Who was the artist who did a lot of the official 90s artwork

[Metalwario64]

Not really a dare. I was planning on making a GIF thread here, but someone beat me to the punch.

Nice images though. I see a couple right off the bat that I don't have. I might come to regret this, since we may both have images the other doesn't. Maybe at some point I will make a "competitor" Tumblr of sorts. (or perhaps just a thread on this forum...)

[Kunzait_83]

I've still got a bunch more to post, so I haven't fully laid out all my "cards" on the table so to speak. But if you still have more that I don't, feel free to donate them to the cause. I'll be accepting submissions in general on this page. There's a bunch of really nice ones I also have that are unfortunately in fairly crappy quality and I'd love to see someone come up with much higher res versions of them.

[Metalwario64]

But if you still have more that I don't, feel free to donate them to the cause. I'll be accepting submissions in general on this page..

Nice! I was hoping for that.

[jjgp1112]

Great blog. Man, once you've looked at enough pictures, you can easily pick up the subtleties of certain guys' styles. For the heck of it:


This one is definitely 90s Tadayoshi Yamamuro. His stuff always had more of a neat, compact look. Though some may find it more "plain" looking, the composition is nigh-flawless. You can tell his style right away because there's still a bit of roundness and he tends to give guys big eyes when they have "neutral" or surprised expressions.



I think this one's Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru. He always tends to give guys bigger pupils and Piccolo and Vegeta in particular seem to look similar to the style of the Dragon Box covers. I'm not well-versed in describing art but there's a lot of other distinct qualities to his art that are especially noticeable in his 2000s era work like the DBoxes, the Japanese Budokai covers, and the film animation comics.

[Kunzait_83]

Submissions have now been enabled along with a set of guidelines. I know they're a bit anal-retentively exact, but please be sure to read the submission guidelines thoroughly before submitting anything to the blog. The layout of course is still a work in progress.

Also if any talented artists/photoshoppers out there think they can come up with a cool/badass looking title logo for the blog, please feel free to send that shit my way and you'll of course be credited for it.

[Vijay]

I like the 90's Tadayoshi M13 poster. Really shows how talented he was and "lost" it now...

His drawings gives tight, rigid, angular feel. Really upped DBZ standard. Opposed to Masaki Sato, Hizada Kazuya, Shimanuki Mashashiro who provide over-arched, soft & rounded drawings which stays true to Toriyama's artsyle for the most part. My favourites honestly.

On topic, considering how Tadayoshi was THE man in 90's & is still THE man for TOEI, its not suprising if he does most of official 90's artwork. Granted with his team of A & B class artists.

[DarkPrince_92]

Here's some by Kazuya Hisada, top tier work:





I really love his style.

[Kunzait_83]

Alright, so this tumblr blog thing again.

A LOT of the best stuff I got has been put up now. I'm still scouring the internet for better versions of not only a few of the images posted, but also some REALLY shit quality versions of stuff I've been looking for better scans of for quite some time now.

I decided to post a "hit list" so to speak of the most major images I'm looking for (in non-horrendous quality obviously). Anyone here reading this who already has better versions of any of these or is somehow able at some point down the line to come across any of them, please by all means submit them to the blog. Also if you look through the blog itself I have marked down among a fair few of the images posted within it that I'm still on the lookout for bigger/cleaner quality scans of some of those. Anyone who has nicer scans of ANY of those marked images already posted or is at some point able to find them, again please feel free to send them in.

So... *cracks knuckles and neck Piccolo-style*... lets get down to it.



This is a "clean" poster version of the same image featured on the cover of the "Dragon Ball Z Hit Song Collection 7" soundtrack CD. I do have a very nice quality scan of that very cover...



...but cal me greedy, but I've been hoping to find instead a nice high res scan of the mostly text-free poster image.



Similarly, this is a moderately okay-ish scan of the cover image for the "Dragon Ball Z Hit Song Collection 14" soundtrack CD. It too like the Collection 7 image has been also used for posters and wallscrolls:



The poster/wallscroll version however is a smidge cropped off on the sides you'll notice. Still a nice, large, high resolution scan of either of these versions would be much appreciated.



A really cool DBZ Movie 13 poster that should be a pretty familiar sight to longtime fans from back in the day.



Another very recognizable wallscroll/poster image of Goku and Bardock. Weirdly difficult to find such a popular image in better quality than this.



A lovely and very iconic image from a DBZ Shitajiki (pencil board). The version I have here IS pretty good quality-wise, but the linework on it is so impressive and sharp that I still don't feel 100% comfortable with posting this one as is. I'd much prefer a still bigger scan of it, but haven't been able to find one yet. There USED to be very, very large scans of this online long, many, many years ago in the 90s, so if anyone has access to one, you know what to do.



Another fairly popular image used on posters and Shitajiki pencil boards. Not wanting to blab on too much earlier in this thread (nasty habit of mine), I was being a bit glib in an earlier post about my knowledge about the 90s popularity of pencil boards: obviously they were a big deal in Japan as merchandising items among children and teenagers (the larger importance placed on schoolwork/studies there likely plays a factor here no doubt), and the anime industry being what it is (particularly in its 80s and 90s "golden age"), anime Shitajiki became sometimes very limited print-run collectibles.

Some of the VERY best, most gorgeous, and in a lot of cases most recognizable and iconic artwork for a LOT of classic anime series however were produced and used for these boards (and were very often re-used for posters, wallscrolls, calendars, and assorted marketing imagery as well). Dragon Ball/Z was obviously no exception to this, but unfortunately a LOT of very nice quality scans of Shitajiki from way back in the mid 90s have been lost or heavily diluted over time and are very, very much more difficult to come across these days.

Some of them that were much more common to find in the old days are now very rare and hard to come across (not to mention in some cases pricey when you do find one), making it harder for someone today to re-scan them again. I myself used to have at one point in the 90s a TON of very nice scans of a bunch of them, but a great many of them were unfortunately lost to a virus my computer got hit by in the very early 2000s. I've been posting what bits of them I still have left over on the blog, but their increased rarity online over the years since then has made tracking down good quality scans of them MUCH more difficult than it used to be once upon a time.



This really badass SSJ/SSJ3 Goku and Vegeta poster I've seen come in two flavors: a "clean" one as seen here, as well as one with a frame and a logo:



Either or both of these in better quality would be greatly appreciated.



One of my absolute all time personal favorite Shitajiki images of Goku. Seen with either a white boarder/background like above, or a blue one like thus:



Again either or both of these in infinitely better quality is a must.



Another popular Shitajiki image. The Cell and Boo arcs easily saw the most and some of the very best of these, as the popularity of anime Shitajiki's really hit probably their all time high in the 90s.



A fabulous Cell games poster. Seen blurrier but less cropped here:







Promotional poster for the first Super Butouden game. The image of Cell on the right is used in another promotional image for the game that features a different drawing of Goku standing in front rather than on the opposite side (that was used for the game's box art, and which is already scanned and up on the blog in very nice quality). Another very sought after image by me: any images used for the SNES fighting games in general are probably some of my highest priority finds for this collection.



Promotional poster for Super Butouden 3. As you can see its the same image used for an ad for the game that someone already posted (in very nice quality) earlier in this thread:

...but the ad version above has a lot more text cluttering the image. I'm hoping for a cleaner version like this poster here. Incidentally an old friend of mine (the guy who as it happens not only got me into Dragon Ball in the early 90s, but anime in general in the late 80s) used to have this poster up in his room way back when the game first came out. I was quite jealous needless to say.

Also, isolated "clean white background" versions of both the Goku and Majin Vegeta images in that poster exist out there somewhere.

Here's a pretty decent version of the Majin Vegeta one I only abstained from posting on the blog due to it being a shade on the blurry side:



The Goku one has also been seen around elsewhere, most notably in the instruction manuals for a lot of the SNES games like Hyper Dimension and whatnot. Getting either a better version of the above isolated shot of Majin Vegeta or that Goku would also be cool.



A beautiful DBZ Movie 12 poster. Seen in at least two versions: the one here, and also one with a gold trim/boarder around it like so:



Again folks, either or both. Also much, much more rarely seen than either is a version that just has Goku, Vegeta, and Gogeta with a plain white background:



I'd prefer the full version with all characters present, but I'm just being (perhaps a bit OCD) thorough here.



I haven't been around this place too much since I left awhile back, but I poked in a small handful of threads here and there and I somehow or other remember seeing some people marvel at seeing this image used on a box for a bootleg/fansub tape because they had never seen this one anyplace else before. I had: it was used for this poster right here.



Same one, cropped but less blurry.



A VERY well known, iconic Cell-era shot that was seen EVERY-fucking-where back in the early/mid-ish 90s. One of my most regrettable losses to that fucking early 2000s virus, this image used to be very much findable in MUCH better quality than this, but sadly these days this godawful tiny little version is about the best I can scrounge up. HUGE kudos to anyone that can help dig this one up in respectable quality.



Seen in the first post of this thread, and again probably one of the best known and most iconic images of Future Trunks/the Trunks special from the old days. I think just about anyone and everyone who's even vaguely into DB/Z knows this one, and once again, there were once much, much better quality versions of this floating around on the internet in the mid 90s. No longer as much it seems. Again, huge priority find.



Really cool Movie 12/Gogeta poster (always got a kick out of that wonky romanization there). Was a fairly common sight way back when, but not seen around as much anymore.



Ugh. I've absolutely ADORED this image since my earlier years in DBZ fandom. Once more, that same friend from way back that got me into anime/DB used to have this poster and once more I was very jealous of the fucker. This is seemingly nigh IMPOSSIBLE to find very much anywhere anymore.

The only less blurry version I've found of it is this here:



Still not exactly ripe for tumblr, but again any upgrade for this image would be immensely appreciated.



Another fine shitajiki/poster image. Again Cell and Boo eras in particular had countless of these, almost all of them obscenely pretty.



Yup, one for original Dragon Ball for a change. Albeit this one made WAY after the fact during the GT days (as is obviously apparent by the more GT-ish art style). Still a nice image.



This one comes in at least three different variations I've seen: this one here, or...



This one here with very subtly/slightly different text, OR...



This one with a clean white background.



Another incredibly beautiful and once-fairly popular shitajiki image. Thing about this one is I'm ALMOST positive, like 90% sure that this one is only a black and white image as that's how its just about always been seen, but there's a SLIGHT possibility that there may be a full color version of it floating around out there somewhere. I THINK I have some vague, cloudy, half-forgotten memory of seeing a color version of this someplace way, way, waaaaaay back in the mid-90s, but I can't exactly be totally sure on that. Take that with a huge grain of salt. Still, would be a great find either way, and it looks incredible even as a B&W image.



A very well known Vegetto image that should be easily recognizable to just about anyone. This one tended to always be on the lower-quality side even way back in the old days, but still there were (and hopefully still are) somewhat better versions out there.



Another at one time very, very popular fusion image. Can be usually found these days in blown up large size, but with grainy, heavily pixilated resolution



Again, not to sound like a broken record, but a very, VERY widely seen and widely recognized Cell-era image. Like the above fusion image, is today generally found in bown up, heavily pixilated all to shit quality. Is REALLY nigh-impossible to find in anything resembling decent clarity.



Cool poster image. Not much to say except a better, higher res one would be great.



Pretty nice Movie 6 promo image. Again, hard to come by in general these days.



Ah this one. This one like all the others is hard to get a hold of in nice quality in general anyway, but what's slightly extra-irritating about this one is that most of the scans of it out there these days tend to have the Saban-era "gradient" DBZ logo on it. Not only a nicer quality version, but one without the early-dub logo on it would be especially welcome. Its not that the logo is all that visually offensive in and of itself, its more of a matter of principal. This blog/collection is meant to reflect pre-FUNimation DBZ imagery.



Another Boo era pencil board. This one here is in plenty decent enough quality, but still isn't quite big enough. I admittedly have always had something of a weak spot for a lot of the incredibly bizarre, wonky original logos and font styles used in a lot of the mid 90s Boo era Shitajiki images, and this compass-like one here is no exception and one of my favorites.



Another one, with the SSJ3 Goku re-used from the above pencil board, but the rest is very different.



Alright so: remember how earlier in this post I said that anything SNES fighting game-related was an especially high priority for me? Well in this instance for Hyper Dimension, what I'm after are big high res, clean, full body shots of the Goku, Vegeta, and Vegetto images seen here and used for the game's box art and most promotional images. I've seen all three of these re-used in plenty of ads and wallscrolls and assorted ephemera, so I KNOW that somewhere out there these exist.





I even have a version of the Goku one that's pretty big and on a clean white background, save that it's only from the waist up.



These without a doubt exist out there in SOME form.



This was a popular one to use on a lot of middle to late 90s DBZ website headers. SREDBZ being probably the most recognizable one from the time.



Another nice Cell era pencil board. Again the quality on this one is a lot better than a lot of these others, but I'm greedy and still want better.



A fun Super Boo/Gotenks Shitajiki. This one's somewhat fuzzy and is cropped off on the right side pretty badly. There's an uncropped version that I've found but its in TINY microscopic size and even way shittier resolution. Again, love the weirdo font/logo experimentation on a lot of these boards from the Cell and particularly Boo eras.



A very well known, well traveled, and often used SSJ Goku image. Bizarrely harder to find in decent resolution than you'd think.



A once fairly popular Gotenks scan from way back. Not the greatest art-wise, but an interesting layout all the same.



A Boo era Goku board, vaguely reminiscent of the above Gotenks one. Much nicer art though.



Another Boo era scan.



Yeah this one. Also used in the first post of this thread. Again, very well known and hard to find not pixilated and shitty now.



A REALLY, really lovely and beautiful Gogeta/Goku/Vegeta one for Movie 12.



A very, VERY rare, and seldom-seen (even back in the old days) Movie 13 promotional image. Would be a very, very prized find indeed.



Boo era poster. I wasn't kidding when I said there were a metric fuckton of these. 95% of them are all pretty damn nice though.





These two I've been on the knife's edge of just posting on the blog, albeit marked of course that I'm on the lookout for bigger, better versions of them yet, as I certainly am. The top one especially, as you can see its noticeably cropped off on the left side there where Gero's face ought to be.



A wonderful and very Journey to the West-inspired poster/wallscroll of Goku and Gohan. Again, iconic as all hell and just about any and every DBZ fan ought to be plenty well acquainted with this one. I've had embarassingly shitty luck finding it in non-craptastic quality, but this one I'm probably the most confident that someone out there will come through with a better one (if I don't do it myself even).



This one is obviously in big, beautifully high res quality. Why don't I just post it then? Its BADLY and blatantly cropped the hell off on the sides. And uncropped version (still in at least comparably high resolution) would be nice.



Cool DBZ Movie 2 promo image featuring Dr. Wheelo. Again would like something a tad bit higher quality than the version above.



Another Cell era pencil board. The shitty quality of the scan doesn't do this one justice: it looks a LOT nicer when it isn't a blurry mess.



Very popular, well known, and fan-girled over Mirai Trunks image. Anyone that ran one of the countless zillions of Trunks shrines throughout the 90s likely had this one featured prominently.



Hey a Saiya-jin arc poster this time for once! A fairly nice one too. Let's help give more of the other arcs some play on the blog and get a hold of this one if possible.



And back to usual with another Boo arc one. This one's really nice though as it features Kaioshin and Kibito prominently.



Freeza arc Goku pencil board. Very cool.



Another Gotenks pencil board. The little guy got around a lot on these things.



Another pretty recognizable Movie 12 poster.



Another iconic Boo era group shot that was again used a TON on a LOT of mid 90s DBZ websites and is now a colossal fucking PAIN to get in non-junky quality. That's why I started working to recollect these and start up the blog folks: to rectify shit like this.



Movies 12 and 13 had a LOT of promo art. Another more rarely seen one.



Another really cool Cell arc poster. Blurrier but less cropped version here:






Boo arc poster.



And a "clean" version of the same image.



Woo! Another Saiya-jin arc poster fianlly. Really, really badass one too. Above is a nicer quality version of only part of it. The full poster looks like this:







A rare, very little seen early Cell/Jinzoningen arc poster. Not a huge favorite of mine personally, but would still be nice to have for the same of completeness.



Yet another Cell arc image, this one from a 1993 calendar. Here's a less cropped version:





Another Boo arc one. More fun, weirdo text shenanigans. Boo in particular looks really good here.



A VERY odd, seldom seen image. Unlike virtually all the other images here, I actually have no idea where this one's from (a magazine promo, pencil board, poster, calender?) and don't have any memory of seeing it around much way back when. All the same, a better version of it would be welcome.

Might as well segue from here to a few of the most notable "silly/happy" pieces.



At one time a very, very, VERY well known image. Very well drawn too.



I'm not as big on the cute/silly stuff in and of themselves as most (to uh, put it mildly), but a few of these were definitely very well made.



Early Saiya-jin arc. Very colorful and pretty even I gotta admit. Seen as both a poster as well as pencil board variations (the above is the poster version I believe).





These two come VERY close to being good enough to make the blog, but I'd still like if they were at least a LITTLE bit bigger. Both were once again VERY popular and widely seen in ye olden days of yore.





Two more that come VERY close to making the cut. Just a BIT bigger would be cool.



This one needs little introduction. Again SO close to being big enough to make the blog.



And another incredibly famous shot.



Another harder to come by group shot.



I think this one's from some kind of book (Daizneshuu?), because its ALWAYS been cropped off at the left like this since as far back as I can remember. Think anyone'll ever come up with the full version?



Another very rare image. Super chibi stuff from the Freeza era.





Two different alternate versions of the same image. I'd much prefer the upper one with the space background personally.

And last, but certainly not least the single most important one of them all that I want by far and away the most badly. The "white whale" of old promotional DBZ images if you will. Its technically/sorta already been posted here in a sense:

These two Goku/Gohan promotional shots for Super Butouden 2 in the above ad. Both of those images "link" together (similar to the Goku/Cell one for Super Butouden 1) and come from the same single whole bigger drawing. More so than ANYTHING else here, what I'd be after is that single image and "clean", without all the text (or possibly more minimal text than in those ads).

Aaaaaaaand... *whew*. I think that was more than exhaustive enough for one day. I've got a few more miscellaneous odds and ends besides the above, but that's far beyond more than enough I think for one post. Anyhow, this concludes this whole "if you've seen me, call this number" milk carton of a post for long lost old DBZ images. I know this was a whopper of an image-heavy post, but I know there's a ton of people out there with who knows what kinds of lost gems siting on their hard drives. So anyone out there who has anything of the sort (or runs across any in the future) can just click the link to the tumblr blog in my sig below and please by all means submit it.

I'd love to someday see these all collected together in some manner of "restored" quality. That is ultimately the goal of the blog.

[Big Momma]

This has easily become one of my favorite threads, and the blog is a godsend. Followed it right away.

I'm gonna study up on theses, and hopefully train my eyes to see the subtleties that you guys are seeing!

[Kunzait_83]

Whoops, forgot one more (for now anyway):



Can't at the moment get this itty, bitty little tick of an image even slightly bigger (annoying, I know). But the Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan images within it are reused in an image I've had up on the blog for a bit now:



Thus, there's almost certainly a color version of it as well.

[Herms]

I think this one's from some kind of book (Daizneshuu?), because its ALWAYS been cropped off at the left like this since as far back as I can remember. Think anyone'll ever come up with the full version?

It's from the supplemental daizenshuu TV Animation Part 3, at the end of the section where they run through the tail end of the Z TV series. The other page has a big picture of Goku in his blue end of series outfit, as you can probably tell from the bit of him sticking over onto this page. I've always found it odd that even though the picture is for the end of the Boo arc, it's still got future Trunks in there with the rest of the group (I guess because the picture is also marking the end of the series as a whole).

This one needs little introduction. Again SO close to being big enough to make the blog.

Since it's a colored version of the originally black-and-white title page for chapter 134, maybe someone could nab a high quality image of the Full Color manga version of it? It wouldn't be the same of course, but maybe better than nothing.

[JulieYBM]

Awesome work, Kunzait. A lot of these really bring me back to the early days. Well, assuming we want to call Fall 1998 'early'. I suggest making a zip file of these so they're easier to download and further archive.

[DarkPrince_92]

This is my new favorite thread. Awesome stuff.

[Kunzait_83]

Awesome work, Kunzait. A lot of these really bring me back to the early days. Well, assuming we want to call Fall 1998 'early'. I suggest making a zip file of these so they're easier to download and further archive.

Thanks.

Yeah... these things are fairly relative of course. 1998 (late 1998 at that) is pretty damn far the exact opposite of "early" for me in terms of not only Dragon Ball, but anime fandom as a whole. That's about near the ten year mark for me on the latter count, maybe about 6 or 7 on the former? 1998/1999 or so is kind of a pivotal "transitional" period for me in a whole lot of ways, but as far as anime shit goes, 1998 ironically enough is probably roughly about the last full year that I'd consider to be "belonging" (for lack of a better term) to that of my generational bracket of anime fandom before a very, very different breed of folks started cropping up into it over the next few years and the overall landscape for it as a whole really started to abruptly change a fairly great deal drastically (which extends into Dragon Ball matters as well naturally). But that's definitely not a tale for this thread, and probably not these forums in general.

Needless to say though and without going into any needless personal detail, 1998/1999 is about the point where everything I knew and loved about anime culture here in the U.S. the entire decade previous to that was just about wrapping itself up and coming to an end (rather hastily and unexpectedly, and sort of under a lot of people's noses, certainly under mine); and after some time spent away from a lot of it in the early 2000's, my "second life" as "bewildered/crotchety old fuck" would begin with this stuff in earnest by the middle-ish 2000's.

Most of these images for me, reflect what I personally remember of the series' anime-centric imagery from about 1991/1992 through 1996/1997 or so. If anything they probably most often and most strongly "take me back" to anywhere around 1992/93 to 1995/96-ish. Give or take. TOTALLY different world for this stuff back then on a lot of levels compared to even late 1998, or rather more so 1999/2000. Completely different people, different tastes, different perspectives, different attitudes. That ain't nostalgia on my end either. If anything its vertigo, and a testament to how suddenly and radically a lot of shit for Western anime fandom and culture shifted and changed at the turn of the millennium almost seemingly overnight.

The zip idea is probably a good one. I'll gather up everything into one soon-ish and post it for download either in the blog or maybe even in this thread perhaps.

[DragonBalllKaiHD]

Whoa! Those are some images I have never seen. They are pretty nice to look at. Nice collection you have there, Kunzait! Do you have more of these in your reserve?

[Kunzait_83]

Not a great deal too many more I'm afraid. I've burned through a pretty sizable majority of what I've been holding onto for awhile now over the last several days or so that I've been posting. There's just a few minor odds and ends left over yet, a lot of it stuff that I'm very much on the fence on whether or not I think the image quality is "good enough" to post on the blog. I just recently got sent a PM from someone here who'll be sending in some pretty sweet submissions on tumblr soon though. Soon as I get them there, I'll post them.

At this point we'll be pretty soon coming down to a point where it'll all be up to whatever else I can eventually scrounge up from the deepest bowels of the internet, or whatever else other people can find and donate to the blog themselves. My Google-Fu is pretty strong and skillful, but even mine has its limits and any assistance in searching some of these out would be greatly appreciated and helpful.

I'd also be up for any suggestions to help me make up my damn mind on whether or not I should even bother with the GT stuff or not (I do have some of that tucked away on my hard drive as well). I've been very much 50/50 on that right along up till now. A compelling argument one way or the other would be welcome.

[JulieYBM]

I would like Dragon Ball GT stuff. They are just as much a part of the era as any of the Majin Buu key visuals. There's a rather nice of one Super Saiyan Gokuu and Trunks I'd like to have a higher quality of, if possible.

[DarkPrince_92]

Is it me or did Minoru Maeda draw a lot of those? I thought he left after the Cell Arc, but I see his illustrations with Buu Arc stuff. Stange. Not a big fan of his work as much as the rest... Yamamuro, Nakatsuru, Hisada, and the Butouden cover artist (whoever he is) still draw way better imo.

[Kunzait_83]

Is it me or did Minoru Maeda draw a lot of those? I thought he left after the Cell Arc, but I see his illustrations with Buu Arc stuff. Stange. Not a big fan of his work as much as the rest... Yamamuro, Nakatsuru, Hisada, and the Butouden cover artist (whoever he is) still draw way better imo.

The Butouden artist was the one I was primarily referring to as my favorite DBZ artist and the one I sorta-kinda-maybe like better than Toriyama in my earlier post in this thread. Ten bucks and a fistful of irony says if we eventually suss out his or her identity it'll likely wind up being some awful hack whose credits otherwise consist only of complete and utter crap that I have zero respect for and for whom the Butouden work was only a single fluke hiccup of amazing quality.

That also reminds me: aside from image submissions, it'd also be greatly appreciated if some of you folks would please be so kind as to attach more artist names directly to each individual piece so that I can properly tag and credit them on the blog. Evidently during my long stretch of time away from here (not that I'm "back" even now technically: I'm really only in right now for this thread and for this little "project" so to speak) this was the time period when everyone on here had up and decided to suddenly become experts on every single fucking key animator and artist that ever worked in every studio that was on the anime production's payroll.

No seriously, I barely remember a single damn word uttered about stuff like that anywhere on here at any point during the years that I was a regular (MAYBE a stray mention or two of a random important artist in a tiny handful of threads scattered here or there; maybe). I look back now though and there've been endless threads and podcast episodes and now a whole section of the site on the subject apparently. Not a diss or anything obviously: just a really strange and bizarrely sudden and random-seeming turnaround on a highly specific subject is all.

Come to mention it, I sorta feel like a bit of a shitheel coming to you folks for help with this after having long ago turned my back on the community and booked rather abruptly. This has just been something that the back of my brain had toyed with doing for a long number of years now (well back during when I was still a regular here), and in finally pulling the trigger on it (spur of the moment no less), its... well its not like I have very many other options out there to look to for assistance with something like this.

All the same though uh... sorry for being a deadbeat non-member still. Dunno about any of you, but this is a tad awkward for me posting in this place all of a sudden once again.

[DarkPrince_92]

Don't be a stranger.

I signed up for the forums in 2011 and didn't make my first post until a year later, so it's all good. Welcome back.