Thursday, March 17, 2011

Anime/Manga Video

    This is an amazing instrumental Anime/Manga Music Video, the music and video have been synced, sort of like a music visualizer (really sweet) and the visuals are simple amazing. This AMV made me very interested in what the series is about, with all the different magical creatures and what not. The creator of the video did a great job of selecting scenes from the Manga and the Anime, bringing together a really awesome experience. Still a fan of manga so MMVs always grab my attention.
  • Author: SilentMan [ SilentMan ] 
  • Studio: Studio 44
  • Video: Natsume Yuujinchou
  • Audio: Coldplay - Life in Technicolor


Synopsis

Natsume's just an ordinary kid, except he can see spirits, just like his grandma Reiko could. Reiko, though, used to bully the spirits, and bound them to her will in the "Book of Friends". Now that Natsume has inherited this book, a never-ending stream of spirits is coming after him. With the help of a spirit "cat" (who really just wants Natsume to die so he can have the book), Natsume spends his days dissolving the contracts that bind the spirits and trying not to get killed. (Source: MAL)
  

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Music Video Made in Blender

    On the BlenderNation website there was a post from a long time Blender user titled 
"27 inspirational and jaw dropping Blender creations", by the community of course. After watching them, definitely recommended checking them all out, the longest one was under 10 minutes.

    Well 1 of those 27 videos is a music video, it was a good one to. It definitely inspires one to create a music video with Blender. Any who the title for the video is  Kopek-Stop and the artists web page is @ Online Portfolio of Eoin Duffy



   Don't forget Blender is Open Source Software that is free, there are hundreds of different learning resources that are also free and most of them are great quality. BlenderGuru is one example of great free tutorials. Andrew provides the a base file to start with, and the one he finished, plus other things like the textures are available, and when you open the .blend file it has all the textures and everything down to the layout of the program windows and buttons from the last person who saved the file (again all with free software).

Monday, January 10, 2011

Music Visualizer AMV

     Really like this post's AMV, and am inspired to recreate it with with my favourite aspects from visualisers like milkdrop with Blender, GIMP and OpenShot. That would be crazy and probably look really awesome, but wouldn't look like what imr3ssiv has created which is really "impressive" to say the least.

This AMV was created by: impr3ssiv [Untamed Illusions Studio]
Music by: Nalepa - Monday (Glitch Mob Remix)
Multi-Anime: Evangelion 1.11, Evangelion 2.22, Ghost in the Shell 2.0, Innocence: Ghost in the Shell, The Animatrix, Appleseed Ex Machina, Macross Zero, Ergo Proxy, Vexille, Pale Cocoon, Code Geass, Freedom

Disclaimer: This video is purely fan made, and I am not making any profit. It is purely for entertainment purposes and in no way meant to offend. I do not own the clips or the songs used, they belong to their rightful owners/companies. No Copyright Infringement is intended.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

1st Creation!

    With a little help from various tutorials online have finally slapped together an AMV. It's not much, more like a sample of what's to come. Just been playing around with OpenShot and Blender to get comfortable and prepare for a more thoroughly planned out AMV. It's not even a full song, but it was a first go (hello world). The music isn't synced just slapped it over the video for sound.


Note: the 3d animated text near the end of the video was me using blender not the animated titles provided by OpenShot (that are actually using blender through python scripts and allot better). Click the video to goto youtube and watch in HD

    Again OpenShot is a super simple video editor that does some amazing things, Blender on the other hand is a whole other story. Looking at Blender for the 1st time can be scary, but with a little patience ones imagination can be brought to fruition. Can't wait to keep

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

New Year!

    Hello everyone, it's gonna a be a good New Year, and am looking forward to it. Have been busy with many projects. Am glad to be a member of  the OpenShot Video Editor. The project could always use contributors such as translators.

    Another project underway is the development of my video game, yet to be named. It is a simple game that has arcade style gameplay made with the help of Unity 3d game engine.

    Haven't posted a good AMV in along time so am glad to have found a good one based off of Naruto Shippuden. Just about every AMV for Naruto that I've seen was completely lame, scenes chopped up in windows movie maker and laced with Linkin Park. Every one shoould do them selves a favor and check out the power of Free Software (open source).

----Demonstration of Open Source Software


----AMV
Artist: Tweaker
Music: Doom³ Theme
Anime: Naruto

Friday, November 19, 2010

Stupid Couple

    A funny and sweet video. The creator of the AMV said they really enjoyed creating this, and it shows in the quality of the video. The way the scenes all add up to a finale, shows it was well planned, and every great anything, started with a great written plan.    Enjoy.


    Anime: Lovely Complex, be sure to check out the manga too!
    Song: Barber of Seville - Overture, composed by Rossini, and performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Best of You

    In this AMV the creator mixed scenes of the band playing from the real music video into the video with compositing. On Linux it is really easy to do this same effect with a high level of control, only down fall is you got to be able to visualize what you want, it's a good idea to think about this and try to draw it out or write it out on paper.

    So here it is an a nutshell, we open a blank image in Inkscape and use black and white, then open that in say, OpenShot and select which color to make transparent. It is as easy as that, and with the help of key frames that image can be animated across the screen, like a moving window to the background layer of video.

    Song: Best of You
    Artist: Foo Fighters
    Anime: Various

Unchained

    Nothing like an awesome to MMV (manga music video) to mix things up. Superb editing on this video, never having a still image and run...