"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."

silivagalaxy:

What’s this? Actual original content on my blog? Nah, no way. I tried taking the Pendulum Summon stock footage and editing the cards into the English dub versions.

I was bored, so I was messing around in After Effects. Ended up seeing if I could pull a 4K and see how editing the cards to the English dub versions would go. It’s a little awkward with the Japanese audio to say the least, but I think it’s a good result. Now, because I’m even more bored, let me explain some details about how I got this whole thing done.

The cards themselves were made with a program someone made on a forum that’s effectively a dub card generator. Using that for Timegazer/Stargazer Magician and Block Spider, I dumped the images into AE, and gave them all an effect called Corner Pin.

Corner Pin allows you to adjust just that, the corners of any compositions/source images you have, so I frame-by frame adjusted them to line up with the original cards. In cases like Timegazer, which is behind Stargazer, I had one or two less points to reference since they were covered up—basically, it was up to guesstimating at that point. The result is that sometimes the cards aren’t quite in proportion, but in motion as long as it’s close it doesn’t look too bad.

Here’s how the motion of the cards look without any of the underlying video. 

As you can probably tell it’s a little choppy. It’s kinda funny to look at actually. Anyhoo, you’ll notice I masked out the cards as to get them behind Yuya’s fingers. It’s not the most accurate job, but again, in motion, it’s not bad. If you look at it frame by frame you’ll notice me cutting corners (Just like 4K!)

The biggest doosie was definitely getting Block Spider properly under the P E N D U L U M text on the Duel Disk. We’ve got glowing effects in motion, so it was a challenge.

What I basically did was have two different “layers” of masks. One, that was static, represented the white-ish glowing letters on the Duel Disk. Thankfully on a tablet those aren’t to hard to make. The second layer of masks is the colored, moving versions of P E N D U L U M. I had to keyframe the motion of this second layer to match up with the motion of the original.

Both layers of masks are feathered to let the card blend in a little bit. It was logistical nightmare, but in retrospect the actual execution wasn’t bad.

Now, as for cards that glow, warp, and do a bunch of other stuff? No idea how they manage that. Buuuut at the very least I hope you learned something today?

also hours-wise, this took maybe 8 hours total?