De:Light

[spk1983]

It looks good in 60 fps, enough to make me go "Oooo...purty!"

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer it when it comes to the anime itself driving the AMV, not so much the effects, and it felt like the effects were the showcase this time around, it dominated the feel of the vid, the anime was just along for the ride.

However, I still must say a great effort, one day I might get as skilled in using the more complex applications, but I'm now taking my first couple steps...



8/10 (The majority of the marks being lost to me on lack of reviewability, it doesn't feel like a video I can still enjoy watching after the 10th time).

[RatQuiRit]

The use of futuristic effects is really not of my taste. It was well done but I would have prefered not to have them, but that's just me (and a few others apparently). Though, the rest of the video is great! Really nice timing, and the 60 fps can do no harm. Nice music and scenes choice, well done!

[Aggressor]

And I think that right now while the focus is where it should be [with the video and not the fx] it could have been a more balanced video.

Maybe, but I thought it'd lack a connecting idea, just random action scenes. The way it is there're still random action scenes, of course, but with a common idea between them.

Two other things that sort of bug me [but aren't video breakers] is for one the lack of interpolating frames ala twixtor or something similar. A lot of the main key scenes still seem to have double frames. And having those slightly interpolated would have probably made the video all that much smoother.

That's true, I didn't twixtor everything. The reason is simple- it looked like crap sometimes so I had to turn it off. I don't like interpolated frames anyway, and made this vid in 60fps for 2 reasons: to try it and to get more room for my own graphs and so.

The other thing that bugged me a little was the highly contrasted menu's compared to the video. I understand your choice for separating the color palette of the menu vs source. But it rips the overall color palette apart too much. Corpse Princess mainly consists of blue, purple, red and orange. Which doesn't mesh well together with green. Then again this could strictly be my personal taste.

You're not the first one to say it, and I agree that it may look creepy in some way, though there's a lot of color correction over the source so that original colors doesn't matter that much imo. Thanks for such a detailed feedback!

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer it when it comes to the anime itself driving the AMV, not so much the effects, and it felt like the effects were the showcase this time around, it dominated the feel of the vid, the anime was just along for the ride.

I hate useless effects myself, and I tried to put the required minimum to make this vid look consistent.

The use of futuristic effects is really not of my taste. It was well done but I would have prefered not to have them, but that's just me (and a few others apparently).

It seems I'll have to make a no-effects version of this one

Thanks for your comments, everyone!