Trunks' Turquoise Hair Colour

Discussion regarding the entirety of the franchise in a general (meta) sense, including such aspects as: production, trends, merchandise, fan culture, and more.
User avatar
Metalwario64
Born 'n Bred Here
Posts: 6270
Joined: Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:02 am
Location: Namek

Re: Trunks' Turquoise Hair Colour

Post by Metalwario64 » Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:02 pm

supacomboy wrote:Image
Though it's not as much of an issue in the drawing listed below, I really don't like how top-heavy and scrawny the characters look. The females in particular have really short legs, and Toriyama somehow managed to make 18 look ugly. Her shoulders are way above her chest, and her legs are so tiny. Her proportions are all over the place. :cry:
"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

User avatar
Saiga
Kicks it Old-School
Posts: 8311
Joined: Mon Oct 31, 2011 8:36 pm
Location: Space Australia

Re: Trunks' Turquoise Hair Colour

Post by Saiga » Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:17 pm

TheDevilsCorpse wrote:
Saiga wrote:Wait, since when is Satan taller than Gohan?!
Son Gohan:
Height: 176 cm (adult)
Weight: 61 kg (adult)

Mister Satan
Height: 188 cm
Weight: 94 kg

Not that I always agree with these heights, Trunks and Goten being perfect examples why, but they work by comparison IMO. So, I suppose Toriyama usually intends him to be taller, but that doesn't always happen since his characters tend to shrink once they fall into gag territory. Kuririn is a great example of this; as he actually looks pretty tall in the Cell Arc, but quickly returns to being short during the Buu Arc. Mr. Satan fell pray to it too...fairly hard.
Oh... well now. That's certainly odd. I don't remember if you've told me this before, but are your height charts intended to be accurate to how they look in series, official measurements, or a mix?
I'm re-watching Dragon Ball GT in full on my blog. Check it out if you're interested in my thoughts on the series as I watch through it!

User avatar
Attitudefan
I Live Here
Posts: 2963
Joined: Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:51 pm
Location: Canada

Re: Trunks' Turquoise Hair Colour

Post by Attitudefan » Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:30 pm

Image

Height of Toriyama's art style. Perfect proportions. Round but also sleek. Short characters like Vegeta and Krillin are chubby and not overly muscular, and the characters don't look disgustingly lean and square.

What happened?
My favourite art style (and animation) outside Toriyama who worked on Dragon Ball: Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, Masaki Satō, Minoru Maeda, Takeo Ide, Hisashi Eguchi, Katsumi Aoshima, Tomekichi Takeuchi, Masahiro Shimanuki, Kazuya Hisada

User avatar
Haji
Beyond-the-Beyond Newbie
Posts: 303
Joined: Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:26 am
Location: Preferably somewhere in Kansai,Chuubu or Kanto. Someday!

Re: Trunks' Turquoise Hair Colour

Post by Haji » Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:49 pm

That is the style i love the most, late 80's to about early 2000. Even Oda's style has changed, i like his earlier work more.

User avatar
Ringworm128
Banned
Posts: 2976
Joined: Tue Apr 06, 2010 3:27 am

Re: Trunks' Turquoise Hair Colour

Post by Ringworm128 » Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:34 am

I simply think he's out of "practice". As far as I know he's only done a few things here and there since DB ended.

User avatar
Pantalones
Advanced Regular
Posts: 1432
Joined: Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:30 pm

Re: Trunks' Turquoise Hair Colour

Post by Pantalones » Thu Mar 28, 2013 2:00 am

About heights as drawn: they're often exaggerated, both up and down, depending on the character and the scene. I take the guidebook heights as how tall they're supposed to be, without the distortion of size comparisons that exists in Toriyama's art style. If you have two very tall characters, two very short characters, or two averageish characters next to each other you can generally compare them pretty well, but characters in a different size range WILL be stretched up or scrunched down to make it more obvious. When he's trying to emphasize a height difference, the shorter character usually gets REALLY short (compare Vegeta later on to his appearance in the Saiyan Saga, where he's shrunk down to look especially tiny next to big ol' Nappa and even Goku, who actually wouldn't even be a full head taller than him.) And some, especially kids and goofier characters like Roshi, are always drawn super short compared to others despite their official heights (unless Roshi's height in the guides was meant for his bulked-up "max power" mode, then his apparent shortness compared to everyone when he's "normal size" makes more sense. XD)
Everyone has an opinion about Crocs™. No matter who you ask, someone either hates them or love them. No in between.
I've never understood where the random hatred for Crocs comes from. Seriously, that's all I've ever heard about Crocs--that everyone hates them... for no apparent reason. I personally don't care one way or the other about Crocs or about shoes in general, but the idea that so many people can hate a certain type of shoe so much that they constantly mock them every time they're seen or mentioned is just strange.

User avatar
ChahikoDBZ
Beyond-the-Beyond Newbie
Posts: 447
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:20 pm
Location: Florida, U.S.

Re: Trunks' Turquoise Hair Colour

Post by ChahikoDBZ » Thu Mar 28, 2013 2:08 am

Beji wrote:It is odd that the hair is like that but I'm a little more concerned with Mr. Satan looking emaciated :?
Yes! That has been bothering me to death! :(
(Fanfiction link coming soon.)

User avatar
Marco Polo
I Live Here
Posts: 2973
Joined: Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:44 pm

Re: Trunks' Turquoise Hair Colour

Post by Marco Polo » Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:25 am

supacomboy wrote:Image
It's quite disturbing to imagine that Videl is pregnant here and that Pan has a role in the movie as an... embryo? :?

mister yummy
Beyond-the-Beyond Newbie
Posts: 348
Joined: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:52 am

Re: Trunks' Turquoise Hair Colour

Post by mister yummy » Tue Apr 02, 2013 2:43 am

The heights seem way off in this image to me. Videl's too short and Roshi's too tall. And yeah, everyone is too skinny, especially Mr. Satan.

Post Reply