All Your EVA Are Belong To Us

Maradydd · Post by **Maradydd** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 5:20 am

No, the world didn't need another Neon Genesis Evangelion video, especially not one set to the Zero Wing dub done by the guys at overclocked.org, but the world gets one anyway.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=26082

Honest and constructive criticism is very welcome. I feel like I learned a lot while making this AMV, and hope to apply it to future ones. Some of the footage is lousy, but I don't plan on remastering it; I'm looking at it as a learning experience that will hopefully give people a good laugh.

Jnzk · Post by **Jnzk** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 5:25 am

LOL! That was great! Now I'm seeing Pen-Pens everywhere... >_>

Esrhan · Post by **Esrhan** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 8:21 am

Wow. You concentrated the whole plot in that small NERV control room very nicely.

The voice actually fit Pen-Pen...

OtakuForLife · Post by **OtakuForLife** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 8:22 am

dude, lol

The mighty PEN PEN will conqure you all!!

Awsome vid man

milatchi · Post by **milatchi** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 11:29 am

I like it

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:34 pm

Hehe, thumbs up. This is actually the first AMV I've seen using The Zero Wing Dub Project instead of the standard "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by the Laziest Men On Mars.

And I never will figure out how people manage to get other images reflected in Gendo's glasses so neatly.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 4:07 pm

Mommy, I'm scared.

Maradydd · Post by **Maradydd** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 5:25 pm

Wow, thanks for the replies, everyone. I feel all warm and fuzzy.

Scintilla - the way I did it took several steps. First, I worked out the lipsynching for the glasses-reflection clip. I exported that as its own AVI, then used ... ImageReady, I think, but it was quite some time ago so I don''t remember clearly ... to separate out the individual frames, and for each frame, replace everything bounded by the glasses frames with a single colour that wasn't used elsewhere in the frame, in this instance RGB 0x00FF00. I then sequenced the stills back into an avi and placed that avi in the timeline on Video 3 with Transparency set to Alpha Channel (I think - I'm at school right now and not in front of my editing computer) set to RGB 0x00FF00 (which makes everything that colour transparent).

After that, I took the clip of PenPen, threw a noise filter on it, and placed it on the timeline in Video 2 and Video 1A. I then resized each instance of the clip and moved each one around so that it was positioned at an appropriate spot in one of the lenses. Voila!

If I had it to do over again, I'd export just one frame to a bmp, then colour the lenses green and set the transparency so that the bottom half of the picture (or really, any part of the clip with motion in it) was transparent, then overlay that bmp over the entire sequence. Would have been way easier.