Anime - Various
Song - Debbie Allen - The Fight Song
Completed November 2010
Premiered November 16, 2010
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This was my video from AAC's EXTREME Iron Editor 2010 comptition, winning a three-way battle with Kiarrens and OtakuForLife.
I can't remember the tortures the coordinators put us through this time around, and it's probably for the better.
Anime - Sleeping With Hinako
Song - Joe Raposo - Everybody Sleeps
Completed June 2010
Premiered September 16, 2010
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This one popped out of a silly conversation in #AMV. Kitsuner and inthesto were talking about how bad a source Sleeping With Hinako was, and how everyone should make a SWH video for AWA Pro. I was about to toss out "Isn't there an old rock ballad that goes something like 'Everybody Sleeps' or something like that?" but decided to look it up first to avoid looking silly.
Then I found the old Sesame Street song by the same title (and never did find the rock ballad, so I must have misremembered). I immediately started tossing the video together, and planned to send it to Expo, since I was working on two other ideas for Pro. Unfortunately, some of my Pro ideas fell through in the editing stage, so this one ended up going to Pro as well. I think it was pretty badly hurt by being the last of four SWH videos in Pro, but someone had to be.
All in all, silly and without a real point, but fun to do.
This video won Best Fun/Upbeat/Other at Bakuretsucon 2010.
Anime - Various
Song - Neil Norman - Amazing Stories Main Theme
Completed August 2010
Premiered August 19, 2010
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This was my entry in the Project NeoEditor bonus round, and finished first among the three entries submitted.
Space Opera has been one of my favorite genres for a long time, and I wanted to pull in several different sources. Since the theme was to go from "slice of life" to "adventure," I decided on using Haruhi as a framing device, especially the Day of Saggitarius episode. The other sources were pretty much determined by "what do I have that's both space opera with BIG FLEETS that's also widescreen?"
The music was inspired by a rather old Kusoyaro/RYS collaboration Amazing Stories, which I saw and loved the music to, since I never saw the series it was the theme to. The version I used is a slightly slower-paced version (1:10 from originally 1:03) from a collection of Sci-Fi theme songs.
I had fun with this one, and I want to combine several great fleets in combat against each other again sometime.
Anime: Fafner
Song: Les Miserables London Cast - Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
Completed August 2010
Premiered August 7, 2010
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This was my entry for the Project NeoEditor Final round. The round's theme was "Know Your Enemy." Code's instructions to us were: Create an AMV with a source and audio that you've always wanted to edit with. Show me who you are as an editor, and show me you can follow your editing dreams. Most importantly, show me your style!
This video finished as Runner-Up to Ileia's incredible RAH HEY!
Anime - Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
Song - Various
Completed July 2010
Premiered July 19, 2010
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My Round 4 video for Project NeoEditor. This round's theme: Memes. Take an internet meme and create something original.
This video finished first in a round of seven videos, and also won Best Comedy at Bakuretsucon 2010.
Anime - Macross
Song - John Powell - Test Drive
Completed July 2010
Premiered July 10, 2010
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My Round 3 video for Project NeoEditor. This round's theme: Create a video showing a variety of emotion moods, with at least two transitions between moods.
This video came in third in a round of nine videos.
Anime - X TV & OVA
Song - Flobots - Rise
Completed June 2010
Premiered July 2, 2010
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My Round 2 video for Project NeoEditor. This round's theme: Create a tribute video for another competitor (random pairings) based on their likes and dislikes.
This came in fifth in a round of ten videos.
Anime - Magic Knight Rayearth
Song - Nox Arcana - Caliope
Completed June 2010
Premiered June 27, 2010
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My Round 1 Entry for Project NeoEditor. Theme for the round: tell a story with a moral.
This came in third in a round of 13 videos.
And I was very depressed after killing off one of my favorite characters ever.
Anime - Revolutionary Girl Utena
Song - The Birthday Massacre - Kill the Lights
Completed March 2010
Premiered April 2, 2010
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The idea of Utena as a broken fairy tale was one that I kicked around in my head for a long time while I was planning this video. Unfortunately, the execution here (especially some of the mask edges) was kind of flawed, given how badly I rushed actually making this video before the Anime Boston deadline. In all, I spent about 19 hours straight on it, finishing about two hours before the deadline.
I still like the silhouette effect I used here, and may use it again if I find the right place for it.
Anime - Wings of Honneamise
Song - John Rubinstein - Corner of the Sky
Completed February 2010
Premiered April 2, 2010
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When Anime Boston announced that the 2010 contest would be in HD, I only owned three anime Blu-Ray disks, so my selection of sources was a bit limited. I had just watched Wings of Honneamise the week before, so I settled on that very quickly.
The song was a bit harder, but dumb luck in picking up a secondhand copy of the soundtrack to Pippen and hearing "Corner of the Sky" got me thinking about flying and the hurdles that Shitotsugh and his Space Navy compatriots overcame to get into space.
I deliberately focused on the flying and his relationship with Requinni and cut out as much of the actual combat of the last act as I could, preferring to keep up the hopeful tone of the song.
Conventions:
Finalist at Anime Boston 2010
Winner, Best Character Profile - AWA Expo 2010