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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

s2e8 12:08 to end pt 3- Ghorelle signs & Dixian flags

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

s2e8 12:08 to end pt 2- Ghorelle signs & Dixian flags

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

s2e8 12:08 to end pt 1- (Dixian) flags

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

s2e7 33:18 & s2e8 8:23- (Ghorelle?) signs

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

s2e5 38:51, s2e6 19:57 & 35:01- Street signs, bottom right is Dixian, everything else Ghorelle

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

s2e5 25:10 & s2e6 16:43- Cafe lamp (Dixian) & Table Menu (Ghorelle)

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

s2e5 20:46- (Ghorelle) Hotel room number/label

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

s2e5 20:29- (Ghorelle) Cafe sign

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

s2e5 10:26 & 19:37- (Ghorelle) Ghorman Front Datapad

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

s2e5 6:58- (Ghorelle?) text bureau of standards hallway

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

But luckily the few I could read from, with the help of a community made Ghor dictionary docs.google.com/spreadsheets... gave me T, C, F, and 2 unknown characters and showed that at least umlauts if not all accent markers go below the letter in Dixian (8/9)

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

Sadly, most of the uses of Dixian were on flags so I didnt see really any more unique instances until episode 8, and even then most of the time they were too blurry/low res for me to identify, or repeats of other flags (7/9)

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

While screenshotting, I had noticed at least 2 distinct sets of characters, did some digging that lead me to x.com/starwars/sta... which gave me the name of the written language and confirmed identified E S from the flag and added V & I (6/9)

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

Then I went through and screenshot every instance of the Ghor languages I could find in Andor S2. The first instance I saw was in episode 4 at 9 minutes in, this flag gave me 4 new characters, one of which was at the end of ghorma, so pretty easy to figure out it was N (5/9)

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

While redrawing those characters I started with a vertical line that ran the whole height of the character and width of the stroke for consistent scaling and built out "components" on top for consistent styling and shape especially for later characters from blurry images (4/9)

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

This started when the FYC zine came out and I saw the we are the ghor lyrics page. I knew the art had to line up with one of the lyrics and luckily it was the most obvious: Gambol dum Ghor (we are the Ghor), giving me A, B, D, G, H, L, M, O, R, and U exact matches (3/9)

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 23/08/2025

Ghorman in Andor S2 immediately captured my imagination, its culture, agriculture, and language. I've spent my free time in the last 4 days trying to piece together (one of) its writing system. Here's how I got this far and how you could help (1/9)

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 06/07/2025

And rotation (this is for jokers so its added 180 rotation but the code is slightly better). Both these bits of code use sliders I'm not showing but it should be pretty easy to figure out what they are for and the value of them are up to taste so just play around with em

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 06/07/2025

Theres 8 Copies of both the Card and Joker MOGRTs, theres a slider to select how many of each and then the controls for each, the position and rotation are dynamically adjusted by the amount and size of the name, im just gonna post a pic of the code, heres position

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 06/07/2025

The Winning Hand MOGRT was by far the most intensive, it starts with the name segment which is 2 rectangles for the flat parts and then 4 corners that adjust based on the name's source rect

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 06/07/2025

The Card MOGRT is basically the same but 3 layers, suit chooses the Y of the card sprite, value chooses the X, seals moves through the sprite sheet with those, enhancers the same and also does the blank back of the cards Shadows done with Shadow Studio 2

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 06/07/2025

The first MOGRTS I did were the Joker and the card, do sprite sheet controls creating a variable that is ur controller divided by (then floored) how many columns there are and then another variable that is the remainder of that and multiply them by sprite width and height

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 06/07/2025

The character in the logo was just split into parts with anchor points on the joints and then the rotation was animated, for the stuff like the body and hat points were animated with the plugin bendio which gives attach points that are super handy.

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 06/07/2025

Before I get into all that super technical stuff tho, some easier stuff. I added a layer of fractal noise on top of everything with a scale of 2.4k, a complexity of 4.2, and the evolution keyed, with the blend set to overlay, its a subtle effect but made a big difference imo

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 06/07/2025

When a winner was selected, if it had [STOCK] in the headline it would be replaced with a random stock and give me the option to push it to the chiron and boost or subtract the stocks price a certain percent or a random value. Chiron also ran in rive with just a bool and string

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 06/07/2025

All of the headlines were stored in JSON Objects with 3 parts, one was for the full headline, another was a short version since twitch poll options needed to be les than 25 chars, and a third for the image url. My server made polls with the twitch api and updated with EventSub

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 06/07/2025

The headline poll is by far what took the most time in this and what im most proud of, so much of this animation is processed frame by frame. Animated and run in rive, uses a checkbox for if its running, 3 strings for the options and what won, and 2 numbers for vote %

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 06/07/2025

I owe yall two breakdowns since I did these projects so back to back and got so tired and im doing CNS first. Easily one of my favorite streams ive ever been a part of, so lucky I got to do this with one of my biggest homies @crub.bsky.social (had to cut this off because bluesky limits)

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 21/12/2024

@dougdougneedshelp.bsky.social just put out a video going into a bit of detail on the filming of the mugmug ads. If you're interested in how this kind of stuff is made I have an editing breakdown thread for the 90s ad. Linked Below vvv

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 04/12/2024

Artist stats are unbelievable this year (def isn’t all just one song that I didn’t help with)

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 20/10/2024

An important part in our society. Be proud of your lot in life

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 19/10/2024

The floating countries is done with 2 copies of the map that have a matte for the countries. One of these copies has a drop shadow with 0 distance and drop shadow only on directly on the map, the other is moved above it on the Z axes and has outline + outer glow layer styles

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 19/10/2024

The letters for the paper cutout u can free by googling "free newspaper letter cutout", heres a super easy copy paste guide to auto animate them with expressions I made: pastebin.com/isUh9JQa

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 19/10/2024

the bird animation was made by putting some frames of a video through half tone in affinity photo, putting some paper texture in, then using a grungy eraser and another paper layer to do cutout, heres the frames drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 19/10/2024

The actual main map is just driven by the native After Effects 3D function, I got the image for the map off of the U of M's map library (just make sure u get one old enough its public domain) lib.umn.edu/collections/...

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 19/10/2024

I'm gonna start with the part that people probably wanna learn the most, this map fill in. this is basically just following this tutorial youtube.com/watch?v=mbJR... but I made a matte of the area I wanted to cover and traced the stroke outside the matte (then red tint + soft light)

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 19/10/2024

I did the map graphics for this video so time for a mini breakdown (image from @greensnowdog.bsky.social) x.com/mayahiga/sta...

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 19/10/2024

The Witching hour branding for @samwitchx.bsky.social this includes a logo, announcement gifs, and a basic starting soon screen (with a more advanced one and lower 3rds planned)

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 19/10/2024

and then last, but not least, the tier 2 abilities mograph, pretty much entirely modifications of this tutorial youtube.com/watch?v=mbJR... including the in and out transitions. I put a bunch of the assets I made here for anyone to use dropbox.com/scl/fo/lgxg6...

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VaporGabe @vaporgabe.com · 19/10/2024

For the door 21 transition I drew the door on a piece of paper then ripped it up, taking a picture after every tear and a pic of every piece. Then I cut the BG out and dragged em into AE reassembling the paper

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