Flint the Dwarf wrote:Summary: we're in different playing fields. Creativity is always influenced by something and, whether you like it or not, our influences do not make our creations any less creative. Please stop playing to this idea that the Japanese are so immensely talented and exceed American standards in nearly every instance.
I agree. It was just a community standard. Japanese MAD communities and a-m-v.org were growing up seperately not knowing from each other and thus both had their own standards of what's good and what's not. Thus different styles developed making the difference we're arguing about here :p
Same can be said about Russian-speaking and maybe French communities.
I humbly think that a-m-v.org had the lowest standards of all those. Who of you didn't watch a really bad AMV shortly after you found out and were maybe even amazed by it? I was at that time. I thought I could do as good as that and didn't put much effort into my first videos. Now, what is if there wouldn't be a large number of bad videos, but only really good ones with lots of effort put in them? I clearly wouldn't have thought the same way creating my first videos and furthermore, the community wouldn't accept them as any good. So I would have to do better.
That is what it was propably like in the other communities above.
I hope what I wanted to say is clear, my english sucks this evening...











