known as the father of superalloy.
Spirit Power Gundam (actually the original Z Gundam case proposed by Murakami at that time)
Makoto Kobayashi
He was notable for publishing many original works in Hobby Japan, and later served as part of the body design in Gundam Z and Gundam ZZ.
Gundam ZZ (partly designed by Mika Akiyoshi, Hiroyuki North Paw, hideyoshi Okamoto, Gundam ZZ is by far the most difficult to give birth to the Gundam), The-O
Ming Gui Mei Jia
Because her name resembles a girl, she debuted on "Model Graphix" as a mechanical designer for active female high school students, and later lied on the radio that she was a big miss, but because she couldn't pretend to be an ordinary man, she blew herself up as just an ordinary man.
He mainly participated in the related airframe design of "Gundam ZZ" and "Gundam 0083", and later designed the protagonist machine of "Mobile Suit Fushi" and the protagonist machine of "Sakura Vs 3".
Kwai Mansa, Green Mantis, Gundam MK-V, Gundam GP04, Red Wildebeest
Yutaka Izubuchi
An iron fan of Space Battleship Yamato, he once joined the fan club. After engaging in mechanical design, he is mainly responsible for enemy airframes, and in addition to mechanical design, animation supervision is also involved. Initially, he supervised the anime as The Legend of the Winged Gods, and later became the chief supervisor of Space Battleship Yamato 2199.
Cow Gundam, Shazabi, Manatee Gundam, Nightingale (based on Nagano's original case), NT-1, Dragon Fly, Jaegon, Lingus, Kyohofan, Kapoor
Yasuyasu Moriki
In addition to mechanical design, there will also be character design, like freaks more than heroes. He worked on the theatrical version of Detective Conan and was also responsible for the airframe design in the recent Episodes of GlitterIng Hathaway and Creator ComeBack.
Cauchy Gundam, Great White Goose, Mesa
Hajime Katoki (Uncle Ka)
Known for the large number of airframe designs in Gundam Outpost, he is a cobbler who specializes in secondary creations and is one of Bandai's most valued mechanical designers besides Kunio Ogawara. The Gundam finished FIX series, the MG Ver.Ka series of gundam models, and the HGUC series all have a lot to do with it.
According to Uncle Ka, when "0079" was hot, he immediately went to buy 1/144 78 and Shayazagu, and the result has been struggling with how to transform the best, during the hesitation, "Z" began to play, and then it has been tangled, until 30 years have passed, the two models are still lying in the model box without moving.
S Gundam, Gundam GP03D, V Gundam, V2 Gundam, Pirate Gundam series (Hasegawa is also involved), B3 Tiger, Apsaras, Unicorn series, Shin-Anju, Chatili,
W each little strong EW series, Torukis, Venerable Gundam, Nobel Gundam, Demon Gundam
Masahiko Asano
He was mainly a magazine editor and led the serial series of the Gundam Outpost series.
Z-PLUS
Shoji Kawamori
Famous for the three-stage deformer VF-1 in Chrono Fortress, it excels at the design of deformed structures.
Up to GP01, up to GP02
Kimiri Yamane
Mechanical designer, mainly involved in the "G", "08MS", "Seed" series of airframe design.
Up to EZ8
Fujioka Kenki
He mainly designed the airframe for the novel "AOZ" series and "Gravity Front".
Up to TR Series
The shape is flat
Mainly for "G-Self" in addition to G-Self body, "MOON" and "Iron Blood" for the body design.
Moon Gundam, Gushin heavy forging, Simonley series
Sydney Jay Mead
An American industrial designer who has participated in the mechanical design of films such as "Alien 2", "2012", "Mission Impossible 3" and was invited by Bandai to participate in the body design of "Inverted A Gundam".
Invert A Gundam, Invert X Gundam, Sumo
Akutsu Junichi
He mainly participated in the airframe design of "Gear Warrior Electric Boy", "Seed Astray" series, "Rebel Lulu xiu" and so on.
Red and blue heretics
Takeshi Ebikawa
Since childhood, he has been a Gundam fan, and when the "0079" Gundam is hot, because the model always sells out quickly, he and his friends will go to different stores to search, and during the class, they will entrust their mothers to help find it. Later, he mainly designed the body for the protagonists of "Full Metal Frenzy", "Gundam Age" and "00".
Noh Angel, Goddess of Justice, Gundam 00, Regeneration Gundam, GN-X, Age Series
The vulture tail is straight and wide
He was mainly involved in the body design of "Iron Blood" and two "Creators".
Barbatos, Bayeux
Akira Yasuda
He entered the industry because of his admiration for Yasuhiko, but as a result, he engaged in game art design in Capcom, and trained a large number of excellent art designers for Capcom. After independence, he worked on the body design of "Inverted A" and "G-Self" at the invitation of Tomino. However, his biggest achievement was actually the design of Street Fighter 2, and the Chunli image of the bun head that we are familiar with was born in his hands.
G-Self
Junya Ishigaki
A mechanical designer who debuted under a pseudonym, he participated in the design of the airframe of "Alien Armor" and several Gundam films.
Zannick
Keiyuki Yanase
He has participated in many game-related mechanical designs, Gundam has mainly participated in the "0079 Apocalypse" and "00", and in recent years, he has drawn the comic version of "The Heir of Xia Ya BeiJie" with Zuo Ling Xuanqiu, and is responsible for the body design.
"00" in addition to the moment of 3 small strong body
Fu di Ren
Junior high school began to become a Gundam fan, and there were queues all night to buy the weapons kits of the original 78. From the beginning of "ZZ", the design of the model assembly manual, text writing, etc., but it was not until the "00" series responsible for the gundam body setting that the desire was satisfied, in addition to the representative work "Magic Machine God".
Fully armored NT-1, Battle Flag Series, AEU Prototype Series
The Gundam designers with normal painting styles are introduced, and finally introduce two gundam body designers who are not doing business and one who has experienced strange things
Yuki Tomino
The father of Gundam, he was involved in the animation production of Asy Boy under Osamu Tezuka, and the "Gundam" series and "King Eden" produced after entering Sunrise are his most well-known works. During the production of "0079", due to the fact that Clover wanted to have different kinds of enemies appear, it was forced to design a bunch of airframes, which began to appear in the anime 26 after passing through Kunio Ogawara. Since it is not a special body designer, the shape designed by Tomino is generally more peculiar, and later in an interview, Kunio Ōkawara said that if he was allowed to design it, he would definitely continue the unified style according to the shape of Zagu and tiger, and I am afraid it will not be as colorful as it is now.
Jim, Warriors, Iron Ball, Gion, Demon Lord, Aquatic Legion
Yuichi Kayatanigawa
The manga artist began to draw "Pirate Gundam" after receiving the original TV plan of 26 episodes of F91 provided by Tomino, but it is unknown whether the plot was the original script of F91, and the sequels "Seven of Steel", "Ghost" and "Dust" were completely created by him. Hasegawa's Pirate Gundam series is characterized by a brain-opening plot, we often suffer heavy casualties, the two generations of protagonists are not only father-in-law killers but also disabled, all the protagonists are Lolita control.
Since the pirate Gundam Bandai needed to make models, the machine was mainly left to Uncle Ka (hashtani and other weapons designs also had actual intervention), and the enemy airframe Hasegawa completely released itself, so that it was once praised as difficult to model. In the latest Pirate Gundam Dust, there are settings such as iron ball motorcycles, edible Gundam, and Gundam cooks (researching how to cook Gundam better). However, his drawing of The Seven of Steel is undoubtedly the best of all Gundam comics.
Dilitos (the first Jupiter body in the Pirate Gundam series to be modeled), Amakusa (an enemy body equipped with amro AI, and finally saved the protagonist after escaping enemy control)
Nagano Go
Tomino and die-hard fans of "0079", who have joined the "0079" fan club, prefer the Gion system, and have read the "New Century Animation Manifesto" for the theatrical version of "0079" as a fan representative. Known for his exquisite mechanical setting and more serious drag than Yoshihiro Fuken, he set too many lines and too serious personal style, which is a nightmare for animation writers and toy designers.
Nagano dropped out of college to join Sunrise at the age of 24, and was selected by Tomino as the airframe designer for Heavy Fighter L Kem just four months later. During the cooperation, he and Tomino went on TV together to promote it, and were asked by the program to draw the body line, but nagano had not finished drawing after the end of the program.
Nagano was later designated by Tomino as the main body designer of Gundam Z, and although the original Z Gundam case was not directly adopted, the original case was reborn under the name of Hyakushi after being modified by Kazumi Fujita, and Nagano Gou also re-modified the original case and reappeared under the name of Rick Dias. However, for Gundam fans at the time, it was impossible to have a good feeling about our Rick Dias (Gamma Gundam) designed as Nagano Go with the Gion style, so a large number of the bodies designed by Nagano Go were considered scrapped.
A year later, Nagano was selected by Tomino as the body designer of Gundam ZZ, and his design of the ZZ Gundam was considered by the sponsors to be completely invisible to the Gundam and was demoted.
After a while, he was selected by Tomino as the airframe designer of "Counterattack Xiaya", but his design concept conflicted with other staff members and voluntarily quit.
Rick Díaz, Cabini, Hambrabi, battleship Agama
ZZ Gundam original case designed by Nagano Goku
Nagano's Naya landline Naitiengeaile designed for "Counterattack Xiaya" (9.30 update, the information written before was wrong, thanks to the 36th floor netizen "Nakaji Sequence 520 Type" for providing information).
In January 2007, a poster for NewType featured a green body named ナハトガル (Nahatgall), which Nagano had not designed at the time of Nagano's Akira. In December 2009, the color scheme was changed to a red machine.
The specific information of this body can be viewed http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~fssfreak/naganoMS/ZION.htm#zion1
Nagano's Amro landline Hi-S Gundam for Strike Back Xia
Hi-S Gundam has long been known as the "phantom body" of the Gundam, as Nagano has never revealed any of its design sketches. However, last year, the painting supervisor of "Counterattack Xiaya" Yingmin Omori announced the design of the fuselage on Twitter, although the relevant news was immediately deleted because it was not authorized by Nagano Go, but the netizens with fast hands were saved immediately.
Incidentally, because of the birth of Hi-S Gundam, perhaps for the sake of the unification of the worldview, Uncle Ka's "イオタ Gundam" designed for "Gundam Outpost" was renamed "S Gundam".
In addition, because of the "EVA" fire, Hideaki Anno actually served as a mechanical designer in "Counterattack Xiaya" and participated in the body bidding of the Cow Gundam, and it is said that the following picture is the Design of the Cow Gundam, and the head that is very long as the Hyakushiga is its characteristic.
Above, the main Gundam designers have been introduced. So the question is, which Gundam designers do you most admire? Can you tell what their designs are like?