A little over 8 years ago, Greg and I made an AMV for the Otakon AMV contest. Our prime purpose in making this AMV was to win. We determined a category that would best favor our effort; a song and theme that would be the most likely to win the maximum votes. We placed second in our category. After the whole contest was done, the whole thing was pretty much gone and forgotten.
These were the days before divx and any kind of Internet-based video delivery. Although we used all-digital non-linear editing to create the video, nobody but me had the original video file. The other contest entrants received copies of our AMV on VHS, and that was about the limit of our distribution. Hard drive space was expensive and fragile and over the years, I lost just about all the digital media related to this project.
But, somehow, our Evangelion clone-themed AMV did not fade and die.
I first got a hint of this in 2004 when it turned out that some current CJASers had actually seen this video somehow. But just this morning, Jerry discovered a version of our video on YouTube. Turns out there are at least 3 copies of our video posted to YouTube (one with over 20,000 views), but most interesting to me, is that the one that Jerry found is not a digitized-from-VHS version.
Someone completely re-mastered the version with identical music cuts, and effects, but with new high-quality footage.
That's a lot of effort. We once considered doing this ourselves, but lacked adequate motivation. This person obviously has the skills to be making his own AMVs, but instead decided to remake ours. In the part where we did our own animation, this fan traced and re-animated the cut. He even used his retraced version of this animation as his profile image at animemusicvideos.org and credited us by name.
And, this guy is from Sweeden. The global power of the Internet.
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Pretty ridiculous. They even got the hand-drawn part.
-Benjamin
Hmm, the remake doesn't use lillith for "donor," it uses Shinji, which makes no sense. Surprising because it's a prefect clone (har har) of the original otherwise. Also, he left the skirt ruffles off of his hand made pizza throw, probably because he couldn't see them on the old one due to the low quality.
I must say, I'm honored someone put in so much effort.
-Greg
Now if someone would do that for It's a Sin, or even Bizarre Love Triangle. (remastering it, not adding fluff to the end)
-Eddie
The video quality (at least at 320x240) for It's a Sin has held up pretty well. Didn't we actually remake it ourselves? The first cut was off VHS and the second was off R2 DVDs.
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