Yay!! Not sure what I did, but Yay!!Radical_Yue wrote:You are my favorite person ever.MasterZero8 wrote:Ahh dang it! Hope it will be on the Org then.Radical_Yue wrote:
Youtube took it down. Stupid WMG copyright crap!
The Quickening - Videos
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MasterZero8
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Re: The Quickening - Videos
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animAe
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Ooh I haven't seen any of the Group B or D videos yet! I'm excited to see what Group D came up with 
MasterZero8 wrote:Yay!! Not sure what I did, but Yay!!Radical_Yue wrote:You are my favorite person ever.MasterZero8 wrote:
Ahh dang it! Hope it will be on the Org then.
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Radical_Yue
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You are now my second favorite person ever.animAe wrote:Ooh I haven't seen any of the Group B or D videos yet! I'm excited to see what Group D came up with
MasterZero8 wrote:Yay!! Not sure what I did, but Yay!!Radical_Yue wrote:
You are my favorite person ever.Spoiler :
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Kinematics
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Re: The Quickening - Videos
Finally realized I'd been watching the wrong thread for updates on the videos (was just looking at the Round 1 thread..), so putting some thoughts together on what I've seen so far. Will do Group B first since Group A is judged and has lots of comments already.
Group B
A Fistful of Dubstep - The first few seconds of the intro had me interested; it really felt like it was building up to launch into something great. Unfortunately it didn't follow up. There was no real coherence in the scenes chosen, and a blandness in their use. The effects were minimal and simplistic, and in a way that didn't really help accentuate the song.
How it could be better: take advantage of the longer frame times. The source itself doesn't actually appear suited to sharp fractional-second edits (old-school cell-animated, rather than newer digitally animated), but would work better with more of the repeating and reversing motion actions. Also, fewer digital effects; the effects used really don't work well with the cell animation.
141db - Honestly, it was fantastic. Criticisms here are mostly nitpicky details.
I don't have any problem with the staticky effects that others have mentioned; I thought they fit in well.
While the black-and-white effect was great for impact, I felt there were a number of issues with oversaturation or overdarkening -- the brightness and contrast balances were off, and you ended up with too much pure white and black, where there should have been more grey.
Poor extraction of the hair braid at 0:43.
The repeating lips at 1:17 didn't really work, I think. The ones at 1:25/1:30 weren't quite as bad, but also not quite right. The one at 1:40 was the only lip sync bit that felt like it truly belonged there.
BANGARANG! - First, it was a great video. However there were several minor things that bugged me about it.
The video frame tracking effect (can't remember what it's called; eg: 0:19) always felt like it was about half a second behind the audio, so while the -idea- of the effect was neat, it was jarring in practice.
The central fight portion with BRS, with the text effects, seemed just about perfect.
It was odd switching series midway through, but at the same time I can't exactly fault you for it; it works, mostly.
First portion of PMMM section was well done, but seemed to lose traction a bit when you get to the part with Homura firing the cannons. Picks back up from the flared wings to the end of PMMM segment. Also, the tracking effects in this segment were much closer to lining up properly.
Bakemonogatari segment: the video tracking effect matched up pretty well this time. The remainder of that section loses too much from oversaturation via brightness effects, though.
There is maybe one drill in this entire video - The intro wasn't too bad -- I could see the point it was aiming for -- but it felt rather lackluster. Most of the rest was a solid B; lots of places things could be tightened up and improved, but nothing actually -bad-.
Fight for Love - Nice, but not great. While there are lots of cuts that move at the pace of the song, they don't actually seem to be done in sync with the song. It's like it was edited to another, similar song, and then muxed with this one because it happened to be pretty close to the same thing. That's largely the problem I had throughout the video: it just "doesn't quite fit".
There were also a few half-hearted attempts at effects that needed to be used more consistently and determinedly, or dropped as distracting.
Lost Samurai - Weak at the start, but felt like it was improving throughout, like the editor was gradually getting a better and better idea of how to make it all work. Seems more like the first pass of making the video, that needs 2 or 3 more passes to bring everything up to speed together and really be "good". Easily attributable to the time limit of the contest, but unfortunately we have to consider it in its current state.
Group B
A Fistful of Dubstep - The first few seconds of the intro had me interested; it really felt like it was building up to launch into something great. Unfortunately it didn't follow up. There was no real coherence in the scenes chosen, and a blandness in their use. The effects were minimal and simplistic, and in a way that didn't really help accentuate the song.
How it could be better: take advantage of the longer frame times. The source itself doesn't actually appear suited to sharp fractional-second edits (old-school cell-animated, rather than newer digitally animated), but would work better with more of the repeating and reversing motion actions. Also, fewer digital effects; the effects used really don't work well with the cell animation.
141db - Honestly, it was fantastic. Criticisms here are mostly nitpicky details.
I don't have any problem with the staticky effects that others have mentioned; I thought they fit in well.
While the black-and-white effect was great for impact, I felt there were a number of issues with oversaturation or overdarkening -- the brightness and contrast balances were off, and you ended up with too much pure white and black, where there should have been more grey.
Poor extraction of the hair braid at 0:43.
The repeating lips at 1:17 didn't really work, I think. The ones at 1:25/1:30 weren't quite as bad, but also not quite right. The one at 1:40 was the only lip sync bit that felt like it truly belonged there.
BANGARANG! - First, it was a great video. However there were several minor things that bugged me about it.
The video frame tracking effect (can't remember what it's called; eg: 0:19) always felt like it was about half a second behind the audio, so while the -idea- of the effect was neat, it was jarring in practice.
The central fight portion with BRS, with the text effects, seemed just about perfect.
It was odd switching series midway through, but at the same time I can't exactly fault you for it; it works, mostly.
First portion of PMMM section was well done, but seemed to lose traction a bit when you get to the part with Homura firing the cannons. Picks back up from the flared wings to the end of PMMM segment. Also, the tracking effects in this segment were much closer to lining up properly.
Bakemonogatari segment: the video tracking effect matched up pretty well this time. The remainder of that section loses too much from oversaturation via brightness effects, though.
There is maybe one drill in this entire video - The intro wasn't too bad -- I could see the point it was aiming for -- but it felt rather lackluster. Most of the rest was a solid B; lots of places things could be tightened up and improved, but nothing actually -bad-.
Fight for Love - Nice, but not great. While there are lots of cuts that move at the pace of the song, they don't actually seem to be done in sync with the song. It's like it was edited to another, similar song, and then muxed with this one because it happened to be pretty close to the same thing. That's largely the problem I had throughout the video: it just "doesn't quite fit".
There were also a few half-hearted attempts at effects that needed to be used more consistently and determinedly, or dropped as distracting.
Lost Samurai - Weak at the start, but felt like it was improving throughout, like the editor was gradually getting a better and better idea of how to make it all work. Seems more like the first pass of making the video, that needs 2 or 3 more passes to bring everything up to speed together and really be "good". Easily attributable to the time limit of the contest, but unfortunately we have to consider it in its current state.
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Kinematics
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Group D
Magicarl Dansen - Generally pretty weak. Too much focus on lip sync that just really didn't fit, compounded by mouth movement in other scenes with no attempt at lip sync at all. Didn't seem to have any strong theme, but more like a bunch of random scenes stitched together.
CaramellDansen - Fun and amusing, but slacks off in a lot of areas. Lot of slow bits. Though the clips were only a second or two long each, they were slow moving while in the midst of a very fast beat.
Puellamere Dansen - Cute intro. Very good job in fitting the dancing effects with the music, though I think you could have done more with the colored bars instead of them being a one-off. Main weakness, I think, was the feeling of: "this is Kyoko's section; this is Mami's section; this is Madoka's section; etc". I think certain transitions wouldn't have felt so jarring if it didn't feel so deliberately separated. It would have felt more natural if they flowed in amongst each other more continuously.
D is for Dance - Nice MAD-like intro, but failed to make use of the crazy effects that MADs use for high-energy songs. Didn't expect it to then switch to a regular AMV format. Kannagi segment was so-so. The entire last half of the video was that dance in the plaza, which got fairly tiresome.
Furry Heart - Very nice. Main problem, I felt, was the including of Haruhi Suzumiya; it really felt like Squid Girl and Nichijou should have been plenty sufficient to carry the video, and SHnY didn't really contribute, or actually dragged it down some. Using something else for the third series may have worked too, but I couldn't tell you what offhand.
High Fructose Dancefloor - Beautiful. Very nice use of color filters (possibly a little overdone in the first segment (0:17-0:27) since it doesn't let much color through; does better in the later segements), and pretty solid all around. No real complaints about the scene choice/editing.
Rated M for MMMMM! - Funny combo, but lacking in editing. There were lots of individually good cuts, but it also seemed that there was lots of 'filler' -- stuff slapped in between the good bits just to make it all fit together.
My top 3 would be High Fructose Dancefloor, Furry Heart (probably would have been top pick without SHnY) and Puellamere Dansen. Not sure which I'd pick for 4th, as each have pluses and minuses.
Magicarl Dansen - Generally pretty weak. Too much focus on lip sync that just really didn't fit, compounded by mouth movement in other scenes with no attempt at lip sync at all. Didn't seem to have any strong theme, but more like a bunch of random scenes stitched together.
CaramellDansen - Fun and amusing, but slacks off in a lot of areas. Lot of slow bits. Though the clips were only a second or two long each, they were slow moving while in the midst of a very fast beat.
Puellamere Dansen - Cute intro. Very good job in fitting the dancing effects with the music, though I think you could have done more with the colored bars instead of them being a one-off. Main weakness, I think, was the feeling of: "this is Kyoko's section; this is Mami's section; this is Madoka's section; etc". I think certain transitions wouldn't have felt so jarring if it didn't feel so deliberately separated. It would have felt more natural if they flowed in amongst each other more continuously.
D is for Dance - Nice MAD-like intro, but failed to make use of the crazy effects that MADs use for high-energy songs. Didn't expect it to then switch to a regular AMV format. Kannagi segment was so-so. The entire last half of the video was that dance in the plaza, which got fairly tiresome.
Furry Heart - Very nice. Main problem, I felt, was the including of Haruhi Suzumiya; it really felt like Squid Girl and Nichijou should have been plenty sufficient to carry the video, and SHnY didn't really contribute, or actually dragged it down some. Using something else for the third series may have worked too, but I couldn't tell you what offhand.
High Fructose Dancefloor - Beautiful. Very nice use of color filters (possibly a little overdone in the first segment (0:17-0:27) since it doesn't let much color through; does better in the later segements), and pretty solid all around. No real complaints about the scene choice/editing.
Rated M for MMMMM! - Funny combo, but lacking in editing. There were lots of individually good cuts, but it also seemed that there was lots of 'filler' -- stuff slapped in between the good bits just to make it all fit together.
My top 3 would be High Fructose Dancefloor, Furry Heart (probably would have been top pick without SHnY) and Puellamere Dansen. Not sure which I'd pick for 4th, as each have pluses and minuses.
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ProjectBarcodeError
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i agreed. this first week of the tournament was the least opportunate to edit cause of exams + work + a wild injury who appeared X_( . So i made it in a all-nighter only. I had to deal it fast, i tried to put external/internal sync but sadly the mix + abuse of accelerations make it look like some unrythmic madness. But at least it looks like most people laughed at it ( in a good way), so i'm happy with the result, victory or not. Cause editing it was just pain.Kinematics wrote:
Rated M for MMMMM! - Funny combo, but lacking in editing. There were lots of individually good cuts, but it also seemed that there was lots of 'filler' -- stuff slapped in between the good bits just to make it all fit together.
The next one ( if there's one), i'll have more free time to make it serious
.p.s:
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MasterZero8
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[/quote]MasterZero8 wrote:Yay!! Not sure what I did, but Yay!!Radical_Yue wrote:
You are my favorite person ever.
Wait a second...There never was a video to begin with was there.
Darn, and I was so looking forward to seeing a video with burning dolphins wading through a space volcano.
I still expect to see one, so someone better deliver.
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Radical_Yue
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Are you calling me a liar, mister?!MasterZero8 wrote:Wait a second...There never was a video to begin with was there.MasterZero8 wrote:Yay!! Not sure what I did, but Yay!!Radical_Yue wrote:
You are my favorite person ever.
Darn, and I was so looking forward to seeing a video with burning dolphins wading through a space volcano.
I still expect to see one, so someone better deliver.
Check out the first page for some new videos =w=
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CodeZTM
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All right! Been looking forward to a new batch of videos. 
*downloads*
*downloads*
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Radical_Yue
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Actually, hold off on that. I goofed. In my sleep-less daze I totally missed a video.
Re-uploading right now.
EDIT: FIXED
Re-uploading right now.
EDIT: FIXED