Tips for inspiration

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 4:28 am

noone here jsut turns on winamp and their anime and lets it run? I've found many a cool idea doing that. But as for gettings stuck mid vid, still haven't bested that one yet.

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 9:49 am

I usually just do something else for a while. Make sure and have the radio on in the car, or grab one of my wife's or my CDs at random and pop it in the player. Poking around the forums here is always good as well- the idea for the vid I'm working on for ACen came from something that whacked me over the head while looking over the info on Willow's Animix project...

Cain T. Longshot · Post by **Cain T. Longshot** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 10:18 am

I just lay back and relax while listening to some music. ^^

NME · Post by **NME** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 10:23 am

I sleep, sleep is nice. Oh how I do enjoy a good sleep.

Machine · Post by **Machine** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 12:10 pm

mexicanjunior wrote:Crown and coke....and popsicles.

Sugar Overdose 2000!

FirestormXIII · Post by **FirestormXIII** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 12:27 pm

Listen to a lot of music. Procrastination. Stay away from editing for a little while. Join a project. :O Sleep. Watch anime.

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 12:41 pm

Machine wrote:
mexicanjunior wrote:Crown and coke....and popsicles.
Sugar Overdose 2000!

Enough to kill Beo, Wonka, and possibly Big Dave in one fell swoop.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 9:11 pm

I listen to my playlist or just let life go on by, something comes to me eventually. If it's while working on an AMV then I'll just listen to the song a few times with my eyes closed and I get an idea.

silver_moon · Post by **silver_moon** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 10:20 pm

I think the base of any video is mainly the song itself, so if you find an original, cool song that no one's used yet, you've already got a good start on your video. I usually just go through all of my favourite songs and, if they haven't been incredibly overused yet, start running anime scenes through my head to the music. I can usually get some ideas just by doing that.

But if you can't find a song in your collection that will work with any anime you've watched, go song searching. I've found that listening to new music can really get the creative juices flowing. Ask for CDs or song suggestions from your friends or siblings and listen to new music, sometimes they actually listen to cool stuff. About half of the songs I used were suggested by my older sister or taken from one of her CDs.
You can also search for songs by artist and try listening to songs you haven't heard yet from certain artists.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 12:41 am

Listen to stuff from the MOD-scene. Seriously.

The best MOD musos have about 200x more imagination and musical skill than 99% of other music artists out there, and they produce stuff that is about ((200)^2)x more inspirational.