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Now waiting
2005-05-29 15:45:40
One week (if everything goes well) before I can start working on my next project... Typh needs to bring me the DVDs back from Strasbourg, and this won't be done until next week-end. Argh, I don't know why, I just happen to have LOTS of ideas for this vid, so I'm eager to be done quickly with the whole ripping, cleaning and cutting clips process, because it's really what I like the least about making an AMV. This one's going to be funny for a change
In other news, the Hellsing Collection box should be on its way this week, and the four Haibane Renmei DVDs I bought this afternoon should as well. I'm glad that for once, for once, I could find honest sellers on Ebay... not people selling bootlegs while trying to make they look like original releases with Chinese subtitles (yeah, Hellsing for immediate buy at 20 bucks, on 2 DVDs and as "Region 0"... I sooo believe in this *rolleyes*).
Come to think of it, I wouldn't have watched these series if not for kickass AMVs I've seen done to them. So there, here's a useful side-effect of downloading all this stuff regularly. -
Footage quality and art supplies
2005-05-27 04:10:13
Recently, I've been browsing through old threads on the forums, vaguely looking at what I had missed during the solid 2 years where I wasn't here, or barely only checking here and there. Of course, lots of these threads I've read are nothing more than beating dead horses, but seeing the always-coming-back topic of "downloaded footage VS ripping your own DVDs" caused a thought to spring to my mind.
Granted, I've been guilty of it when I couldn't have DVD sources and didn't have money to order from Japan or even from the USA (not that I have much more money now, but selling stuff off Ebay here and there allows me to build a nice stash on Paypal for anime and such :P). However, my latest works with AMVs (whether my finished one, or the attempts i'm vaguely starting now) have been made from DVD-rips, properly cleaned using AVIsynth scripts, and basically following the procedures described in the guides here; since then, the fact is that I've discovered a little something about myself that I hadn't suspected at first.
Quality footage works for me the same way quality art supplies do. Once you've started working with good materials, such as Rotring professional ink pens instead of crappy 50-cents felt-tip stuff with colors turning off after a few years... well, you just can't go back to low-quality supplies and use them the way you were doing before. It just doesn't work anymore. You feel limited with your pens, with your crappy pencils that break everytime you try to sharpen them, with your basic paint tubes and basic paper bought at the supermarket, instead of good oil paint and large canvas to work on. It's almost impossible to NOT feel otherwise, I think; you'll do it if circumstances force you to, because it's still better than not doing anything and giving up on art as a whole, but you're not truly at ease.
So, yeah, downloaded footage works for me exactly the same way. Now that I know how to rip and clean my footage... I probably won't be able to go back to downloaded sources, even if it means waiting a few months to make an AMV. And if I do... I probably just won't be at ease at all, and feeling like it's a regression on my part.
Well then... time to build up my Paypal money-for-anime stash a little more, eh? ;) -
Looks like my job has spoiled me for this
2005-05-25 05:05:12
Because i'm kind like that and anyway like looking at them, I've been voting on the banners a lot in the past two weeks.
There's however something that regularly comes to irk me... and that's the fonts/font colors.
I mean... There ARE some where I seriously need to squint in order to read what's written, or which color scheme blends so much with the background, or conflicts with another element, that it gets terribly hard to read the text.
This makes me wonder, am I being just too picky with this? Spoiled by my former classes about typography and how to use it to its full power? Or am I right to diss out a banner because it's simply unreadable in my opinion (and no matter how pretty the anime char on it is, if the text in a sore spot, it makes the whole visual aspect look... bad)?
Ah, well. These are "only" banners, I suppose. I should find better stuff to wonder about *lol* -
I can easily guess who it was
2005-05-24 16:37:06
*sends thanks to the kind admin who confirmed her anime entry in the database*
There, it's done. New vid all uploaded, with a completed description page :)
Right now, I'm feeling pretty "empty" about all of this, which is a reaction I know very well, as it happens the exact same way when I draw. I've completed a piece, I'm happy with it, but in this exact moment, I wouldn't open Premiere for anything in the world. I just want to sit back and relax, sort of. Which is what i'm going to do. -
Ack! :)
2005-05-24 11:58:37
Heee, so the Kery all glad about how her vid turned out decided to finish writing the description for it and upload it at lunch break... only to remember that the anime for it hadn't been approved yet, thus I can't upload. Yeesh. I should really try to remember this kind of things a little more than just five minutes before...
Now what... well, I'm waaaaaitiiing! That'll teach me to use anime that aren't in the DB *laughs*
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