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GX Finalized-Subs!80 (WIP) - The Wandering Doll

Just finished working on all of the animation/card fixes I noticed for episode 80 (about nine altogether, half quality-of-viewing stuff like fixing split-screens, half card-related fixes) and wanted to show these two off; the first one in the first three gifs I’d say took most of the week to work on, lol.  This is the first card fix I’ve applied in a scene like this too, where you have those visual effects going on Alice and the card itself.  The first shot (the first three gifs) happens as Alice the Wandering Doll’s effect puts it onto Judai’s field, while in the second (the second set of three gifs), duelist Alice attacked into it to trigger its effect and send it back to her field.  The third one (in the last set) has her being attacked on duelist Alice’s field by Judai’s Rallis the Stargazing Bird in nine quick frames before she explodes.

In each row, the first gif is the original, my edit is the second gif, and the third is how the dub handled it just for fun; the goal here was to flip Alice the Wandering Doll’s card so that its name box was on the left (as that’s how the cards are placed on Disks in Defense Mode, plus we see it facing that way in later shots), and while the dub does fix that (except for the third scene), you’ll notice in the first two scenes that they altered the way Alice gets onto and out of Judai’s field here to do it–it looks like they might’ve first applied the dubified card under Alice, masked her back over it, and then masked both her and the card out as one layer to then apply the transition/warping effect they do over both; I can imagine they were a bit limited in how they could deal with these if they don’t have direct access to the card layers like they seem to for ARC-V and VRAINS’s dub.

(Editing process breakdown below)

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