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• Member: istiv
• Studio: Istiv Studio
• Title: The Race
• Premiered: 2005-07-01
• Categories:
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Fun
  • Instrumental
• Songs:
  • Weezer Island in the Sun
  • Wiseguys Ooh La La !
• Anime:
  • Ai Yori Aoshi
  • Angelic Layer
  • Animatrix, The
  • Argento Soma (TV)
  • BECK, Mongolian Chop Squad
  • Berserk
  • Bleach
  • Boboboubo Boubobo
  • Captain Future (Kyaputen Fyuuchaa)
  • Captain Tsubasa
  • Chobits
  • City Hunter (TV)
  • Condor Hero
  • Cowboy Bebop
  • Detective Conan (Case Closed)
  • Doraemon
  • DragonBall GT
  • DragonBall Z
  • Eat-Man
  • Excel Saga
  • Fruits Basket
  • Full Metal Panic
  • Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu
  • Fullmetal Alchemist (TV)
  • Gankutsuou
  • GANTZ
  • Gatekeepers
  • GetBackers
  • Gokusen
  • Great Teacher Onizuka
  • Grenadier
  • Groove Adventure Rave
  • Gundam Seed
  • Hanada Shonen-shi
  • High School Kimengumi
  • Hikaru no Go
  • Hunter X Hunter
  • Inu Yasha (TV)
  • Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu (TV)
  • Last Exile
  • Love Hina (TV)
  • Lunar Legend Tsukihime (Shingetsutan Tsukihime)
  • Lupin III: First Contact (2002 Special)
  • Monster (TV)
  • Mysterious Cities of Gold, The
  • Naruto
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion
  • One Piece
  • Otogi Zoshi (TV)
  • Paranoia Agent
  • Pokémon (TV)
  • RahXephon (TV)
  • Rurouni Kenshin (TV)
  • Saint Seiya
  • Saiyuki
  • Samurai 7
  • Samurai Champloo
  • School Rumble
  • Scrapped Princess
  • Shaman King
  • Shingetsutan Tsukihime
  • Slam Dunk
  • Tenchi Muyo! (OAV)
  • Tenjou Tenge
  • Tenshi na Konamaiki
  • Trigun
  • Twelve Kingdoms
  • Twin Spica
  • UFO Robo Grendizer
  • Vision of Escaflowne, The
  • Wolf's Rain
  • X (TV)
  • Yakitate!! Japan (TV)
• Participation:
  • Connichi 2005 AMV Contest, Connichi 2005 AMV Contest (2005-09-16)
  • Anime Weekend Atlanta 11, AWA 2005 AMV *PRO* CONTEST (2005-09-23)
  • Anime USA 2005, Anime USA 2005 (2005-11-18)
• Comments: The idea to do such a video came on a discussion with Tyler. We were talking about the numerous scenes of people running in animes. I also had instantly the idea to use this to do a sort of marathon of anime characters. I started so to prospect for concepts to put into this race.
  
  The first difficulty was to find a sort of scenario to this video. As i often say, one of my goal in amvmaking is to do more scenaristic videos, like Vlad did wih "Transcending love" [réf.] or E-ko in "Tainted Donuts" [réf.]. I realy wanted to do something different from "Shounen Bushido" or "Project Love united". So i search for a story that can motivate the characters to participate to the race. I had the idea of a mysterious Great Prize that no one know what it is. So the participants are imagining what they wondering deeply in their own anime story. And one of the stress i put on me was to absolutely not do another "singing" video. Now i have the background of the video, i started to search the characters.
  
  The first character wich came in mind was Spike from Cowboy Bebop since i already saw him running in "Tainted Donuts". To say the true, it is possible that this video indirectly influenced me in making this video. But i really wanted to do something different evan if it was still people running inside. Then i think about Luffy of One Piece on second. Because, every funny thing ou need in AMV, you can be sure Luffy did it. Naruto, Kirua from Hunter X Hunter, and Edward of Full Metal Alchemist came after that. Once i had my main charcters, i started to edit the scenes, and see what can i do with the different piece of anime i had.
  
  After a few minutes of editing i realize that, just putting characters in a race, make them run from a point to an other, should be boring. So i had the idea to put in it some "Chibi Things"-like fighting. Now my race became a fighting race. A sort of "Wacky Race" with participants, tricking, cheating, to win the great prize. I was prepared to do a lot of rotoscoping, but at this point i never imagined how much of cutings i'm going to do, to complete this project. After 1 year of editing, and many stops caused by boringness, world of warcraft or my Ph D. rush ... i finally finish the vid.
  
  I would like to thanks some editors for the help they provided: Kirua for making me discover the song, and for the sequences i lacked of and he sent it to me ; and Laria for reviewing my beta version and tell me where i needed to correct some misshaps. If you have time, go look their videos, and let an opinion ;). I would like to thanks [R]ay and Ayor which are not amvmakers but that helped a lot by providing me some stuff i didn't have in my stock of anime videos.
  
  I hope you'll enjoy the video.
  
  Video Encoding: Divx 5.1.1 - 2pass - 3000 KBps
  Audio Encoding: MP3 - 44 KHz - 160 KBps
  
  
  
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  Anime USA (Vienna, 2005)
  - Viewer's Choice Award
  - Upbeat Runner-Up
  
  AC Cubed (Ottawa, 2005)
  - Best Overall
  
  Anime Week-end Atlanta XI Pro Contest (Atlanta, 2005)
  - Best Fun/Upbeat
  - Best Technical
  - Best in Show
  - Nominated in 3 categories
  
  Connichi AMV Contest (Kassel, 2005)
  - Best Fun
  
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• Comment History: date (words) 2005-11-10 (581), 2005-09-28 (550), 2005-09-27 (542), 2005-09-27 (518), 2005-09-27 (483), 2005-09-27 (416), 2005-07-03 (8)