Tesla - Heaven Nine Eleven (Various Anime)

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Author: Pwolf

I won't say anything about the choice of effects or scenes. I won't tell you about synchronization. Nor about editing. There is just no point when you have a video like that. I mean, it's so serious that the usual stuff I take into consideration have really no meaning. In fact I get goose bumps while watching the clip. Like on that 11th of September when the news on TV felt so unreal. Or the 11th of March when Madrid trains split open. Just like the London double deckers on the 7th of July. Would you believe it's been 6 years since the first of these events and still not much has changed with both my local perception and the global conclusion of it?

In fact, we can't feel cool at all. It's not getting any better, now is it? And this video is screaming, yes, screaming about it all over. The thrill it delivers is one of those existential ones - you just know, watching this clip, that the World is going to and end if we keep on living like this. However it's also one of those videos that don't just bring you down but also give a bit hope through this pain. At least that's how I feel about this AMV.

The meaningless in this case things, like synchro, soundtrack, scenes, editing etc. are top notch. How could they not be? I mean, this is not just an anime music video - it's a statement, a roar against the human race and how it lives. A call to change the ways of the World. And on this basis I claim - it's epic.

Elvis Presley vs. JXL - A Little Less Conversation (Various Anime)

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Author: Sierra Lorna

Now this is an absolute killer. What would you say about taking a normal music video and replacing each human character with an anime one? Words just cannot describe what the author has achieved. Compare it with the original Elvis vs. JXL music video that you can find here, and be amazed. Be really amazed 'cause you don't see such things often... In fact it's a very old AMV and if you're in the subject you should have seen it already... several times at least ;].

What I especially like in this clip are the 'moments'. Like the Excel Saga double chorus, or the Spike's 'Burce Lee' dance. Gunsmith Cats look sweet too. And of course the general feel or parody yet perfection in the execution. But what would you expect after the author, I mean just listen to this quote.

So, yes, this entire video is edited frame-by-frame. You might even call this a Photoshop project rather than a Premiere project, though I still did quite a bit of editing in Premiere as well. It's entirely made up of .BMP images that were in some way edited in Photoshop. I did it all just to see if I could do it. ;)

I exactly understand the author. I once did a ridiculous vectoring project just to see if it can be done, but this clip is way in a different league. But the effort did pay off, the result is absolutely amazing. 'Pushing the Sky' is what comes to my mind here. Yes, that's a good motivation to create things. Exceed the limits. And I say this clip just did.