How did the artists make energy affects look all bright and glowy?

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It's true, they looked so fucking boss

No anime in the last 20 years has done this effect

with high amounts of ki obviously

Ross Tran

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Here's your answer

>>2617475
make everything else darker.

>>2617475
Probably made in video editing, not in the cel animation.

>>2617571
>tfw you have dyslexia and read the brand as Hi-Hitler

>>2617475

For 90's and 80's animation they either paint everything else in the scene to be darker, and either paint a bright spot, overlay a brighter spot over the animation, or shine a bright light thought the bottom animation cell. The technique disappeared once they switched to digital.

It's called "Bloom". The area of brightness around Goku bleeds over the edes of his body a bit to give the appearance of glow. Make a figure, mask the figure and add in the glow around them....increment the figures mask inward a few steps, then blend in the surrounding glow onto their body a bit. Done.