Information
- Member: LopezAMV
- Studio: Trinity Studios
- Title: Something Beautiful
- Premiered: 2011-02-20
- Categories:
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Song:
- NeedToBreathe Something Beautiful
- Anime:
- 5 Centimeters per Second (Movie)
- A Certain Magical Index (TV)
- A Certain Scientific Railgun (TV)
- Ah! My Goddess: Fighting Wings (special)
- Air Gear (TV)
- Air Gear -Break on the Sky- (OVA)
- Angel Beats! (TV)
- Angelic Layer
- Ani-Kuri 15
- ARIA the OVA ~Arietta~
- Basilisk - Kouga Ninpou Chou
- BECK, Mongolian Chop Squad
- Birdy the Mighty Decode (TV)
- Black Cat (TV)
- Black Rock Shooter (OVA)
- Blade of the Immortal (TV)
- Blood+ (TV)
- Bokura ga Ita (TV)
- Brave Story (Movie)
- Break Blade (Movie)
- Bungaku Shoujo: Kyou no Oyatsu - Hatsukoi (OVA)
- Busou Renkin (TV)
- Casshern Sins (TV)
- Cencoroll (movie)
- Clannad (TV)
- Clannad After Story (TV)
- Code Geass - Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV)
- Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV)
- Cowboy Bebop - The Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
- Darker Than BLACK (TV)
- Darker than Black - Kuro no Keiyakusha: Gaiden (OVA)
- Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor (TV)
- Diebuster (Aim for the Top 2!) (OAV)
- Digimon Movie 2: Our War Game
- Digimon Movie 3: The Golden Digimentals
- Dragon Crisis! (TV)
- Dragonaut - The Resonance (TV)
- Dream Eater Merry (TV)
- Durarara!! (TV)
- Escaflowne - The Movie (movie)
- Eureka Seven
- Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers (movie)
- Familiar of Zero, The (TV)
- Fate/ Stay Night - Unlimited Blade Works (movie)
- Final Fantasy 7 (VII): On the Way to a Smile - Episode: Denzel (OVA)
- FLCL (Fooly Cooly)
- Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (OVA)
- Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu
- Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid
- Fullmetal Alchemist (TV)
- Fullmetal Alchemist The Movie - Conqueror of Shambala
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV)
- Ga-Rei -Zero- (TV)
- Ghost Hound (TV)
- Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- (TV)
- Hayate the Combat Butler (TV)
- Heaven's Lost Property (TV)
- Heroic Age (TV)
- Inu Yasha: Affections Touching Across Time (Movie 1)
- K-ON! (TV)
- Kaichou wa Maid-sama!
- Kamisama Kazoku (TV)
- Kampfer (TV)
- Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens (TV)
- Kanon (TV - 2006)
- KARAS
- Kemono No Sou-ja Erin (TV)
- Kimikiss pure rouge (TV)
- Koi Kaze
- Kowarekake no Orgol (OVA)
- Kurokami The Animation (TV)
- Legend of the Legendary Heroes, The (TV)
- Library War (TV)
- Macross Frontier (TV)
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- Mai-Otome (TV)
- Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro (TV)
- Mars Daybreak (TV)
- Meguriau Sekai (movie)
- Minami-ke (TV)
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (TV)
- Moetan (TV)
- Munto (TV)
- Naruto
- Natsume's Book of Friends 2 (TV)
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Noein - Mou Hitori no Kimi e (TV)
- Paradise Kiss (TV)
- Peacemaker (TV)
- Place Promised in Our Early Days, The (Beyond the Clouds)
- Planet of the Beast King (TV)
- Princess Lover! (TV)
- Read or Die (Movie)
- Rideback (TV)
- Romeo × Juliet (TV)
- Rosario + Vampire (TV)
- Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa (OVA)
- Samurai Champloo
- Seitokai Yakuindomo (TV)
- Shakugan no Shana Second (TV)
- Shangri-La (TV)
- Shounen Onmyouji (TV)
- Shuffle!
- Soul Eater (TV)
- Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto (TV)
- Tales From Earthsea (Movie)
- Tales of Symphonia (OAV)
- Tales of the Abyss (TV)
- Tales of Vesperia (X360)
- Tamayura (OVA)
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Guren-hen (movie)
- Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann (TV)
- Time of Eve (ONA)
- To Love-Ru (TV)
- Today in Class 5-2 (OAV)
- Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpucho: Tou (TV)
- Toradora! (TV)
- True Tears
- Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
- Tytania (TV)
- Utawarerumono (OAV)
- Wild Arms 3
- Wind: A breath of heart (TV)
- World of Narue
- Yosuga no Sora: In Solitude, Where We Are Least Alone. (TV)
- Yotsunoha (OAV)
- Zegapain (TV)
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Comments:
This project took me a little over 5 months to complete and in all I spent at least a good 160+ hours on it.
This is by far the most time consuming and rewarding project I've ever attempted and I can finally say that I'm satisfied with one of my AMVs. I used live action footage from the music video to the song and well I'm sure not everyone will like that (especially considering the bad quality of the footage). I did it mainly because the song and the music video are both great in that they give off a positive message, it's hard not to smile or feel happy when watching/listening to them. I thought of it as my way of paying tribute to the music video.
I feel that the concept of looking for something beautiful reflects on the reasons for why many of us watch anime. In a sense, anime is giving us both fuel for thought and subtle glimpses of beauty- both aesthetic and sentimental.
I ran into a few things that were simply out of my control, like the quality of the music video for one. But it's to be expected since the music video was compiled from fan-submitted footage. One thing that particularly stands out is that the entire first part of the amv is in grayscale. This is gonna be one of those hit or miss situations but I felt it was necessary to match my editing with the music video (since most of it is in grayscale). Another thing that will be hit or miss is my use of pan/crops. I feel that I effectively used pan/crops throughout most of the video, but then again that's based on what I was trying to portray. I tried to replicate the "shaky-hand" effect that home footage usually has and I think I got it right at some parts and failed miserably at others.
On a side note, this AMV literally killed my social life and probably knocked a few months off of my life from all the meals I skipped and the time I spent sitting down lol. But now that I'm finally done I can't help but feel that it was all worth it. I think that's all I have to say for now, hope you guys enjoy it!
I'd love to hear your thoughts on it so be sure to leave comments :3
Special thanks to Kristyn, Jon, Pete, SpringL, Ruby, Alex (Taite), Melissa, and everyone else who beta tested for me.
Edit: Here are some thoughts on the video's concept and on what motivated me to finish.
This amv is special to me because it not only has a feel-good vibe but because it also gives me the rare opportunity to make people smile (cheesy but bare with it). I know many of you will read this and think "that's kind of lame", but I have a deeply-rooted desire to spread good will. So as long one person out there sees this and smiles (real or implied) then it will have all been worth it. To those of you who bothered to read this and let off a smile, a snicker, or a grin (either at the video or at my lame-ness):
Thank You.
Opinions (16)
- Orig
- Visual
- Sound
- Synch
- Lip
- Effects
- Effort
- Re-View
- Overall
- 8.00
- 8.50
- 9.83
- 8.92
- 8.73
- 9.42
- 8.58
- 8.92
Downloads
- Link Format Bitrate Codec Duration Filesize Link Check Information Comments
- Direct MPEG4 (.mp4) h264 Last Checked: 2013-02-17 14:19:37 200 OK A high quality 720p encode brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Mudkip. I recommend downloading this one. Enjoy!
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Local File Something Beautiful (704x396)_standard.mp4 Duration 217.84 seconds Video Track 0 kb/s H.264 [avc1] 704 x 396 @ 23.976 fps Audio Track AAC @ 128 kbps 48 kHz, stereophonic sound