I want to give the animators of #DragonBall the credit that they deserve. It is a collective effort. That's the project
Jul 13 • 24 tweets • 13 min read
Tadayoshi Yamamuro 山室直儀
The most controversial and possibly the most famous animator of Dragon Ball. Only Yamamuro and Nakatsuru can compete for the position as the best artist of Dragon Ball after Toriyama.
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Tadayoshi Yamamuro was born in Tokyo in 1960. He liked martial arts and there is a rumour he trained in a Shaolin temple. He joined Shindō as an in-betweener for Dr. Slump at the age of 22 (other sources say 1984). His 1st drawing was a SUN that he felt did not move naturally.
May 31 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
Shingo Ishikawa 石川晋吾
The last animator supervisor of Dragon Ball
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Most of the times we start researching animators by looking at supervisors. These correct key animators and use recognisable yellow sheets.
Apr 26 • 14 tweets • 9 min read
Let's share some of the art of Minoru Maeda 前田 実, the chief animator of early Dragon Ball.
Every time that I think about the style of Mr. Maeda, these two sets come to my mind. These belong to the first movie of DBZ, DeadZone. Yukio Ebisawa is easy to recognise as the author of the genga, which was corrected by Mr. Maeda. It's a powerful style.