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• Member: Rorschach
• Studio: Shoestring Films Inc.
• Title: Blizzard Rescue Love
• Premiered: 2002-01-20
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Romance
• Song:
  • Nightnoise Snow Is Lightly Falling
• Anime:
  • Hana Yori Dango
• Comments: This is the very first video I ever created. It doesn't take much detective work to see it's from downloaded footage, and it's plain to me that the footage was made from (*sigh*) VHS. Still, it is rather amazing to me how easily the thing fell together. It took about three days to put the whole thing together after I got the idea, and when I finally got around to releasing it, I put a few finishing touches on it first (I reduced some of the dead space, and got rid of an annoying warping on the bottom using VirtualDub's cropping and resizing filters)
  
  A warning to you people who don't like getting all sappy: some would say the song to this video is rather sappy. Much as I despise a lot of the heavy metal, punk rock, and rap music people put in their videos, I prefer to refrain from watching and giving opinions on these videos altogether. I hope that any critics I have will kindly reciprocate. Or, to put it in plainer words, if you don't like love songs, spare me your opinions saying so; after all, I don't drop by to give my opinion of your sleazy Eminem videos now, do I? The song fits what Hana Yori Dango is: a classy soap opera. To decide whether you should watch it, I provide a convenient set of criteria here:
  
  If you're a guy who hates TV soap operas (and what guy doesn't?), no problem. You might like this anyway. But if you can't stand to go with your girlfriend who wants to take you to see a movie she thinks is sooo romantic, don't watch this video.
  
  If you're a girl who loves soap operas, you might like this video. If you hate soap operas because all they ever show is a bunch of losers sleeping around, you need to get yourself the whole &@%* Hana Yori Dango series because it's everything American soap operas ought to be, but aren't. You might also like this music video.
  
  If you actually like seeing people sleep around, go watch someone's hentai music video, you pervert.
  
  Update, 07/17/2006--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  Four and a half years later, I finally came up with some higher-quality source material and remade this AMV. Looking back over this series now, what amazes me is how obsolete all of the technology and techniques used to make it have become in a few short years. Of course, back when I first entered this piece, a 320X240 video was as big as anyone needed it to be and no one had ever heard of DivX 5, much less any of the other codecs that have come along since then. The series itself clearly comes from the traditional glass plate background paintings and fully manual sprite drawing techniques used in older pieces such as Disney's Little Mermaid, which was also the last of its kind at Disney. (Whether 2D or 3D, nearly all animations now all use computer graphics to some extent.) I can only marvel that even then, Japanese companies were cranking out animation of such amazing quality and detail that it still impresses me. I hope it still impresses you, my viewers, as well. Enjoy!