AnimeNEXT 2009 AMV Contest

[ReligionX]

It's been a long weekend. I have the winners and runner up and voting results. I'll post them by tonight. I'm at work for another 7 or 8 hours. The winners were announced at the Masquerade and during the Encore Presentation of the AMV Contest. If the winning Editors have not already been contacted about prizes (if you were at the convention), I am going to have our prize department send you an e-mail as soon as possible.

Other than 2 .wmv technical difficulties during the 1st screening of the Contest, and a speaker issue during the second screening of the General Screening, everything went very well, I think.

Thank you very much for sending in your work. I have decided that AnimeNEXT is a worthwhile convention, and I plan to stay on for next year. All of the rule and restriction kinks will be worked out. I am also going to release the restrictions on AMVs to pretty much be as high quality as you can make them. Basically, if you and a few other people you know can play it on your computer, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to as well.

1280x720, 60FPS, any compressed format, any audio type. AMV winners will be played on DVD, so a lower quality version will either need to be submitted ahead of time, or they will be scaled down to high quality MPEG-2s.

Many categories this year presented some difficult choices. It turned out that, out of six categories, only one of the videos I voted for won. So, I'm hoping that ReligionX will provide vote percentages for the winners and runners-up (and ONLY them -- I don't want a repeat of the Otakon 2008 results post) when he makes the official announcement.

I was also very surprised by the voting results. But, that's why it's open to the public to decide instead of a few people. 3 of my favorite videos in the contest were neither 1st or 2nd place.

I don't know why there are so many Dramatic and Action AMVs. I did not put a single Upbeat or Comedy AMV into the General Screening unless the editor submitted 2 AMVs. Next year, I am going to try for 5 genres, if I can help it, but I may have to have more Drama / Action / Romance / Sentimental again. It was a pain to put those AMVs into their genres.

Action - More action than a Drama based story.
Sentimental - Less-action based / less-romantic Drama.
Upbeat - More upbeat than action, romance, or drama, and not comedic.
Drama - More story driven than the Action or Sentimental category.
Romance - Romance and coupled relationships.
Comedy / Parody - Anything that is intentionally comedic or parodying something else.

-Tom Callahan
AnimeNEXT 2009 AMV Contest Head

[KagatoAMV]

nic and brad are a deadly duo this year good job guys

Thanks! I'm glad to see the video went over so well.

A win the in Sentimental category seems very appropriate for Meli's "You Are Loved." Congrats!

[SamuraiJake]

Another contest lost, but hey at least these were some great AMV's!

[ReligionX]

Action
01.) “Family Curse” - Luggeriano - Romeo x Juliet
02.) “Let's See How Far we’ve Come” - Skyborn Studios - Tsubasa Chronicles - Runner Up
03.) “You Know My Name” - Studio Hybrid - Code Geass - Winner
04.) “You’re Making Me Angry” - Smalltown Studio's – Dragonball Z & Dragonball GT
05.) “Ex. Order 9066” - Corsair - Code Geass

Sentimental
06.) “A Killer's Love” - AlbinoPlant - Howl's Moving Castle
07.) “To be By Your Side” - Lithe-Fider - Digimon - Runner Up
08.) “Waltzing on Venus” -「ijexis」- Mushi-shi & Origin: Spirits of the Past - Judges Choice
09.) “You Are Loved” - MeliChan923 - Various Anime - Winner
10.) “The Third Hokage's Final Message to the Village Hidden in the Leaves” - Onikokoro - Naruto

Upbeat
11.) “Paper Miyazaki” - Samurai Jake – Various Anime
12.) “Perfect Day” - Brad DeMoss - Kodomo No Omocha - Winner
13.) “Love Love *SNAP*” - Scintilla - Magical Witch Punie-chan - Runner Up
14.) “Welcome To the Show” - Black Seventeen - Various Anime

Drama
15.) “Tormented Spirits” - Cheese For Thought Studios - Natsume YuujinChou
16.) “Rise above the Drama” - Kitto Katsu Productions - Digimon - Runner Up
17.) “Moving Forward” - Night-Train Productions - Yu Yu Hakusho
18.) “Nankurunaisa” - Dreamscope - Blood+ - Winner
19.) “Come to Me” - Tripleshock Studios - Munto

Romance
20.) “The Live” - Cyanna - Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad - Runner Up
21.) “Dying Without Your Love” - Dragon/Roy - Various Anime
22.) “I'm so in Love with You” - Someday Soon - Candy Boy
23.) “A Love Story” - Sugar High Productions - Ah! My Goddess
24.) “iKyon” - xCattyx24 - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Winner

Comedy / Parody
25.) “Demonic Mermaids” - Rolfyboy8 - Mermaid Melody
26.) “The Significant Other” - TheTreeAMV - Bleach - Runner Up
27.) “WTF Why Are There Tomatoes In My AMV” - drewaconclusion - Various Anime - Winner
28.) “Sakura vs. Miser Brothers”- Touya_girl Productions - Cardcaptor Sakura
29.) “Wrong Way, Anime” - HalOfBorg - Various Anime

-Tom Callahan
AnimeNEXT 2009 AMV Contest Head

[Scintilla]

Okay, I feel better now: though I only voted for one of the winners, it looks like I voted for five of the runners-up.

Congrats to all the winners! It was a packed field this year.

[drewaconclusion]

Whoops, didn't mean to post a message.

[Dragon/Roy]

I only got to see a little bit of the saturday showing , but congrats to the winners

[Minimoto]

Congrats to everyone who won.

[Melichan923]

Sentimental
06.) “A Killer's Love” - AlbinoPlant - Howl's Moving Castle
07.) “To be By Your Side” - Lithe-Fider - Digimon - Runner Up
08.) “Waltzing on Venus” -「ijexis」- Mushi-shi & Origin: Spirits of the Past - Judges Choice
09.) “You Are Loved” - MeliChan923 - Various Anime - Winner
10.) “The Third Hokage's Final Message to the Village Hidden in the Leaves” - Onikokoro - Naruto

Wow, I had no idea I won! Thanks a lot! Congratulations to the winners.

Thanks! I'm glad to see the video went over so well.

A win the in Sentimental category seems very appropriate for Meli's "You Are Loved." Congrats!

Thank you very much! Congrats to you as well! ^__^

[Ijexis]

Completely forgot to check up on this, and this is the same thing as last year, did not win but got Judge's Choice, 2nd year in a row. Awesome, I guess.