Otakon Winners [2005]

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:53 pm

that was a really strong showing in all categories, especially drama. bravo to all the creators who made the contest. i have a lot of great music from the contest and the overflows stuck in my head now. congrats to brad for winning the first otakon iron editor contest. you should write that in the back of the medal with a sharpie in case you forget

for reference, the finalists can be found here: http://www.amv-contest-lists.org/data/otakon2005.htm

since this seems to be the offical post-otakon thread, i'll say here that it was really nice meeting a bunch of editors, whether it was a brief introduction or if we had a conversation. digitalex, thanks a lot for saving me a ton of time by finding what overflow i was in. i saw your vid in the screening too and the editing was really well done. floyd, it was really cool talking to ya and getting pummeled in texas hold 'em. and of course congrats on winning what IMO was the strongest category in the contest.

MousePotato · Post by **MousePotato** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:17 pm

Hey downwithpants, thx for leting me stubble into your rooms party after the bash..... I was soooooo wasted, but anyway, I really have to suggest the I walk alone video and the "Run" video. Both were great vids and deserve to be DLed.

Ditchdigger · Post by **Ditchdigger** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:21 pm

ebichuman wrote:Stupid question: who was that guy behind the shower curtain at the end of the Wizard of Ozaka AMV? It looked like Shinji.

Yeah, that was Shinji, from episode 1 (2?) where he runs into PenPen in the bathroom, freaks out and runs back into the living room buck naked. Originally there was a beer in front of his *ahem* and then Misato picked it up and a can of toothpicks was there still covering him up.

Bob

ebichuman · Post by **ebichuman** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:05 pm

Wow, no wonder I don't remember that scene from Evangelion, it happened so early in the series.

Hey, I liked the FMA/Invincible and VegettoEX's videos too. All the FLCL and Naruto AMVs were good too.

Waldo · Post by **Waldo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:42 pm

AtomX wrote:
Afterlifer82 wrote:Ha, nice AtomX it was a good show. Looking forward to next year's competition. Where can we get those vids from this year's Otakon Iron Chef?
I need to grab a copy from Omar. I didn't think to burn a copy then and there

I'll be mailing HuffyUV exports of the videos to the editors and it'll be up to them to encode them in their desired formats and upload them to the Org. Alan has mpeg-2 files for each which were shown at the end of the contest, but they were done in Pinnacle Trex with default values vs using all the nice settings that TMPEG has.

-Omar Jenkins
Iron Editor Challenge Coordinator

erinfinnegan · Post by **erinfinnegan** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:08 pm

ANTDrakko wrote:
Kusoyaro wrote:
Jasper-Isis wrote:And AtomX won Iron Chef?

What was that song that AtomX used? It's been stuck in my head ever since the contest!!

Digitalex · Post by **Digitalex** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:22 pm

downwithpants wrote: since this seems to be the offical post-otakon thread, i'll say here that it was really nice meeting a bunch of editors, whether it was a brief introduction or if we had a conversation. digitalex, thanks a lot for saving me a ton of time by finding what overflow i was in. i saw your vid in the screening too and the editing was really well done. floyd, it was really cool talking to ya and getting pummeled in texas hold 'em. and of course congrats on winning what IMO was the strongest category in the contest.

No prob. Glad I could help out. There were so many good videos in overflow that I think could have easily made finalists in other conventions. The quality of submissions was that good.

As for Nightmare, I totally agree. It was an amazing video and I had the hardest time deciding between that and I Walk Alone. I was hanging out with huge Eva fans at one of the screenings and we all sat there in awe.

Brad · Post by **Brad** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:39 pm

erinfinnegan wrote:
ANTDrakko wrote:
Kusoyaro wrote:
Jasper-Isis wrote:And AtomX won Iron Chef?

What was that song that AtomX used? It's been stuck in my head ever since the contest!!

It's 'Red Alert' by Basement Jaxx.

DanPersons · Post by **DanPersons** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:10 pm

ebichuman wrote:All the FLCL and Naruto AMVs were good too.

I'm presuming "Mamimi" is included in that group, so thanks! (Another really good FLCL: "Fire in the Disco.")

Dan

Ditchdigger · Post by **Ditchdigger** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:01 am

I'm presuming "Mamimi" is included in that group, so thanks! (Another really good FLCL: "Fire in the Disco.")

I was also really digging the first video in the contest, "Something Better." I'd never thought of FLCL as a love story -- it's too wacky and all-over-the-place -- but when I saw that video I thought "Hey, I should rewatch that and concentrate on following the romance!" I think it's a mark of a good AMV creator to be able to take a show of type X and completely convert it to type Y using existing footage.

Bob