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melodytreeTitle: Sugar Feathers
Fandom: Genesis of Aquarion
Pairing/characters: Touma/Apollo(nius)
Contains: Brief shots of blood and religious imagery
Notes: Premiered at Con.txt 2016. Longer notes after embed.
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I loved my experience at Con.txt 2014, but one thing I wanted at Con.txt 2016 was more representation from non-Western Live-Action fandoms. And that did happen, in panels I went to, in discussion I had with other fans, and in the Vid Show, but before the con, I wanted to be able to contribute something to help make that happen. I also was pretty into Genesis of Aquarion, having watched it relatively recently, and kind of wanted to try making an AMV again (I hadn't in years). Thus, this project happened, after a lot of searching to figure out what song would work for a pairing for this series. Another goal I had was trying to make this comprehensible for someone who hadn't seen the series - I'd be surprised if anyone else in the room ever had. I was very nervous at the screening, especially as it was shown right after a humor vid featuring more well-known fandoms, but I was later told that it works great as a recruiter vid! (And I was glad to see more variety in this vids this year, and really enjoyed the show.)
Although I found that the AMV came together quickly and was a lot of fun to work on, there were a couple of challenges. The main one is that Touma (white-haired angel guy) is from a species that primarily speaks telepathically and doesn't walk, and there are a lot of shots where he doesn't or barely moves. Great for their animation budget, I'm sure. The series is also a giant robot series; if you didn't get that from the AMV, well, I avoided using most shots of them in the giant robots, which was a decent portion of most episodes. Those were often full of mouth-flaps, anyway. Also, I was using a demo copy of the software (Trakax), and the company apparently folded like a week after I downloaded it. Thankfully, I had plenty of time to finish/export it.
While I can still see a couple of rough edges, overall I'm pretty proud of it, how some of the shots flow together, all the feather and pretty magic motifs I managed to fit in, the ending I gave them with the magic of editing. I'll stop here unless someone actually wants to hear more detail.
Fandom: Genesis of Aquarion
Pairing/characters: Touma/Apollo(nius)
Contains: Brief shots of blood and religious imagery
Notes: Premiered at Con.txt 2016. Longer notes after embed.
Download link: coming soon.
Embed:
I loved my experience at Con.txt 2014, but one thing I wanted at Con.txt 2016 was more representation from non-Western Live-Action fandoms. And that did happen, in panels I went to, in discussion I had with other fans, and in the Vid Show, but before the con, I wanted to be able to contribute something to help make that happen. I also was pretty into Genesis of Aquarion, having watched it relatively recently, and kind of wanted to try making an AMV again (I hadn't in years). Thus, this project happened, after a lot of searching to figure out what song would work for a pairing for this series. Another goal I had was trying to make this comprehensible for someone who hadn't seen the series - I'd be surprised if anyone else in the room ever had. I was very nervous at the screening, especially as it was shown right after a humor vid featuring more well-known fandoms, but I was later told that it works great as a recruiter vid! (And I was glad to see more variety in this vids this year, and really enjoyed the show.)
Although I found that the AMV came together quickly and was a lot of fun to work on, there were a couple of challenges. The main one is that Touma (white-haired angel guy) is from a species that primarily speaks telepathically and doesn't walk, and there are a lot of shots where he doesn't or barely moves. Great for their animation budget, I'm sure. The series is also a giant robot series; if you didn't get that from the AMV, well, I avoided using most shots of them in the giant robots, which was a decent portion of most episodes. Those were often full of mouth-flaps, anyway. Also, I was using a demo copy of the software (Trakax), and the company apparently folded like a week after I downloaded it. Thankfully, I had plenty of time to finish/export it.
While I can still see a couple of rough edges, overall I'm pretty proud of it, how some of the shots flow together, all the feather and pretty magic motifs I managed to fit in, the ending I gave them with the magic of editing. I'll stop here unless someone actually wants to hear more detail.
