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Title: Fly Again
Fandom: Yuri On Ice
Song: Phoenix by Kaskade
Contains: N/A
Notes: Premiered at con.txt 2020.

This AMV started life in 2017. I got it partway done, got frustrated with Premiere, figured out how to make Premiere work better, finished most of it, wandered off to do a figure skating video, upgraded Premiere, finished the AMV... then ripped out a good thirty seconds of it. Parts of that simply didn't flow well; other parts made the AMV too Victuuri-focused. While his relationship with Victor is obviously really important to Yuuri's development through the show in allowing his confidence to show through, it's not the only driver of that, and I wanted to focus more on Yuuri's own emotional journey with performance anxiety and blooming into the talent he's always had. One of the things I love about Yuuri is the determination and desire to win that's hidden underneath his stage fright and his low self-esteem.

And then it sat for a while, again, and I came back to poke at it periodically for, like, a year, before I decided that con.txt 2020 was a good excuse to finish picking at it. And now it's done \o/ I hope my next YOI AMV does not take quite so long to make! I am still a little unhappy with the banding in a few scenes in the export, but as far as I can tell that's just a Premiere thing and nobody has a real fix for it.

Taking breaks to work with live-action footage made me realize that there are a lot of things I enjoy about working with anime footage. A few scenes run backwards to make the flow better, while a few others have camera movement added, and a few more have had their timing altered to fit the song more readily by messing with the frames. And there's the one clip where I used the show's recycling in a way that I found pleasing. Inspired by an AMV that did this really well with YOI, which I saw once at Otakon and then never again because it's not been uploaded ;_;

Trivia: there is one animation mistake from the show in this AMV! I discovered it about six hours before the video had to be submitted. I ended up doing my best to disguise it further, though the fact that I probably watched that clip 100 times and never saw it before then might say something about how noticeable it is in the first place. There is also one scene that is flipped if you look at the background (I think there's a few more that I flipped for flow/matching positions where it was not so obvious); I ended up leaving that in because I liked how it flowed so well when flipped and didn't think it was too noticeable.

Hope you enjoy it!

Download: Click here (contains softsubs for song lyrics; currently not an optimized filesize, sorry - I won't have access to my external HD with my source for a few days)
Embed: (contains lyric subtitles)

Title: Count Them Well
Fandom: Yuri on Ice
Pairing/characters: Victor/Yuuri
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: Victor works on his Japanese in Hasetsu and finds a special way to get in listening practice.
Notes: Written for the monthlysupergo 15 minute challenge prompt 'counter'. Recently realized that I'd forgotten to crosspost it anywhere afterward. Apologies for the somewhat gratuitous Japanese. I think the fic should be clear enough, but it centers on 'counting words' like how English has 'heads' of cabbage and 'sheets' of paper. (The mentioned CD series is real.)
( He ought to learn Japanese so he can talk to people )

Title: Picture Picture
Fandom: Yuri on Ice
Pairing/characters: onesided Yuuri/Victor, Yuuri/poster!Victor
Rating: M
Contains: Masturbation
Summary: Yuuri talked with his posters of Victor. Then, at some point, Yuuri's imagination went beyond just talking.
Notes: Written for Maitimiel for Chocolate Box 2017.
( It turned out to be a poster )