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Soooo, I’ve sorta been MIA for the last couple weeks doing some upkeep on my GX stuff. I’ve mainly been reuploading my subs on Videa for my GX Stream Masterpost ™ (currently Seasons 2-4 are fully reupped), and while I have, I figured I’d kill a few birds with one stone (26 of them to be exact) and reencode episodes 1-26 to accommodate them with the new version (though technically old, but newly surfaced) of Sunshine - A Soaring Hallelujah/Kaisei’s OP video that I started using in 27. Doing so also allowed me to revisit the scripts and update them with some term capitalizations that I started using later on (aka, “Monster”, “Magic Card”, etc), so these should be the “final” finalized versions. Aka, once I’m done with Season 1, I hope not to touch these again. :D

So, I’ve currently done 1-25, I’ll be finishing 26 maybe tonight, and I’ll be updating my GX Stream Masterpost ™ with the new stream links; I’ll just need to reupload my older-but-still-good subs for 28-52 and I’ll have no more Cloudy.ec links on there! It’s been real, Cloudy. Those links will get overwritten as I finalize 28-52. And then, I should hopefully start 28 later this week!

Also, while I’m at it, I have a little survey for everyone who’s following my work: as we know, 29 starts off the Seven Stars arc, but it still uses the Sunshine opening and Battle on the Edge ending until episode 34, when 99% and Wake Up Your Heart take over. My thinking is, given all the Seven Stars footage in 99%, I’d like to use 99% and WUYH sooner? Since it feels more appropriate to start it sooner (like how “Burn!” should have started sooner in ARC-V)? Would you all like it? I’m thinking I’d do it just for the hardsubs, while the DVDRip/Script releases on NAC would still use Sunshine and BotE as in the DVDRip. Let me know!

tfw you’re better at card placement than the paid official folks at 4Kids Entertainment

Going through the early episodes for some retro fixes I’m doing since I’m reencoding these episodes anyway to add the new OP I used in 27, when…

kaiowut99:

GX 27 WIP (For the OP): A Strapping Issue (That’s Bugged Me for Quite a While)
So, like, since I’m resubbing my OP credits to the newly online Version 1 of the Kaisei OP, I figured I may as well take care of something that’s been bugging me (and likely another person or two :P) for a while now. A WIP as I’m only two frames in. Thoughts?

UPDATE: The finished product!

I do like how it looks in motion, but let me know what you think! Here are the individual frames, so you can see them individually:

Though I do feel I should have had it start more to Burstlady’s left, but I thought I should work more with her shoulder. Probably works well enough, lol.

BONUS: lol4Kids

GX 27 WIP (For the OP): A Strapping Issue (That’s Bugged Me for Quite a While)

So, like, since I’m resubbing my OP credits to the newly online Version 1 of the Kaisei OP, I figured I may as well take care of something that’s been bugging me (and likely another person or two :P) for a while now. A WIP as I’m only two frames in. Thoughts?

kaiowut99:

So apparently, “Sunshine - A Soaring Hallelujah”/”Kaisei Joshou Hallelujah” had its V1 released on that compilation DVD with all the textless OPs/ENs from DM-5D’s a while back, and I didn’t know. V1 had the sky looking different behind Judai and co, but notably, it also had this shot of Manjoume pause before it pans out to show Judai:
(@tsureh @aneroticporkcutletbowl look at that, all that work on this shot for no reason XD;)

#OH MY GOD they should’ve fixed burstlady #’s shoulder strap #while they were at it+

OH MY GOD are you talking about this bit with her inverted strap?

I’ve been so tempted to finally fix it but I was like, but I’d have to reencode the opening and then slap it into every episode, but hey now that this is here, I’ll have to do it anyway so heyo

(via tsureh)

So apparently, “Sunshine - A Soaring Hallelujah”/”Kaisei Joshou Hallelujah” had its V1 released on that compilation DVD with all the textless OPs/ENs from DM-5D’s a while back, and I didn’t know. V1 had the sky looking different behind Judai and co, but notably, it also had this shot of Manjoume pause before it pans out to show Judai:

(@tsureh @aneroticporkcutletbowl look at that, all that work on this shot for no reason XD;)

when you get one of your fave monsters out and it gets returned to your hand

GX 26 WIP: Flappin’ His Gums

Finished my last of eight fixes for episode 26! For this one, I’m kind of amazed that 4Kids, for all their love of adding lip-flaps, didn’t bother trying to add some here to fit in his call for Armed Dragon LV7, opting instead for “And I choose…” So, thinking it’d be awkward to leave his mouth gaping when he’s talking, I added some myself! I used two frames of his mouth opening and one with it closed as he turned a bit earlier in this shot, resized them to fit on his face, and wiped his mouth from a frame to put it behind the new mouth each frame to cover the rest of his mouth from the original shot. Then, just moved each accordingly as the pan happened.

Doesn’t look bad, if I do say so myself~

So anyone notice when Manjoume activates Armed Changer on Judai in ep. 26 and is supposed to discard an Equip Magic, he ends up discarding Armed Dragon LV5?

aneroticporkcutletbowl replied to your photoset “GX 25 - A Strapping Issue (WIP #2) Revised my edit in the 2nd pic to…”

wait why am I only getting a notification for this now anyway looks good but the shadow in her armpit is a bit wonky, I think it’s a little too strong?

Because I just thought to tag you two in the last 20 minutes ^^;

Glad it looks good overall! For the shadow, I was replicating the shadowing on her skin in the original frame, though maybe it’s not really needed since strap. Here’s what it looks like without the shadow (I tried thinning it a bit, but it still looked iffy to me):

GX 25 - A Strapping Issue (WIP #2)

Revised my edit in the 2nd pic to connect the strap with the shoulder cuff into the third pic, based on the fourth as reference from episode 71. Yay/nay? I want it to be closer to realistic haha

(Paging @tsureh and @aneroticporkcutletbowl, my usual reviewers, at their earliest convenience :P)

If any good GX screencappers happen to have shots of Burstlady attacking with her arms raised up, feel free to drop them my way. I’d like them for reasons

GX 25 WIP - Strapping for Time (1)

So, having some time today thanks to SNOW (and IT at work dropping the ball on my telecommuting), I’m tackling my edits for 25; here’s one I’ll have to do 2-3 times in this episode. Curious to hear thoughts on the strap in the third frame; does it make sense for it to sorta stay there as her arm’s up? It’s supposed to be a shoulder strap, so I think it looks good, but… hmm.

Also for comparison, here’s the dub’s awful coverup edit:

~~bc what even is shading apparently~~

Whoo, after a hard afternoon’s work, GX 25′s script is all done! Now I just have my card fixes to do, so I should have it ready in a few days. Now I get to treat myself to Japanese-raw!Dark Side of Dimensions~