Dragon Ball Super done in the 90's style?

[8000 Saiyan]

The 90's style looks a bit shiny for me, although you can see more emotion on Vegeta's face.

[TheGreatness25]

I know people are jumping on the colors, but don't overlook the point: to me the actual old art style looks a lot better. We're talking lines, shapes, etc. I'm not asking for them to be hand-done, but it could be done digitally to match the faces, etc. I feel like they have a lot less detail. I will admit that the movies and edited stuff seems pretty good, but that raw DBS stuff that aired was rough.

[RedShift]

The 90's art style looks leaps and bounds better than what's in Super. The general style of the older movies such as Coolers Revenge, Wrath of the Dragon, Worlds Strongest, Broly, and Fusion Reborn all look much better than Resurrection F & BoG to me.

Super looks overly saturated, too clean, and flat. The characters themselves look far to much like dolls and have way less emotional expression... Also, this series can't seem to figure out how muscular Goku & Vegeta are supposed to be. They used to be jacked out of there minds and now they're extremely lean.

[sangofe]

Super is also more prone to poor animation than DB or Z was.

Also nostalgia.

More than db, yes, Z, not so sure.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Super is also more prone to poor animation than DB or Z was.

Also nostalgia.

More than db, yes, Z, not so sure.

Yeah it seems Z was widely as inconsistent as Super, Super is improving arc by arc like todays episode would have been considered good during the early arcs.

[Attitudefan]

Super is also more prone to poor animation than DB or Z was.

Also nostalgia.

More than db, yes, Z, not so sure.

Yeah it seems Z was widely as inconsistent as Super, Super is improving arc by arc like todays episode would have been considered good during the early arcs.

Only in the late Namek arc did Z become less consistent and Last House started to degrade heavily in quality. Yes, I do realize that the early Namek arc had some wonky Ebiwasa episodes.

The crux that Z had was losing great talent at the end of the Saiyan arc like Aoshima. Plus, Junio stopped making as many episodes. From Dragon Ball all the way to the battle with Vegeta they had a very consistent rotation that each studio did every 7 episodes. Last House may have been used slightly more on filler episodes to allow for Junio to produce the best quality when it came to important plot points from the manga. This rotation ended after Aoshima's last episode and Junio practically stopped making episodes by the beginning of the Namek arc. Shindo and Last House took up most the slack in the Namek arc.


The Android arc suffered worse as Shindo started to drop off from work load and Last House and Ebiwasa had to take up even more of the work load. Yet, even then Junio work started to be animated with less keyframes and generally started to look cheaper around this time too (for what reasons, I have no idea). The Trunks vs Cell episode is one of the last really fantastic, high keyframe and well detailed episodes produced.

[DragonBallFoodie]

I know people are jumping on the colors, but don't overlook the point: to me the actual old art style looks a lot better. We're talking lines, shapes, etc.

Don't forget shading. Shading matters a great deal, what with power-ups and light bursts.

[TheGreatness25]

Exactly. I feel like everyone has been hung up on the colors. "Oh you made it look like the orange bricks!" The entire point is that the shape of the face, eyes, bodies, shading, etc. are a lot better in the old art style. Yeah, colors matter all day long, but that's not the point at all.

I must clear up my stance on this, though. Sometimes, new art is on fire. Personally in the OP, I prefer the Super image. And of course there have been times where DB/Z looked wonky as all hell. But when it comes to iconic scenes, I think that Super's style can't touch DBZ's.