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Metalwario64 wrote:That's nice, but way too small.
Size doesn't matter! The technique is what is important
Hehehe!
Anyway, I like that it's from the Dragon Box, and in general, it'd be great if someone could provide Dragon Box versions of these movie pans (especially my two SS3 Goku ones from 12). Blu-ray Double Feature shots would probably be even better.
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
Metalwario64 wrote:Anyway, I like that it's from the Dragon Box, and in general, it'd be great if someone could provide Dragon Box versions of these movie pans (especially my two SS3 Goku ones from 12). Blu-ray Double Feature shots would probably be even better.
I would argue that the Dragon Box ones would be even better, as the destructive denoising filters from Funi's Blu-Rays reduces the effective resolution to below that of the Dragon Boxes.
The point of Dragon Ball is to enjoy it. Never lose sight of that.
Metalwario64 wrote:Anyway, I like that it's from the Dragon Box, and in general, it'd be great if someone could provide Dragon Box versions of these movie pans (especially my two SS3 Goku ones from 12). Blu-ray Double Feature shots would probably be even better.
I would argue that the Dragon Box ones would be even better, as the destructive denoising filters from Funi's Blu-Rays reduces the effective resolution to below that of the Dragon Boxes.
Eh, not really. Funimation's Blu-ray pretty clearly has a higher resolution than the Boxes, though they're inferior for other reasons.
Metalwario64 wrote:Anyway, I like that it's from the Dragon Box, and in general, it'd be great if someone could provide Dragon Box versions of these movie pans (especially my two SS3 Goku ones from 12). Blu-ray Double Feature shots would probably be even better.
I would argue that the Dragon Box ones would be even better, as the destructive denoising filters from Funi's Blu-Rays reduces the effective resolution to below that of the Dragon Boxes.
Eh, not really. Funimation's Blu-ray pretty clearly has a higher resolution than the Boxes, though they're inferior for other reasons.
I said effective resolution. Funi's Blu-Rays are so blurry and crushed, they're missing lot of detail that the Dragon Boxes have, despite the DBoxes only being in standard def.
The point of Dragon Ball is to enjoy it. Never lose sight of that.
Are we too old to enjoy new Dragon Ball movies/series?
Spoiler:
Nickolaidas wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:10 am
Guys, I'm going to be straight with you. If you feel the show has gotten 'silly' ... it hasn't. You're just 'too old for this shit'. Seriously, 95% of the people in those boards do not fit the target demographic of the show, so don't expect the show to be 'everything you hoped for'. I'm referring to the people here who expect Super to be rich with dark moments, serious storytelling, meaningful characters etc etc. It won't. It's a show for kids. A show for kids being kids. Everyone in those boards has a manchild in him/her, clamoring to get out, and that's fine. But having unrealistic expectations (such as believing the show grew up alongside you) is naïve at best. Honestly, do you take seriously a story where the supposed God of Destruction halts his urges to blow up stuff in order to eat ice cream sundae? That's the show's silliness at full force, take it for what it is. The show hasn't matured one bit, so don't expect it too. Again, I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I'm saying *that* is DB and always will be.
Robo4900 wrote:
I would argue that the Dragon Box ones would be even better, as the destructive denoising filters from Funi's Blu-Rays reduces the effective resolution to below that of the Dragon Boxes.
Eh, not really. Funimation's Blu-ray pretty clearly has a higher resolution than the Boxes, though they're inferior for other reasons.
I said effective resolution. Funi's Blu-Rays are so blurry and crushed, they're missing lot of detail that the Dragon Boxes have, despite the DBoxes only being in standard def.
From the screenshots I've seen, they're sharper than the Dragon Boxes, and even though the dark details (and sometimes white) are usually crushed, I could probably mitigate it to some degree with color correction, which would probably make them the best for camera pan images at least. I'm not arguing that they should have been better though, but the noise reduction was lessened as they were released. I imagine movies 12 and 13 look quite sharp and detailed on Blu-ray, aside from the overly dark crush going on.
Noah wrote:
Metalwario64 wrote:
There are no pans of SS2 Gohan in movie 9. Here are all of the ones I've made from the Cell Games:
Nice, but you have something of SSJ4 Goku?
Here are some GT pans:
[spoiler] [/spoiler]
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
Are we too old to enjoy new Dragon Ball movies/series?
Spoiler:
Nickolaidas wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:10 am
Guys, I'm going to be straight with you. If you feel the show has gotten 'silly' ... it hasn't. You're just 'too old for this shit'. Seriously, 95% of the people in those boards do not fit the target demographic of the show, so don't expect the show to be 'everything you hoped for'. I'm referring to the people here who expect Super to be rich with dark moments, serious storytelling, meaningful characters etc etc. It won't. It's a show for kids. A show for kids being kids. Everyone in those boards has a manchild in him/her, clamoring to get out, and that's fine. But having unrealistic expectations (such as believing the show grew up alongside you) is naïve at best. Honestly, do you take seriously a story where the supposed God of Destruction halts his urges to blow up stuff in order to eat ice cream sundae? That's the show's silliness at full force, take it for what it is. The show hasn't matured one bit, so don't expect it too. Again, I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I'm saying *that* is DB and always will be.
Not yet. Whenever I start getting the DVDs (well, I'll skip the retell arcs at least) I'll probably do some.
I think I've seen a couple posted elsewhere, for what it's worth.
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
I should probably redo them now that the Blu-rays are out, but...
Lazy.
EDIT:
Redid some and made a few more:
Nice pans Ajay!
Here are some more 35mm Kai pans:
[spoiler] [/spoiler]
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
Last, but not least, here's the pan of dead Vegeta, but with Z's footage. I spliced the Z footage with the extended footage I made for the Kai pan, and added grain and corrected the colors to match Z's footage.[/spoiler]
Compilation of all of the TFC pans I've made thus far:
[spoiler]
And once more, I "extended" the edges with some splicing and redrawing:
I'll also say that FUNimation's encoding of TFC isn't as good as their previous Kai DVDs. There are noticeable compression artifacts, whereas the previous Kai DVDs had fantastic encoding with hardly any macroblocking, and that seems to make the JPG compression in these pans worse, because it magnifies the artifacts that are already there. Oh well.[/spoiler]
I deleted and reposted this again because I forgot to include this camera pan of everyone following Kaioshin:
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
I have a request, if that's allowed: can anyone please make a pan of the Dragon Ball ED Righteous Devil and Heroic Angel?
"Don't take pleasure in destruction!" / "I will not let you destroy my world!"
A true hero goes beyond not the limits of power, but the limits that divide countries and people.
Just to ask on someones behalf but how do you capture these pan shots? I know it's done as one entire drawing but on the TV screen it just pans upwards across the image so you see parts of it at a time. How are you getting the full shot?
Bullza wrote:Just to ask on someones behalf but how do you capture these pan shots? I know it's done as one entire drawing but on the TV screen it just pans upwards across the image so you see parts of it at a time. How are you getting the full shot?
Don't you just take screenshots when the camera is at the very bottom (first frame), then middle, then the very top (last frame), and then you merge them on a PC?
Xeogran wrote:Don't you just take screenshots when the camera is at the very bottom (first frame), then middle, then the very top (last frame), and then you merge them on a PC?
Well that's how I'd do it, press the Print Screen button and then try to line them up meticulously on Paint or something but I don't know if that's the proper way of doing it.
Xeogran wrote:Don't you just take screenshots when the camera is at the very bottom (first frame), then middle, then the very top (last frame), and then you merge them on a PC?
Well that's how I'd do it, press the Print Screen button and then try to line them up meticulously on Paint or something but I don't know if that's the proper way of doing it.
If you have Photoshop, try going to File > Automate > Photomerge (it'll be at the bottom of the Automate page). This very handy tool can merge images together automatically and figure out where they should go, and even blends the colours together! When using it, you'll want to use the Reposition option on the left side as the footage won't have lens distortion. If the shot is animated, you'll want to make sure that looping elements are taken from the same frame.
Here's one that I whipped together using the very first shot of the show from the Dragon Box using only four images (if there's a lot of colour shifting in the frame, using a higher amount of image samples can help out a lot with Photomerge). In this one, the transparent clouds at the very bottom moved slightly, so I made sure to isolate them in the screenshots. Pretty good, right?