RDS Presents: Go the distance

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:03 pm

Serv0 wrote:
Castor Troy wrote:I don't fully consider this a crossover video like my past ones since there's no story involved.
That's bullshit! You've got characters with goals, and of course you've got a progression of how they achieve those goals. And that to me, incorporates part of the qualities of story. And honestly, it's the main reason why I actually liked this vid. If there's anything that'll sell me in the end, it'll be a vid that has a solid concept for me to relate to.

I'm going to have to echo Esrhan too on the masking though. A lot of it really stood out and there's a real lack of "blend" for the composites. In the future, I recommend color correcting both the foreground characters and the background in order to achieve this blend. It's really awkward to have a masked character with a warm temperature, placed in a cold environment. Especially when you have the live-action characters cold and the anime characters warm.

4/5

Wow, that's a pretty amazing observation. I actually never thought of that.

Obviously the composites weren't going to be 100% perfect and I did more brightness and contrast adjustments since most of Rocky's footage is dark.

Well, if "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" taught us anything, animated characters practically have immunity to any type of weather. Let's just leave it at that.

Fuze · Post by **Fuze** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:40 pm

Love it.

Nessephanie · Post by **Nessephanie** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:46 pm

Way to bring it back for RDS! hehe. Awesome job on the vid! We're proud to have you as our own :3

guy07 · Post by **guy07** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:58 pm

Good work, a decent tribute indeed. Naturally the masks on the live action characters were a big weird, but it was pretty cool havin them fight like that. The sync seemed a bit too basic .... but i guess that's what you wanted.
Man, i swear, are you addicted to masking or something? lol
I'd give it a 4, but your in RDS now, so you get a 3! > : (

OtakuOutpost · Post by **OtakuOutpost** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:11 pm

I liked this video because it was a tribute to something greater than the anime. That made it a unique enough concept. I found the video to be somewhat repetative (only so much airboxing can hold my attention) and while I was watching it I lost interest in the video itself and my attention turned to "how else is he going to try to blend the live action with anime". I started watching only for those scenes after a while, which isn't a good thing.

It was a gutsy video concept though, and it was pulled off well. Some of the masked scenes were eyesores, but the majority were tasteful well done. I guess what I'm saying is I admire and respect this video more than I enjoyed this video.

Zero Link · Post by **Zero Link** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:13 pm

I like the idea, but I believe it takes more than masking anime characters into live action to actually make it fit. But still, pretty enjoyable to watch.

Decoy · Post by **Decoy** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:41 pm

I think Todd and I are one of the biggest Ippo fans and seeing a solid, old school feeling vid is timeless.

I'm not going to pick little details, just wanted to say I dig this vid a lot. Even of the song/anime combo not the most original, it works very fucking well, and you succeeded in creating a solid and believable atmosphere through-out the video.

The feeling I got while watching this for the first time, was a kinda nostalgic feeling I haven't had in a long time, while watching AMVs... I think it reminded me a lot of Believe... not going on a rant why so, but it was there.

Thank you for making the badassesst Ippo vid to date, will be watched many times in the future.

Cheers.

Tsunami Jones · Post by **Tsunami Jones** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:42 pm

This video makes me cry tears of manly joy.

You know I love it

Goketsu · Post by **Goketsu** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:48 pm

Bauzi wrote:Eh... Yeah I´m really not into the music. Therefor it can´t excit me. I do like the idea and execution, but it´s not my cup of tea.

...and yeah if I´m honest: The hype surprises me.

Do I have to be a Rocky fan to like it? Well I never saw a Rocky movie so please screw me now.

no but you would probably have to be a rocky fan to get what he was doing. I will say that much

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:55 pm

Nessephanie wrote:Way to bring it back for RDS! hehe. Awesome job on the vid! We're proud to have you as our own :3

Thanks for having me aboard. It's nice to win one for the team

Thanks for the constructive comments everyone. It's really awesome and helpful to hear many different perspectives regarding the blending of the anime and live action.