i actually find perspectice stuff like this in art and modelling and such SUPER interesting, because like it cant have been easy to figure out exactly in what way to give this model the torture device treatment, to make it look that good and cool in from the very specific camera angle the final image uses /gen

Someone hacked the camera in DragonBall Fighter to show that they did this with the models to get them to look cool during particular cinematic angles used during super moves.

The actual reason is because they want the character to look like they're being seen using a different FOV (Field Of View) than the rest of the scene.

There are other ways to do this, such as rendering the character as an overlay in a different 3D scene (lots of FPS games do this for their HUD guns), but this comes with the side effect that the model cannot interact with the world around it and may not occlude correctly or cast shadows.

Shouldn't the camera view be distorted instead of the model?