Reanimating scenes from the original Dragon Ball

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Reanimating scenes from the original Dragon Ball

Post by MasenkoHA » Fri Jan 15, 2021 10:05 pm

Did anyone else find this distracting? They used the remastered Kai footage for Z but just reanimated flashbacks from the original Dragon Ball. And like it was really weird for scenes from way earlier in the timeline to look newer than the more recent Z stuff. Would it have been that hard to reframe Dragon Ball as 16:9 when needed for flashbacks?
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Re: Reanimating scenes from the original Dragon Ball

Post by PremiumSalt » Sat Jan 16, 2021 9:35 pm

I'd imagine it has more to do with the fact that they don't have the first anime scanned in HD like they do with Z in the form of Kai than any issues with reframing the footage.
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Re: Reanimating scenes from the original Dragon Ball

Post by JulieYBM » Sun Jan 17, 2021 1:11 am

Pretty sure it was just a case of actually doing new genga, douga and finishing would've been less time-intensive. These were also mostly still shots, so each shot only requiring one key frame and no tweens is a hell of a lot easier for the production than hiring some poor bastard to scan, clean and crop a reel of animation that is probably stuffed somewhere in a warehouse collecting dust.

I also like getting new shots, I wish they'd do that for Dragon Ball Z scenes, too.
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