always

stormybaka · Post by **stormybaka** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 4:47 am

downloading now..will add a review shortly.. 8)

tomj · Post by **tomj** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 9:41 am

trythil wrote:

whoa.

Thanks for the comments, everyone. I honestly never expected the thing to be received so well.

silver_moon wrote: I don't know about the bit of lip-syncing you did, though. It just doesn't seem like a song you would lip-sync to. But that's just minor. It's definitely my favourite of your vids so far.
Yeah, this isn't the kind of song you would lip-sync to.

It isn't, if you think lipsync is purely an effect for comic purposes and nothing more. Here, it worked ^_- as the video did generally, even if I don't have much patience with anything that pairs any of the female pilots with Shinji... It occurred to me at one point "This video's too happy for Eva, damn it!" but it worked nonetheless. ^_^

Review forthcoming (he says, adding it to his list).

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 11:11 pm

tomj wrote:
trythil wrote:

whoa.

Thanks for the comments, everyone. I honestly never expected the thing to be received so well.

silver_moon wrote: I don't know about the bit of lip-syncing you did, though. It just doesn't seem like a song you would lip-sync to. But that's just minor. It's definitely my favourite of your vids so far.
Yeah, this isn't the kind of song you would lip-sync to.
It isn't, if you think lipsync is purely an effect for comic purposes and nothing more.

I don't think that -- what I mean is that it's hard for characters like Rei and Asuka to match up with somebody with such a powerful voice like Sarah's. Oh, sure, it's easy to get the timing down, but as we all know, lip-sync isn't just getting the mouth to work. It's also about non-verbal qualities: the angle of the head with regards to the horizon, facial expression, lighting and general coloration, placement on the screen, camera movement, head movement...

I got the timing down. I missed just about everything else.

"This video's too happy for Eva, damn it!" but it worked nonetheless. ^_^

Happy? The video is about lost love...

...bleh, so much for clearly communicating a story. I lose

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 9:44 am

There's nothing more pathetic than double-posting in one's own announcement thread, but this DOES relate back to "always", so what the hell.

I've done a new render of the thing that tweaks a few scenes; the most significant tweaks are deletion of two lipsync overlays. I like this version a hell of a lot better, because it's much simpler, and thus communicates the story more directly. The new download link is posted on the video's information page -- look for "no lipsync" if you're weird enough to download this thing again.

"New 'always'! Same size and half the shit! Sweet Jesus!"

tomj · Post by **tomj** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:31 am

trythil wrote:
tomj wrote:"This video's too happy for Eva, damn it!" but it worked nonetheless. ^_^
Happy? The video is about lost love...

It's still too happy! ^_-

I did a couple of videos using the first two songs of Carmina Burana, as did someone else - that is about Eva's level. ^_^

Tom the Fish · Post by **Tom the Fish** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:35 am

Downloading the new version.

Hope you haven't pulled a Lucas on us

Tom

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:41 am

Tom the Fish wrote:Downloading the new version.

Hope you haven't pulled a Lucas on us

Tom

I'm not charging you guys extra so that I can release a crappy prequel, so no, I haven't

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 7:04 pm

trythil wrote:I've done a new render of the thing that tweaks a few scenes; the most significant tweaks are deletion of two lipsync overlays.

I thought the lip sync prior to the chorus was out of place, but at the beginning of the chorus, it REALLY added to the video. Rei's lip sync during the first chorus is my favorite part of the video!