Category: Videos

Anime - You're Under Arrest
Song - Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know
Completed March 2011
Premiered April 3, 2011
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This was a fun little experiment with bringing a show's subtext into full text, in this case, taking the friendship between Natsuki and Miyuki into a full lesbian relationship.

I've wanted to use the song for a while, ever since I heard it on the radio several years ago, but always pictured it as a "girl loves bad boy" song, like the original music video showed. When I went looking for a song to do the video to, it suddenly struck me that the gender of the singer's significant other is never specified, so it could also be interpreted as a girl taking pride in a lesbian partnership over other people's objections.

I'd also been looking for an excuse to make myself sit down and watch YUA for a while, since I owned all four box sets of season 1, but had only watched the first one before getting distracted with some other show. Now I need to watch the other two seasons (which I also own), which I didn't include here because of the major art shift.

This video was entered at Tekkoshocon IX and Anime Boston 2011, but didn't make the finals at either.

Anime - Magic Knight Rayearth
Song - Tokuyama Hidenori - FOR REAL
Completed March 2011
Premiered March 8, 2011
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Ten years ago, I started making AMVs. At the time, I figured I'd make one just to try it out, and that'd be it. Imagine my surprise that I'm still here, more than 50 videos later.

I've been meaning to remake my first video, a parody opening, for a while now, and doing it for my 10-year anniversary seemed appropriate.

And, as an additional personal bonus, I used this project to learn something new: some of the more in-depth features of After Effects. I've used some of the basic motion functions in the past, but this is the first time I've used any of the tracking, masking, or animation features.

Ten years have gone by in a blur; here's to another ten!

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!

Source - Original footage
Song - Steeleye Span - The Song Will Remain
Completed July 2010
Premiered August 13, 2010
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My Round 5 video for Project NeoEditor. This round’s theme: Create an AMV that shows your last day of life, as if you knew it was your last day of your life.

This video finished second in a round of four videos.

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.

Source - Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
Audio - Avatar: "Beyond Imagination" TV Spot
Completed June 2010
Premiered July 9, 2011
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The idea for this one came from some webcomic's (probably Real Life or Schlock Mercenary, I don't remember now) note that James Cameron's Avatar was the best Ferngully remake ever. And so the parody trailer idea wouldn't leave my brain.

Overall, a fun thing to make, though the lipsynch is absolutely terrible (too many distinct faces to make it look right, sadly).