Deculture!

A very long time ago I got the idea to do an AMV in the style of a music video with Sheryl Nome and for awhile the song I wanted to use was "White Lies" by Paul van Dyk. It wasn't until around early 2014 while doing laundry laundromat that I heard Phantogram's "Fall in Love" and it immediately clicked that this song would be a better fit for a Sheryl Nome video.

Some more years would pass and It wouldn't be until late 2019 that I decided to go all in making this video. By that time the concept had expanded to using Firebomber from Macross 7 as a backing band and Walkure as backup dancers of sorts. The decision to style the video in black and white was to hopefully blend all of the sources together, especially Macross 7 which was done on cel and putting cel animation next to digital tends to be quite a contrast.

Work began in late 2019-early2020...and then Covid happened. This project really helped me in getting through the early portion of the pandemic but even then given the amount of masking needed, it was still a bit much. Also at the time I was going through some personal and professional changes. So much so that I stopped working on the video and seriously thought about scrapping it entirely, twice.

But, few can resist the siren call of Sheryl Nome and after getting a new and better job and doing some personal care, I picked up the video again in earnest in early 2022. The goal being to have a presentable video for Nan Desu Kan's AMV contest that year.

Somehow, i was able to finish the video enough in time for the August deadline and was hoping to upload it for release in October. But I guess I underestimated how burnt out I was from that last push from January to August.

So here we are now in early 2023. This is by far the longest I have ever worked on an AMV. But I am glad that the vision I had in my head is mostly realized and hope you enjoy it.

A very very special thanks to my beta testers whose feedback really helped in giving this video some needed polish.

Uploader Note:

Click here to watch the original music video inspiration.

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Аниме: A ton of Macross
Музыка: Phantogram  - Fall in Love, Paul van Dyk feat. Jessica Sutta - White Lies