Otakon Results

Adv1sor · Post by **Adv1sor** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:46 am

Gratz to all the winners!

This was my first time at Otakon and I've got to say I was very impressed with way the AMV contest and the rest of the con was ran.

This was a great time!

ANTDrakko · Post by **ANTDrakko** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:08 am

JediNight wrote:Humorous I think was the most loaded category of all.

Yeah, I thought it was going to be a 14-way tie for Comedy, what with every other video being a comedy.

Congrats to the winners, though. It was a fun contest to watch.

~Seen

anneke · Post by **anneke** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:36 am

Congrats to the winners.

I'm just amused that someone post a comment about the video I entered saying how it should have won, and I didn't even make the finals. LOL. It amused me.

-Anneke

DireStrike · Post by **DireStrike** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:49 pm

I'd like to know just how I actually did rank, if that's at all possible. Everyone keeps asking me.

Well, I can tell you that you rank 2nd/3rd as far as I'm concerned! (I know, who the heck am I?

) If not for Naruto Ball I would have voted for you. Mai Time was clean, the shots matched the music, and was extremely well done. Naruto Ball had a kind of unfair edge in being part comedy.... My other 2nd/3rd choice is Seven May Cry. It's tough to modulate out FF7 bias, so I'm not sure exactly which I would have voted for, but the general feeling I have is that Mai Time was better. I remember liking Magical Barrage a lot, but Mai Time followed right after it so it was easy to compare and put Mai Time on top.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:54 pm

ANTDrakko wrote:Yeah, I thought it was going to be a 14-way tie for Comedy, what with every other video being a comedy.

You misspelled travesty.

I kid, I kid.

Congratulations, etc.

turkinolith · Post by **turkinolith** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:40 pm

I'm soo happy to see Worlds Unbroken won.
Air is one of my friends over at anime-bts favorite shows. He was not thinking it would win but wow what a great turn around.
I wonder how Through the tears placed as if I could vote twice that would have been my choice.

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:01 pm

Sierra Lorna wrote:http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=102834
(Link for Worlds Unbroken. )

For having not watched an AMV or anime or made an AMV since *last Otakon*, I loved your and silver_moon's video (surprise, surprise) and was glad to see it win. Maybe I'll go watch some other AMVs now >_>

Congrats to everyone, but same thing Tim said about every other entry being a comedy...and not in comedy -_-

ReligionX · Post by **ReligionX** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:48 pm

DireStrike wrote:
I'd like to know just how I actually did rank, if that's at all possible. Everyone keeps asking me.
Well, I can tell you that you rank 2nd/3rd as far as I'm concerned! (I know, who the heck am I? ) If not for Naruto Ball I would have voted for you. Mai Time was clean, the shots matched the music, and was extremely well done. Naruto Ball had a kind of unfair edge in being part comedy.... My other 2nd/3rd choice is Seven May Cry. It's tough to modulate out FF7 bias, so I'm not sure exactly which I would have voted for, but the general feeling I have is that Mai Time was better. I remember liking Magical Barrage a lot, but Mai Time followed right after it so it was easy to compare and put Mai Time on top.

Thank you for that. I'd love to get some more feedback my video (and I don't mean 'compliments,' [though they are appreciated] I mean 'tear it apart'). I saw some extremely valuable and educational panels about winning AMVs. There was this one Princess Tutu AMV that would have mopped the contest clean as a clear winner, even with the Naruto/DBZ AMV. The Princess Tutu AMV felt as much like a Dramatic / Action mixed category as mine was, though I'm no where near the same level as that.

Here's my rundown of the Action Category: I whole-heartedly feel that "Seven May Cry" is the best Music Video composition that I have ever seen, AMV or not. "Naruto Ball Z - A battle of epic proportions" is entertaining every time I see it. "Photogenic" makes me so happy, and I can't explain it... 'girls on film... girls on film...' hehehe... "Magical Barrage" has made me a dedicated hunter for Magical Lyrical Nanoha A, and I will find that show if it's the last thing I do (blast Otakon for changing the schedule and airing episodes 1-4 without telling me!). "My Fist Is The Worst Kind Of Weapon" was done very well, but ran into the same problem that I did, where there simply were more "audience pleasing" videos.

I didn't intend to make AMVs to compete with anything originally, but it seems like a fun thing to do with AMVs once they're done. I wasn't getting many downloads for my video (yeah, "who am I?" syndrome), so I thought, "how can I get people to see my video, without going to the ridiculous 'plz op my vid' threads?" Go AMV Contests!!!

I plan to make more AMVs, and probably submit one to Otakon 2007. I have 2 good ideas, and I hope to have at least one done before the deadline.

MusiKon · Post by **MusiKon** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:19 pm

Congrats to everyone who won. Hopefully I can join the winners next year.

I had a few complications this year, so I couldn't make it to the AMV contest (sad I know). So does anyone know where I can get a full list of the contestants and what was shown? I'd be so greatful.

bionicoddity · Post by **bionicoddity** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:53 pm

Not sure if I can ask this, but I've been looking around for a while. Does anyone have a link the the Cabbit video and/or the Lifestyles of the Animated and Fabulous video? I'd really love to show the friends of mine who couldn't make it to Otakon, the videos. I've got most of the other winners already. Everyone did such a wonderful job. I actually had a hard time voting because so many of them were very good!