When will this be released?
Also I found this: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-80323.html. Might help.
ive known about this font for a while, sadly it isnt the one, the original ffont was ound recently in a typography book ,but no one ever scanned it, and the thread is long gone sadly, and my backups of the photos where lost
Do you remember the name of the typography book or where it was found? It may be possible to find it on the way back machine. Also you may want to look into the Japanese Megazone 23 Blu-ray boxset, one of the discs in the boxset has the Streamline dubbed version of part II with optional Japanese subtitles meaning clean Robotech The Movie opening and ending animation (sans the scrolling text starfield) and it’s progressive unlike the DVD included with the Limited Edition release of Aoi Garland which was interlaced, I actually have the m2ts file for it backed up as I’ve been wanting to do my own remaster/preservation of Robotech The Movie but still need a few elements to make it, one is the Southern Cross series (I will not use the most recent DVD releases from A&E/Lionsgate, they’re too compressed and honestly I really don’t want to use the ADV remastered footage, that leaves the R2 DVDs which were mentioned to be not very good in another thread on the “Preservation of Other Properties” board, the old ADV DVD footage, and that’s pretty much it for DVD options, the only other options are to hunt down either the old VHS/Laserdisc releases and work with those, I wish we had a film print of the movie to work with but those are obscure and very elusive), the next piece needed is HQ audio the best option would be a PAL Laserdisc with I believe either Swedish or Turkish subtitles, but those are very hard to come by even moreso than the PAL UK VHS release (which I do own).
i have the raw BD files, no point using them, since id be mixing SD with HD footage, ive got 3 releases of part 2, my LD, Aoi garland special edition, and the bonus disc you got if you mailed away the Original DVD release, ill probably mix tape footage with my LD copy to attempt to remove subs, or just use resized bluray footage made ot match the LD’s more natural warmer colors, all corrected frame by frame using OT’s own Dre and his amazing color correction tool, and sadly i have nothing about the typography book, and i belive the thread is long gone, never even put into wayback, i never thought of attempting to archive the page, i should have the font on my dead HDD, but its going to cost alot to get that thing working again, since the pc basicly overloaded it. ill most likley take snapshots of the tape and LD sources and correct them t othe footage and just add them as an overlay, the original opening credits will be sourced from the tape aswell as the entire opening, since harmony gold either changed or or requested the studio to reshoot the segment, since their are obvious differences between the megazone and RTM versions, the biggest being framerate changes (HG slowed it down) and the shot of the earth dosent zoom the same way, and is flipped.
Funny that harmony gold has acess to what seems to be a work print of the film, the lionsgate set features the alternate subtitle, that is only seen in advertisements and print media, not even my animation refs (bought from svea macek) have that title, just listed as “the movie” and they also have another copy of the film, seen in the doccumentary carl macek’s universe, showing the normal opening, aswell as the ending is different, with a shot of the earth and credits overlayed, im definatly noot using the workprint as a video source due to its degredation, ill probably source the opening (and the textcrawl) from the tape, and jut to speed corrected creditless footage, with he shots of the sun and earth flipped and modified, with a custom built font (or the original if its ever rediscovered again) overlayed ontop.