AnimeNEXT - Full Participation Listing

[VegettoEX]

AnimeNEXT (www.animenext.org) screened its anime music video contest this evening around 7:30 pm. It's another (relatively) local Jersey con, so Meri and I packed up after class and headed on over. After the con we played DDR for a bit, but there was nothing else going on, so here we are. Heading back in the morning.

Anyway, the contest originally was planned to use Otakon's categories (verbatim), but it turns out they got SO few entries (it IS their first year...), that they cut it down to a drama-only category for competition, and screened what appeared to be two other entries afterwards. Another unfortunate-ly thing is that there was no compilation tape; all videos were played in sucession on their own tapes as they had been sent in by the creators (a la AXNY). Ah, well. After the contest submissions had been played, they filled up the remaining alloted time with random videos off the staffer's laptop.

COMPETING VIDEOS: DRAMA/SERIOUS

1. "Alone in the World"
Meredith "Meri" Cantoni & Michael "VegettoEX" LaBrie
Anime: Trigun
Artist: Simple Plan
Song: "I'm Just a Kid"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/ ... hp?v=11328 & http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/ ... hp?v=11329

2. "My Name is Arima"
Hyo Moon
Anime: Kare Kano
Artist: Susan Vega
Song: Luka
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/ ... hp?v=10535

3. "The Extra Mile"
Miranda Janatis
Anime: Sailor Moon
Artist: Laura Pausini
Song: "The Extra Mile"
URL: n/a

4. "Enter the Lost"
DragonStar Productions
Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Artist: Linkin Park
Song: "Crawling"
URL: n/a

5. "El Tango de Hitomi"
Dan Minhas (AnimeDog Productions)
Anime: Vision of Escaflowne
Artist: Moulin Rouge OST
Song: "El Tango de Roxanne"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=7851

6. "El Tango de Roxanne"
Lady Ava Productions
Anime: Final Fantasy VIII & X
Artist: Moulin Rouge OST
Song: "El Tango de Roxanne"
URL: n/a

NON-COMPETING (nothing else was mentioned concerning them, as of yet)

1. "Creepy Anime Girl"
Incoherant Babble Productions
Anime: Excel Saga & Puni Puni Poemi
Artist: MST3K
Song: "Creepy Girl"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/ ... hp?v=10051

2. "Brothers of Liberty"
Geode Works
Anime: Super Smash Bros. Melee (and assorted related Nintendo games)
Artist: Harry Gregson-Williams
Song: "Metal Gear Solid 2: Main Theme"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=9644

EXHIBITION FILLER VIDEOS (MPEG-1 & DivX played off staffer's laptop after contest):

1. "Blue Mercury"
Aluminum Studios
Anime: Sailor Moon
Artist: Eiffel 65
Song: "Blue"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=914

2. "Larger than Life"
Aluminum Studios
Anime: Cowboy Bebop
Artist: Backstreet Boys
Song: "Larger than Life"
URL: n/a

3. "Venus in a Bottle"
Aluminum Studios
Anime: Sailor Moon
Artist: Christina Aguilera
Song: "Genie in a Bottle"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=1842

4. "Odorikuruu"
aokakesu
Anime: Various
Artist: Elissa
Song: Mamboleo
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=912

5. "Failed Experiments in Video Editing"
Big Big Truck
Anime: Cowboy Bebop & Sketches
Artist: Various
Song: Various
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=2665

6. "Mambo #5"
Brian Tetzlaff
Anime: Urusei Yatsura
Artist: Lou Bega
Song: "Mambo #5"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=2142

7. "Anime Mascots' Day Off"
Doki Doki Productions
Anime: Various
Song: "Wazzup?" Commercial
UR: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=165

8. "NYO is WAR"
Doki Doki Productions
Anime: DiGi Charat
Artist: Motorhead
Song: "The Game (Triple-H's Theme)"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=5102

9. "Right Now"
Doki Doki Productions
Anime: Various
Artist: Van Halen
Song: "Right Now"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=3684

10. "Senshi on Springer"
Doki Doki Productions
Anime: Sailor Moon & Jerry Springer
Artist: Weird Al
Song: "Jerry Springer"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=166

11. "Closer to God 2: Even Closer"
ErMaC Studios
Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Song: "Closer"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=6298

12. "Hold On"
ErMaC Studios
Anime: Marmalade Boy
Artist: R.E.M.
Song: "Everybody Hurts"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=387

13. "The Anime Polka"
ErMaC Studios
Anime: Various
Artist: Weird Al
Song: "Polka Power!"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=1782

14. "Karekano1"
TNuG Studios
Anime: Kare Kano
Artist: Vertical Horizons
Song: "Everything You Want"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=198

15. "Jinnai and the Bugrom LIVE!"
Studio Hybrid
Anime: El Hazard
Artist: Carumba
Song: "Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot!"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=1889

16. "Happy Boys & Girls"
Alvin T. Chang
Anime: Various
Artist: Aqua
Song: "Happy Boys & Girls"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=1628

17. "Only in Dreams"
Kwasek (More Than Toast)
Anime: Cowboy Bebop
Artist: Weezer
Song: "Only in Dreams"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=3027

18. "The Fall"
Lee Thompson (Lostboy)
Anime: Video Girl Ai
Artist: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
Song: "The Fall"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=3224

19. "With Every Light"
Kusoyaro Productions (Hsien Lee)
Anime: Various
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Song: "With Every Light"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=151

20. "Final Cut"
X Productions
Anime: Rurouni Kenshin OVA
Artist: Godsmack & Linkin Park
Song: "Awake" & "Pushing Me Away"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=5578

Phew!

That's it! The winner(s) will be announced tomor... err.. this evening (heh..) at the awards ceremony, which I believe is right before the cosplay. Despite the videos being played seperately, the setup was rather nice (four big speakers in each corner of the room, SVHS player projection setup) for the small con that it is.

I know everyone's already seen all those "exhibition" videos anyway, but Meri's already asleep and I've got nothing else to do :P.

Hopefully we'll report back tomorrow night. Forgive any typos.. my eyes are starting to bug out. LaTeZ~

[VegettoEX]

Back from the con for the night. Here's the list of winners in the AMV contest:

* BEST DRAMA

"Alone in the World"
Meredith "Meri" Cantoni & Michael "VegettoEX" LaBrie
Anime: Trigun
Artist: Simple Plan
Song: "I'm Just a Kid"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/ ... hp?v=11328 & http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/ ... hp?v=11329

* BEST ACTION

"Enter the Lost"
DragonStar Productions
Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Artist: Linkin Park
Song: "Crawling"
URL: n/a

* BEST COMEDY

"Creepy Anime Girl"
Incoherant Babble Productions
Anime: Excel Saga & Puni Puni Poemi
Artist: MST3K
Song: "Creepy Girl"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/ ... hp?v=10051

* BEST VIDEO GAME FOOTAGE VIDEO

"Brothers of Liberty"
Geode Works
Anime: Super Smash Bros. Melee (and assorted related Nintendo games)
Artist: Harry Gregson-Williams
Song: "Metal Gear Solid 2: Main Theme"
URL: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/video.php?v=9644

There weren't a lot of entries (eight total), but in the end, they did their best to recognize as many of those (four, which is.. well.. half) as they could during the awards ceremony (which took place after the cosplay). It seems like they "made up" a couple awards to do this, which is perfectly cool and I wish more cons would do this. It looked like they originally WERE going to play the winning videos during the ceremony, but due to either technical difficulties or lack of organization, this didn't happen.

All in all, it was a *decent* AMV contest for the con's first year. Things should pick up next year :).

[Rexall]

Man that was some funny stuff. If you ask me, I think the guy handpicked those other awards.

Anyways I've a very very good feeling that for next year the music video contest will be a lot different and will no doubt be a lot better than this years.

Not that I'm saying this contest was bad or anything, but it could'v ebeen a lot better. Guess we all learn from mistakes.