David Yip's and forever [dreaming]

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Re: David Yip's and forever [dreaming]

Post by trythil » Tue May 05, 2009 2:13 am

Some notes in no particular order.
  • This video was edited and composited with Cinelerra 1.2 (or somewhere around there) and CinePaint (some version). I am pretty sure that it is one of the most technically involved AMVs created using a Linux-based editing system. Granted, that's a hell of a lot of qualifiers, but one of my main motivations for making AMVs was to demonstrate the possibilities of free software.
  • There is a lot of sloppy luminance/chroma keying in this video. I never fixed it because I was running into ACen 2004 deadlines and never wanted to work on this video again after that.
  • The video is structured in four sections: Hitomi, Van, their meeting, and their separation. Scene repetition marks the transition between the sections.
  • The video was edited to loop -- the starting sequence is the ending sequence, sped up. I thought it was a fun way to tie in the "forever" bit. Some video players can seamlessly loop videos: if yours is one of them, try playing this video in a loop.
  • This video played first at ACen 2004's AMV contest because its title started with "a".
  • There is a lot of object removal throughout the entire video. A lot of it isn't really obvious unless you've seen the movie. (God forbid you have; it's only palatable if you play it in the background. In my opinion.)
  • There is some footage from the TV series present. It was zoomed and cropped to fit 4:3 material into a 16:9 presentation. Luckily, the visual elements I wanted were in the center of the frame.
  • The idea for this video came about after Anime Expo 2003, where I saw Yuki Kajiura and her troupe perform live. They played vanity, and I remember enjoying it.* I purchased her debut solo CD about a week afterwards. When I originally heard fiction I connected it not to the Escaflowne movie proper, but to the overall category of things that fall into "Escaflowne". I can't remember how I decided to use the movie, but the emo factor ended up working out.
  • The kiss scene was inspired by talks with dwchang, who told me that he thought it was a good thing that Van and Hitomi never kissed in the TV series or the movie. (They actually don't.) I decided to try to piss him off by mixing six or seven frames of Van and Hitomi together to make a "kiss" shot; I think the final layer count for that shot ended up in the 60-70 range.** (Most of those layers were variations.) It wasn't a good composite at all -- I knew nothing of human facial structure at the time. But it did the job.
  • This video was the second time I had tried to use Blender in a video production. (The first time was my DDR3 track.) The weird rotating, floating screens were produced that way. They look pretty damn hokey now, but hindsight is 20/20, etc.
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* I'm a little less interested in Yuki Kajiura's work now. It all seems to follow the same "operatic techno" pattern.
** Spite and contrariness are powerful motivators for me. If someone says that something can't be done, or is "magic", I try to figure it out. If someone tells me they hate something, I'll try to do it.

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Re: David Yip's and forever [dreaming]

Post by Knowname » Tue May 05, 2009 2:43 am

Love the looping thing, I went nuts in 2006 on that lol thought I was the first :/, quite the forward thinker.
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Re: David Yip's and forever [dreaming]

Post by Koopiskeva » Wed May 06, 2009 3:02 pm

trythil wrote: * I'm a little less interested in Yuki Kajiura's work now. It all seems to follow the same "operatic techno" pattern.
** Spite and contrariness are powerful motivators for me. If someone says that something can't be done, or is "magic", I try to figure it out. If someone tells me they hate something, I'll try to do it.
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Re: David Yip's and forever [dreaming]

Post by godix » Wed May 06, 2009 5:29 pm

trythil wrote:** Spite and contrariness are powerful motivators for me. If someone says that something can't be done, or is "magic", I try to figure it out. If someone tells me they hate something, I'll try to do it.
No one can beat the shit out of editors at Acen, and if they somehow could everyone would hate that.
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Re: David Yip's and forever [dreaming]

Post by trythil » Fri May 08, 2009 2:01 am

godix wrote:
trythil wrote:** Spite and contrariness are powerful motivators for me. If someone says that something can't be done, or is "magic", I try to figure it out. If someone tells me they hate something, I'll try to do it.
No one can beat the shit out of editors at Acen, and if they somehow could everyone would hate that.
I tried. Not very hard, but I tried. Didn't work; sorry. If you want people dead, you'll have to come up here and blow up Chicagoland yourself.

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