Digital Flow - Whoaaa Did you see that Unicorn?

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Re: Digital Flow - Whoaaa Did you see that Unicorn?

Post by Mastamind » Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:55 pm

Nunchuck wrote: Bauzi found the Gimmick first! You Lose! :rofl:
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And after watching this video a few more times (and reading your comments a little more), I'm starting to realize why you chose to do certain things. I'll have to agree with some of the opinions here, and say that this is more like a beautiful painting to be admired than an amv... but in the end, isn't that what you were trying to acheive? :roll: Really, great job on this, definitely one of the most artistic videos I've seen :up:
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Re: Digital Flow - Whoaaa Did you see that Unicorn?

Post by Fizziks » Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:48 pm

Good work! I thought that this was a really cool video to watch. :up:
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Re: Digital Flow - Whoaaa Did you see that Unicorn?

Post by Falconone » Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:54 am

i must say here also, great video.. or should i say awesome? last word is better ^_-
It was interessting and you made it really good. so :up:
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Re: Digital Flow - Whoaaa Did you see that Unicorn?

Post by -Reda- » Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:43 am

A Note to all the Story Snobs in this thread:
Not every good video needs a story for it to be good, for the same reasons that a painting doesn't need a cute little explanation behind it for it to be an incredible work of art.

For me this video wasn't just it's editing, it wasn't Twilight, it was characters: purely characters who were isolated and separate from the world they were a part of. There was something about them and the way they saw the world around them that made them "different". It made them stand out of their surroundings. EDITORS OF ALL PEOPLE CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS MIGHT POSSIBLY BE SAYING? Good lord this is a sad day for the Org.

Anyway Nunchuck I'm sure it's been said over and over, but this is an excellent piece of work you've produced here; the editing is spot on to the point where it's hard to recognize in the video and it all feels incredibly natural. The color scheme idea was great, but why give something like that away? That's a subtle detail that is YOURS and if your viewers don't get it, don't dumb it down for them. It's not your fault they forget how to watch a video critically. Never feel the need to explain yourself as an artist. F*** 'em.

I think the main problem with this videos reception thus far is that because you so clearly pointed out all the effects work in your poster and even in your explanation of the video, that's all people take this for, not to be separate from something like Naruto's Technique Beat. For me I love the technical work in this, but to me the idea of setting anime characters loose in the world through your editing is a FAR more interesting concept and maybe that's where some of the draws to Twilight come from, even though there have been many AMV's that attempted to illustrate this same idea before Koop's video. People don't know how to look at the imagery an editor chooses to show any more, they just look at what effects are being used. This is a video that can't be watched or appreciated like that. The imagery and the idea MAKE this video what it is.

Anyway sorry for the long post, I'm sure some witty poster is probably thinking "tl;dr" right now, maybe their hand is even hovering over the submit button for it. My only complaint, and it's really more of a minor nitpick, is that you posted your name RIGHT after the video ended in big letters. Very unnecessary especially since your credits looked so elegant after that. I want time to think about what I've just seen, and now all I can think about is "NUNCHUCK". I don't need to see your name plastered all over your work; Da Vinci didn't write his name in big letters right over "The Last Supper", nor did Jackson Pollock try to splatter out his name on top of the center of his compositions. One more art reference? Sure: Andy Warhol didn't write his name on Marilyn Monroe's forehead.

Still, despite that complaint, I'd still give this a perfect 5/5 :up: Great execution of a wonderful idea that can have any number of meanings to the individual viewer.
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Re: Digital Flow - Whoaaa Did you see that Unicorn?

Post by Nunchuck » Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:25 am

Reda, you just made my day! Thank you.
I don't need to see your name plastered all over your work
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Re: Digital Flow - Whoaaa Did you see that Unicorn?

Post by ngsilver » Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:30 am

Personally, I liked the editing. It looked really good. I liked the way you made the characters seem to fit into their surroundings. While the backgrounds are not anime (for the most part) but the characters are I think you did a good job blending them together.

But honestly, beyond that, I just couldn't really get into it. There wasn't anything beyond the good looking source and editing that drew me in. The song was drab and there was no story to hold my interest through the drab song. All in all I found this boring. Just not my thing.
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Re: Digital Flow - Whoaaa Did you see that Unicorn?

Post by EkaCoralian » Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:03 am

I loved this so much! Excellent work, Nunchuck! =DD
5/5 :3
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Re: Digital Flow - Whoaaa Did you see that Unicorn?

Post by Bakadeshi » Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:24 pm

wow, gotta say the tecnical work in blending the anime with the LA footage was done exceptionally well, very fluid animation with the masks aswell, props for not getting lazy with the masking. Well I could nitpick a bit on some of the edges of the masks, but theres only so much 1 human can do without going insane, so I will forgive it ;p I didn't think once "this anime is out of place with this scene", so awsome job on that. The only thing is since theres no story, it kinda lacks on the interesting/replay aspect, It would've been more interesting to watch with some kinda story. (and yea i got what you were trying to do with the moods, but just not that interesting with that alone) still, if I look at it as just an artistic piece, it shines. :up:

Edit: after reading others and particularly reda's post, I think I should add that I usually post before reading others comments in a thread so as to not be swayed by others opinions, so I'm not intentionally rubbing salt in the wound so to speak on the whole story thing, those were my honest thoughts after watching the video. I still give this 5/5 on technical and artistic merit, since thats what its ment to be. If he was trying to tell a story, I would knock the score down for failing on that. My (and probably some others in this thread's) point is just that I thought it would've been a more interesting idea with a story to draw the viewer in.

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Re: Digital Flow - Whoaaa Did you see that Unicorn?

Post by Nunchuck » Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:59 pm

Bakadeshi wrote:It would've been more interesting to watch with some kinda story. (and yea i got what you were trying to do with the moods, but just not that interesting with that alone) still, if I look at it as just an artistic piece, it shines.
Thanks for your feedback. Your review was thoughtful and interesting to read :up: :book:
EkaCoralian wrote:I loved this so much! Excellent work, Nunchuck! =DD
5/5 :3
Glad you enjoyed it |:>
ngsilver wrote:some text here
Thanks for looking into my video anyway. :up:
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Re: Digital Flow - Whoaaa Did you see that Unicorn?

Post by Megamom » Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:54 pm

I was tempted to recommend this in my community!

http://zonaamv.foroactivo.net/amv-s-rec ... .htm#16168

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