Mark Simmons officially gave me access to the files he used for his website, which stem from these documents.
Words according to Mark himself: "Hiya! If you're looking for better quality on those Yas character sketches, here's the best version I have. These are from the "Booklet Digital Archive" included with the U.C. Gundam Blu-ray Libraries series. They're digitized versions of the physical booklets included with the previous Blu-ray Memorial Box. The Yas sketches start with page 44 and continue through page 55. This seems to be maximum resolution - if you open the digital archive on a bigger screen, it crudely resizes the images and they get all blurry."
I'd originally thought the images were formatted for early web, though that's not the case. If I can ever get a hold of the Blu-Ray, I'll scan the physical books myself in 4k for better quality.
Unfortunately, these archives simply look this way as this is all we have at the moment, but are all the same monumental. Thanks Mark for helping get these out on the web in full finally.
If you'd like to help me buy more texts to scan, I'd appreciate it! Any and all support is welcome. Lots of new books and content have been purchased to archive thanks to everyone's contributions: https://ko-fi.com/retroanimechris Twitter - https://twitter.com/retroanimechris email - [email protected]
Old gallery: /g/2322127/114e5585ab/ Internet Archive Backup: https://archive.org/details/Z-Gundam-Memorial-Box-Booklet