Raggedstar - Animash - Evil is Hot

Don't tell me that it's not, 'cause evil is hot :3
(ugh, Warner, you don't own Time Life anymore. Why are you giving me alerts?)

I AM ASHAMED AT ALL AMV MAKERS! HOW THE BLOODY HELL AM I THE FIRST TO USE THIS AMAZING SONG!? Seriously, it has "AMV" written all over it. Editing isn't good or fancy, but the concept is amazing.

I actually saw this musical last November. It's called "The Toxic Avenger" (based on the B-movie of the same name), and it's a rock musical that was playing in Toronto and New York. It was hilarious, and this was my favourite song. I mean come on, isn't that song so true?

I don't do alternate plots, but this video essentially has the roles of the mayor and the scientist being played by Zira and Scar (with the choruses breaking for showing some of my favourite examples of hot villains. Don't worry, I added some females too). There's too many to show, and I had to even cut out the ones in video games (such as Dark Jak, Evil Rao, and infested Sarah Kerrigan). Kinda obvious, but Zira is seducing Scar for information, like how the mayor did in the play.

NOW, there is quite a bit of timing issues. Why? Because when I was fitting in my opening/ending/note, the keyframes and layers decided to shift. I fixed most of it, but when you're dealing with 9 layers, it's really hard.

Song: Evil is Hot
Artist: The Toxic Avenger Musical

Thanks to Possk and Shado for helping me with FMAB and FF clips!

PS: That's actually my college lol.

Raggedstar - FFS3 BETA: Madokara Mieru

It's FFS contest time again: The only time you could count on me to have a reliable output of AMVs lol.

My pairing was to use a song from Corner Stone Cues. Blackfang didn't know this, but Corner Stone Cues is actually a music library for licensing, not a band lol. Oh well, whatever. CSC covered this song from an artist called Christopher Tin, who also wrote a translation for the song and some other background information on his blog (that I took into account when making this video http://blog.christophertin.com/2008/0... ).

Now, I usually say that FFS betas will NOT be completed, but this is among the exceptions. I WILL FINISH THIS (ya, just like Hollow and Van Nuys *cough*). With any luck, this will be my V3 LFS Preview.

This song uses a series of Japanese haiku poems, each representing different seasons and stages of life. Truly beautiful work. I used that to create this AMV. All 18 of the works I use will be used (though Vegas doesn't like that) and they are all associated with one season. There is also a colour and texture (that I made myself ^^. I'll let people download them if they want) to correspond with each season. To add on, I tried to make summer and autumn festive with the claps and drums (as well as a dancer, which isn't seen yet).
Spring = green filter, sparkly moss texture
Summer = gold filter, grass texture
Autumn = red filter, leaf texture (not seen)
Winter = dark blue/purple filter, water/ice texture

Song: Madokara Mieru
Artist: Corner Stone Cues (Christopher Tin cover)

Raggedstar - Felidae - Master's Voice

EDIT: ...wow...these are the shittiest thumbnails ever. First is of my opening, second doesn't do the video justice, and the third is of my ending. WEAK!

For my little pet/friend ShadowSmiffDemon (aka the superior AMV maker of awesometacular epicsauce).

FOR FENRIS' SAKE, IT'S DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE! None of us needs a lesson in how slow I am at editing (also how sometimes editing programs, no matter what they are, seem to like to mess around with your sanity and decide not to work), but this was started in July 2009 and finished...this morning. It has also been less than a month short of me uploading a FULL AMV in a year. Woo, I suck.

Speaking about sucking, even though there are some really good parts, some parts just look so disgusting and messy. Perhaps it was due to the method of editing (ie. jumping to different areas), since I never had a smooth beginning-to-end look at the video. Actually, a lot after the beginning of the second chorus (that I did yesterday by the way) was edited before the last ending point of the beta. You can even see differences in style even in between lines. And thanks to Dame (I think it was you) for giving me advice on how to clean up that chalk area. And thanks again to those who gave me crits when the beta was uploaded.

Right, some minor things were changed in the beta (timing, making the black/white thing clearer, changing the purple/yellow filter to a matching orange/yellow), though the story hasn't. It's focused on Pascal and Francis' friendship. After Francis gets involved with the murder cases, Pascal treats him almost like a son. During this time, Francis is attracted to Pascal's intellect, and begins to trust him deeply (though not aware of Pascal's true intentions of having him finish his work, almost keeping and molding him for himself). As Francis discovers the cruel truth by solving the clues involving the exotic cats, Mendel, Claudandus sect, the cruel doctor, and Felidae, he fights back to protect the world from him.

Song: Pet
Artist: A Perfect Circle

Raggedstar - Digimon Frontier - Van Nuys

SEE? I SAID I WOULD FINISH IT! AND I DID! HOLY FUCK IS THIS AN OLDIE. Ok, so The Dark Passion Play and Hollow are older, but one I hit a brick wall and the other needs to hit a brick wall and be rubbed against it until it can be sold as a discount pizza topping.

Anyways, this video was my entry for FFS2's finals against Possk (and it ended up losing unlike said pizza-destined beta) but it was still worth the work to upload. Even though it sat around for so long, Van Nuys in total had about 2 months of work. I wanted to make it pretty simply edited. There were some pockets with more editing, but it was mostly to keep up with the song (particularly near the ending repeat of the chorus).

And since I can't be damned (after 5 renders) to post another explanation of this video, here is what I said on the beta. Following it is my brain-dump entry on the Cache. It'll save a lot of space on the description.

"Ok, the idea isn't the easiest to get, so lemme spell it out. The song is about Van Nuys, California. From what I've heard, it's not the nicest place out there (don't hurt me). Now, although Tamers had the darkest Digital World, it was also the season that spent the LEAST time there (15 eps?). Digimon Frontier isn't the darkest, but it does kind of have that deepist pits of despair in the plot (come on, love or hate the season, that bit with Mercurymon vs Takuya was hardcore. I HAD to open with it). The kids in this season are trapped in the Digital World, and they're at the mercy of the potentially vicious nature of the world."
http://tehcache.blogspot.com/2011/07/amv-files-van-nuys.html

Song: Van Nuys
Artist: Sixx AM
Footage: Digimon Frontier, Revival Of The Ancient Digimon

Raggedstar - FFS2 BETA: Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)

Wow, I'm actually the FIRST to upload in this round?

vs Firefang086 (WON by default)

WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO DO THE DRUG SONGS? x___x
Ugh, you know, as the contest goes on, I start to like my second "So Far Away" video more and more. It's sickening.

This song is good, but what's so hard was finding out what went with it. This is most likely about Ritalin (sp?), soooooo...I couldn't figure out what to do with it. That took me AGES. I decided to do it to Elfen Lied as a video focusing on Lucy's misery caused by Kurama, and how she makes an already sad and lonely man even more broken (ie killing his assistant, Kisaragi, and ripping his "daughter", Nana, literally limb-from-limb). Once Kurama captures Lucy (and accidentally orders troops to kill her human friend), she swears to make him feel how she does (guided by her Diclonius killer instinct).

"Hey, I thought your eps were in English"
They are. The audio clip was from the OVA (ep 11.5), which was never dubbed.

Seeing as I was just about clueless on how to organize, not sure how much more I can discuss this video. Very challenging. This is the semi-finals for the contest, so if I make it through, it'll just be by a squeak.

Song: Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)
Artist: Chevelle