- User Name: daxhack
- Member Since: Wednesday, June 27, 2001, 1:44 PM
- Name: Jason Bridgmon
- Studio: WTF? Productions
- Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
- Last Login: 2008-12-04 15:22:42
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- Journal: Last entry made on 2002-11-08 18:55:15
- Profile: I have made three anime music videos. You can only find them on other people's computers, I don't think anyone has distributed any of them on tape, VCD, or any other form of hard media. I have no internet connection so I can't even send them to you.
Tekken 3 (Video game footage) _to_ Megumi Hayashibara's "Give a Reason"
Iria: Zeraim the Animation _to_ an abbreviated Eminem & Dr. Dre's "Guilty Conscience"
Ghost in the Shell _to_ Orgy's "Fiction: Dreams in Digital"
The Ghost in the Shell video is the only video I've ever submitted to a convention, Nan-Desu-Kon 2000 in Golden, Colorado. There my video won a prize for "Thematic Merit" and I was awarded a cute little trophy. It's a gold colored Asuka for Evangelion in a plug suit holding a VHS cassette. I will treasure it always.
You can read about it at http://www.ndk.cc/ndkgo/ndk2k.html
My AMV idols are Joe Croasdile (whom I actually met in Fort Collins, Colorado), Duane Johnson, and Kevin Caldwell. A lot of people have elevated Kevin to God-like status, mostly by talking trash about everyone else's videos, and that has turned a lot of AMV creators against Kevin, cause he can't (or doesn't) control his fans. I look mostly at technical merit though, and Kevin is flawless, as are Joe and Duane.
My dream system is one that lets me do videos with no quality loss, at least 640x480 resolution, 32bit color, 24fps, and preferably digital all the way through, no compression, no lag, and no hiccups where I lose 12 hours work cause of a file error. Till then, I am computerless so any system is a dream to me.
My pet peeves are garrulous newbies on the mailing list, trash talkers, more evangelion or cowboy bebop videos, and anyone who makes an amv that fits this description: "My favorite anime to my favorite song, basically I picked my favorite scene and pushed play, and I used 2 VCRs and a cd player to do it."
My favorite video of all time:
Joe Croasdile's Video: Perfect Blue _to_ Nine Inch Nails "Perfect Drug"
Technically amazing. Filters, effects, cuts, scenes, music, syncing, every little thing about this video rocks, and I got to see it pre-release when I visited him. Very very cool Joe. Kudos!