Showing posts with label raggedstar amv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raggedstar amv. Show all posts
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Raggedstar - GDW - In The Water - Tribute to Weed and Jerome
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Raggedstar - Balto 2 - Dream of the Sky - Tribute To Aleu
This is a song about Bioshock Infinite (if you couldn't tell from the first word of this segment), but there are no obvious spoilers in this or the video. The only one is pretty vague at best without context. It's also a damn fine game, so I highly recommend it anyways.
Balto 2 up 'till now has been something I just plain never knew how to use (along with Princess Mononoke). So...here you go I guess! Just a quickie video (took me a week to finish) about Aleu's adventure and the raven guiding her. I'll put more detail later.
Song: Dream of the Sky
Artist: Miracle of Sound (ft. Lorna Dollery and Gwen Boyle)
Texture edited from
http://scaret-stock.deviantart.com/art/Texture-Colours-93982648
Friday, April 5, 2013
Raggedstar - SOTC - Oh Death
fit best. Death is a MAJOR theme in this game. Kill 16 creatures to save one woman who was sacrificed, only to be ultimately "killed" yourself. So now I have a video so I can give criticism without someone saying "well let's see you do better".
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Raggedstar - [TCT] [POSSK] Sinning Samaritans
vs Glowintehdarkk and BrianObsessed
[WINNER OF TCT]
Damn this took a long time. We're both EXTREMELY guilt-ridden, but this is what happens when one member is in an animal health program (...and working), the other member is in a family that will do everything in their power to distract her, PLUS having no time limit. I don't even know if anyone (including Balco and our opponents) even remember that we were still trucking, but I wouldn't blame them. It took a stupid long time. If any of you are in Toronto, drop me a line and I'll send you some Kinder Eggs. If it helps, I whipped Possk for weeks. She was in a great amount of pain, but it helped.
Ok, video. This video is a focus on alchemy, particularly human transmutation (a taboo form of alchemy). Despite even the best intentions and purest motives, tragedy can happen. Alchemists are believed to be the closest things to gods there are in the world, but "putting your hand into the fire" will still cause you to get burned. And at the same time, the "power of a god" can be used for evil. A double-edged sword if you will. And even despite all that power, you're still a mere mortal.
There is a crapload of angles Possk and I could discuss, but it would flood the description box. TO TEH BLOG...maybe!
Monday, February 4, 2013
Raggedstar - Ginga - Sovngarde Song
Credit to Miracle of Sound. Link below leads to his Youtube upload of this song and links to where you can buy and listen to Miracle of Sound songs, lyrics, twitter, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BHKLV...
BUY ALL THE THINGS!
Gavin writes songs based on video games and movies. This one is about Skyrim, though they have others about Batman, Half Life, Bastion, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, and many more.
And why yes, I even asked for permission to use this song :3
i77.photobucket.com/albums/j68/Rakuenkiba/gavin_zps725fa722.jpg
So ya, things went surprisingly smooth when editing this. I didn't even make an AMV Files article about it yet 0-0. But regardless, let's see if Nihon Ad Systems tolerates this one. It's been ages since I've seen a mass takedown of GDW footage. If this gets taken down, go to animemusicvideos.org and I'll upload there. This also might be submitted to Anime North for exhibition (since in case of violence I don't want too much to be riding on it). The video I would be sending for competition would be...well...I said it in my Sly 4 LP announcement video. Less violent and more unique.
This video is about the everlasting spirit of the dogs of Ohu, spanning 5 generations (Shiro, Riki, Gin, Weed, Orion), facing demon bears, rival packs, and other dangers to their way of life.
Song: Sovngarde Song
Artist: Miracle of Sound
Footage: Ginga Densetsu Riki (manga), Ginga Nagareboshi Gin (anime/manga), Ginga Densetsu Weed (anime/manga), and Ginga Densetsu Orion (manga). All recolours by Rascal of SilverFangFanhouse except for Gin's who was done by SilverEye of Gingaboard. All manga scans that weren't from Rascal were obtained from Gingaboard's Free Image Gallery.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Raggedstar - Journey - Voice of the Journey
AMV Files Entry
Read the article if you want to know some of the more specific details. I would fill this thing up too fast using the description.
Anyways, this is the story of Journey told from the perspective of the being in white as a call to a journey (the background of that journey...I can't say since the lore of Journey is kinda hazy). That's the TLDR version. I've noticed Journey is a very tough source to work with because it tells it's story through gameplay and environments as opposed to cutscenes. The entire playthrough I recorded was less than 90 minutes. I can guarantee you Final Fantasy 13's cutscenes are more than twice that length. So what I did was instead of recording cutscenes, I recorded EVERYTHING. This allows me to control what I edit with by using different movements, camera angles, etc. It's something really interesting I don't see as often (but when done right, oh man I've seen a really good SOTC video that did that).
Did I mention you should buy this game?
Song: The Voice
Artist: Celtic Woman
Footage: Journey, Journey trailer
Gameplay by Raggedstar
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Raggedstar - [TCT] [POSSK] Chasing Cars
A bit late (well, 3 minutes), but I blame Vegas for taking it's sweet-ass time rendering. 45 minutes for 2 minutes of movie? That's horrible x__x.
Anyways, this was mostly my idea because neither of us had anything that made sense with the footage we had. Had to stick with my backwards random perspective flipping idea lol. The focus here is on the relationships with Kiba and his pack, as well as with Mew (in the brighter clips). Come on, after ep 20, Kiba FINALLY gets his nose out of the flower smell and gives his boys props. Ya, you could say that this video has a little bit of a "bros before hoes" thing going on, especially if said "hoe" is a weird Caracal lady we don't really learn much about 0-0 (well, I guess it adds to her mystique). Possk did most of the pack clips while I did the garden parts.
I did 30 seconds of AMV in 1 hour *super proud of self*. Also, I was a complete nut with editing the music. There must've been 4-5 cuts in the song to get it the way I wanted lol. Also WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME YOU CAN ECHO IN VEGAS?
Texture credit to Salvatore Vuono
Raggedstar - [TCT] [POSSK] Tear Away
Like with last round, this is mainly Possk's idea. It started out as just Charlie video, but seeing as the movie doesn't have a lot of scenes that do justice to his initial "out for #1 attitude", we brought in Carface too. Plus, Carface needs love too *nods*. Even though the song is about a different/better kind of selfishness (it's not a crime to look out for yourself sometimes), we fudged it to be about Charlie and Carface's greed and how it affected other characters (Carface basically tried to screw everyone over, but I focused more on Charlie than Itchy, Killer, and Anne Marie). It was the closest thing we had to a focus other than my idea of a lulzy Georgette video lol.
Most clips of Charlie are done by Possk, and Carface was with me. Naturally we switched it up a little bit.
The song is very strange to edit with. I can't say either of us were fans of it, but we just kept on truckin'. We couldn't find a nice long string of parts we could do, so I had to do a bit of jumpy editing. 3 cuts, plus it didn't start from the beginning. I hate editing like that, but meh. What we DO like was the line "God damn I love me", since it basically summed up everything, so we had to include that. Charlie's expression says "Fuck yes I'm hot stuff" (...and he is *cough*).
Raggedstar - [TCT] [POSSK] Jacob's Dream
Theme: Desire
A few minutes late, but I doubt Balco would mind. Of course after all the panic, it seems like Splitty and Fire are getting a few more days and Possk and I were scared for finishing tonight to the point where I did the last second for her lol.
This was mostly Possk's idea. We focused on the Elric Brothers' desire to become whole again (and in turn, desire for the Philosopher Stone), mostly with Ed because it was his misjudging that caused them to turn out this way. Human transmutation is what got them there (for those that don't know, the "recipe" in the beginning is what makes an adult human), and they had to search and study for years for what is missing. That also meant looking for the infamous Philosopher Stone, an object with immense power that they hope to use to replace Al's body and Ed's arm and leg. That didn't make much sense, did it? Bah, just watch the video and you'll most likely get it. It's midnight, I've been editing for hours, and I'm stuffed with mashed potatoes.
AL, GET OUT OF THE WAY! YOU'RE IN FRONT OF ANOTHER SEX-ED THUMBNAIL!
Song: Jacob's Dream
Artist: Day Of Fire
Raggedstar - [TCT] [POSSK] Fight Inside
Well, Possk and I are rather unsure how far we'll get, but here it is. This is our first (and possibly only) video for BalcoZero's collab tourney. Just our luck we get paired up with them *still hiding under table with Possk*
This is an ultimate video of AAAAAAAAAANGST! Basically, we took several characters suffering from inner conflicts, like Lucy and her instinct to kill whispering in her ear, Matt being pushed to fight with Tai (note the crest of friendship flickering red), and Greed battling with Ling's humanity (literally a fight inside lol). Not much to say except Vegas decided to make my fades extremely sharp and my flashes are dimmed. Plus, the fact that (like in I Walk Alone), I had to rely on "instinct" and edit with a preview window that didn't work most of the time.
Raggedstar - RockDawg::Lycos Fang Preview -V3-
This is a revisit to an idea I had waaaaay back when I only edited using 4 sources. It was meant to be a bit of a commercial/trailer/preview to my studio and showing every bit of footage I have. Each footage source had it's own little section and it became very balanced. I revisted it once in 2008 (just before I merged with RockDawg), but the format was more like a general AMV and not something really special. I was planning to revisit the idea again (using a similar format as before) using Nara, but that just...didn't happen. This song I could manipulate more anyways.
Oh boy, I'm tempted to make a rambling video to describe every angle and thought I put into this video. Really, so much thought and organization was put into this video, and I'm quite proud how it turned out. I don't sleep much by the way.
A bulk of this video wouldn't have been created without reading the song's creator's blog (http://blog.christophertin.com/2008/0...). He described the song being broken up into the seasons, and the lyrics and singers reflected the said season. What I did was break up my footage sources into seasons, give each season a colour and a texture. Changes in attitude and pattern indicate a transition between seasons (like yellow and red means summer to fall). I also made my own personal spin and including the gypsy singers, drummers, and dancers to build up from the end of spring to "The Dance Of The Seasons" as well as other things done with my own personal interpretation of this beautiful song. This is the way I organized things.
Spring:
0:00-0:54
Green
Flowers
Summer:
0:54-1:25
Yellow
Dry grass
Fall:
1:25-2:16
Red
Leaves
Dance Of The Seasons:
2:16-2:40
Represents falling of leaves (ie the smaller clips) and last celebrations before the dead of winter.
Winter:
2:40-3:22
Blue
Ice
Conclusion:
3:22-3:54
Showing of every clip. The show movies are piled onto the regular show.
Return To Spring:
3:54-4:24
Green
Using the first footage source from every season and then ending back at spring.
All textures used in this video I created by taking various pictures of nature.
I don't make sub videos, but thanks for watching, commenting, and just enjoying my videos. I don't reply to every comment, but I try to read them all and give a silent thanks. You can almost consider this as a typical "Thank you" from the Raggs to you.
I think I need a nap.
Raggedstar - FFS3 BETA: Welcome Home
(oh just shoot me now...)
Theme: 'TALLICAAAAAAAAAAA
Well, what sort of witchcraft is this new footage? As those who have seen the collections video, recently I got The Plague Dogs on DVD. It was originally set to make it's debut in the completed Madokara Mieru (being in the "winter" segment), but that's not finished yet. Well, it gets it's debut in an exclusive beta.
This is a very experimental video. It's my first where just about every clip has a filter, I used text and voices more than I ususally do, stuff like that. Plus, the combination was perhaps among the most challenging I've ever used (TPD, a movie that is pretty much dead and depressing the entire way through, being done with a pre-Black-Album song).
Ok, I went through a lot of thought with this video so read it well. This song is most likely about something along the lines of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". A Sanitarium is a hospital for chronic conditions, such as mental illnesses. Snitter and Rowf may not be insane, but their situation I found had certian parallels to the book and song. For one thing, it's a bitch to real life (as well as to my psychology course. Fuck, how do people honestly support the bullshit that is the mental health field?). I don't wear any rose-coloured glasses, and these all point to the same conclusion. Rejection, death, alienation for no fucking good reason, backstabbing, having it be a crime to be yourself (whether you're an animal or just a little bit weird) and being "fixed" until there is nothing "you" left (which leads to bad things, namely supression and rage), GAH! Ya, it's a little hard to explain, but my mind is weird. I know many therapists and councellors want to lock me up for it :3.
To explain farther, the filter was used for good reason. Hospitals are places that are very clean (trust me, I've seen the cleaning schedules for even in my college's clinic), but it's just to hide the dirt on it's soul (*coughbrownfilter*). The Sanatarium in the video represents two parties: the research facility and the identical brutal nature of reality (the Todd, which represents that dark, emotionless, kill-or-be-killed attitude). Snitter and Rowf escape the facility, but they're met with a crueler reality. Their only means of refuge is an island Snitter sees, though they never reach it.
Raggedstar - FFS3 BETA: I'm Not Jesus
Theme: Apocalyptica's "Worlds Collide" album
I'll admit that this album is amazing, but it was so hard to find a song I was confident with. TenrouFang can say all she wants on how she's screwed in this match-up, but she has the ability to pull off some good stuff (you better be reading this, girl lol). I needed something good, which was hard to do with this album (none of the lyrical songs fit anything I had), so I had to fudge it a little with my favourite of the lot (which happens to be among the hardest).
Takato, my good goggle-headed friend, you do rage very well. This video basically focuses on episodes 34-36, my favourite Digimon battle ever. Takato (the quietest and least confident of all the goggle-heads) loses his mind at Beelze(bu)mon's betrayl, wanting him dead and has no forgiveness. His anger sends Guilmon into a frenzy, and lashes out as Megidramon. I know he does become sorry (for Guilmon) at that point, but even as Dukemon/Gallantmon he's still out for revenge until Juri/Julie stops him.
Song: I'm Not Jesus
Artist: Apocalyptica (ft Corey Taylor)
Raggedstar - Animash - Evil is Hot
(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
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
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
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)
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
Raggedstar - FFS2 BETA: Master Of Puppets
(NOTE: This round has the partners working on the same artist, but can be different songs. Of course I had to have one of the hardest bands to AMV to)
TLK on Raggedstar's channel? HOLY JEEBUS, BATMAN!!! Well, don't expect another. This was just a special idea I had in my head.
IRONYYYYYYYYYYY! Wyrewolf made me a birthday video with Scar in it (no Zira), and I'm facing her (...again) in this tourney with a Scar (...and Zira) AMV. Not only is Scar a womanizer, but he's the frickin' MASTER OF PUPPETS YO!
Damn I really hate this video. It's just so busy and sloppy and...ew. Note to anyone planning to use this song in an AMV: Don't, especially if you're in college. 9 AM to 5 PM is harsh. The concept is great, but I had to sacrifice a lot of tempo/mood matching (especially at the beginning) which is part of what killed it (shame, since I love this song).
The concept is quite simple. Scar and Zira are manipulators that are...er...off their rockers (to quote the Muppets, Zira is "whole grain and nuts") and their quests for power in grisly ways. The song I believe is about drug addiction, but I had to cut that out since I couldn't match it lol. I could see Zira "chopping her breakfast on a mirror" though LOL *shot*.
PS: I'll shoot anyone who tells me to "finish" this. For anyone that doesn't know, this song is about 8 minutes long. Just doing 1 minute was hard enough. Hell, most of this video was made last night (stayed up 'till 2 AM)
Raggedstar - FFS BETA: Hollow
My first AMV of mine containing Digimon Frontier (season 4), and focuses on the two brothers Koji (long hair) and Koichi (short hair). For education purposes, the kids in this season transform into Digimon rather than having partners (the white wolf is Koji and the giant bird is Koichi's evil evolution. KendoGarurumon and Velgamon = badass). Koji is the warrior of light, Koichi the warrior of darkness.
Let's get things straight. I don't like Frontier as a season. I'll admit there are a lot of delicious parts though (very dark like Tamers, quite sad at parts). However, I ADORE Koji and Kouichi in their hotness (WOLF'S RAIN REF PEOPLE! Koichi and all of his evolutions are played by Crispin Freeman, the voice of Tsume. That makes him even more hot) as well as their relationship. Koji I now have determined to be the character most like me. We tend to have the same outlook, particularly on how we find avoiding emotional attachments to prevent being hurt later to be realistic.
Now, I had no idea what to do with this song. This first started as a Takato AMV, then a Balto one, and now I went and downloaded most of Frontier so I could make this AMV. Both brothers are incomplete (hollow) in a way. Koji keeps emotional distance from everyone, and Koichi longs to meet his long-lost brother. When they both meet, they learn they can never part (light and darkness rely on each other).
Perhaps my most painful AMV to pre-render. I don't know why x_x. As you can see, my video quality at some parts are really bad. Sorry. And sorry for trying some new techniques. Just found out how to "pulse" and do the funky rectangle thing.
Unlike the others, I MIGHT complete this ugly monstrosity. I still have a few ideas to continue.
Song: Hollow
Artist: Submsersed
If anyone hasn't figured this out yet, all AMVs are done for fan and self-educational purposes.
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