Otakucon review: did they overhype and fail to deliver?

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Postby Kazutaka » Wed Dec 22, 2004 10:26 am

Ok I will try to give as much detail as possible. I don't remember the names of the winners, but the Best in Show video was a high energy (eye candy) fast paced Metropolis vid set to an industrial/rave type song w/no lyrics. **BTW - who ever made that video - it was VERY NICE!! Really well made and perfect timing to the music great editing job.

The video that won best TECH was from Rahxephon and was full of really good special FX.

Best Action was a Naruto (spelling?) video (I believe, I have never seen this anime but I think it was Naruto).

I think the video that won best Comedy was a movie trailer spin off with the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger and various others (not sure what anime was used in this one either as the bumper was about 2 sec long before they cut it off). This one WAS VERY funny indeed.

It was very difficult to hear as they had massive problems with thier sound system durning the contest (either one channel was out or there was feedback or you could not understand what the hell they were saying half the time). Also many videos (mine included) did not have bumpers showing the name of the anime, creator, studio, song or anything else.
I have tried to post on the forum for Otaku Con, but they removed the Miami thread (2 days after the convention, I suspect due to the LARGE number of negative feedback that they were getting) they have not answered me yet and they have not updated the website either. :x
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Postby greenjinjo » Wed Dec 22, 2004 10:33 am

Are you serious on the comedy video? Would it happen to have been called "Little Tortilla Boy", which can be found in my sig, and was set to Great Techer Onizuka?

In the Miami Kunicon forum, we started to get a bit of information, and he said the best comedy video was "Real Otaku Heroes", however he admits he was just trying to remember these from off the top of his head.

To view that forum, you need to sign up in the membergroups for the Miami Beach Otakucon, then they'll let you see that one.

Thanks for the info :P
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Postby Kazutaka » Wed Dec 22, 2004 1:03 pm

I swear that I thought "Little Tortilla Boy" (Movie trailer with the Arnold voice overs) won best comedy... or something because I remember them playing that video in the "winners block" with all the other winning videos. I have been told that they will post the OFFICIAL winners as soon as a list is provided. I would check that list out, because based on how the contest itself was handled.... (the loss of vids, corrupted files, missing bumpers etc) I do not have a lot of faith in them getting things right. However the buzz on the Otaku site is that these are the winners (that the announcer remembers, that is) so far....

Advance Wars 3 Prime for Best Misc
Real Otaku Heros for Best Comedy
You Wanted More for Best Drama
Rahxephon (not sure of title) Best TECH
And the best of show winner was: Jose Zamora for Metropolis Objection.

BTW: greenjinjo that video was AWESOME!!! That was really good, by far one of the best that I saw at the con!!
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Postby greenjinjo » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:52 pm

Kazutaka wrote:BTW: greenjinjo that video was AWESOME!!! That was really good, by far one of the best that I saw at the con!!


Thanks, glad you liked it :P

Yeah, I guess we'll just have to wait for the official list as soon as the AMV contest coordinator is found. I don't know for sure but I don't think anyone has heard from him since the contest :?:
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Postby Maverick-Rubik » Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:35 pm

Kazutaka wrote:Rahxephon (not sure of title) Best TECH


I have a pretty damn good hunch that's "Olin." :lol:
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Postby greenjinjo » Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:45 pm

Yep, we determined that a little bit later in the conversation over on the Kunicon boards, described as the one with a lot of hexagons :P
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Postby Kazutaka » Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:46 pm

Maverick-Rubik wrote:
I have a pretty damn good hunch that's "Olin." :lol:


I do believe you are right (name sounds familar). I would love to know how that was made. The editing in that vid was incredible!! Really neat beehive/eye/hex thing going on there.
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Postby Maverick-Rubik » Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:31 pm

He used aplenty of hexagonal masks over clips with the 3D layer in After Effects... he pulled it off really well, and I wouldn't have the patience for that hard work. :lol:
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Postby DrngdKreationz » Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:19 pm

yay!
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Postby AngelicVirii » Fri Dec 24, 2004 7:46 am

Sweet I won best Comedy! I wonder if theyre actually gonna send me my prizes ^-^

Tortilla Boy was Hillarious though, I definatly thought it would've beated me. Congrats to everyone who won.
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Postby Pyle » Fri Dec 24, 2004 6:42 pm

Good prizes can always redeem a bad con :)
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Postby Koopiskeva » Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:32 pm

Kazutaka wrote:Ok I will try to give as much detail as possible. I don't remember the names of the winners, but the Best in Show video was a high energy (eye candy) fast paced Metropolis vid set to an industrial/rave type song w/no lyrics. **BTW - who ever made that video - it was VERY NICE!! Really well made and perfect timing to the music great editing job.

The video that won best TECH was from Rahxephon and was full of really good special FX.



So... Evolution Redux and Olin? : ]
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Postby TaranT » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:24 pm

Koopiskeva wrote:
Kazutaka wrote:Ok I will try to give as much detail as possible. I don't remember the names of the winners, but the Best in Show video was a high energy (eye candy) fast paced Metropolis vid set to an industrial/rave type song w/no lyrics. **BTW - who ever made that video - it was VERY NICE!! Really well made and perfect timing to the music great editing job.

The video that won best TECH was from Rahxephon and was full of really good special FX.



So... Evolution Redux and Olin? : ]

I noticed that, too, but....I didn't enter Evolution Redux. Didn't enter at all, in fact.

The only other Metropolis vid that I can think of that fits the bill would be Metropolis Reactor which was in the 2003 AWA Masters. The creator of that vid (SushiBoyJared) is from Orlando.
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Postby greenjinjo » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:06 pm

The video title is called Metropolis Objection if I remember correctly from the Kunicon forums. There is an entry for it here on the Org but last I checked no download link.
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Postby Koopiskeva » Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:53 pm

Hmm.. I guess we'll never know... ever! |:
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