Anime - Various
Song - Beach Boys - I Get Around
Completed October 2011
Premiered October 21, 2011
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This was my winning video from the Bakuretsucon 2011 Iron Editor. The sources were agreed on before the match, and the song was from a list of six that was given to us a week before the match.
Anime - Various
Song - the HIATUS - Betelgeuse no Akari
Completed October 2011
Premiered October 15, 2011
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This was the runner-up video in the AAC '11 Extreme Iron Editor contest.
I can't remember all of the challenges that were thrown at us; the one that sticks out was having to roll a d20 and add that many lens flares to the video. We rolled a 15, and there are 17 in the video.
Anime - Various
Song - Two Steps From Hell - Dragon Rider
Completed October 2011
Premiered October 14, 2011
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At Another Anime Convention 2011, OtakuForLife ran a workshop on AMVs and asked for people to bring betas for critique. Having nothing in progress at the time, and fearing that no one would be bringing anything, I spent about an hour and 45 minutes throwing together a short video with the sources I had on my hard drive for an Iron Chef match the next week.
There's a lot of problems with it, given the short period it was put together in, but I kind of like it. It got a decent reaction at the workshop, too.
I like the idea, and may revisit it as a whole video someday, using the rest of the series that I didn't have available at the time.
Anime - Heidi, Girl of the Alps
Song - Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows
Completed September 2011
Premiered October 14, 2011
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This video was specifically made for the Theme category of Another Anime Con 2011, which was "70's Soul Train."
Finding a source from the 1970's on DVD was difficult, since so few of them have enough nostalgia strength to get rereleased, and I was considering tracking down the Original Gundam DVDs before stumbling across Heidi.
The song was a lot simpler, as I had a collection of 70's hits on CD from a previous project that didn't see completion, but several of the songs had potential.
When I actually started planning it, I only scanned through the first two DVDs before deciding to make a romance video between Heidi and Peter. Not having read the book, I was completely unaware of Klara's later appearance or how large her role would become, so editing around her became more difficult as the video went along.
Overall, this was a silly little romance video that came off decently, and ended up winning the category.