A Naruto MV... with me rapping!!!

[Otohiko]

As a hippie who listens to nothing but weird/foreign music...


...I massively approve of this video

Seriously, that was awesome. It's quite good as a video by itself; definitely made with taste and great sync. But the fact that you made it yourself, and mixed that music in there, that was just sweet.

Also, a good example of how rap isn't all that its' critics try to make it out to be

Kudos to you! Hope you have success in music and do some more self-musicized AMVs. That's honestly something you see very rarely around here.

[Unlimited Rice]

is there anyway to get ur CD other than Paypal? i hate paypal

[DirectDK]

Kudos to you! Hope you have success in music and do some more self-musicized AMVs. That's honestly something you see very rarely around here.

Thanks Otohiko. Maybe I WILL try doing another amv to one of my songs again, one of these days. Actually, Berserk is an anime/manga that I've wanted to do an amv for quite some time, although I don't know if I have any songs that would fit. Speaking of Berserk, I will check out your video soon (I noticed you just posted a Berserk amv). Ever heard of http://www.berserkstatues.com ? That's a statue/model kit website I created for Berserk. I'm, to-say-the-least, a HUGE HUGE fan. =P

is there anyway to get ur CD other than Paypal? i hate paypal

Yeah, you can also send us a money order if you want to avoid paypal. I'll PM you the address. Thanks for the support man! =)

[Otohiko]

[ Actually, Berserk is an anime/manga that I've wanted to do an amv for quite some time, although I don't know if I have any songs that would fit.
Ever heard of http://www.berserkstatues.com ? That's a statue/model kit website I created for Berserk. I'm, to-say-the-least, a HUGE HUGE fan. =P

That's some amazing statues there, I'm duly impressed - especially with some of the Griffith ones (and they sound way, way expensive - at least to a broke college student like me )

I think a Berserk fan of your dedication just owes it to themselves to do an AMV to that series. I can see how your style of music might not neccesarily match up exactly well to Berserk, but who knows. I'd be certainly glad to see a pleasant surprise (Berserk, except comedy, always associated with mostly classic rock/metal to me)

Cheers!

[kain2983]

That was a pretty good song. It was well done. The music video also had really good timing in it as well.
Nice job

[blaku92]

I hate rap, but this was interesting. Good job -- better rap than most stuff out there. keep at it you guys sound great.

[Shinodude]

frankley I hate rap I think it is the stupidest form of music but seeng this made me like rap abit more sence al the big rp singers are quees that sing about the same things


loved the amv!

[Melanchthon]

And about the video-encoding quality, well... unfortunately, how I went about doing it is I had trouble working with the original DIVX files in Vegas, so I was told I should convert the files to a different format (uncompressed AVIs). .... Anyhow, so I exported only the segments of each episode that I wanted to use into MPEG2 and used those as my source files for the amv. In other words, there is no going back for me to make it higher quality. =/

Well, in that case your video doesn't look so bad for being losslessly compressed so many times. Lagarith is a good codec for storing original clips, especially if you do some filtering beforehand. If even your MPEG2s have blocking, then there are ways of fixing that through Avisynth... but that might a bit complex unless you're comfortable with writing scripts.

Now onto the risky part... changing the Count's mouth! John had to completely chop off the lower jaw and re-shape the mouth so the lower teeth could hang a little lower. The mouth wasn't too big to begin with, so it could only open up a reasonable amount before it would look odd. In the end, as you can see, it turned out natural and obscenely gross... PERFECT. =)

I'll say. The amount of work that went into that one figure is simply amazing.

[megaman917]

I liked the song. I liked this video. I was moved. The .Org needs more rap AMVs, especially ones like this one. I more or less agree with what everyone else has said, except for the hating rap thing. (Rap/Hip-Hop is my favorite and prefered genre of music) As you can see, the majority around here either dislike or hate rap, but as Otohiko pointed out, this video goes to show that Rap is more than what its critics make it out to be. You got talent.

I'm want to show this to the anime club at my school next semester.


One more thing; next time, I think you should give your video a title. (Unless the title is simply "So Long")

[Bakadeshi]

heh... I have a confession to make. WHen I saw the title "A Naruto video with me rapping!" I imediately thought.... "Oh great, another kid who thinks he can sing making another crappy naruto video, and moved on. I come back today to see the thread has 2 pages of replies, and deside to check it out after what Inglow and a few others said.


That....Was....AWESOME! I loved the idea of rapping to anime inspired things, and the fact that you used a sample directly from the first ending song of Naruto realy put a smile to my face when the audio kicked in. I loved the song. You guys are good. I may just go over and buy the CD after I type this.

The Editing of the video was a bit rough, and not quite as good as the work on the song itself, but man, just the fact that you used your own song, and did it so well more than makes up for it. Like Reina said, it was the song that kept me going with the video for the whole duration. I'm keeping this.