Category: Iron Chef

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 – Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 1st
Song – Richard Cheese – Fell In Love With a Girl
Completed May 2011
Premiered May 14, 2011
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This was my video for the second round of Brad’s Online Iron Chef Tournament 4, from my match against Ileia.

This was a very different song from what I expected, but I think I managed a decent silly romance video out of it, focusing on the only male character in the movie with significant screen time.

I unfortunately lost this match to Ileia’s spectacular video.

Anime – Ghost in the Shell
Song – macchinainterna – X-Files Theme
Completed November 2010
Premiered April 10, 2011
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This was the segment I edited for the fourth edition of Iron Chef Idol.

Thankfully, the song I got given by FC was both very editable and immediately suggested a video concept: parodying the original video.

In accordance with the ICI rules, this was edited in two hours, and still works pretty nicely as a video.

Anime – Project A-Ko
Song – The Postmarks – No One Said This Would Be Easy
Completed April 2011
Premiered April 9, 2011
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This was my video for the first round of Brad’s Online Iron Chef tournament in the match against jade_eyed_angel.

Brad handed us an interesting song that I know I’d never heard before, but immediately made me think of an adventure story, which managed to work pretty nicely with the source that came up in the roll, Project A-Ko.

I won this match by a narrow 3-2 margin.

Anime – Demonbane, Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!, The Hobbit, School Days
Songs – DJ Mei Lwun – Nelly vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Country Grammar, Skye Sweetnam – Part Of Your World
Completed November 2009
Premiered November 21, 2009
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The resulting videos from the EXTREME Iron Editor competition at Another Anime Con 2009.

It was a tag-team match between the Green Team (LantisEscudo & inthesto) and the Blue Team (Kiarrens & OtakuForLife).

The full details of the competition, including the tortures visited upon the editors by dokool and BasharOfTheAges:

*Extreme Challenge Summary*

First Source Revealed: Demonbane

Steady Hands – Alts are forced to play Operation with an eye-patch on until someone gets 3 pieces. (arm weights were, sadly, missing)

Winner – inthesto

Hypothermia Challenge – Both alts plunge their hands into ice water and keep them there. First to remove a hand loses. (this lasted 20 minutes, and resulted in 4 emptied cans of silly string as well as possible nerve damage. We forced them to switch off with their partners and immediately start editing.)

Winner – tie.

Second Source Revealed: Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight

On The Hunt – Alts are given a camera and a scavenger hunt list of cosplayers, staffers, and Guests and 20 min to take as many pictures as they can.

Winner – Kiarrens (but points were awarded per picture anyways)

Nice Boat Balloon Pop – Alts are presented with a pile of balloons – each of which has a piece of paper in it. All have phrases on them the alt has to call out after reading, until they find the correct one – Nice Boat! – The first one done wins.

Winner – Otaku4Life

Third Source Revealed: “Nice Boat” episode of School Days

One Ring To Bind Them –
A) Alts must find the hidden box with their color on it (on Bashar’s Car) and return it to main stage.

*Lantis docked 20pts for unsportsmanlike conduct in taking both boxes, leaving otaku4life confused in the parking lot for 20 min.

B) Inside this box is a hello kitty lip-gloss ring locked by a pad lock. The keys to the padlocks are at the bottom of a vat of shaving cream. First to Unlock their box, wins part B.

Winner – Otaku4life

Final Source Revealed: The Hobbit (Rankin-Bass’s 1979 version)

A Little Trivia While We Render – A Little Retrospect is played. All editors name the AMVs used – 2 pts a piece.

*no real winner – just awarded points until we were done*