Rebuilding the Dragon Ball Z Character Color Design Sheets for Color Correction

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Model collection reaches 100.

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Collection reaches 120.

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I have found that the Dragon Ball movie 7 and 9 used a slightly different palette for Goku's model, especially in the orange gi, where the movie one was a bit brighter and less saturated. This caused some confusions to me when trying to figure out the color, so I want to add a note here for future reference.

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Model collection reaches 130. I've added a few from movie 9 but it's very hard to figure out their color with the scarce of cel references. I had to do a lot of trials and errors to make sure that I get the correct color. I've also started to color the model sheets so it is easier now to see how the models actually look like at a glance. It would be easier to look them up as well since the collection is getting very big now.

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Model collection reaches 140. I have started to tap more into the og dragon ball models, though there aren't many quality reference cels for look up, we'll see how it goes.

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I love autistic Fans. Only they can produce such projects focusing on minutia.

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The skin color is the correct cel color for goku. The compression artifact would be the job for video filtering, it does not matter at this stage.

idk it seems like your color matching isn't as correct as you say it is.

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I think for this image I got an average deltaE of 3.xx or 4 on a 9 color match. For anyone who doesn't know, average deltaE is an accuracy rating, anything under 5 is a really good match under an uncontrolled environment. But again, it does not matter at this stage, someone may come by and get a better result in the future. The images shown here are just to get people interested in sharing their collection.

My envision 2 years ago is coming into form. A Twitter user has been posting some dragon ball color correction images using the color sheets and the results are the best we have ever seen.

In this Goten image from the link, all visible color of Goten in the frame has been matched.


To all cel collectors who have been following this thread, hopefully this news excites you and to make you see the potential of what this means. You can help contribute to this project by sharing scans of your collection. I was able to recreate the color sheets for super saiyin Vegito thanks to a kind collector for sharing his cel scan. It wouldn't be possible to figure out the color on my own with the crappy photos on the internet.

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Model collection reaches 150, another mile stone reached!

And a correction to my last post

I was able to recreate the color sheets for super saiyin Vegito thanks to a kind collector for sharing his cel scan

What I tried to say is super saiyin Gogeta. I couldn't edit the post after I realized it.

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Model collection reaches 160.

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Model collection reaches 170.

The Path To Power movie added in the use of different color palettes for different lightings. That means the difficulty of recreating the color models multiplies. I counted at least four palettes for Goku alone and I was only able to rebuild one with confident.

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I have updated the color chart with a fix to some metamerism color, these color will appear as a different color under different color temperatures, namely V-1, V-2 and V-3. All model sheets has been updated to reflect the changes.

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Collection reaches 180.