Was Gundam the first piece of animation to depict space with such a high level of realism?

Was Gundam the first piece of animation to depict space with such a high level of realism?
I was watching the 3rd movie again and it was really blowing me away, I forgot how good it looked.

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>Was Gundam the first piece of animation to depict space with such a high level of realism?
Yes, no one realized space was so homoerotic until Tomino showed us the truth.

>see rivalry between two men
>OMG THIS IS SO GAY! YASSS!
stop

they were gay. deal with it

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I really just wanted to talk about its depiction of space.
The suits, the colonies, the 0G character animation and so on.

Yas is pretty untouchable when it comes to depicting fluid weighty zero g motion. And he contributed a herculean amount to first Gundam. His segment in the 78 Yamato sequel film is certainly impressive as well, some of the best character animation ever there, but from what I recall its mostly character stuff within normal environments, so there isn't much room to show off zero g human motion like in Gundam. The mecha/effects animation is really strong as well, but Yamato kind of always feels like its just ships and planes that happen to be in space, the motion of mobile suits in space in Gundam seems like a pretty special achievement when its at its best.

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nope. most people don't think this, lol. the message wasn't conveyed properly, therefore its BS

Yeah this is what I wanted to talk about.
I was reading up on an article recently and learned that he was one of the people that pioneered "realist" animation in anime.
The feeling of inertia in that clip you posted is so good at highlighting that.

The original TV show was soul
One of my favorite anime

Yeah, Yas was a big deal on that front, Yoshonobu Inano and Tomonori Kogawa are other important Sunrise associated ones from around then. Itano as well of course, being Kogawa's student and getting to be a big deal on Gundam and Ideon. Though Kogawa came from having exposure to an earlier realist tradition fostered at Tatsunoko very early on. Tomino himself picked up realistic staging and depth filled shot composition working under Takahata, though he was already good at it even prior to that. So having Yas and Tomino together with a fairly daring concept like Gundam was a real lightning in a bottle situation.

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