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[Shui]

Apart from badly timed effects in the beginning a very well executed AMV.
I get that some people think there are too many fillers - but that's fine with me as long as the atmosphere is alive.

It's visually stunning, gonna have to watch this in a good home theater when I get the chance.

[Cour]

Sad that people might not understand the concept

The sad reality.

It's probably not just not understanding the concept, but also not even wanting to think about it. I was fully aware of that problem when I started this video, but I ended up not caring. When I started thinking about things like "well, if there are people not liking this idea, what can I rather make that pleases everyone?", I just came up with things that I didn't like remotely as much as this one. In my theory, Into The Labyrinth was a really lucky hit in terms of me liking it, and people liking it. And it all comes down to what video I really want to see, not someone else. This hobby is a really egoistical one for me . Strictly speaking, putting it online and having success is just a positive side effect

Have a very good point, it is true that perhaps many expected something better (to your taste) seeing how popular it was"Into The Labyrinth" and the great success they had in the Big Contest.

And then the concept of the video, I'd say it's better than the spectator who would of their own concept to this video, in my opinion he could give more of a concept in general.

Anyway, I personally, I prefer Into The Labyrinth, was a really amazing video, but this also has its own greatness, I love your work, keep it up.

Use of Twixtor was as fabulous as ever.

[lolligerjoj]

I just rendered the video without effects. A lot of people ask about a making of, but this is probably the closest thing I'll make (for the sole reason that it renders in about 20 minutes, and is extremely easy to set up).
Here it is on YouTube (and, of course, already blocked in Germany),
and here you can download the thing in 60 fps from Mediafire.

[slimed]

i really enjoyed this, probably one of my favorite amvs in a while. the concept is great, i've never seen anything similar executed even nearly as nicely as this is. i think the entire orchestration of visuals/fx is on point, and the technical work is pretty remarkable too. it lacks the pseudo-artsy vibe that (most of) the few videos i've seen that try to accomplish this have for me, so props for the commitment. i somehow missed "Into the Labyrinth" until reading over the comments in this thread and that was great too. looking forward to seeing future videos from you

and i don't think any of the effects are unnecessary. to me this doesn't really need to fit into any technical mold. i think an effect-less version (which i seen posted and haven't checked out yet) would make this a different experience and almost defy your intentions?

[lolligerjoj]

Thanks for the comments . When I started making the video somehow accessible, I realized that there is exactly this danger of making the viewer go:
So it makes me happy to see quite a big percentage of them actually perceiving it as I hoped they would be . Though the problem of the compromise is that the video became pretty abstract, and people rightfully criticize the lack of something tangible. Or, as Mastamind phrases it:

an interesting experiment, but lacking a coherent meaning beyond a viewer's wild interpretations.

And no, the no-effects-version isn't really a "version", I probably should stop calling it that. It's more like a making of. People asked me to do a making of, and because I'm too lazy to do a real one I just upload the same video with disabled effects, so people see what the effects actually do. You can see what the motion interpolation actually does with the footage.