Today, that episode is literally unwatchable for me. The art is just atrocious. Everything looks off. It's like they've never seen the manga before.JulieYBM wrote:When Kei speaks about how Uchiyama's stuff looks in motion, he means this. If there's one thing Last House did very, very well even at this point in the series, it was their fluidity and their choreography. Trunks' flipping here looks impeccable!
That reminds me of what scenes in the early, pre-seizure episodes of Pokemon looked like in the US whenever it was obvious that there was supposed to be lots of flashing during electrical attacks and whatnot.kei17 wrote:All the recent reruns are full of blur, which almost ruins the show. Here is a sample from the current rerun on BS Fuji.
I always thought it included the Android arc as well, but honestly, looking at the examples you've provided, it does look pretty good. Everything is still horribly off-model and lacking detail, but the animation in those examples is quite good.kei17 wrote:Sorry, since I'm poor at speaking English, I do not understand what "after the Android arc" means. Does that sentence includes the Android arc itself as well? If it does, I have to say you are wrong.
She/Her I agree. They even forgot that Vegeta was supposed to be much more muscular at the time (and in the next episode they animated with "Super Vegeta" in it).jjgp1112 wrote:I think the point where Last House's stuff got really awful was episode 156 of Z. That shit was just atrocious.
I said this on the other topic, but let me say this again. Episodes supervised by Maeda always look better than others because they were drawn by brilliant key animators: Nakatsuru, Satou, Eguchi, and Ide. Maeda just retouched their works slightly. Not to speak unfavorably of him, but I have to say that Maeda's art style had already got some kind of dated around the Freeza arc, and that must be the reason why he stepped down before Cell Game. In my opinion, he is a little bit overrated. For your information, that Angry Goku was drawn by Eguchi Hisashi, who supervised the animation of Spriggan. SSJ Goku was done by Satou Masaki, and the others are all Nakatsuru Katsuyoshi's key animations.
Yamamuro is the supervisor, but it's not as if that means the animation will have fluidity as it is. Ossu! Kaette Kita Son Gokuu to Nakama-tachi!!, the openings and endings, and near the end of Episode of Bardock have good animation because there are enough in-between animators to back-up the key animators. Guys like Tate Naoki, Oonishi Ryou (who did Bardock versus Chilled), and Shida Naotoshi (Gokuu and gang defeat Hatchihyakku) all do their best work when a few key frames are involved. Since most of the modern animation has been in commercials for Dragon Ball Heroes and the cut scenes for the past two games from Spike we've rarely had a chance to show off what Dragon Ball animation can readily be.Michsi wrote: I will have to say my favorites is the animation done in the Maeda era.
The second one would be Yamamuro Tadayoshi, but I'm probably thinking more of how the characters looked. I think the animation lost a lot of it's "fluidity" in the later part of the anime. Yamamuro is the one who is in charge of the current DB animation, right?Can't say I'm too impressed with that sadly.
She/Her Yes, he is the one who drew them. And as you pointed out, they are not that great (IMO). He was awesome in the original DB series, but none of his drawings in Z impressed me.Michsi wrote:Wasn't he the one who drew those specials for Piccolo and Vegeta? I was a bit surprised that the drawings didn't look that good as they did in the well done episodes. Well I guess now I know why.
Though I don't think the fluidity had been lost in the entire later part of the anime, I feel that fight scenes in Yamamuro's episodes don't look great. Characters are drawn awesomely, but the animation isn't that impressive. It's because of Shindo Pro's key animators, I guess. Yamamuro himself is brilliant as a key animator, too.The second one would be Yamamuro Tadayoshi, but I'm probably thinking more of how the characters looked. I think the animation lost a lot of it's "fluidity" in the later part of the anime.
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There's no studio listed--and Kei can correct me if I'm wrong--so I think that means the episode was done entirely in-house. The supervisor, Miyahara Naoki, key animated Gohan's Super Saiyan 2 transformation at the end of #184. Miyahara also supervised episode #199, Gokuu versus Paikuuhan.coola wrote:Not too sure, what was the name of studio that did episode 159, but, in my opinion, they did excellent job, in terms of animation, it is my favorite episode of DBZ http://www.kanzentai.com/eps-dbz.php?id=159
She/Her Since Satou Masaki belongs to Studio Junio, it's not done entirely in-house. Maeda Minoru also belonged to the same studio, but now he is the director of SynergySP.JulieYBM wrote:There's no studio listed--and Kei can correct me if I'm wrong--so I think that means the episode was done entirely in-house.
Kei, do you know if there are any episodes that are done in-house entirely or are there no such episodes?kei17 wrote:Since Satou Masaki belongs to Studio Junio, it's not done entirely in-house. Maeda Minoru also belonged to the same studio, but now he is the director of SynergySP.JulieYBM wrote:There's no studio listed--and Kei can correct me if I'm wrong--so I think that means the episode was done entirely in-house.
