Early Concept Art
Plansiete.com has a video interview with Jonay Bacallado, a concept artist for Dragonball. You can watch the interview (in Spanish) here, or read a translation (thanks to Jonathan Martinez) below.
Narrator: His latest project has entered a whole new realm of difficult creativity, It involves the diversion of the reality of the dragonball series. His ambition was to give the characters a “new look” than in the manga, while still keeping the spirit of it in tact.
Jonay: This is one of those projects where the artist already has a reference to look off of; my job was not as big as that of say, the producer, because I already had a reference to expand from. To tell you the truth, It was really complicated, we had so much work to do to redesign every character to get them to where they’re at now.
- Art removed by request of creator. -
I have to ask you to please remove this information, because the images shown are mine, no one has asked for authorization, and most importantly, because it may lead people and Dragon Ball fans to think this is actual concept art, but it’s not. They are part of my personal artwork.
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Wow i like the picolo concept and goku’s one looks pretty sweet ,i’m gettin genuinely excited .
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hahaha I lost 1st place but w/e no big deal XD, i love how we all rush to write ” FIRST!!!!1 ” and dont even comment on the shit XD
am i the only one grateful none of these designs were used? haha
I’m in here pretty early myself. My first time too. Oh and cool artwork too.
Piccolo woulve been cool but without the helmet thing on his head . i see wat he was trying to recreate piccolos clothing . goku looks gay . chichi looks good and so does bulma .
what are those images above?
Kinda strange.. why not just stick with the massive amount of manga and over 400 episodes of artwork?
Not like there isn’t enough material to work with haha.
wat the fuck is this
Ok i’m going to translate to you all…
seriously yeah i agree with Corey, concept art?? these look fake, arnt concepts usually sketches and not weird cg models
all i can say is im glad the movie doesnt look like those
lol yeah way before Dragonball movie was announce, I was hoping hollywood would create one and I was like ” HELL all the concept art, story, and even the freaking STORYBOARDS (mangas ! ) are already made! Buuut even if all these helps the pre-prod, they always need to create a new story, artworks, designs, and storyboards…
These looks OK… Goku looks ok, piccolo’s face looks shit but theres the cape and shoulders pads! And hes very green
Others are pretty meh
this is defin not dragon ball!! Were they trying to put a lame LOTR mix into the movie!?!?!?!? this is actually the first thing im bashin about
20th comment, damn shudda refreshed the page
piccolo looks horrible without pants
@ec: @ec: Please read the post before you comment.
weird…I think goku looks ok, but bulma looks kinda funky.
Piccolos ok though, not really digging his head thing. Reminds me of LOTR too much
i’m not a hater but i’m glad that those ore only concepts.Because if those were the final product that would have sucked.good thing that masters and chatwin told the director that they wanted to stick as much as possible to the original manga
i wanna see this movie so bad!!!:D
hey Adam can you get a photo of shenron?plz
@Adam: Ok i’m going to try my best to translate it for you all but i’m not going to wright everything he said that’s cool?
if they did this haters would still bitch because its not the cheap cosplay look they desperately want
Um just because a there is a manga they still need storyboards and concpet art. Concept art is really important and you cant just use the manga, the purpose behind it is to give directors and sfx people (animators) a feel for how the characters and environment will feel, look, move and react. And to see how these would look in the environment as close to the finish movie as possible. These arnt wierd CG images there photohop drawing in which most concept art is made now. There was probaly 5 or 6 different concpet designs for each character.
Even 300 had story boards and concept art.
Come on people think a little before you post your comments;)
Ok all dat shit sux im glad dey didn’t go for dat shit damn I mean fuckin gay man wat kind of designs r dos I mean dats bad guess dats y its only concept thank the lord(piccolo) lol jp thank the Almighty Lord
Sry adam 4 the language buh damn dat art sux looks terrible especialliy piccolo
@Walsh: dude, i am not a hater, i am not gonna look at boring concept art, i wanna see the movie so freakin bad
@sajin0084.deviantart.com: “Come on people think a little before you post your comments;)”
It’s the Internet… that will never happen anywhere.
i am interested in the video though, they prolly dont talk about dragonball that much
OK I’M ABOUT TO POSTED SO EVERONE BETTER READ, HERE IT GOES…
Mikey, just tell us what they say during the Dragonball parts
oh i agree i would hate it too if they went this way only goku and parts of piccolo look decent but its concept art meaning its just suppose to get some what of an idea into peoples heads who have no clue on what the characters are going to look in a real life adaptaion and in this case this artist ideas ands styles which imo suck real bad. Im sure most people had the manga thrown in front of them and were like ok we know but how would you make it realistic so they got this guy to do some sketches ect to get a feel of the direction it might take and thank god they went in a whole other direction for the most part
I will be one of those crazy fans screaming and yelling during the whole film GOING KICK HIS ASS GOKU YEAAAAAAAAAHHHH OMG PICCOLO DID NOT JUST DO THAT !!!!!! OMG THEY FOUND THE 6 star dragonball ect pretty much people are going to hate being in the same theater as me LOLZ and I’ll prolly cosplay for the hell of it muaahhaha but as vegeta
once im done making my realistic approach to the Sayjin armour and body suit.
@Kaypain: In a min it’s to hard to understand spaniards.
Wait a min you guys…
im happy they didnt use these
@Walsh: if your in my theater, watch out
Any1 from the Chi?
LOL, When Goku and Piccolo are fighting I’ll be yelling FUCKING PUNCH HIM GOKU!!! KICK HIS GREEN ASS!! AH!!!
Since these are just concepts of the actual thing i think there pretty good except for the piccolo concept art that just sucks
Well, pants-less Piccolo weirds me out because he looks vaguely sexual and Nameks are asexual beings, but I like the ears. That’s one of the not-so-cool thing about Marsters/Piccolo — his ears aren’t big/pointy enough. I mean, seriously. How will they squeeze in his best line after Piccolo overhears Future Trunks talking to Goku: “My ears do more than just frame my face, Goku”?
I like ChiChi, though. She looks awesome. A little traditional with that collar, but a little closer to the DB manga’s pink bikini (which kinda freaks me out, honestly). She’s a good concept that I wonder if they’ll lean toward in the movie.
Bulma…just…no. If someone hadn’t said that third picture was Bulma, I’d have never in a million years guessed.
Goku doesn’t look bad. Looks ready to kick some ass, which is always good. Decent concept work, there.
Despite my dread of seeing this movie in live action, I do like to see other artists’ treatments of the characters. There really is some exquisite fanart out there, if you can wade through all the chibi-fied Vegetas. I just…expect more of a live action treatment.
you guyss are missing a pic.
Piccolo’s enjoying the cool breeze there a little too much!
Ok guys this is the best i can do here it goes…
Alex Acosta: I think it’s been one of those projects where i thought it would be referring to the series.
The truth is it was very difficult and the hardest i ever work because we kept on redesigning every character untill we got it right.
I couldn’t give you guys the second thing he was saying because it’s very difficult to translated but everything i wrote so far is what he actually said
Most of the artists at conceptart.org could have done much better than that…
But at least he made Piccolo green.
…and partially nude, lol
I’m definitely not digging his Goku concept. The girls are okay.
@Mikey: Who is Alex Acosta???
there ya go.
great news, a newer look than the manga while the spirit is still in tack
wwwhhhoooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!