Lack of inspiration... Help?

[Êricō]

Do something you don't usually do. For example, my AMV's were usually either sappy, story oriented or just fight compilations. Then out of boredom, I tried a humerous AMV and it then just feels like it opens up more paths. Usually if you're bored, you want to go further. Then go further. Try making the best Windows Movie Maker AMV (may be ridiculous but will be utterly fun). Other than those, ideas will come with time but if these suggestions still do not help, do random searches on Youtube.

[JaddziaDax]

take a break, listen to some music and get ideas... or just work on old ideas that you passed up.. or take a request from someone else

[kickass331]

keep watching anime until you get catatonia so bad that even though the anime makes you want to spoon out your eyeballs, you can't move. The part of your brain that controlled motor function is now filled with amv ideas as you sit in a pool of urine and lose all of your algebra and english skills, at this point, you get to the music part. You have to listen to music so loud that parts of your brain filled with crappy anime like inuyasha or dragonball, and even crappier shows like naruto can be formatted and replaced with your newfound grammar and spelling skills. Then you go on the internet and find a lyrics site and just read lyrics from every band they have, spend days learning new words whether they are gangster words or just made up for the song, then download so many mp3s that the riaa turns its focus away from uploaders and downloaders and only focuses on you, then. Gert in an fbi standoff by barricading yourself in a room listening to every song nonstop while eating your own crap, only stopping to drink water or get a snack so that you listen to a hundred songs a day for 3 years. Then shoplift a best buy of the most expensive editing software and move to mexico and join the hispanic mafia so that you can cash in on drug money so you can afford a fancy mansion with a huge tv and a beast of a pc, use this to make elitist videos while you are jerking off to every hentai series ever made that you spend all your time torrenting, as you buy all the anime blu rays that exist in the world, not just in north america so you can have a stockpile of editing source material to last you until old age. So, basically it's all about shoving anime and music down your throat, stealing as much intellectual property along the way as you can, and being a spoiled rich prick that can afford those 500 dollar anime boxsets. Otherwise, there is no way to be the best of the best.

[Knowname]

Do something REALLY ballsy or something you NEVER thought you'd do (talk to girls) then, if you survive, take a look at your amvs and see how much they SUCKED. That should give you the inspiration to do something better.

Wise man once said 'if you can dodge cars you can dodge balls!' Pretty much the same thing here. Fear is the MASTER inspiration artist. Without the shit flowing through your pants you have no inspiration.

[Nya-chan Production]

keep watching anime until you get catatonia so bad that even though the anime makes you want to spoon out your eyeballs, you can't move. The part of your brain that controlled motor function is now filled with amv ideas as you sit in a pool of urine and lose all of your algebra and english skills, at this point, you get to the music part. You have to listen to music so loud that parts of your brain filled with crappy anime like inuyasha or dragonball, and even crappier shows like naruto can be formatted and replaced with your newfound grammar and spelling skills. Then you go on the internet and find a lyrics site and just read lyrics from every band they have, spend days learning new words whether they are gangster words or just made up for the song, then download so many mp3s that the riaa turns its focus away from uploaders and downloaders and only focuses on you, then. Gert in an fbi standoff by barricading yourself in a room listening to every song nonstop while eating your own crap, only stopping to drink water or get a snack so that you listen to a hundred songs a day for 3 years. Then shoplift a best buy of the most expensive editing software and move to mexico and join the hispanic mafia so that you can cash in on drug money so you can afford a fancy mansion with a huge tv and a beast of a pc, use this to make elitist videos while you are jerking off to every hentai series ever made that you spend all your time torrenting, as you buy all the anime blu rays that exist in the world, not just in north america so you can have a stockpile of editing source material to last you until old age. So, basically it's all about shoving anime and music down your throat, stealing as much intellectual property along the way as you can, and being a spoiled rich prick that can afford those 500 dollar anime boxsets. Otherwise, there is no way to be the best of the best.

Story of Nostromo's life

[Megamom]

Listen music!!!!

[Pie Row Maniac]

Wise man once said 'if you can dodge cars you can dodge balls!' Pretty much the same thing here. Fear is the MASTER inspiration artist. Without the shit flowing through your pants you have no inspiration.

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And we know it!

[Ijexis]

I was on this thread: Project Make Cool Shit when an idea suddenly hit me; more than likely will never get around to doing the idea until next year but managed to start editing again.

[outlawed]

can afford those 500 dollar anime boxsets. Otherwise, there is no way to be the best of the best.

This man speaks truf. You aren't a serious AMVer until you go out of your way to get some footage. Or HAVE to import it because that's the only way=p. Any poser can download Bluray rips but a real man can track down vintage 70s robot shows. No slights to real women either; they can track down vintage shoujo. Too bad that doesn't happen anymore...wait did that every happen? Well at least a couple times I think...

Well thank goodness we no longer have to worry about importing those LD Boxsets from JP. Shipping was a bitch and spending over 500 was easily achieved especially if you were paying for new. Hasn't been a huge amount that interested me to crank up the pride of ownership and import in recent years. I was hoping Geass R2 would live up to season 1 but Taniguchi Goro got screwed pretty much and it seems he's out of the game now. So it's just been Eva and Kyoukai movies that I've imported lately. There are still some JP DVDs on my wish list though but what with all these remastered releases a collector is better off holding out. Some USA DVD releases are still worth it thanks to the great price/performance but for a hardcore collector things are definitely switching back to JP releases just because of more Bluray releases.

/fucking should have bought R2 Saint Tail when it was on sale

[Ikore]

-Get in your bed.
-look straight to the roof.
-left hours goes by.
-????? (yeah, I want to make that joke too).
-Inspiration.