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GX 53: The More You Know (about cards) [WIP]

Here’s something else I’m working on as I get ready to finalize Season 2! 

I’ve always thought I might take a crack at translating these in the future, and now that I have some knowhow about editing, I thought I’d give it a shot.  The caveat, though, is that it was looking impossible to get this sequence of cards flipping in the background totally textless; I was trying to overlay each of these clips between Seasons 2 and 4 in Sony Vegas and masking out as much blank space as possible, but doing that after getting maybe 20 of them in was a huge drain on CPU resources lol (what do you mean 360 frames x 30+ video tracks might do that).  Also kinda complicated by the fact that some of the cards change some episodes into Season 2, or between Seasons.  So, instead, I opted for just using a still shot and just masking in the Card of the Day as it flips into view; here’s a gif of how that looks:

The still I used was the first frame of the sequence; I think I might try to mask in some of the other cards or card backs so they’re not just stuck mid-flip, and maybe move the COTD so it’s flipping from that one card back just under it instead of in-between two, but I wanted to show this off and see what folks thought! Idea being this’ll be in the hardsubs, of course.  I get it won’t have the same look as having the cards flipping, but I thought it might be cool to do.  Does the English font (two from the Stone Serif group) look like a good replacement, too? I also spaced the text a bit closer together to make room for the subs at the bottom as Judai/whoever narrates (and thought this’d be good since sometimes not everything on the screen is explained).

Alright, went back and threw in some other featured cards in a couple of the columns and moved the Tempester card down (also tweaked the text position some), so this is the final look: