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

“Even if I end up [in the darkness], I know you can endure [all four Dragons on the field]! I know that card of yours will protect you! So, even if I’m swallowed up by the darkness, you’ll pull me back out of that darkness.  I have faith in you–I know you can do it.”

Curious, anyone ever get to cut out everyone here individually from that V-Jump 777 Calendar way back, or reblog someone who did? @kurivolt managed to get Yuma and Judai, but I don’t remember seeing/reblogging the other three.  Asking for a friend~

ARC-V #01 - Getting Billboard (WIP)

Finally, a quick update on this! So through the magic of Photoshop, I finally figured out how to stitch together this pan weeks ago (lots of transforming), and started blanking the boards to add the translated text later; think it’s been 3-ish weeks off/on?  Some bits I had to redraw (like Jinzo Lord-or-whatever’s belt and Dian Keto’s arms and Disk), others were just a clean cover-up; for the gradients, I just recreated the gradients and then cut out Dian Keto and the Mystic Swordsmen to put over them.  I’m liking the results so far!

Just have Key Mace’s and the one next to it to clean, then I’ll be adding the text–after I get back to GX 24 to work on adding @alicethedragonvalkyrie‘s edited!textless Manjoume frames into that sponsor clip for the episode! Once I do, I’ll be doing my best to make up for time.

Also, if anyone happens to have reference screenshots I could use from other episodes that are more close-up on any of these, feel free to shoot ‘em my way!

So since I’m still not over this shot, I ask to the fandom winds, would a fine Photoshopper out there be willing and able to get this dork all xmas’d up for me, please? As much as I’ve picked up Photoshop, I don’t think I’m that good just yet, haha.

EDIT: WE HAVE A WINNER

ARC-V Ep. 01 - A Strong Foreboding (WIP #4… I think. i lost count)

And after 84 years, it’s finally alive! I really wish I knew that all I needed to do to make that “Strong Ishijima” text curve along the banner was free transform + click the “warp” button, haha.  So yeah, the poster’s now fully translated; all that’s left is to recreate the pan, then mask the translations into the video through Vegas.  Which should be a cakewalk compared to this, haha.  But hey, learning experiences are fun!

After that, I’ll translate the Yusho poster on the wall a bit earlier on, then the shot of the building behind crying Yuya to translate later.  Since stitching this pan together in Photoshop did go well, I might try the billboards in the beginning one more time, too.  But first, @alicethedragonvalkyrie has given me some frames to work with in GX 24 (for that Manjoume post-credit scene), so I’ll go back and get some more work on that done first.  Apologies for things being slow on the GX front, guys! Once I start prepping things with that clip, I’m going to go ahead and start prepping things for the next few episodes–that way, when I get back to it, I can churn more episodes out a bit quicker to make up for time, lol.

ARC-V #01 - A Strong Foreboding (WIP #3)

So, got back to this today after translating the text a week or two ago, and managed to slap on all the text I needed! I was able to transcribe much of it thanks to Yami’s 1080p upload of episode 1, which had the text much clearer, and figured out what little was left after some Googling for similar terms.  Guessing was involved for the bottom left ad for the Fan-Mingle Match, where I guessed at the gist of it to word the lower sentence ends to make sense.  Also had an interesting time trying to pick different fonts to go with the different ads, haha.  But it looks pretty good to me (and hopefully you guys; open the image in a new tab to see all the text!), so now, it’s just a matter of working it into the video…

…after I figure out how I can make that “Strong Ishijima Fan Appreciation Day” line curve the way I need it to.  I could still use some tips there, if any Photoshoppers have any, lol.  Applying a warp doesn’t work too well because getting the curve right on one end ruins it on the other.  Maybe if I could somehow pin the text to each end of the curve somehow…

ARC-V 01 - A Strong Foreboding (WIP #2)

So, now that I’ve blanked the full poster, I thought I’d take care of the Yuya/ Special Match ad so I can just paste it in.  But wasn’t sure if I should go with the comma or not here, so I wanted to get a few opinions, lol.  Also tried to get it all centered well, and Yuya’s name feels slightly off in the no-comma one…

I like how they had this…

…going on just ten seconds before this shot, yet they can’t translate a note to get Melissa to realize Tsukikage’s not Reira.  Because scribbles actually mean something.

(Also, they covered up Shinji and Reira’s names by layering the crowd over their holograms to cut them off.)

My attempt at stitching the pan down this poster together to hopefully translate, because I’m apparently in the Stone Age using Paint to try and do it.  How do you editors get your pans stitched? DX

(Luckily, it wasn’t anywhere as hard as the pan down those billboards; they’d be nice to translate if I could edit them all in one fell swoop, lol)

So I just wanted to throw this out there to anyone in the fandom who might have an idea of how to go about this, lol.

I’d like to try translating these billboards in episode 1, and to edit them in, I figure the best way is to stitch this pan together, work some Photoshop magic, and then work it back into the video.  Problem is, as it pans, it’s also zooming in or out (I can’t tell which, and it’s hard to tell from whatching it), which makes it hard to stitch it together well even going frame-by-frame–at least for me, in Paint, haha.  Has anyone tried to stitch this shot or a similar one together? Or might know any ideas of how to go about it? It doesn’t have to be perfect, as long as the billboards themselves are intact so they can get blanked/re-texted, lol. why u cut this 4K