AMV

Naptime

LantisEscudoSeptember 16, 2010AMV, Award Winner, Videos

Anime – Sleeping With Hinako
Song – Joe Raposo – Everybody Sleeps
Completed June 2010
Premiered September 16, 2010
Animemusicvideos.org Link
YouTube Link

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.

Project NeoEditor Bonus Round: The Grand Fleet

LantisEscudoAugust 19, 2010AMV, Project Editor, Videos

Anime – Various
Song – Neil Norman – Amazing Stories Main Theme
Completed August 2010
Premiered August 19, 2010
Animemusicvideos.org Link
YouTube Link

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.

Project NeoEditor Round 6: Survivor’s Guilt

LantisEscudoAugust 7, 2010AMV, Project Editor, Videos

Anime: Fafner
Song: Les Miserables London Cast – Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
Completed August 2010
Premiered August 7, 2010
Animemusicvideos.org Link
YouTube Link

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!

Silhouettes

LantisEscudoApril 2, 2010AMV, Videos

Anime – Revolutionary Girl Utena
Song – The Birthday Massacre – Kill the Lights
Completed March 2010
Premiered April 2, 2010
Animemusicvideos.org Link
YouTube Link

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.

The Outer Sky

LantisEscudoApril 2, 2010AMV, Award Winner, Videos

Anime – Wings of Honneamise
Song – John Rubinstein – Corner of the Sky
Completed February 2010
Premiered April 2, 2010
AnimeMusicVideos.org Link
YouTube Link

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

Another Anime Con 2009 EXTREME Iron Editor

LantisEscudoNovember 21, 2009AMV, Iron Chef, Videos

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
AnimeMusicVideos.org link

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*