Something akin to Batman: The Animated Series, or Funi's own remasters of the DBZ movies (as well as Toei's Blu-ray remaster of those same movies). The reason is that Funi's goal with remastering Dragon Ball Z is to make it look like a low-grain show that was shot on 35mm film, with a medium DNR on top.
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However, before you go applying this filter, note that Funimation's movie remasters don't look like the series. The Season BDs were reframed shot-by-shot manually by someone at Funi. The Orange Bricks used a universal centre-crop only the 16:9 portion of the picture in the middle of the frame is visible. Realistically, you'll get worse results than Funi got if you apply this to already-4:3 footage, since Funi's 16:9 crop allows them to show extra picture on the sides, meaning the overall picture can be a bit bigger than if it was just a dumb 16:9 centre crop of a ready-made 4:3 picture.īut, if you're determined to get, specifically, the OB/Season BD look exactly right, then you'll want to crop. If you want Dragon Ball to look like Funimation's remastering, though, this is the key filter that gives that look.Įven those who don't mind step 2 generally hate this step, but it's a critical part of why a lot of people hate the OBs and Season BDs in particular. Superficially, it restores some of the image sharpness, but it also damages the picture and creates halos.įundamentally, this is the filter that causes the most controversy about Funimation's filtering on one hand, casual viewers appreciate the sharp look, but on the other hand, this is what destroys the texture of the backgrounds, creates halos, makes the inconsistent sharpness in the image in general, etc. The reason why the shading is really sharp-edged, but the outlines and such are blurry and indistinct is that, to counterract the blurriness of their denoiser, they ran a sharpening filter. Step 2: Run a sharpening filter on a high intensity setting. The result should look a lot like Dragon Ball Kai, but even blurrier/softer. You could use some level of temporal denoising too, or some other smart kind of denoiser, but essentially all denoisers boil down to a blurring process. Step 1: Blur it enough that the grain goes away.
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Levels, Dragon Boxes, original singles, anything really.įunimation started with a nicely cleaned-up version that underwent an extensive process to remove dirt, scratches, tape marks, etc., resulting in something similar to the Levels, but with the full film frame showing.