Wanna just supplement this with my finalized/revised subs (which you should definitely use! translations are much more updated/video quality’s much better/etc, lol), because this is a neat little moment:
I thought I’d work on this magazine’s back cover a bit, and I managed to get a good look for this! Photo #2 is my current translation of this magazine’s back cover (which is an ad for the Shadow of Infinity booster pack as it was coming out), and #3 is the dub’s blanking of it–I tried to work on repainting Uria and Raviel a little yesterday, but wasn’t really getting anywhere, so ultimately I decided to work with the dub’s blank’d back cover for now* and worked it properly into this shot (the way the dub edited it, they enlarged the back cover image and kinda rotated it oddly, so I resized it and rotated it back to fit into the Japanese frame; their edit also sorta overstepped the “bounds” of the magazine and overlapped with the pages).
I’d first worked in a color gradient to the “Phantasms” text up top, but as I rotated the text into place, the gradient kept shifting from how I wanted–eventually, I realized I just needed to make it a Smart Object to keep it in place, lol. Added a drop shadow to the text as well using a Color Overlay on a duplicate layer, and did the same for the Uria and Raviel names before masking Judai’s fingers over the Raviel text (which I may polish up as I add it to the footage).
The challenge will be working with the back cover as it moves while Judai flips some pages; I may try to split the cover into its own image so I can do a corner pin in AfterEffects to keep the look consistent, but I’ll see what works; may take editing the four moving frames, though, since Judai’s hand moves but hmm…
*Out of curiosity, would someone skilled enough in Photoshop/etc be available and able to help with blanking the cover here (and as it’s shown in a later shot where Shou’s reading his copy of the magazine)? I kinda want to do my own blanking if possible so I don’t need to use the dub’s work, and I’d be happy to commission it if need be (would definitely be crediting in the ending credits). It’d be much appreciated!