Anubizx00: If you needed a video as good as Wasteland to join, I'd have to leave the project.
Otohiko: Third Stone v1.3 is a while off, largely because of the process I'm using to refine it, so any input you have on how to build from or avoid mistakes from v1.2 would be great. Will see the finished Ararat tonight, probably - I've been a little tied up the past couple of days with some software documentation and specification assignments. If you want to release Ararat now, you certainly have a right to do so, but I do think that it might be just the 'teaser' - as Pen-Pen put it - to get people to see the rest of this project. Since the videos all stand on their own, I think each of them would be a great way to draw attention to the larger project, which you could all put in as a Direct or Indirect (when I make a webpage for the finished project) link to my server. Oh, and I'd be thrilled to include Wasteland - the only reason I've been tentative on that is that I didn't know whether you wanted to put it in the project.
DownWithPants: Damn, you have a point. We really can't just call it "Fantasia" can we, any more than we could call it "Grave of the Fireflies" or "Eva", I guess. I don't know how long it takes to make those banners, though, so maybe the project's name has finally been decided. Or maybe not, as the banners describe what the project is supposed to be like, and don't necessarily have to have the same text as the project name, come to think of it.
DownWithPants (again): Any chance of exporting Tomoe in a .avi or .dv format? It's been a while since I've used WMM, but I think those were options. I only ask because every time I try to convert it to an XviD or DivX .avi with mencoder I get a segmentation fault - something that's happened with about 1 in 3 .wmv files I've encountered lately. If you can't I can always try installing transcode, which is supposedly more powerful, or asking someone else to handle it, but I figured it might be best to give control over the conversion process to the creator on this one. I don't really care if the upload is huge, I've got space for it now and I always intended to take large files for the final versions of each vid to minimize loss on the final compilation and encode.
Pen-Pen: I'm not so sure about having a different voice and narrator for each segment (though I suppose they
did do it that way for Fantasia2000), but I love the idea of using the Fantasia background and then matting our videos onto the screens. We might have to use some artsy title panes on some videos where the first-second action is critical, but I think that would look great. I did a (very crude) version of this myself in a half-finished video for Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" that I put on hold for this project, using a clip of the movers in front of the screen as a transition point between different scenes just as the original video did. As I said, my version is very crude and unfinished, but I know what you're talking about and think it could really add something to this project as a way to tie the individual segments together.
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I've said this before, and I'll say it again: the original is a LAZY, LAZY encode that accidentally came out good. It's compressed from a premiere-made, poorly-deinterlaced higher quality XviD encode. Double compression. Don't try it at home, folks 
