The Otakon 2011 Thread

[KagatoAMV]

Unofficial list of the winners:

Vic's Pick:

A Glorious Dawn by Studio Hybrid

Cool.

Congrats to everyone!

[ssgwnbtd]

...also, I think I win the longest title competition, lol...it barely fit in the box on the contest intro video, haha!

Your title is longer than "I Had Sexual Intercourse While Making This Video"?

[l33tmeatwad]

...also, I think I win the longest title competition, lol...it barely fit in the box on the contest intro video, haha!

Your title is longer than "I Had Sexual Intercourse While Making This Video"?

Hmm...close call, depends on the font and letter spacing, too close to call...

[Honou_Miko]

...also, I think I win the longest title competition, lol...it barely fit in the box on the contest intro video, haha!

Your title is longer than "I Had Sexual Intercourse While Making This Video"?

I was very tempted to title my video "You Don't Need Your Vital Regions To Dance A Jig." I decided against it. the vital regions joke is getting old

Also, unrelated but seriously, I have to say. Ouran: Be Our Guest made me so, so so so happy. I actually had the exact same idea a few years back, but had already done an Ouran video to "Willkommen" from Cabaret right before I got the other idea, so I decided it'd be too redundant for me as an editor, and I didn't bother... and now, after seeing that video, I am overjoyed to see a project idea I was too lazy to follow through with actually done. PERFECTLY. I am probably biased because damn, hive mind on so many of the clips.

[Miracle_Falcon]

Congrats to all the winners! I wish I could've been there when they announced the winners - due to friends and commitments, I didn't get to iron editor until the very end, when I thought they'd announce the results anyway. Missed it completely.

Being in drama, I wanna talk about that for a second. I managed to judge every other category's first place winners exactly (runner's up I had a worse track record at), so apparently having my own skin in the game incapacitates my own judgement. I was honestly surprised that the Madoka one got nothing - I felt like it didn't add much by way of commentary to the series (meant as constructive criticism, not trying to be mean) but it was very well edited and to a very popular series. I was sure that was going to place, and competing against it, I worried about it the most. On second viewing, I also found the Utena AMV to that Cold Play song was really good (any word on when that'll be posted online? I've tried to find it, and it doesn't seem to be out there). For some reason, the first time I saw it, it didn't stick out, but the second time left me wanting to watch it a bunch more. Excluding my opinions about my own video, I was pretty sure those two were going to do very well. Was anyone else surprised by the drama results? I haven't seen Princess Tutu or the show that Ready to Ignite is from, so I may be a very poor judge here.

Let me say I am glad that A Glorious Dawn got Vic's Choice. I feel like that's a video that would have difficulty winning popularity contests, but is different enough that it deserves recognition.

Oh, a post was made while I was writing this, that's fun... Yeah, I also loved the Ouran Be Our Guest video. Honestly, I wanted it to win best in show. I felt like it'd have difficulty winning in comedy against Shinji Does (Not) Mean Business, but as Best in Show it coulda worked really well.

[BasharOfTheAges]

...also, I think I win the longest title competition, lol...it barely fit in the box on the contest intro video, haha!

Your title is longer than "I Had Sexual Intercourse While Making This Video"?

Hmm...close call, depends on the font and letter spacing, too close to call...

Longest title just in this contest though. I have all of those beat in general.

[l33tmeatwad]

Also, unrelated but seriously, I have to say. Ouran: Be Our Guest made me so, so so so happy. I actually had the exact same idea a few years back, but had already done an Ouran video to "Willkommen" from Cabaret right before I got the other idea, so I decided it'd be too redundant for me as an editor, and I didn't bother... and now, after seeing that video, I am overjoyed to see a project idea I was too lazy to follow through with actually done. PERFECTLY. I am probably biased because damn, hive mind on so many of the clips.

I actually almost put off making the video I submitted, as I made an Evangelion video using Shinji and "Like a Boss" last year in the spring (sent to spring conventions, Katsucon, Anime Boston, Animazement, etc.). I wanted to leave it alone for a while and get some "buffer videos" in there, but then when Otakon came along I REALLY wanted to submit a video and that was the only one I had in mind so I went ahead and made it (with the help of snapxynith due to deadline issues, and I'm so glad it worked out that way, the text effects were MUCH cooler than I had planned !).

[irriadin]

I actually almost put off making the video I submitted, as I made an Evangelion video using Shinji and "Like a Boss" last year in the spring (sent to spring conventions, Katsucon, Anime Boston, Animazement, etc.). I wanted to leave it alone for a while and get some "buffer videos" in there, but then when Otakon came along I REALLY wanted to submit a video and that was the only one I had in mind so I went ahead and made it (with the help of snapxynith due to deadline issues, and I'm so glad it worked out that way, the text effects were MUCH cooler than I had planned !).

Those text effects were pretty amazing. Fantastic, even.

[Miracle_Falcon]

I actually almost put off making the video I submitted, as I made an Evangelion video using Shinji and "Like a Boss" last year in the spring (sent to spring conventions, Katsucon, Anime Boston, Animazement, etc.). I wanted to leave it alone for a while and get some "buffer videos" in there, but then when Otakon came along I REALLY wanted to submit a video and that was the only one I had in mind so I went ahead and made it (with the help of snapxynith due to deadline issues, and I'm so glad it worked out that way, the text effects were MUCH cooler than I had planned !).

Yeah, the text was really good, though I wanted to see images of Shinji or Asuka fade in or out of the text or something - I wanted to see the text effects tie back to Evangelion a little more. It was still really fun to watch, though.

[irriadin]

I actually almost put off making the video I submitted, as I made an Evangelion video using Shinji and "Like a Boss" last year in the spring (sent to spring conventions, Katsucon, Anime Boston, Animazement, etc.). I wanted to leave it alone for a while and get some "buffer videos" in there, but then when Otakon came along I REALLY wanted to submit a video and that was the only one I had in mind so I went ahead and made it (with the help of snapxynith due to deadline issues, and I'm so glad it worked out that way, the text effects were MUCH cooler than I had planned !).

Yeah, the text was really good, though I wanted to see images of Shinji or Asuka fade in or out of the text or something - I wanted to see the text effects tie back to Evangelion a little more. It was still really fun to watch, though.

I agree, I was hoping for some more Eva during the text effects segments. There's definitely enough visual movement to sustain interest during the text scenes, but it did feel a bit discordant with the rest of the video.