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End of 2018
2019-01-01 08:28:02
A little lookback of what I have managed to do during these 2 years of my "comeback". 4 official AMVs, couple of remakes, participated in 2 cascada MEPs and made a few less serious short videos. I think it's a ok enough tally for me.
I have tons of ideas of course and one MEP to run through.. but the problem still is I'm way too lazy editor to actually get everything done. I need to focus more on what I really want to edit and cut out forcing myself to make anything specifically to some contests.
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How is it going with the "comeback"
2017-09-17 15:58:36
I recently released some truly new AMVs. Double video project that I titled "Hollow Gardens", and which uses the awesome movies of Kara no Kyoukai, is now available to download from here. I entered early versions to the Tracon 2017 AMV-contest and to my surprise part B got to the finals. It didn't play very well in the big screen there though. Audio wasn't very optimal for the large convention hall and the video itself felt a bit rushed. So, of course it didn't win anything, but just seeing it play there was a huge success for me. I also got little added bonus when I heard someone in the audience go "Oo! Kara no Kyoukai!" :)
So.. what's next?
I follow a little what is going on the social media side of finnish AMV scene, and one thing caught my eye. Some people seemed to struggle making a full lenght AMVs (like.. 3 to 4 minutes long) and complain how they only manage to make videos that are less than minute or two.
....aaaand then there's me. I look at my latest works and.. Sweet Feather was over 8 minutes.. Hollow Gardens as a project is 3+5 minutes.. next one that I plan to make is over 6 minutes... Umm.. yeah.
Well, there are some MEPs on the works with much shorter tracks, so there's that. Though the Kontrust MEP, 3rd hand wonderland, hasn't received much interest so far. I hope to get that one done!
Anyway. Things are looking quite ok with my AMVs and I enjoy making them again! -
Jump start to 2017
2017-02-07 13:54:35
So, I'm trying to get 'back into business'. Now that more than a month has passed, I can look back and note that surprisingly I have managed to accomplish several things. Some notable things so far:
- Made accounts to twitter and youtube. Started uploading old works to youtube and working out how youtube's services work.
- Uninstalled most of my conflicting and error-ridden AMV related programs and installed the fresh version of AMV pack. Got editor, avisynth and codecs to work again. Mostly.
- I was asked to be one of the judges for DesuCon Frostbite's AMV-contest. It was heart warming experience for this old fart to a) notice that I'm not completely forgotten b) see where the scene stands today. Although I couldn't get my lazy introverted ass to the convention itself, it was still good to be part of it. I also believe we managed to award the right videos.
- Turned 36 years. ...yay
- Finished a little warm-up AMV and released it today. It's ok.. this is fine.. At least I didn't manage to crash my PC very often, so everything seems to work ok and I can move on to other projects.
..and what project are those? Still not telling about new planned videos, but I can tell that next I'd want to remake Sweet Feather. It's one of the videos I'm very fond of myself, but original video has horrible quality. Let's see how that turns out.
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2017
2017-01-01 06:36:08
So.. 2017 begins. This years' autumn will mark my 20th year of my anime hobby. It was 1997 when I bought my first anime VHS tape (Ghost in the Shell). Little less than 6 years later I started making AMVs.. just as year 2003 started. To celebrate 20 years of making AMVs I'd have to keep up 6 more years.. all the way to 2023 :D
Who knows...
I have been feeding and resting my inspiration to make more videos for several years now and I hope to get... back into business so to speak... during this year. My hunger to edit is back. Now I just need to find the time and renew the know-how to do it.
As for my new year resolution.. I made myself to promise I'll step into social media a bit more. So i have now finally made accounts to twitter and youtube. Twitter is @FoxJonesAMV, and now I only need to come up with something to actually tweet about. Youtube is also FoxJonesAMV and I have to look up at it a little first. How it works and stuff like that before I might start uploading my crap there.
Anyways.. have a better coming year everyone. Shouldn't be a problem to top up the previous one. -
After TraCon
2015-09-08 05:01:46
This year's TraCon is over and I'm glad to announce that I survived it. After going through 3h worth of speech program (panel and lecture) my voice gave up big time and my throat is still a bit funny. Con was enjoyable as always and I met some AMV colleagues there which is always nice.
But to the point!
Like I promised my two new AMVs are now available. Entries in amv.org are now opened and you can download the vids. Pick'em'up if you dare, and send the usual hatemail... I mean opinions/feedback, if you have the time. Thank you.
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