Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest Thread - WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!!

[Hagaren Viper]

There's only one problem I have with the new categories...

Spoiler :

• Drama & Horror

That is all.

Also, three cheers for Fun & Dance

[Shin-AMV]

There's only one problem I have with the new categories...

Spoiler :

Also, three cheers for Fun & Dance

hip hip hooray

[XStylus]

I'm surprised about the potential removal of video game entries, since we've had a few finalists using game footage and made such a huge deal about Dead Fantasy being played in the preshow a while back. Any particular reason for this?

Would the Wedding Rings still be disqualified. That would be my question.

No. And I think it was a mistake and an injustice that it happened.

Also, while I would like to curtail the blatantly non-anime game stuff a bit better, video games tangentially related to anime will continue to be permitted to a significant degree.

I am also open to hearing arguments for or against permitting vids with primary footage from shows that are, for all intents and purposes, anime in every way but nationality, such as Avatar: The Last Airbender and Boondocks.

[XStylus]

There's only one problem I have with the new categories...

Spoiler :

• Drama & Horror

That is all.

Also, three cheers for Fun & Dance

"Experimental" shall be dropped.

Also, the Freshness rule shall be simplified to just the 12month limit. I accept the need to demonstrate that this event can walk without stumbling before I can expect it to run with Lance Armstrong.

[RAWdangers]

There's only one problem I have with the new categories...

Spoiler :

• Drama & Horror

That is all.

Also, three cheers for Fun & Dance

"Experimental" shall be dropped.

Also, the Freshness rule shall be simplified to just the 12month limit. I accept the need to demonstrate that this event can walk without stumbling before I can expect it to run with Lance Armstrong.

I feel the need to point out that Lance Armstrong does not run and is also currently in a pretty big doping lawsuit, not sure if he was the best choice of examples.

[XStylus]

I feel the need to point out that Lance Armstrong does not run and is also currently in a pretty big doping lawsuit, not sure if he was the best choice of examples.

You guys nitpick over every little detail...

[Ileia]

He must be doping pretty hard if he's competing in triathlons without running.

[XStylus]

• Fun, Dance, & Experimental
This should be relatively controversy free.

[rageface]
It needs to say upbeat in there!!!
[/rageface]

I suspect you were half joking, but I would like to point out that I think upbeat vids will find fairly decent homes in the new category structure. Let me give a few examples from this year's Fun category:

"FULLMETAL's BACK" by Rider would likely continue to be considered "Fun".
"Safety Dance" by Shin would obviously be considered "Dance" (which is still the same category).
"Smile" by Sephiroth would probably compete quite nicely as "Sentimental".

Feel free to PM me some examples of "upbeat" AMVs that might have some difficulty fitting in. I'll see what I can do. However, let me state that it is impossible to have perfect categories for everything unless I made this a ten-plus category event, in which case it'd be a godawful mess. However, I do think we've moved away from trying to fit square pegs in round holes.

Dear god, the number of Director's Chairs I'd have to buy...

Does "Non AMV" for Trailer mean still using anime as a source, just to a trailer audio, not music?

Hmm. If the phrase needs clarification then I should probably remove it, but you are correct. The implication was that trailers and parodies aren't quite anime music videos.

[Shin-AMV]

• Fun, Dance, & Experimental
This should be relatively controversy free.

[rageface]
It needs to say upbeat in there!!!
[/rageface]

I suspect you were half joking, but I would like to point out that I think upbeat vids will find fairly decent homes in the new category structure. Let me give a few examples from this year's Fun category:

"FULLMETAL's BACK" by Rider would likely continue to be considered "Fun".
"Safety Dance" by Shin would obviously be considered "Dance" (which is still the same category).
"Smile" by Sephiroth would probably compete quite nicely as "Sentimental".

Feel free to PM me some examples of "upbeat" AMVs that might have some difficulty fitting in. I'll see what I can do. However, let me state that it is impossible to have perfect categories for everything unless I made this a ten-plus category event, in which case it'd be a godawful mess. However, I do think we've moved away from trying to fit square pegs in round holes.

Dear god, the number of Director's Chairs I'd have to buy...

haha yeah I was just joking.

[Castor Troy]

I'm proud to announce that the AX2012 AMV Contest thread is now the longest going AX thread, no, longest going AMV Contest thread in all of a-m-v.org's (only the old yahoo mailing list discussions come close) history.

62 pages + Michael's initial 11 page thread = 73 pages.



The AX 2010 and 2011 threads come close at 49 pages. All of the AX threads from years before that don't even come close.

We are all truly AX drama queens.