OTAKON - Results, report and review

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 2:21 pm

yeah....i was impressed with everything except registration....it took way too long....if i only could have been around for the rant afterwards to tell them about it. But i agree with the general feel of the contest. Only one or two videos really stood out. I had never been to a con in this type of scale. My only other exp was Katsucon and AWA last year. It was great meeting other creators like msity, hackerzc, digitalgod and the others who i can't remember right now and attemping to do some stuff. The dance on sat night was totally tight.....i never knew j-pop and j-rock was so good. Both rooms were totally packed and people were dancing all over the place....The masqerade was pretty funny as well. Many times i wished i could be two places at once. The pannel was really good as well. Was kept on track very well thanks to everyone who made it really informative even for us initiated members.

alternatefutures · Post by **alternatefutures** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 2:51 pm

Would like to know what videos you guys thought stood out. I'm pretty much assuming mine wasn't one of them. So, I have a question. Who here knew the 3D footage in the "Light of Day" video was original footage? Kind of interested to get the mindset of the crowd on that aspect.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 5:18 pm

af - do you read the mailing list? There's been a lot of posts with reviews of videos and several have mentioned your video, including the CG footage.

hackerzc · Post by **hackerzc** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 5:26 pm

alternatefutures wrote:Would like to know what videos you guys thought stood out. I'm pretty much assuming mine wasn't one of them. So, I have a question. Who here knew the 3D footage in the "Light of Day" video was original footage? Kind of interested to get the mindset of the crowd on that aspect.

Was that the Outlaw Star one?

alternatefutures · Post by **alternatefutures** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 6:14 pm

I don't GET the mailing list, so no, I don't read it

How can I go about getting on this wonderful thing, and do you have any reviews I can read? Thank you so very much for bringing this to my attention though.

Yes, that was the Outlaw Star one.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 6:57 pm

I think you missed the whole concept here. This video took place in an alternate reality. I basically build a story from scratch in which the three characters in this reality lived in the same world and had completely different lives. This was probably the most hardest thing to do since it involved creating an original story with it's own Dramatic elements. Unlike drawing on dramatic elements of an existing anime story, I had to build it into the story and use pre-animated characters to convey this with. All those I showed it to prior understood the story, but I will summarize it anyway. You can get more of my thoughts about the story on it's entry at:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=9827

If you have any thoughs on this or it still doesn't make scence, e-mail me and I'll be happy to disucss this further. Actually, I would like to know as feedback if anyone else had a problem with the story

Sorry if this is going off topic a bit, I can move it to another group if necessary.

Vlad

NOTE: AMV “STORY” SPOILERS AHEAD------------Read after watching the video

Basically, the story deals with Both Spike and Ryo meeting at a grave site. At the beginning we aren't told who's grave this is, but it's definitely someone dear to both of them. In the time that both are standing, we are shown in a sequence of flashbacks the loneliness each of then has felt without here and how they see the Images of here where ever they go, as well as memories of the time they each had with that person (Myung), and if now becomes obvious that that is her grave they are visiting. The final question that remains is what happened to her? The final flashback of both Spike and Ryo reveals that and also the guilt they carry since they could not save here and blame themselves. We return back to the grave where both have now left and we finally see Myung's grave with two pictures standing against the tomb stone. the final shot zooms onto the two pictures revealing one of Ryo and Myung and the other of Spike and Myung with a dedication by her on each picture. Thus they have finally made peace and although they will never forget here, they are finally moving on with their lives….

hackerzc · Post by **hackerzc** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 10:44 pm

alternatefutures wrote:I don't GET the mailing list, so no, I don't read it How can I go about getting on this wonderful thing, and do you have any reviews I can read? Thank you so very much for bringing this to my attention though.

Yes, that was the Outlaw Star one.

Those were original scenes? I thought it was CG you made for it. Where did you get it from?

alternatefutures · Post by **alternatefutures** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 10:57 pm

No, I mean original as in truely original, made specifically for the vid. Your initial analysis of the footage is correct.

hackerzc · Post by **hackerzc** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 11:16 pm

alternatefutures wrote:No, I mean original as in truely original, made specifically for the vid. Your initial analysis of the footage is correct.

Well it's damn good. I suck at 3D animation (software lerning curve).

alternatefutures · Post by **alternatefutures** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 11:17 pm

Thank you for the compliment ^_^