I've decided to consolidate all of my AMV discussion to a single thread, since there has been interest in giving me suggestions and comments on various things. I'll update this thread with every new AMV that I create, as well. I'm happy to take any constructive criticism, since I'd like to get better at these. For those who wish to have copies of my AMV's, I post them all on Megaupload. The link in my signature will show a full list of the AMV's that I have available for download, and the specific links are included in the hidden tags for each AMV as well. However, I don't plan to upload Thriller to Megaupload until I revise it.
My username on Youtube is UrougeAP, and most of my videos are by link only now.
Here are the AMV's that I've released, in order of creation, with the newest one at the bottom. (Who it's about followed by what the music is):
Jango the Hypnotist - "Thriller" by Michael Jackson
[hide]This was my very first AMV. Michael Jackson's death inspired me to create this, along with Jango's match in the character tournament. It got such great responses from people that I was encouraged to continue making AMV's after this was completed. I plan on revising this AMV for his third round match, since there are things that I believe could be done better. This and all of my other AMV's up until Nami's were made with Sony Vegas Platinum edition (the one part with song subtitles was unavoidable due to a corrupted RAW file).
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PGF97R7C[/hide]
The Buggy Pirates - "Fun Lovin' Criminal" by Fun Lovin' Criminals
[hide]My second AMV. I always loved it when people meshed the manga in with the anime for AMV's, which I tried to do here. Admittedly, a lot of it was fairly rough, and I'm almost ashamed now to call this a final draft because of all the imperfections. Despite that fact, I love how the AMV as a whole turned out.
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EHPUP67A[/hide]
Mr. 3 (Galdino) - "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns n Roses
[hide]Early work. It's ok, but there are a lot of little things about it that annoy me now. Oh well.
Alternate: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/Urouge/video/x9vi03_mr-3s-jungle_shortfilms
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6QMG5XMQ[/hide]
Enel - "Thunderstruck (live)" by AC/DC
[hide]The AMV of the two from that match that had a stronger response to it. I think it's a great AMV, but there are a few things that glare at me when I watch it that I wish I had fixed. Fortunately, the problems are few and far between, and most people don't seem to take notice.
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IMR49UMP[/hide]
Nami - "Fighter" by Christina Aguilera
[hide]This is my first AMV after switching to Sony Vegas Professional (because I had just found out that Professional was significantly better than Platinum). I made the upgrade because I really wanted to use masking for this video (where she seperates from the background at the end). Masking is a feature found only in Professional (along with others), so I went ahead with the upgrade. My next AMV that I'll release (since it was started a while ago) and any future remakes will be the only ones that will use Platinum again. This is also the first AMV that I accepted critiques on so that I could polish the video before releasing it. I will continue to get critiques on my AMV's before I release them from now forward. Thanks to Sai-chan and Blue-san for their critiques of this AMV. This has been my most heavily praised AMV to date, and after only one week it became my most watched AMV as well. Ironically, along with being my most rated AMV, it's also my AMV with the lowest rating. The internet is a mysterious place.
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Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PQKFY001
I don't really have much of an opinion on Christina Aguilera, I'm not a fan but I don't have any particular hate for her music either. I was pretty sick of this song by the time I was done making this AMV, though.[/hide]
Bon Kurei - "The Show Must Go On" by Queen
[hide]This is an AMV I made that features Mr 2 Bon Kurei (Bentham). I will probably make a 2nd AMV for him once Impel Down is fully animated, because he's simply too awesome in that. It took me a long time to find a song I liked, but thanks to robbybevard, I finally found one that I was really happy with. I went through a few different ending sequences before ultimately going with a very complex one when it was all said and one. As before, special thanks to Sai-chan, robbybevard, eerie, and Blue-san for their critiques. I think I managed to one up myself with the timing yet again, and I hope you all enjoy it.
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5343PLCA[/hide]
Crocodile - "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio
[hide]I made a Croc AMV. Unfortunately it took me a long time to figure out how to get this one to work on youtube. Between that and my internet being down for a day and a half before I had to get it published, I didn't have time to get feedback on it before I had to post it for the match that I was making it for. If people have good ideas for me, I might do a version 2 of this thing.
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NZIOYB9Q[/hide]
Sabaody Rumble - "Ready Steady Go" by Paul Oakenfold
[hide]My first non-character based AMV. Also my first techno AMV. It's basically just my take on the craziness of the Sabaondy arc once the fighting starts. I put a decent amount of time into this one, and I'm happy with the final product.
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2010 Character Tournament Trailer
[hide]Made this summary of the 2009 character tournament to launch the 2010 one. I still enjoy it.
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Buggy-sama - "Opening Act" by Ugly Ducklings
[hide]My only AMV of 2011. I hope you guys like it.
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The stuff that isn't on youtube right now:
[hide]Dr. Hiluluk - "Won't Back Down" by Tom Petty
[hide]I was finally starting to feel comfortable with Sony Vegas Platinum when I made this AMV. This was my first attempt at a more emotional AMV. I found the AMV to be very very easy to create, and as a result I didn't advertise it very much. Now that I go back and watch it, I se no reason why I shouldn't have.
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=00QRF9OC[/hide]
Carue - "Beer" by Reel Big Fish
[hide]This was my first attempt at a humor AMV. I think it's pretty amusing still, so I'm fairly happy with it. Credits for giving me the music idea to go with Reel Big Fish goes to robbybevard. I don't have much else to say about this AMV. It's different from any other AMV that I've done and I love it.
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HVHGS5QE[/hide]
Chopper vs Zoro - "Menouthis" by E.S. Posthumus
[hide]A totally different kind of AMV. This was originally supposed to be the story for the Zoro vs Chopper match. I had it all planned out, and I was going to chop up the music to include dialogue in between to make an actual story. In the end I discovered that it's nearly impossible to find good One Piece dialogue (since I wanted it to be accurate) without annoying background music that made the entire thing sound like complete shit. I ended up deleting all my work and starting over after about 6 hours and came up with this to use as the VS image instead. Even though it's not at all what I originally wanted to do, it still came out to be pretty cool.
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XTQE4F50[/hide]
Don Krieg - "Blow Me Away" by Breaking Benjamin
[hide]The first of my two AMV's at once campaign. I thought it would be fun to release an AMV for both Don Krieg and Enel when they were matched against each other. The music isn't great, but it fits Don Krieg perfectly. I really loved some of the timing I was able to create with this video. I'm especially proud of the explosions at the end. The funny thing is that in the bridge it looks like I reused animation, but I didn't. I only discovered after I published the video that the animators reused that animation. (shake fist) But it's not a big deal and it's certainly not worth releasing a version 2 over.
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EZJ9LKOR[/hide]
Smoker - "Smoke" by Mr Ed Jumps the Gun
[hide]This is my newest AMV, which is about Smoker. When I found this song I just knew I had to use it. This will be my last original AMV made with Vegas Platinum (future remakes will still use it to make my life easier). This might be the fastest AMV I ever make. I really like how it turned out in the end, so I hope you guys do too. Thanks to Sai-chan, eerie, Blue-san, and robbybevard for their critiques.
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SSXIAZS6[/hide]
Brook vs Smoker - "Manus Dei" by James Dooley
[hide]I made this for the tournament. Politics happened. It's probably my last trailer style AMV for the tournament.
Megupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=21M6XBL7[/hide]
Sanji - "Goldeneye" by Tina Turner
[hide]I really wanted an extra day to work on this and perfect it. It's not totally polished (I might go back and do that some day, who knows). I didn't get a chance to get hardly any critiques at all. Sai-chan was nice enough to give me a quick one with virtually no warning, which was helpful and she gave me some ideas. Anyway, it's still pretty cool even without the usual revision process. Here's my Sanji AMV (I will revise this more before I put it up on Megaupload).[/hide]
Nico Robin - "Manhattan Project" by Rush
[hide]I've been planning this one for a long time and I stuck it into a competition since I was recently asked to provide an AMV for one. Thanks to eerie and Sai-chan for their critiques. I'm really proud of this one. I hope other people like it as much as I do.
Also, I had to include an intro and ending credits this time around so that youtube didn't mute me. The Megaupload file doesn't have them.
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P4BEPGU4[/hide]
Roronoa Zoro - "Rising" by the Yoshida Brothers
[hide]This is my first pure fighting AMV, and it's about Zoro. I don't have much else to say. I had plans to spice it up a bit more but I ran out of time. Thanks to Sai-chan for giving me a spur of the moment critique a couple hours before the match.
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4U2HF5KU[/hide]
Luffy vs Zoro - "Sanctus" by James Dooley.
[hide]This is the AMV I threw together for the final match of the character tournament. It isn't perfect, but it was kind of a rush job. It's certainly not bad, though.
東映アニメーション (Toei Animation) has filed a copyright violation against this video and it was subsequently taken down by youtube.
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S2OSFASN[/hide][/hide]
I'll try to keep this original post up to date with all of my AMV's as I release them. I'll also make new posts in this thread for them. Feel free to make any comments/requests you have for me in this thread. I'm happy to take constructive criticism as well. I won't respond to flames, however, and I would request that others follow suit. I also wont respond to all of the compliments because I feel like I'm spamming when I do that. But know in advance that I've read it and I appreciate it.
I'm not making AMV's much anymore since I've had so much difficulty with copyright infringement issues. I'll still make some once in a great while and add them, though.
That could actually be kinda fun. If you can find me an mp3 of that song I can throw something together when I have time. I wanted to do something dedicated to the animals anyway.
