VicBond007 16 Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 (edited) AMV CONTEST WINNERS 1st Place: Trailer - snapxynith - Fanservicables 2 2nd Place: Trailer - kireblue - Another Destination 1st Place: Dramatic/Serious - RAWdangers - The Ballad of a Dog 2nd Place: Dramatic/Serious - Shin -Magic Eye 1st Place: Action - BecauseImBored1 - Teenagerrrs!! 2nd Place: Action - irriadin - Put Ya Guns On! 1st Place: Romance/Sentimental - EimiJ7 - Matchmaker 2nd Place: Romance/Sentimental - Nipahcha - Come Home 1st Place: Upbeat/Dance - Pacotacoshell - The Sunlit March 2nd Place: Upbeat/Dance - Jump Cut Productions - Shut Up and Ride 1st Place: Comedy - l33tmeatwad - Mother's Day Special 2nd Place: Comedy - Parodic Productions - Squid Girl is Metal Vic's Pick - Eternal Voice Studios - Starcraft Best Overflow - Brakus Media - Yer Guns, Put Them On New Iron Editor Champion - Shin Best in Show - VivifxAMV - Ponynote (Submitted under the name "When Fandoms Collide...") -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule Friday 10:00am - 1:00pm :: VIDEO 1 :: AMV Overflow Friday 7:00pm - 9:30pm :: VIDEO 1 :: AMV Contest (This screening has 1 hour for seating from 6:00-7:00. There will be a room clear prior to seating. From 9:30-10:00 there is seating for Fan Parodies, but there is not a room clear.) Saturday 9:00am - noon :: VIDEO 1 :: AMV Overflow part deux (we'll show EVERYTHING that wasn't shown at the first overflow, plus the troll videos again since we "only" have 5:40 worth of overflow content.) Saturday 3:00pm - 5:30pm :: VIDEO 1 :: AMV Contest (This screening has 1 hour for seating from 2:00-3:00. There will be a room clear prior to seating. From 5:30-6:00 there is seating for Battle Royale and since they will be checking 18+ wristbands, this will also entail a room clear.) Saturday 6:30pm - 9:30pm :: PANEL 1 :: Iron Editor/AMV Contest Award Ceremony Sunday 9:00am - 11:30am :: VIDEO 1 :: AMV Contest Encore Presentation (As this is a no-voting screening, there will not be a room clear/seating block before or afterwards) Overflow Info "Overflow" is where we show all of the entries that were not outright disqualified, but also did not make the final cut. We intend to show everyone's video once, and we have enough time this year to do so (thanks Jim!). Right now the playlist is set up in alphabetical order by studio name, but BY ALL MEANS if you have an entry in Overflow, pay a visit to the man behind the curtain and we'll bump your video to the top of the playlist. L33t-Seat Badge Info If you submitted a video to the contest and DID NOT get disqualified, then you and 2 friends are eligible for special supplementary badges. These badges are NOT replacements for paid Otakon membership badges. These badges allow you to sit in the really good reserved rows, and allow you to skip the line and walk right into the theater. We do ask that you show up AT LEAST 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE CONTEST STARTS or else we will give away any unclaimed "special" seats. They are only good for the Friday and Saturday AMV Contest screening as these are the only two AMV events that have a line (and they work for both days if you want to come twice!). If your video was categorized as a "troll" then that is still not disqualified, and you are still eligible for badges. To pick up your badges, the creator themselves must visit room 312 in the BCC at one of thes scheduled times: Friday 2:00pm - 5:00pm Friday 9:30pm - 11:30pm Saturday noon - 1:30pm I will also try to have them on-hand during the overflow screenings. AMV Contest Finalists Asylum Studios - One Wish BecauseImBored1 - Teenagerrrs!! Brad DeMoss - Men Cousin of Sparda - Seeing Red diegao94 - Erien Dragon/Roy - A Kiss Goodnight Dragontamer5788 - Angelic Tribute EimiJ7 - Matchmaker Eternal Voice Studios - Starcraft Galia & Kitty - In Terminis irriadin - Put Ya Guns On! JudgeHolden - Haters Gonna Hate Jump Cut Productions - Shut Up and Ride Kiarrens - King of Knights kireblue - Another Destination KushiiSmiles - Living Legends l33tmeatwad - Mother's Day Special Magicflier - Turning the Tables milkmandan - Save the World Nicole Parker - PonPon Nipahcha - Come Home One-Winged Angel Productions - Search & Destroy Pacotacoshell - The Sunlit March Parodic Productions - Squid Girl Is Metal Pockying - Never Love Again RAWdangers - The Ballad of a Dog Rendakor - Ladyboy Chainsaw Screaming Insomniac - Chosen Shin - Magic Eye snapxynith - Fanservicables 2 StarTrinity009 - Eden Me Baby Tsunami Pictures - The Contractor VivifxAMV - When Fandoms Collide Warlike Swans - Tollkirsche Whispers Reloaded - Spell Dwellers xDreww - Caged zibbazabba905 - kyubeystwood Troll List drewaconclusion - She Loves That Rock and Roll DriftRoot - The Kingdom of L.F.S. Random Destination Studios - Naruto Ball Z Shippuden - Heroes Come Back RiderG - Bending Inferno Two Frame Studios - Gurren Feeling Non-Finalists [key]Scarlet - Renegade (still running) Achiita - Off the Edge AimoAio - Tales Alexmichur00 - Best of Friends Ankar - Enemy Advantage! Armed and Out of Medication Productions - Furinkan Stalker Arschel Morell - Haruhi Suzumiya - The Streets of Philadelphia AuN Studios - Can't Be Tamed Axelstar - Dai-Gurren Basterds BasharOfTheAges (Shin-Ei Gumi) - Madness Quota Bebop0083 - Pray for a Sign Brakus Media - Yer Guns, Put Them On Brian Evans - ENKA.M.V. Cemocan - The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die (Evangelion AMV) CityLightSummerNights - Cheers to This Cloudsofsand - Somebody I Used to Know Comet Princess Productions - Everything Motoko's Not Cory Lynn Sutton - Soul-Fusion [ Shaman King Amv ] Counterinsurgency - The Bird and the Worm Daitenism - A Beauty that Never Fades Dan Seiter - Steins;Gate - Shot in the Dark Daniel Carlin-Weber - Reaching My Threshold Daramue - Say Goodbye to the Light Dean Seirafi - I Want It That Way DiscoVader Productions - A Long Road to the Redline Distance - Rainfall Dr. Phanthasy - Loved at Last Dragonofblu - The End Dreamscope Studios - Thoughts of Life drewaconclusion - She Loves That Rock and Roll eh-designs ( - Erik Heckert - ) - Lelouch Holmes - The Zero Requiem Eternal Voice Studios - How Harima (Somehow) Stole Christmas Eyes of Tomorrow - Let It Go GuntherAMVs - The New Avengers Hikaru2322 - Sayaka's Fall Imagine - Tenshi Has Been Modified imp4ever - The Girl with the Mystic Eyes JanAnimE Productions - Rebirth of a Dream Jiba Dojo - Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body Josh Lord - Bridge to the Sky KT - The Nature of Homura KyuuYuKi - Reunite Without Fail LiloScaries - Alive Tonight LucarioRose24 - Louder Than Ever Luminaire - Starships Were Meant to Pierce the Heavens Lussuriioso - The Good Guys! Mike Hudak - Too Strong to Lose Miracle Falcon - My Own Personal AMV Hell moonbunnychan - To Be Human Mr. Fergus - Grave of Little Talks MycathatesyouAMV - DeezNutz nihilant01 - Domine PhoenixKAP - ROAR ROAR ROAR PinkHearter13 - A Girl Like You Project Air - Premonition RADX888 - Guilty Dreams ReggieSmalls - Put It On Reversed Studios (Chiikaboom) - Strut robodevil - Lightning Strikes Roien Productions - High School of the Dead, This Is My Love Ryan L Hess - Love Daikon SatoshiSakura - Wish SeyonoReyone - Blame It on the Anime Shonen Jidai - Girl Meets Alchemy Slaughterism - Whatever It Takes SoSori - Only Seventeen Spadio Studio - That Same Small Town SSGWNBTD - A Cast of Hawks Studio Hybrid - Under the Radar SuperJujuAwesome - Forget Daioh Syliyn - Bro Eater Symphonia252 - Going Insane Tahno's Private Lessons - Who We Are Terri Leigh - Afterlife Truffle Pig Studios - Riot!! Tsukiryu - Darkrai's Crumbling World Under The Box Productions (Davis 51) - Batou: A User's Manual Under The Box Productions (Krigen) - Lost Samurai wildfireforums.com - Just in Time WizardOfCeles - Perfect Submarine yuki916 - Lock On Gundam Yuna101 - Yuna's Breath of Life Zaiyei - Little Perfection Zandersen - The Flower We Saw Round Here Zanzaben - Gaston Zatanna - The Good Life Disqualified List DMRA - American Psycho Magical*Studios - Demon's Fate Patoo64 - Blah Blah Blah Yazzy Bear - Too Close New News that Will Soon Be Old Prescreening Info Calling all people who have nothing better to do on a Saturday! If you can drag yourself to Philadelphia PA by 11AM 6/23/2012, you get to help pick the finalists for the AMV contest! Yes, you will have to watch every video, you don't just get to pop in, upvote your own entry, and leave. This is real work. If you're interested, PM "chaeseco", 'cuz it's his house. DRAGGED INTO THE 21ST CENTURY, KICKING AND SCREAMING Due to powers beyond my control, the AMV contest will be screened in WIDESCREEN this year. This means that despite what we've been doing for the past 20 years, if at all possible, you should NOT letterbox your footage ahead of time. Any AMVs that we receive pre-letterboxed, will be scaled up slightly so that the video doesn't have black bars on all 4 sides. I have NO problem doing this for you, so please, if your source footage has been pre-letterboxed, by all means, send what you have! If your source is natively 16x9, then send that. If your source is 4x3, we will play it in the center of the screen, no DragonBox style cropping will be performed on 4:3 videos. If you're still confused, consult this image: Note that the dark grey area represents the screen that the video will be projected on. I will be updating the official and unofficial rules ASAP. More Stuff 'sup folks. I'm back for more fun, more abuse, and more fun abuse! The official rules are posted here: http://www.otakon.com/events_amv.asp We are accepting entries at this time. Entries that were submitted prior to the rules being officially posted, will be looked at shortly. The major changes this year are: 1) I added a new rule prohibiting the use of your song/trailer's original music video/trailer footage, in your own AMV. It's subject to interpretation, but it'd generally be a good idea to avoid using the original music video as source footage in your own. It can very easily lead to us getting "teh sued". If you HAVE to use portions of the original music video, you can PROBABLY get around this limitation by applying a heavy video filter or two to the footage so that it is different enough from the original, though this is still open to Ota-lawyer's interpretation. 2) We ARE aware that Anime Next takes place on our deadline weekend, so videos that win their first major award at Anime Next, are exempt from the anti-trolling rule, as prohibiting those entries would go against the spirit of the rule. I'll answer questions and things in this thread, and this first post will level-up over time to include updates about AMV-Contest-like-events going on at Otakon 2012. Edited August 4, 2012 by VicBond007 Link to post Share on other sites
renji 0 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 (edited) Hi, first-timer, 2 questions: 1. If a video is submitted at 720x480 16:9 anamorphic, will it be certain that the video will be played correctly? Or should we submit an 854x480 square pixel video and let you do the rest? 2. I have read the previous topics and it is clear that subtitles are disallowed. However, my AMV uses extensive material from a visual novel. Is it OK to display quotes from the visual novel? These pieces of text would fly into view via an effect, and not be lazily placed at the bottom of the screen like a subtitle. My AMV also uses a piece without a singer, so the viewer won't struggle to process onscreen text and lyrics at the same time. Thanks! Edited May 29, 2012 by renji Link to post Share on other sites
VicBond007 16 Posted June 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2012 Hi renji, Sorry I did not reply sooner. Never could get the BB to e-mail me when stuff is replied to. Either display format is fine. 720x480 16:9 mpeg2 is how we are screening the contest, but if your entry is 848x480 (or 854x480, 6 of one, half dozen of another) you can send that instead. Words are fine, so long as they're not just "there" because that's what was on screen at the time. If they work WITH your video, then by all means go ahead. We don't actually have a "no subtitle" hard-rule, but we do have a "if we see fansubs flashing around on screen just because they're in ye-olde-stolen footage, then it will get downvoted out of the contest" rule. Link to post Share on other sites
VicBond007 16 Posted June 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Bump for pre-screening information. Link to post Share on other sites
Adv1sor 0 Posted July 29, 2012 Report Share Posted July 29, 2012 I have never seen better picture or sound quality in any AMV show than what I saw this year at Otakon. Thank you Vic. Link to post Share on other sites
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