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Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 2
This is my second article about some curious fansubbing techniques that I found when watching anime. Want to know what they are? Read on to find out!
Masking For this last technique of the batch, I chose an example that demonstrates not only fansubbers’ creativity but also the mind-boggling technical complexity of some of the visual tricks they use. What the fansubber actually did here was he hid (“masked”) part of the subtitle under the pen for every single frame, to make the result look real for the viewer. Such methods wouldn’t work for live action films, of course, but anime is a different medium that might require a modified set of subtitling standards.
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