Best Art/Animation Style Going Forward

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Best Art/Animation Style Going Forward

Post by PrinceVegetto » Sun Apr 24, 2022 3:26 pm

If Super returns as a T.V. series in the future or we get more movies, how would you want the art/animation style to look like?

I personally think the best looking modern Dragon Ball content I've seen is the 2008 OVA Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!
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Re: Best Art/Animation Style Going Forward

Post by Cipher » Sun Apr 24, 2022 11:55 pm

The 2008 special looks great, but I don’t think animated DB has ever looked stylistically better than in Broly.

Would definitely prefer that be the basis for future animated projects.

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Post by JulieYBM » Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:03 am

Definitely want them to take a page from Broli with the designs by Shintani Naohiro and Takara Isamu. Easy to animate character designs and not keeping animators on model. Yamamuro Tadayoshi's Gokuu model looked awful in the 2008 special so I would not want them to reuse that at all.
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Re: Best Art/Animation Style Going Forward

Post by The Accountant » Mon Apr 25, 2022 5:26 am

Definitely the Shintani style. Like the 2008 special, it seems like such a waste to only use it for a main production once.

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Re: Best Art/Animation Style Going Forward

Post by Super Saiyan Swagger » Mon Apr 25, 2022 5:42 am

Definitely Naohiro Shintani's art style. It's the most animation-friendly approach, but still feels very Toriyama. Though I also really like what I've seen from Chikashi Kubota's character sheets for Super Hero so far.

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Re: Best Art/Animation Style Going Forward

Post by FortuneSSJ » Mon Apr 25, 2022 7:55 pm

It will mostly likely follow Shintani style, however Kubota should have a chance on a 2D project.
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Re: Best Art/Animation Style Going Forward

Post by jjgp1112 » Tue Apr 26, 2022 12:04 am

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Re: Best Art/Animation Style Going Forward

Post by EGonzo » Wed Apr 27, 2022 12:50 am

I feel the Resurrection F anime style is perfect.

For real though, I agree with everyone so far that a style like Broly's is the best way to go

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Re: Best Art/Animation Style Going Forward

Post by fleahop » Wed Apr 27, 2022 11:42 pm

Gotta agree with pretty much everyone else here. Shintani's art, Shintani's animation, Shintani's character design.

One thing that was a bit off for me was the use of color and the crazy effects they slap on, but I also don't want the type of stories most others want so idk. It feels like Shintani could be used to remake OG DB better than anyone else but I'm unsure he'd fit with the types of stories they're telling.
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Re: Best Art/Animation Style Going Forward

Post by Trouser » Tue May 03, 2022 6:25 am

I hope Super won't return as tv series, but I'd pick Yuya Takahashi style.
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Re: Best Art/Animation Style Going Forward

Post by ClutchBangstrip » Mon May 09, 2022 4:32 pm

This would be great, but I really don't mind if the style's are inconsistent. I kinda like it. Just so long as they look good and in some recognition of Toriyama's iconic style.

I think the franchise makes far too much money to have as many drops as it did. I also would feel more comfortable if they went a seasonal route to give the workers some relief. I felt bad for how I heard the staff were being driven and how they were treated.

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Re: Best Art/Animation Style Going Forward

Post by SaiyanGod117 » Wed May 18, 2022 12:08 pm

The Yo! Son Goku and Friends art style is a good modernization of the Z-style but I wouldn't Shintani going forward. Overall, what I want is high production value and consistency in art and animation I don't want to see Beerus look like a cat one episode and a Dobermann the next.

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