Hey, wha? New Shadow Chronicles footage?! OOOH!

A fellow fan who wished to remain anonymous just pointed me towards the Kickstart Productions website, where they've posted a demo reel of productions they've been involved in that includes some never before seen footage from Robotech: The Shadow Chronciles -- at least, nothing that's appeared with this level of quality out on the 'net. Check it out here. Screen grabs of highlights appear in the ROBOTECH opening-style filmstrip on the left-hand side of your screen -- as always, click to enlarge.

I must say, there are some very interesting moments in there. Neat to see the Regess waving her arms and looking utterly pretentous, and the sequence where Marcus grabs a fellow pilot and throws him around is intriguing. Also love the way the bit with Louie and Maia wandering through the dark looks -- the way the sequence is lit gives off a feeling of being both modern and vintage. It's something about the colors and the way the background and foreground elements are highlighted. Seems fitting for Shadow Chronicles, doesn't it?

Kind of a shame, though, that the clip of representative animation from the Voltron remake looks significantly inferior to the Voltron combination sequence from the original TV series, which was animated in 1981. Something really wrong there.