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by Gonstead » Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:19 pm
Attitudefan wrote:That specific shot with Scott McNeil screaming his guts out freaked me out at first but on subsequent views of the film it started to get me pumped up and ready to see people kick some ass. Still my favourite film from the franchise. Best art style, neat and original story with some kickass martial arts fights. So awesome. A bonus is that this is the only film, no, THE ONLY ANIMATED STORY of Dragonball that looks like it's opening (Cha La Head Cha La). The rest of the series looks nothing like its opening (regarding just the DBZ portion since Makafushigi Adventure has a different style and the animated episodes and movies prior to Z look the same as the opening).
I dunno man, I can say the same for Movie 2. I absolutely adore Movie 2's tone, look, music, art style etc. Dr Wheelo's robotic design and Kikuchi's compositions all scream cheesy old sci-fi movie and it works absolutely brilliantly. Hell, even the plot of the film as well.
Also, how can you not love that "Everybody Laughs" ending? It's a trope like that which fits Dragon Ball to a tee.
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by eledoremassis02 » Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:34 pm
KentalSSJ6 wrote:
*steps on a lego*
everything is awesome
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by Attitudefan » Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:26 am
Gonstead wrote:Attitudefan wrote:That specific shot with Scott McNeil screaming his guts out freaked me out at first but on subsequent views of the film it started to get me pumped up and ready to see people kick some ass. Still my favourite film from the franchise. Best art style, neat and original story with some kickass martial arts fights. So awesome. A bonus is that this is the only film, no, THE ONLY ANIMATED STORY of Dragonball that looks like it's opening (Cha La Head Cha La). The rest of the series looks nothing like its opening (regarding just the DBZ portion since Makafushigi Adventure has a different style and the animated episodes and movies prior to Z look the same as the opening).
I dunno man, I can say the same for Movie 2. I absolutely adore Movie 2's tone, look, music, art style etc. Dr Wheelo's robotic design and Kikuchi's compositions all scream cheesy old sci-fi movie and it works absolutely brilliantly. Hell, even the plot of the film as well.
Also, how can you not love that "Everybody Laughs" ending? It's a trope like that which fits Dragon Ball to a tee.
Movie 2 is my second go to DBZ movie, so you are not wrong. I enjoy it for the same reasons just Dead Zone slightly more (it helps that Dead Zone was the first DBZ owned video I ever had
I am biased because of that!)
The laugh ending.... no comment man... no comment
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by Gonstead » Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:56 am
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Mayuri Kurotsuchi wrote:"In this world, nothing perfect exists. It may be a cliche after all but it's the way things are. That's precisely why ordinary men pursue the concept of perfection, it's infatuation. But ultimately I have to ask myself "What is the true meaning of being perfect?" and the answer I came up with was nothing. Not one thing. The truth of the matter is I despise perfection! If something is truly perfect, that's IT! The bottom line becomes there is no room for imagination! No space for intelligence or ability or improvement! Do you understand? To men of science like us, perfection is a dead end, a condition of hopelessness. Always strive to be better than anything that came before you but not perfect! Scientist's agonize over the attempt to achieve perfection! That's the kind of creatures we are! We take joy in trying to exceed our grasp, in trying to reach for something that in the end, we have to admit may in fact be unreachable!"
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by KentalSSJ6 » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:49 am
That Big Green Krillin laugh.
*Shudder*
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by Attitudefan » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:58 pm
Oh my god. Why have you done this?
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by Sin » Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:17 pm
I'm sorry for the quality, but here is one of Guru that I liked the look of so pieced together:
It's from the Ultimate Tenkaichi cutscenes.
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by BlazingFiddlesticks » Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:33 pm
Gonstead wrote:I dunno man, I can say the same for Movie 2. I absolutely adore Movie 2's tone, look, music, art style etc. Dr Wheelo's robotic design and Kikuchi's compositions all scream cheesy old sci-fi movie and it works absolutely brilliantly. Hell, even the plot of the film as well.
Also, how can you not love that "Everybody Laughs" ending? It's a trope like that which fits Dragon Ball to a tee.
Have I found a lost brother or something? Love that movie.
KentalSSJ6 wrote:That Big Green Krillin laugh.
*Shudder*
Forget Krillin, Goku's coming way too close to Dan Green territory for my taste!
Those comparison videos looked squished for some reason. I know about the double-ratio framing of the movies, so I can't say why.
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by Gonstead » Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:16 pm
BlazingFiddlesticks wrote:Those comparison videos looked squished for some reason. I know about the double-ratio framing of the movies, so I can't say why.
Their original source ratio was 16:9 but since I'm a cheap bastard, I use WMM for my videos and by default, it squished a lot of content into 4:3 by default unless changed, original aspect ratio or not.
Although, this does kinda have the unintentional result of making it slightly harder for content ID to track it as well I guess.
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Mayuri Kurotsuchi wrote:"In this world, nothing perfect exists. It may be a cliche after all but it's the way things are. That's precisely why ordinary men pursue the concept of perfection, it's infatuation. But ultimately I have to ask myself "What is the true meaning of being perfect?" and the answer I came up with was nothing. Not one thing. The truth of the matter is I despise perfection! If something is truly perfect, that's IT! The bottom line becomes there is no room for imagination! No space for intelligence or ability or improvement! Do you understand? To men of science like us, perfection is a dead end, a condition of hopelessness. Always strive to be better than anything that came before you but not perfect! Scientist's agonize over the attempt to achieve perfection! That's the kind of creatures we are! We take joy in trying to exceed our grasp, in trying to reach for something that in the end, we have to admit may in fact be unreachable!"
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by supersaiyan3 » Mon Mar 24, 2014 2:47 pm
I'm looking for a specific shot, does anyone think they can help me out? I'm trying to stitch a few frames together to re-create the episode preview for Episode 31, as it looks in the Dragonbook.
This is what I have...
I'm not sure if anything can be done to make it look better. This was my second time ever opening GIMP.
If it's easier to just stitch them together yourself, I have a couple of the frames saved
If anyone wants to take a crack at it, it'd really help me out - but only if it's Dragon Box quality. Thanks!
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by Tzigi » Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:24 pm
And now let's compare this:
and this:
To think that they had several months to tweak that picture and yet they left it so horrible...
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by kei17 » Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:27 pm
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by supersaiyan3 » Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:48 pm
Thanks kei17! That's just perfect. Is that from the Japanese Dragon Box? Yours looks way less compressed compared to what I have.
And hopefully none of the other Dragonbook thumbnails are pans so I don't have to bother you guys again
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by Metalwario64 » Mon Mar 24, 2014 4:04 pm
supersaiyan3 wrote:Is that from the Japanese Dragon Box? Yours looks way less compressed compared to what I have.
I can tell just from the colors that it's Kai.
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by SuicidalZerg » Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:06 pm
Tzigi wrote:And now let's compare this:
and this:
To think that they had several months to tweak that picture and yet they left it so horrible...
Gohan's fingers... are stubs. Wat?
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by DarkPrince_92 » Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:36 pm
To be honest. It's actually more believable that Gohan was 11 looking at the new size they gave him. Too bad the drawing itself sucks...
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by ShadowDude112 » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:51 pm
eledoremassis02 wrote:I thought these were pretty cool pans
*pics of Lunch*
Everytime I see those pans I keep thinking of Tanooki Kuribo's vine where he played one of those pans and put "Don't You Forget About Me" over it. It's still really funny.
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Kamiccolo9 wrote:JacobYBM wrote:No, why would it? It's fiction. The strength of the characters is not possible to reach in reality.
I mean, you're pretty open about looking at cartoon porn. Why would you do that? It's fiction. The proportions of these women are not possible to reach in reality.
