The art used in the covers of the Atari-published games

[MarioSonicU]

I noticed that Toei supplied Infogrames/Atari with art for use with the NA covers of games like the First two BT games, Advanced Adventure, Legacy of Goku 1 & 2, Buu's Fury, GT Transformation, Budokai 2 and 3, etc.

I was wondering who drew the art for the characters, or if there are similar artwork used elsewhere in the past by Toei or FUNimation, So I decided to create this thread in order to draw comparisons

[Kuwabara]

I read a very long time ago that one of those covers (Budokai) was actually drawn by an American artist commissioned by Funimation. I even remember the artist being credited by name, I forget what name though. The same artist also drew the single VHS/DVD covers for Movie 7 and Movie 8 in the US.

If I had to guess, Tadayoshi Yamamuro supplied the cover art for the other games.

[jjgp1112]

I read a very long time ago that one of those covers (Budokai) was actually drawn by an American artist commissioned by Funimation. I even remember the artist being credited by name, I forget what name though. The same artist also drew the single VHS/DVD covers for Movie 7 and Movie 8 in the US.

If I had to guess, Tadayoshi Yamamuro supplied the cover art for the other games.

This is mostly correct. An American artist designed them, but they actually then sent the sketch to Toei, and they drew the finalized cover. I read it in the Prima Strategy Guide for Budokai 2.

Same thing happened with the season set BDs and a couple of the US Super covers too.

[MarioSonicU]

I read a very long time ago that one of those covers (Budokai) was actually drawn by an American artist commissioned by Funimation. I even remember the artist being credited by name, I forget what name though. The same artist also drew the single VHS/DVD covers for Movie 7 and Movie 8 in the US.

If I had to guess, Tadayoshi Yamamuro supplied the cover art for the other games.

This is mostly correct. An American artist designed them, but they actually then sent the sketch to Toei, and they drew the finalized cover. I read it in the Prima Strategy Guide for Budokai 2.

Same thing happened with the season set BDs and a couple of the US Super covers too.

I think that makes sense. I found an art of Vegito from the 80's and 90's Dragon Ball Art and it seems to resemble him in the Budokai 2 cover

[jjgp1112]

I read a very long time ago that one of those covers (Budokai) was actually drawn by an American artist commissioned by Funimation. I even remember the artist being credited by name, I forget what name though. The same artist also drew the single VHS/DVD covers for Movie 7 and Movie 8 in the US.

If I had to guess, Tadayoshi Yamamuro supplied the cover art for the other games.

This is mostly correct. An American artist designed them, but they actually then sent the sketch to Toei, and they drew the finalized cover. I read it in the Prima Strategy Guide for Budokai 2.

Same thing happened with the season set BDs and a couple of the US Super covers too.

I think that makes sense. I found an art of Vegito from the 80's and 90's Dragon Ball Art and it seems to resemble him in the Budokai 2 cover

I should clarify: despite it being in the Budokai 2 book, the feature was about the Budokai 1 cover

[Kuwabara]

This is mostly correct. An American artist designed them, but they actually then sent the sketch to Toei, and they drew the finalized cover. I read it in the Prima Strategy Guide for Budokai 2.

Same thing happened with the season set BDs and a couple of the US Super covers too.

Thanks for this, I couldn't think of where I read that for the life of me! Some of the US DBZ video game strategy guides are real gems, I love the Taiketsu one with the DBZ game timeline/retrospective. It even includes pre-US era import games!

[Baggie_Saiyan]

I read a very long time ago that one of those covers (Budokai) was actually drawn by an American artist commissioned by Funimation. I even remember the artist being credited by name, I forget what name though. The same artist also drew the single VHS/DVD covers for Movie 7 and Movie 8 in the US.

If I had to guess, Tadayoshi Yamamuro supplied the cover art for the other games.

This is mostly correct. An American artist designed them, but they actually then sent the sketch to Toei, and they drew the finalized cover. I read it in the Prima Strategy Guide for Budokai 2.

Same thing happened with the season set BDs and a couple of the US Super covers too.

If you're talking about DBS then FUNi didn't commission anything for that they just picked art from a pool that was made for overseas.