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2005-03-22 23:01:34
I think I said something especially stupid somewhere that I should apologize for, or was reading an interesting thread, but hell if I can remember where it is.
Hate it when this happens. Happens all the time, too. So if I ever vanish mid-thread, either I can't remember which thread it was, or (if it got flamey) I decided I would probably only get more obnoxious if I didn't stop entirely and cool off.
Right now, though, I think it was a decent thread, or two, but I can't remember which one it was. Eesh. -
2005-03-19 01:51:35
So's far as I can tell, "The Acceptance Speech" was played as filler somewhere in a small con in Victoria, BC. Which. I've. Never... heard... of. so. they. played it. for. some. unknown. ...reason.
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I'm not comfortable with that, because I didn't think they did that sort of thing anywhere (playing stuff off the web without asking), but I'm not going to fuss about it. It's just kinda... ehhh. Well, at last resort I hope they started with the MPEG. The timing is better. :/ And if more people get into Ave. Q, again, my job is done.
But now I have to stop saying that my stuff has never been played at a con. SIGH. I've never gotten into a contest, then. mmkay? mmkay.
I could have sent it to my local con, but a) I think I'd be a little weirded out seeing my stuff - or maybe just that one - on a big screen, and b) I'm... truth be told, a little sick of it right now. It still gets fan[boy|girl] reviews every now and then, and all my other vids may as well not exist. Isn't that always the way! Heh. So that's why I have a rotating series of the others plugged in my forum signature. Just to give them a tiny little spotlight.
It's some sort of cosmic joke that a little fluffy video that took four days to make ends up being what I'm known for all over. I'm trying not to develop a complex. :P I am a little reluctant to follow up with another upbeat video, I have to admit. Hate to look like a one-trick pony. #15 in progress - properly 16, since the live-action one will be done first - is upbeat. Well, "Fun," here - not Upbeat the category, upbeat the regular ol' adjective.
Also because I don't really like doing lipsync, truth be told. It's picky and difficult and I'm not very good at it. I'll have to try to swing the next one away from that direction a bit, even though it had been shifting that way so far.
Anyway, it's not really a streak! The Sakaki video came out between the two. And I've been wanting to make this one for ages, and the timing was right to do it now. It'll work out all right in the end.
The live-action one is going well now that I threw myself into it a bit. Live-action is strange. At least, this source is strange. A lot of it is people talking, and since it's either insanely difficult or impossible to mask that out in live-action, you just have to try to cut around it where you can and live with it otherwise.
okay, I need to get some freakin' sleep. Have to get up bright and early tomorrow and buy U2 tickets. :p
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2005-03-11 21:09:11
http://www.culturedeluxe.com/songdesc.asp?id=4405
I've never heard either of the originals, but. Hi. CB.
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2005-03-11 20:57:51
...definitely time to chill off the org for a while again. Watch things that are fun, edit a bit, and to hell with the rest.
Onee-san needs to take a nap, kids. I'll be back shortly. ;p -
2005-03-11 19:01:11
Yeah, I did go a bit postal in General AMV, but SERIOUSLY. It pisses me off to hear people who think that talking into a mic makes you a good voiceover actor. NO IT DOESN'T. It's the equivalent of "LOL I can put dbz clips from kazaa with this linkin park song and OMG I R GRET AMV EDITER." You think you're great; you sound like a fucktard.
It's a skill. You can't just waltz in off the fucking street and do it. It takes practice. VOR's last thingy? Acting was eh. Generally pretty stiff; they sounded like a bunch of kids trying to act. Which is not a good thing. And he COMPRESSED the voice audio. You could hear the compression hiss! This is also bad. Very, very, very bad. Never ever compress the voice audio, not until you export the final thing. Just like AMV editing, dumbasses. One would think they'd understand this, but no.
And people think this is awesome, because they know fuck-all about voice acting. AUGH. I only did AVA for a year or two and *I* know more than that, for fuck's sake!
My rant is over now. Twice now I've told the little bastard to talk to people who know what they're doing, but noooo, he'd rather be the pint-size auteur and pretend to people with even less clue than he has that he knows what he's doing. God forbid he has any humility, edits AMVs like a normal AMV editor, and hooks up with an AVA director/actor who knows how to do the other half. Ohhhhh no, gotta control everything. Even when he doesn't have any fucking clue what he's doing.
Really. Really. Smart.
Y'all are making bad dubs.
Just thought you should know.
Rant off.
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