List your idols and why are they your idols?

[gotenks794]

How are we forgetting Nostromo???

Ohhh and I forgot to say that guy who posted above me. For this vid: .

[Fall_Child42]

[Brad]

[Chez]

Pas for showing me a new level of laziness
you know i don't mean it right.....or do i?

[Cyanna]

I don't really consider him my idol ('cause that's kind of....weird) but I owe every single AMV I make to Scintilla just because I never would have started editing if he hadn't picked up the hobby. That...and without his techy know-how, I'd be utterly lost.

Kevin Caldwell (Engel), Absolute Destiny (Road to Iron Chef/IWIWAL/Do It Right), and dwchang (Glory of Love) were more my inspirations back when I started and I think that's why I tend to go more for the story than the shiny. Being raised on WMM2 will also do that. Even now, my tastes still haven't changed much though.

And I credit mckeed's "Gentrification" for showing me how to edit video to instrumental bridges between the lyrics. Otherwise my "F L C AL" video would have probably looked much different (the bridges are the best part!).

[wurpess]

Wurpess/Krisqo/Yeiweh deserve some mention in here too, because I idolized their many zany works and cute editing. [to this day, Rythm Bending of Yeiweh, Because of You by Krisqo, and wupress' many MEP tracks that are still on my playlist].

Awwww. I feel all warm and fuzzy nao. And not just because of the rum. *^_^* *hugs*


Anyway. I'd say probably DokiDoki (for comedy) and Ileia(for general awsm). Though I like Yeiweh's fanservice too. *^_^* And Jaddziadax does kewl too.

[OropherZero]

Sierra Lorna - because I like her simple editing and that she brought the attention back to the anime in each vid, something which is becoming less common these days.
Koopiskeva - putting a lot of conceptual thought into vids.
FoxJones - taught me the basics of editing and I was inspired by a lot of his earlier vids.

[Slash]

Rrezz- Because HE WILL RAMPAGE

DaCoolGohan- His work just inspires me its crazyyy

Tony8000- Inspires me also

Prodigi-CRAZYYYYY EDITTINNGG

[mexicanjunior]

I don't know I would call these editors idols but they definitely helped with inspiration and technical knowledge...

Castor Troy - GGG was one of the first sites I actually found AMV's and his jpop vids were constantly in my rotation.

Machine (MindwarpET) - Provided me my first copy of Premiere and helped me with alot of technical stuff when I first started out.

AnonezDBZ - Not sure if this person ever joined the org but he also had some of the first AMV's I ever watched and inspired me to make my own.

Fluxmeister - Another person that helped me with alot of the technical side of AMV's and gave me alot of feedback to help improve my editing style.

Hypeodermic Studios (the Milos) - For giving me alot of feedback on my early vids and basically telling me to rethink how I make videos...mainly because I sucked.

[Otohiko]

Andrei Tarkovsky. For opening my ways to filmographic expression as art generally.


Otherwise, AMV editors have actually not been much of an influence on me. I respect a lot of good AMVers but I never really looked up to anyone since I just do my own thing and idolization only makes it awkward to actually meet people in real life later.
Otherwise, out of all editors, jasper-isis and godix have been the biggest influence on me because they've been involved with all my projects over the last 4 years or so and showed/explained what they were doing for their own in a fair amount of detail, and so have been extremely helpful to developing me as an AMVer. Idolization, imho, is completely unhelpful on the other hand.