Void Eternal

1 место и Приз зрительских симпатий на Japan Expo 2020.

Основная ссылка - версия для плеера. Конкурсная версия клипа на зеркале 1.

Main link - player version of the video. Mirror 1 - contest version of the video.

WATCH the Making of (side-by-side comparison) of this AMV.
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I am SO happy this project is finally finished! I have been dying to share it with you guys. I had started working on this already in September 2019. Hard to believe I’d been working on this AMV for almost a year now…. but I took a lot of breaks in between hahaha.

So I’ve been obsessed with this whole “retrowave" comeback trend for awhile now, and I knew I’d eventually want to do a full AMV centered around this theme, but wasn’t quite sure yet how to go about it, and didn’t have a solid idea of what I wanted to do. What ultimately inspired me to start on this video was the work of ReyNeroKun, I think I watched an MEP track that he had done, and I was like YES, this is what I want to do, but on a larger scale. I started trying to watch more like cyberpunk content and movies (like Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell), to get more ideas visually of how I wanted the world of my AMV to look. And A LOT of browsing Pinterest! That’s like my go-to these days for coming up with mood boards, and visuals. Oh and that Panini music video by Lil Naz was also a huge inspiration for this. So yeah, those inspired the overall setting/theme of this AMV.

As far as the context and story, a lot of it was pulled based on what was provided through the scenes of the original anime. I loved how subtly queer it was, without it being an in-your-face, overly sexualized Yuri or whatever, as so often is the case in anime. And I appreciated the complexity of the relationship (or so was my interpretation from the scenes - I did not watch this anime in full). Based on my interpretation, the relationship/sexuality between these two girls is not clearly defined. The lines are blurred, as is sometimes the case in real life, and that is fine. So I really enjoyed exploring the relationship between these two characters, and defining a relationship between them that’s not necessarily lovers, but not “just friends" either. It’s more complex, and that’s what I wanted to portray.

An underlying theme, that plays as the subtext throughout the entire video, is an unavoidable natural disaster, which I feel kinda relates to the mindset we are in right now, although not on an “end-of-the-world” scale. (However, lately it sometimes feels like the end of the world…) When I started this AMV, there was no “coronavirus" yet hahaha, so I had no idea how this context was going to fit into today’s world. I feel bad to release something so gloomy and sad, with everything going on. If nothing else, I hope this can serve as entertainment, and a 3-minute distraction from our currently unpredictable lives right now. I am wishing everyone well-being and safety.
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Special thanks to my very patient beta testers for this project, and for the constructive feedback you guys gave me throughout this project: Luna, ReyNeroKun, Lokkiclu, Hedge, BecauseImBored, Kroner, Dn@

Thank you ReplayStudios for the amaaaazing end credits you created for this. I seriously appreciate your time and skills!

Thank you to Vlex for the poster art she created for my video, as featured on my twitter:

And lastly, thank you to Sempai for creating the thumbnail for YT.
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Special for: Japan Expo AMV Contest

Информация
Аниме: SSSS.Gridman, Psycho Pass, Inuyashiki, Blade Runner Black Out, Akria, Your Name, Once Punch Man, Punchline, Earth Maiden Arjuna, Re: Cyborg, Aldnoah Zero, Terror in Resonance, Juushinki Pandora, Ingress The Animation, Fate/Zero, 7th Aeon (Animated Short), Sci-fi City - Masashi Imagawa, Rave up Vaporwave Project - Wann, Magnatron 2.0 - Florian Renner, Cyberpunk 2077, NEON RetroFest Promo, Futuristic City - Jaime Jasso, Tears in the Rain (Short Film) - REELVISION
Музыка: Gunship - Maximum Black
Награды: Japan Expo 2020 - 1st Place & Public Choice Award