Expectations

[Castor Troy]

my expectation for myself is to try my best knowing i'll never be as good as my friends... i'm not a consistent editor but I like most of the things I make even though most people don't.

You're too modest for a king.

[requiett]

[JudgeHolden]

I'll give you an answer when I make something worthy.

[Beowulf]

What are your expectations of yourself and others compared to your past, present, and future works?

My expectation of my own work is that the editing keeps getting better and better. Which it has, thank goodness. Certain videos are more popular than others but you can't predict what people will like, and I could care less.

The expectation to top myself has never overwhelmed me. I made it a point very very early on in "The AMV Game" to never pigeon hole myself. I have my own titanium sense of self confidence to thank for that. I never cared about people's reactions to my work MORE than I cared about my own feelings on the work. It doesn't matter how many people comment on "Hail To The Thief", I'm never going to make another video like it. I did it, and moved on.

And how do you think others perceive you and your work? How does that make you feel?

I'm honestly very proud on how people perceive me and my work. I think its fair to say that HypeOdermic Studios is a 500 pound gorilla of the AMV community at this point, and our videos have only gotten better with age, something I can barely say of ANY amv. Go watch Hail to the Thief, Appetite for Dynamite, Vampire's Story, hell even Dead to The World. While I wouldn't say we "influenced a generation" (only koop can say that), there are a LOT of people who leave reviews on this site, email, youtube, telling me how our videos have inspired them to make videos/films etc. HypeO never really technically influenced people in the sense of editing styles or techniques, frankly, because no one CAN do it like us.

I think there's never been an amv like Dead To The World, and I'm really proud of that. I wanted to really expand what people thought an AMV was capable of, and really do something NEW in the genre. When it came out, people generally said "OMFG the bar has been raised". Dead To The World is the reason I have a career as a film editor, so I guess it all happens for a reason.

I feel people perceive me personally as the art guy who takes this stuff too seriously. I always have an opinion on things and I like to think I verbalize what people are thinking and not saying. I'm well respected on the forums, a position I enjoy, and I get away with a lot. Its a fun role to play, but its not entirely true to who I am. My threads are ALWAYS good reading though

[x_rex30]

HypeO never really technically influenced people in the sense of editing styles or techniques, frankly, because no one CAN do it like us.

I wouldn't say that. A lot of your older work would be easy to manipulate in style and a lot of your work has insane effort that a lot of people would have trouble showing. I mean c'mon didn't you spend like a year on a single video?

You got the respect from older videos so you are a classic editor which makes you more popular to post and also you've made some insane recent works as well.

I put you in the same boat as rubyeye, Zarxrax, Vlad G Pohnert, OtakuForLife and paizuri when it comes to respect and what I find is deserved.

[trythil]

On expectations:

I've actually been a little lost here these past couple years, when I was just making AMVs because of some convention deadline. I had a mission with no purpose.

I'm going to try to recalibrate myself. This is how:

I want my videos to be demonstrations of ways to make free and open source software work in AMVs. I think AMVs -- and "illegal art" in general -- is the kind of stuff that really needs to be done with tools unencumbered by opaque influence.

Obviously I can't do that when I'm Mac-bound, but there's a hardware and software change coming up for me pretty soon. (This Macbook Pro is getting pretty old, anyway.)

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On perception:

I'm sure that I come off as rude, arrogant, misanthropic, bigoted, hypocritical, and annoying to just about everyone reading my posts these days.

Frankly, that's fine with me. I'll never meet most of you, nor do I care about most of you. I expect the same reaction from everyone else.

Animosity is easy to maintain when it's just words on a page. Easier than establishing friendship, really, because people -- in general -- are easier to offend than befriend. Especially when those people are nerds.

[dwchang]

I like bananas

[JaddziaDax]

I like bananas

i bet you do! O:

[mexicanjunior]

I think its fair to say that HypeOdermic Studios is a 500 pound gorilla of the AMV community at this point

LOL...classic.

[JudgeHolden]

Get your boots on kiddies, the gorilla shit is getting pretty deep.