Cover Artwork for the Giant Robot FM Podcast

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This was a 2022 commission for the hosts of Giant Robot FM, a podcast covering the history of mecha anime, games & related media. I was a guest on the podcast for the 11th Episode of their Turn A Gundam watchalong, Moonrace Wireless, which you can listen to on their patreon.

The brief asked for an image that could double for both a Social Media banner as well as the actual cover of the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc. Idea was an idealised workspace, with images referencing various properties the podcast has covered or may cover in the near future. This was inspired by an Armored Core postcard from 1997, and promotional artwork for Picross3D.

The scene is set within an O'Neill cylinder, and a Macross Valkyrie fighter & Zaku II are both on the prowl outside. Here's the full catalogue of items on the desk! (Left to right)

  • Haro Lamp, Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
  • Amuro's doll, Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
  • Hourglasses & Telephone, from The Big O (1999)
  • Hot-San & Cold-San, from Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022)
  • Playstation 3 Controller
  • A Nineball (Armored Core)
  • Loran's Fish Toy, Turn A Gundam (1999)
  • Sensei Mug, Planet With (2018)
  • Operation V Manual, Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
  • Rayhunton Pendant, Gundam Reconguista in G (2015)
  • A succulent tomato
  • An SD Turn A Gundam (which I happen to have on my desk!)
  • A Toughbook; these show up in several shots in the Evangelion Rebuilds and have a neat casette futurist design. It is running a Ravens Nest OS (Armored Core)
  • Shinji's Casette Player, Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
  • A Gunbuster figure/model kit
  • ...which is standing on top of a Super Nintendo, with the original Front Mission cartridge.
  • CD of the Macross Plus soundtrack (it occurs to me this O'Neill resident does not own a CD player)