How Dragon Ball Z Was Made-The Animation Process

And then you give source materials to Funi who then upscale and remove all detail from the source while selling it as ''blu-ray'' with Toei not wanting to lift a finger at proper remaster despite having all the source materials needed for it

Really nice🎉

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Who are these masters of animation who are animating these movies specially tourenmnet of power 😳😳😳

Guys! In the process of making my first anime short film!! 😭😭
wish me luck!!

thx for letting us know how it was made cuz im planning to make a fanmade series in the future called dragon ball ultimate which is after the end of z

I always noticed being an artist myself that one dbz episode would have quality animation and the next one looking kind of shitty...hard to explain but im sure someone else noticed this too

What a gem of a video.
With this knowledge were getting closer to set a fan based production team that could potentially fix the inconsistency of DBZ episodes via fan based restoration using 90's traditional methods.

Animators needs 100$ a hour holy moly what a process

Great vid! What's the process after the definitive lines?
I wonder how the final frame were assembled, with colours and the background. And which machine was filming and moving the sheets!

I dont understand why DB Super looks like trash, but DBZ, especially all these drawings we see here, are so beautiful and sharp and detailed!

Thank you, great work!

Where did you get these drawings and footage of the studio work and the correction of the directors can you give me the sources

You're wrong about the "tracing" part. They xeroxed the paper line work onto cels.

Man I'd love to make a cel animation like this was done. Maybe not even 100% cel, I'd be okay with a blend like Pokemon the First Movie too.

Amazing video. Thank you so much! I can see the process of my favorite anime that got me into arts.

Good

Nice

Looks fun to animate and at the same time it's hard

This was fascinating thanks

So good for it's time wow
Can't believe it was made in the 90s

Man thank you so much for putting this together :)

Been studying the behind the scenes stuff of the Dragon Ball anime and man props to these animators,the fact that they have to go through this process and have it done on a weekly basis is crazy. I see why the first few episodes of Super looked kinda wonky

The animators' original drawings were gold! How unfortunate that the final result couldn't match the same level of detail.

Thanks for this great vid and your content! Much appreciated 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

HOLY SHIT THIS VIDEO IS SO DAMN INTERESTING

No entendí casi nada pero gracias.

Christ just how do you draw this

Its amazing lots of hard work involved

Disgusting how much the animators are exploited. Paid by each drawing. Awful.

This is the most in depth and detailed account of classic anime production I have ever seen. Great for procrastinating drawing character designs xD. Be interested in seeing a break down on finishing and background art. Anyway, awsome work.

Whenever I watch anime, I regularly get distracted by the animation rather than the plot, and I think, how do they do that?? I'm a pretty good artist, but I'd like to move more into animation. Thanks for making this video, it has inspired me to start animating characters and movements!

u r the goat
one of my favorite subs this year

Training on becoming one very soon🤟🏽💯✍🏽

This is really hard work.

Does anyone know if there’s a database with every episodes animation studio and supervisor? It’s something my son and I have been interested in since he started watching it and is interested in animation and noticed how different some episodes looked.

The prblm is there when animator didn't get paid which they deserve that is awful

Great video

Very informative video, thanks for this.

Also, since you mentioned special effects like blur and heat waves, is there any footage on how they did them back in the analog days? More specifically backlit animation. It's amazing how they achieved those psychedelic effects for bright lights, glows and explosions; they had to cut slits on the cels with with literal light shining through colored gels underneath. I think this technique was first used in Space Odyssey and Tron, but I've never seen any footage of how it was done. Still find this old tech much more visually appealing than current digital effects, though they've certainly improved in reproducing the feel those old effects had.

Gotta love the analog days inventiveness, man.

You see none of this In super

Just watching this gives me anxiety. Haha What an immense amount of work! Much respect to these animators!

This is literally more important than school

Amazing work

They did a lot of work. BUT ALSO. You did a lot of work putting this together. I have no clue how you get so much detail and rough drawings from. But thank you. Great video. Hats off.

Hopefully this vid will help shut up people who ignorantly claim 2D and 3D animation processes are similar, and studios are choosing 3D animation because its "better". They are choosing 3D because its "cheaper, quicker and easier". But visually they are completely different mediums, and in general 3D animations have limitations that 2D animation and art does not.

Really great effort man. Thanks for showing these details. I always wanted to know about these animation stuff in background

I've always wondered how did they make that classic, old style kamehameha effect. I remember back in the days of the first Dragon ball, that effect had such a peculiar and tactile texture but it was completely gone in the later series. I'm pretty sure it has to do with some optical effect but i'd love to know how they actually made it.