Artist Joshua Van Rose reimagines Goku of the Dragon Ball franchise as a Disney character.As reported by Screen Rant, Van Rose redesigned young Goku into a 3D-animated Disney character. As seen in the fan art, Goku wears his usual blue gi with a smirk on his face. Dragon Ball fans met the artwork with mixed reactions, with some reposting it with the assumption that an actual Disney film featuring Goku was in the works. Fortunately, the negative comments only amused Van Rose. "Your heart's in the right place but y'all can chill with the DMs apologizing for all the haters," Van Rose wrote in response to the divided opinions. "I assure you, my feelings are not hurt; I find the whole thing hilarious."RELATED: DBZ and Spy x Family Parallels Highlight Epic Fanmade Video

Van Rose added another image of his reimagined Goku in the tweet's replies. As seen in the second picture, Goku wields his power pole and carries a single Dragon Ball at his side. On the artist's Art Station, Van Rose stated he used Arnold to render the character and Unreal Engine to create the background. Re-Imagined Games previously used Unreal Engine to develop his fan-made realistic Super Mario Bros. remake.

Fans Have Mixed Feelings About 3D Media

Van Rose's fanart wasn't the first time the Dragon Ball franchise incorporated 3D animation. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, released on Aug. 19, 2022, is fully animated using CGI elements. However, like the artwork, select fans became unsure if the animation style worked or not. James Wong's 2009 live-action adaptation based on the Dragon Ball manga, Dragonball Evolution, became a box office failure, grossing only $9 million in North America. Due to its lack of faithfulness to the source material, in combination with the script and cast, the film ultimately flopped.

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After 17 years of film silence, the Dragon Ball franchise released a fully animated feature, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods. The 2013 film marked the first time a Dragon Ball film received a theatrical release since Dragon Ball: The Path to Power. Released in celebration of the franchise's tenth anniversary, Dragon Ball: The Path to Power became the last film in the series to use the hand-drawn technique of cel animation.

Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga series began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995. Inspired by the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, Toei Animation adapted the manga into two anime series: Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. Both series aired episodes from the mid-1980s until 1995. Since its inception, the Dragon Ball franchise developed 21 animated feature films, three television specials and two anime sequel series: Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is currently playing in theaters.

Source: Twitter, Screen Rant