#streaky background

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A new streaky background! This one doesn't have black borders!

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This stitch had the foreground mobile suit's body moving in parallax against the Kowloon Gundam, with its head drifting away from its body a bit. To minimize stitching pain, I chose the frame with a minimum amount of torso running all the way across the bottom of the frame, then stitched to that the frame with the most amount of torso. The rest of the image was pulled from whatever frame had the most of Kowloon Gundam; I didn't really care about the positioning of the head.

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Scimitar Gundam parries the blade right off the beam saber, but instead of collapsing, the beam saber blade maintains coherence and flies off into the night. How does that work?

Note that the background of the scene changes with the slash: No longer is this an epic moment. It's now a tragic tale of the beam saber blade flying off into the city. Martial Arts have been interrupted by reality.

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The left portion of the scimitar is infill painting on this diagonal pan, and thankfully there wasn't a need for much more of it.

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Saette makes the face that you get when you've wrapped your hand around a live wire.

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Another excellent action-shot pan of two mechs fighting. We do actually get the full shot of both mechs in a single frame, so I've just expanded the streaky background a bit with parts from other frames in the sequence.

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This was a cool shot, so I stretched the background gradient vertically for fun.

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Viewers of a certain modern-day Gundam show will know that Domon has seen the kira-kira, but Sai Saici has not.

Rain, too, has seen the kira-kira, but she brings grenades to a martial-arts fight. And she brings Elastigirl tweening. This image is just a single frame, not a stitch.