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O_O Keeper. And I didnt come across very good True Tears amv... till now. :}
I really love the whole concept for this amv, the editing for me looks flawlessly good. Well there actually isnt anything wrong for me. And the camera movement in the garden... thats cool.
Thats now one of my favs :3.
I really love the whole concept for this amv, the editing for me looks flawlessly good. Well there actually isnt anything wrong for me. And the camera movement in the garden... thats cool.

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Eh... Ok... Eh... Eh?!
I´m with Emong. What´s the point of the video? I mean I can´t say how much the mess in the garden with the fire and everything is connected to the anime, but I can say that the rest was more or less pointless. Yes of course the garden scene was nice, but a point? Ok the song was quite simpel, but I just miss some kind of small bit of story or theme. The theme or content was just a bit weak for me.
Let´s leave it beside and get to the other stuff of the video. I´m fine with the editing itself, but you somehow dissapointed me with the effects. There are flaws! So many smaller bigger flaws flaws! I thought you have a bit of a perfectionist in you? The masks... Away from perfect. They could be done better (Have you ever tried to generate outer lines in AE?), how you integrated the anime char into the world, this god damn lag of motion wich let the cameramotion seam to shake. Speaking about motion: I don´t think that you integrated the char in a good way with it´s motion. It´s almost shakey.
The beginning. It´s nice to try out new stuff and you made a good job (btw. I don´t like the integration of text here, but just let´s say it´s subjective for now), but why? Why didn´t you kept on this style? Use it or just don´t! Or use your garden scenes as intro. There were a lot of exploits to give this video an overall style or design. I also think that most of the scenes with no effects were just designed to simpel. Especially if you compare it with the beginning of the video.
00:43 I thought: What the hell is she chewing, but than I got it! Don´t even think that you come away with a sloppy try to remove flap lip.
Maybe just leave it in there next time and try to desync the singer´s voice and this scene as much as possible. Less connection or sync = The more it doesn´t look like you tried to lipsync and failed. That´s my suggestion here, because I can understand if you didn´t worked over all the frames.
I think you could slap together two frames. One from the beginning of the scenes motion and one from the end. Paste them together and fix the lipsync. This gives you the advantages to avoid the flap lip and the ability to add your own camera motion. The viewer won´t notice a difference to the original and the motion itself might even be smoother at the end.
Yeah I was quite strict now, but I think you´re on the right way and such things have to be said to bring you to or encourage you to even think more about your vids and the design.
I´m with Emong. What´s the point of the video? I mean I can´t say how much the mess in the garden with the fire and everything is connected to the anime, but I can say that the rest was more or less pointless. Yes of course the garden scene was nice, but a point? Ok the song was quite simpel, but I just miss some kind of small bit of story or theme. The theme or content was just a bit weak for me.
Let´s leave it beside and get to the other stuff of the video. I´m fine with the editing itself, but you somehow dissapointed me with the effects. There are flaws! So many smaller bigger flaws flaws! I thought you have a bit of a perfectionist in you? The masks... Away from perfect. They could be done better (Have you ever tried to generate outer lines in AE?), how you integrated the anime char into the world, this god damn lag of motion wich let the cameramotion seam to shake. Speaking about motion: I don´t think that you integrated the char in a good way with it´s motion. It´s almost shakey.
The beginning. It´s nice to try out new stuff and you made a good job (btw. I don´t like the integration of text here, but just let´s say it´s subjective for now), but why? Why didn´t you kept on this style? Use it or just don´t! Or use your garden scenes as intro. There were a lot of exploits to give this video an overall style or design. I also think that most of the scenes with no effects were just designed to simpel. Especially if you compare it with the beginning of the video.
00:43 I thought: What the hell is she chewing, but than I got it! Don´t even think that you come away with a sloppy try to remove flap lip.

I think you could slap together two frames. One from the beginning of the scenes motion and one from the end. Paste them together and fix the lipsync. This gives you the advantages to avoid the flap lip and the ability to add your own camera motion. The viewer won´t notice a difference to the original and the motion itself might even be smoother at the end.
Yeah I was quite strict now, but I think you´re on the right way and such things have to be said to bring you to or encourage you to even think more about your vids and the design.

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@gay07:
ehh..see below.
@simofc90:
Glad ya liked it ;p
@inCluDe:
Hey, cool, ya enjoyed it that much :3
@JaddziaDax:
Thanks
@pharaoh:
@Bauzi:
Thanks for the long review.
I agree with ya on the most part about the technical stuff. There are a lot of issues in this vid. I know most of them and I would have corrected them (hell, I would love to correct them
), but because of my problems with my project files I didn't had the chance to do so. I could decide between not uploading it at all or just upload the contest version with the flaws 
Guy encouraged me to upload it, and I did so. That bastard announced it afterward o:
Kinda funny that I see comments that some people got the concept of the video after the first watch and others thought that the garden scenes were totally random.
To make the concept kinda clear:
As the Intro says the garden should show how a persons' feelings/condition are/is at the moment.
- First garden: Bright colors, everything looks happy and normal.
- Second garden: the plants are mostly dead and the garden is dying slowly.
- Third Garden: Garden is destroyed, fire, more fire
As worser the persons condition gets as worser the condition of the garden gets.
This kinda fitted a lot to Noe from True Tears imo.
People who actually watched the anime might understand it better..don't know.
You can win a hot night with gay07 as yer bitch if you can answer the question about what the hell is that girl actually chewing there o:
ehh..see below.
@simofc90:
Glad ya liked it ;p
@inCluDe:
Hey, cool, ya enjoyed it that much :3
@JaddziaDax:
Thanks

@pharaoh:

@Bauzi:
Thanks for the long review.
I agree with ya on the most part about the technical stuff. There are a lot of issues in this vid. I know most of them and I would have corrected them (hell, I would love to correct them


Guy encouraged me to upload it, and I did so. That bastard announced it afterward o:
Kinda funny that I see comments that some people got the concept of the video after the first watch and others thought that the garden scenes were totally random.
To make the concept kinda clear:
As the Intro says the garden should show how a persons' feelings/condition are/is at the moment.
- First garden: Bright colors, everything looks happy and normal.
- Second garden: the plants are mostly dead and the garden is dying slowly.
- Third Garden: Garden is destroyed, fire, more fire
As worser the persons condition gets as worser the condition of the garden gets.
This kinda fitted a lot to Noe from True Tears imo.
Spoiler :
NOM NOM NOMBauzi wrote: 00:43 I thought: What the hell is she chewing...
You can win a hot night with gay07 as yer bitch if you can answer the question about what the hell is that girl actually chewing there o:

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Mhm. I didn´t got it as mood of the charackter. Well not completly. I thought that the garden scene is more connected to the story of the anime. That´s what I was hopeing for. Step 1 and 3 was more or less a must for the concept. I´m happy that you also decided to use a middle part.- First garden: Bright colors, everything looks happy and normal.
- Second garden: the plants are mostly dead and the garden is dying slowly.
- Third Garden: Garden is destroyed, fire, more fire

A strawberry? Now seriously... Was that some kind of fixing lip flap or not? ^^You can win a hot night with gay07 as yer bitch if you can answer the question about what the hell is that girl actually chewing there o:
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