Animasia: The First Instrumentality Project

[Bakadeshi]

i think the coordinator should've had a max track length that was reasonable and short enough to keep viewers interested even when slow/boring tracks are playing...

Funny thing is the original coordinator for this project IS the author for that track ;p Although I do agree in my opinion that the track is too long, I did think it was a nice idea. And some people do like the video (Oto's favorite in the project I beleive), so I don't think it was a mistake in including it. We did say it was a mixed bag in that some will like some tracks and not like others most likely. I think thats a good thing that its that diverse, rather than the same stuff throughout and have some like all and others not like any. At least you'll be able to skip it If/when you get the DVDs though ;p

[downwithpants]

TRACKS ARE TOO LONG! granted thats only 2 tracks. if felt like you guys are trying to bore the viewer.... The first track was great, but way too long for a MEP, imo. By the time the track was over i was ready to stop the player and continue watching Band of Brothers. but i continued watching instead...

mm, i had started that one before the project was created, without originally intending it to go in a MEP. it is slow-paced, unlike the traditional mold of action/effects-heavy mep submissions, but the entire project is unlike the traditional mold of meps. i didn't mean to bore you with the slow pace, but to establish a mood in a manner that requires more attention (and with it, patience) than the typical mep segment.

as for rose's segment, i thought it had several good moments, but i was disappointed he gave up on the chroma effect (the pleasantville effect) i saw him use in a beta.

nice encoding job jasper and props to songbird for pronouncing so well that insane monologue i wrote for @;~',~~

[Arigatomina]

Watched the first part. So far I don't know any of the anime used, and severly dislike one of them. Despite that, it had some really neat editing in there. There were a few parts where I think I wasn't supposed to crack up laughing, so I probably missed the deeper message. There was a certain scene with a pinwheel that just killed me. ^_^;

I liked the first half of the FLCL track - it was weird in a quirky funny way. But I've never 'gotten' vids for that anime, so you lost me halfway through. The extensive grayscale in the second half of part one bothered me, too, I kept waiting for splashes of colors when the songs changed and it never happened.

So far the project looks neat, plenty of room for creative effects (loved the soft ones used in the AzuDaioh track). The emotions aren't hitting home for me, though, because the most emotional track in part one was for an anime I dislike, and came off looking like random meaningless pictures of mundane things - it might help if I'd seen the anime and understood the significance of the scenes.

I've already seen one of the longer tracks in part two, but I'll get it to check out the rest.

[jasper-isis]

Thanks for the comments, everybody. Your overall response is mostly what I had anticipated, but that just goes to prove that all is right with the .Org.

And just to clarify things once again - no, the past 21 months have not been spent creating these individual tracks. Most of those videos have been released over a year ago and could have been downloaded at any time. What took us so long to create were the intro, the slideshows, the voice-over commentaries - the idea of Animasia as a whole. The commentary segments were created, then created again from scratch, with new ideas sculpting and refinining them along the way.

As for some of the tracks being boring... well, I'm sure that people would agree that Fantasia has its boring moments as well , though those moments may be different for different people. So I'm really glad that people are finding different things in here to enjoy. To me, that's really what this project is all about.

[Tsunami Jones]

There was a certain scene with a pinwheel that just killed me. ^_^;

Out of idle curiousity, which pinwheel scene was it? There's quite a few in there

[Arigatomina]

Out of idle curiousity, which pinwheel scene was it? There's quite a few in there

I had a wannabe laugh at 13:07, but it went away once I saw the background. It was the last clip that killed me - three seconds in I just burst out laughing. I know it wasn't funny. I know it wasn't. I heard the intro explanation. But the last clip just suddenly struck me as absurd - I thought "I'm watching a pinwheel spin to climactic music" and I cracked. ^_^;; So innapropriate.

[pen-pen2002]

This project was started by a small group of people mostly from the "artsy" niche that veer away from rock and pop and heavy beat syching to embrace a different style of editing overwhelmingly present in the final production. This project saw the rise of the instrumental video and the creation of the multi-editor project forum. Hopefully it will serve as a showcase in this age of effects and speed, of videos that march to a different beat. Hopefully they are not a dying breed.

I do not expect to see many album style MEPs. I expect the term will continue to be synonymous with "mixes" and "segments" but there is one thing that I would like to see adopted:

The Instrumentality project was an enormous collaborative effort. Though many videos were added after completion, most of them were inspired, planed, edited, tweaked, tweaked some more, and finalized within the animasia thread. Our rampant abuse of yousendit's servers continued unchecked as beta after beta was presented to the group. Ararat had at least 7 full length betas and Requiem had almost constant feedback through the editing proccess. I feel a great pride in many of the videos having wached them be created. Over a hundred forum pages and counless AIM conversations later I've had good times and made good freinds.

I may not have any studio affiliation, but in my mind, I'll always be a part of the Instrumentality group.

Thanks guys.

-Soren Berg

[[Mike of the Desert]]

It is OUT? °_° Oh men I was waiting for this /Downloading *soon*

[dokool]

Congrats on finally releasing this

Downloading now - I'm sure I'll be in touch w/ you guys regarding the Llamacon screener...

[chambeyc]

Very pleasant to see. The small introduction were very well done and give the project a special touch, though subtitles would have helped me greatly ^_^" (especially in part 2).

I agree with Pwolf: FLCL track was a bit too long for me, and Part2>Part1.
I found "Oratorio of Ghibli" extremely beautiful, my favorite part by far.

Another great MEP achieved. Congrats to all creators .

[jasper-isis]

Thanks to all for the comments.

The small introduction were very well done and give the project a special touch, though subtitles would have helped me greatly ^_^" (especially in part 2).

Back in 2004, I knew about the commentary parts in Fantasia but didn't think that we were actually going to incorporate them into this project. So when rose4emily started talking about creating them, I thought, whoa, we're actually going ahead with those? It's a good thing that his stance was pretty matter-of-fact and the idea caught on quickly. Because now that I think about it, the project doesn't really make sense without those commentaries.

Anyway, I've still got the scripts lying around, if anybody's interested.

I'm sure I'll be in touch w/ you guys regarding the Llamacon screener...

Oh whoops, forgot to ask Bakadeshi about that. Will do it ASAP...

[Coffee 54]

Anyway, I've still got the scripts lying around, if anybody's interested.

Those definitely be cool to see. After watching this project I started wondering what I would write for my videos in a similar situation...


I'd probably just use the word 'boogers' a lot.

[Bakadeshi]

This will possibly be screening at Momocon aswell, (for those of you attending) I'm in contact with the AMV creator on this atm, and he said they'd love to screen it. Looking like possibly a saturday evening showing.