GX 40 WIP: You Gotta Draw Your Cards Right!

I’m alive! Finalizing my GX subs is still alive! And with it comes picking up on some animation errors that I thought I’d take a crack at fixing! As I was going through episode 40 (which is finished, btw–expect an upload by this weekend!), I noticed that for these two scenes–the first as Sparkman attacks post-Magic Jammer, and #2 just before Judai sets a card to end this turn–they actually drew Judai’s card hand backwards; he holds his cards such that the cards’ faces face him, so they’re supposed to be “inside” his fingers.  But for some reason, they decided to draw the card backs in that position, which is… odd.  

So, since Judai’s hand at this point had Invincible Hero, E-Hero Clayman, and O - Oversoul, I prepped proxies for Invincible Hero and Oversoul (and as a perfectionist, I wanted to use Oversoul’s first anime artwork, so I took a good frame and cut it out before brightening it to work with the default-light template) and slapped them over the card backs as Judai “shrunk” in the first scene, and as he swung his hand around in scene #2.  In #1, I also had to take the last frame he moves in and keyframe it with the slow zoom-out as Sparkman eventually swung across the screen, masking his thicc thighs over the cards for the first few frames.  In scene #2, they somehow also gave him four cards?? But these scenes are both during the same turn, so… I tried to fix that as well by editing in the cards as though he was originally holding three, masking his leg and jacket in as the cards swing past them.  Also, since he’d be holding the cards “inside” his fingers, only his thumb should be seen over them; his other fingers should be holding up the cards behind them.

Shouldn’t be too noticeable in action since it’s only a few frames of movement (especially in scene #2), but hey, the dub didn’t bother acknowledging this, so I thought I’d take my usual crack at it. :D