AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (next stop - Nekocon)

[Honou_Miko]

Oohhh, that's aggravating, yeah. XD But yes, second is still fantastic; I was happy (surprised honestly) when I got second place comedy at Otakon last year.

[Gaelstrom]

Aaaah crap... now you're both guilting me into finishing Princess Tutu finally so I can click that link. Dammit. Maybe this time I'll actually feel a connection to it ^^ Something distracted me last time, not sure what. Maybe it was One Piece, because that would make a lot of sense.

Edit: Yup, better than I remembered. Must have been catching up on One Piece that pulled me away, it's the only anime I'd stop watching another one for, that's for sure. Guess it's about time I finished this series ^^

[moonbunnychan]

Well it's also one of those shows that takes a few episodes to really get going and establish it's self.
It's also crazy easy to make amvs out of, since there's a lot of graceful moving and dancing and parts that are overly dramatic on purpose so that it seems like they're on stage.
Also: (not actually a spoiler, just cut for size)

Spoiler :

[Kireblue]

Well it's also one of those shows that takes a few episodes to really get going and establish it's self.
It's also crazy easy to make amvs out of, since there's a lot of graceful moving and dancing and parts that are overly dramatic on purpose so that it seems like they're on stage.

yeah. I actually plan on making a Princess tutu + Clannad AMV in the near future.

[Gaelstrom]

Wow, Clannad and Princess Tutu? That'd be a tough one, I'd love to see what you could pull off! For me, I have never done an actual AMV before. I had fun ideas I thought would be funny but never knew where I could showcase it, and then Deuce's advertising for other authors at the end of AMVS2 made me want to do it. It coincided with me getting Colon Cancer, and after the week in the hospital for surgery and the subsequent chemo I was like "Fuck it, if I was gonna die, time to use that to do what I've always wanted to" and did the AMVS3 clips. Still loving this stuff ^^ My biggest issue with doing music-based ones is that since I'm a 3D animator, I have such grandiose ideas that I know I could pull off in conjunction with the animes, but it would require a lot more work. But settling for any less strikes me as giving up, so I give up before I start ^^ Now that I've scratched my comedic itch for a couple years though, it might be time for me to make one as well.

Although the one I truly want to do is One Piece... so... yeah. That just means I'm a moron.

[Honou_Miko]

My biggest issue with doing music-based ones is that since I'm a 3D animator, I have such grandiose ideas that I know I could pull off in conjunction with the animes, but it would require a lot more work. But settling for any less strikes me as giving up, so I give up before I start ^^

Some of what I consider my best work came from ideas that I originally was like "oh, wouldn't that be cool? Too bad it's probably too long and there's probably not enough footage." Go for it; if it ends up sucking then try something else (because that sure as hell has happened to me as well. O_o)

[Squancho]

I usually never put something together unless the entire song / concept comes to me the same day. If I have to put the editing down and come back to it another time because I have to wait for the next phase to develop in my mind, it never happens and I have yet another incomplete project. The ideas for "Go Ask Haruhi" and "Me Wuvs You" wee pretty instantaneous. So was my Elfen Lied / Muse "Assassin" video before the HD melted down (still bitter about having to start that one over).

Wanna see what I had so far?

You-to-the-Tube: /watch?v=-SOp0jvany8

[Kireblue]

I usually never put something together unless the entire song / concept comes to me the same day. If I have to put the editing down and come back to it another time because I have to wait for the next phase to develop in my mind, it never happens and I have yet another incomplete project. The ideas for "Go Ask Haruhi" and "Me Wuvs You" wee pretty instantaneous. So was my Elfen Lied / Muse "Assassin" video before the HD melted down (still bitter about having to start that one over).

Wanna see what I had so far?

You-to-the-Tube: /watch?v=-SOp0jvany8

Did you know that youtube links are allowed on the site now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SOp0jvany8

[Gaelstrom]

It's not really the footage problem, after two years I've come to terms with the fact that the footage search is a certain amount of time. What's odd and a bit ironic is the footage search for these parody vids is pretty much identical to the footage search I'd be doing for a real AMV. But like I said, my ideas involve literally modeling, texturing, rigging and animating the characters of an anime to do something unique in the midst of it, otherwise I just feel like I'm not doing my best to make something unique and interesting ^^ Gotta use my training somehow Comedy in and of itself has its own magic to it. A good joke doesn't need too much work, just enough respect for the joke to get it to come alive I guess. AMVs have a different energy to me. For years I've watched all the best ones and they all have this element of the images being 'music' themselves, and what was sad is what I realized most of all after seeing them is I didn't yet know how to achieve that ^^ All I knew was that all the ideas I'd had up until that point weren't going to achieve it. Oddly enough, that classic AMV from Big Big Truck, the "Experiments in Video Editing" taught me quite a bit about recognizing when my idea wouldn't work ^^

[moonbunnychan]

My all time favorite video about making videos is still this one: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=26175. I've seen it probably a hundred times and the line about adding lens flare with her mind NEVER fails to crack me up.

And for me, I don't really even start on something until I have it more or less storyboarded in my head. Usually this comes from listening to the song endlessly looping for days. And I feel ya Deuce, I hate stopping for even things like...you know...sleep....and work...