Author's comment: My video for the final round of the Quickening. I ended up placing 2nd. (Well, it was a tie). Then it won Best Action at Anime Weekend Atlanta's Exposition Contest and Judge's Choice at Another Anime Convention, both of which were unexpected but awesome surprises! :D

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Author: Ileia
Anime: Macross Frontier, Macross Frontier MUSIC CLIP Collection - Nyankuri, Macross Frontier: Itsuwari No Utahime, Macross Frontier: Sayonara No Tsubasa
Music: Amaranthe - Razorblade
Awards: Judges Choice на Another Anime Con 2014, Best Action на Anime Weekend Atlanta 2014 Exposition Contest

The AMVNews contest is over. 44 persons took part in the second round voting and here's the final result: 

Best exclusive video
1 place - seriy - The Eyelashes (84 points)
2 place - Centurione - Resonance (75 points)
3 place - EllipseIris - No Scrubs (63 points)
4 place - Not found - Anthem of Remembrance (53 points)
5 place - Minako - The Inner Light (49 points)
6 place - Anejo - Descending (40 points)
7 place - Dm1try[A] - Тонкая грань (39 points)
8 place - Uniquevil - Overtaken (34 points)
9 place - Darksss 73 - NINJA - ZONE (29 points)
10 place - Frame - The Last Battlefield (27 points)

Best non-exclusive video
1 place - JazzsVids - Vacant Heart (133 points)
2 place - Artofeel - Oneness (73 points)
3 place - SachaValentine - Я U Mine (66 points)
4 place - Kami, Tuli' - Childhood Love (56 points)
5 place - Darksss 73 - Trailer - Ring (50 points)

AKROSS project officially announces 13th International AMV Contest "AKROSS Con 2014"! The event will be held from October 2014 to January 2015. 

Visit main page of the contest for concept and registration. Registration deadline is December 15th, submission deadline (approximately) - December 20th.

To discuss the contest, visit the official forum.

Клип делался для участия во втором раунде орговского конкурса Team Warfare 2014.

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Author: AquaSky
Anime: Golden Time
Music: Garfunkel and Oates - Me, You and Steve

Author's comment: Doing a video like this has been rolling around my head for a few months now, It all started with an idea to make something "trippy and comedic" then went on to be "a spooky instrumental" then I thought it should be "bloody and disturbing" just because I've never done anything like that before. It eventually became something that had all of that rolled into one.

After looking everywhere for the right type of music I changed my mind on it several times. Then one day I guess I was looking at some old videos that got me into this amv stuff in the first place and rewatched Naruto's Technique Beat, I just happened to be curious about the music and found out it was made for the Resident Evil movie soundtrack, so now I see the potential the song has as horror music-- AND it contained no lyrics which was just what I was looking for.

The intensity of the music made room for a more action feel, which is what I'm use to editing with anyway - and that brings me to say I purposely went nuts on the effects, more than usual, but I think I have a better grip on it now and it's not as messy.

I don't know how offensive some people might find some of the scenes on this but I feel like I need to give some sort of disclaimer.. it's really not that bad, it's all brief, but the main things are: blood (which I actually darkened to not make it look so violent), self harm, broken bones, people being eaten, implications of seizing and unwanted touching, general body horror-but nothing too bad I hope.

The theme of the maniacal smile came up while I was editing and I noticed how there's aLOT of creepy smiles in anime sometimes a smile goes into laughter which at that point just becomes madness, hence maniacal.

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Author: UnluckyArtist
Anime: Akira, Aku no Hana, Another (TV), Attack on Titan (TV), Bakemonogatari (TV), Blood-C (TV), Corpse Party: Tortured Souls - Bougyakusareta Tamashii no Jukyou (OVA), Danganronpa The Animation (TV), Deadman Wonderland (TV), Elfen Lied, Ergo Proxy (TV), Gatchaman Crowds, Gyo (OVA), Haibane Renmei (Charcoal Feathers Federation), Hellsing Ultimate (OVA), Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (TV), Kill La Kill (TV), Mirai Nikki (TV), Monogatari Series: Second Season, Nisemonogatari (TV), Paprika (Movie), Paranoia Agent, Perfect Blue, Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie, Summer Wars (movie), Tokyo Ghoul (TV), Trapeze (TV)
Music: Marilyn Manson - Seizure of Power

Free Zone 2014 first round voting is over. 53 persons took part in the voting. Tse same set of jury are eligible for voting in the finals. This year the voting is totally voluntary. You must fill in all slots when filling in the voting form. Voting deadline is October 23rd, 20.00 Moscow time (UTC+4). See below the list of finalists in all nominations, ranged by publication date.

Author's comment: This was one of my entries into this year's AWA Pro Contest; where it won Best Comedy. Essentially, this is a comedic character profile of the character Aikuro from Kill La Kill. This video came about the day after discussing the character Aikuro with my friend Stephanie (who's obsessed with him). I was at work and had the bassline from Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" stuck in my head, although I couldn't remember what the song was at the time. About an hour later it dawned on me what the song was and I immediately put the song together with Aikuro in my head, thinking I had to make this video. The combination seemed to fit too well not to. After getting an enthusiastic endorsement from my friend, I went out and made this video.

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Author: drewaconclusion
Anime: Kill la Kill
Music: Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
Awards: Best Comedy на Anime Weekend Atlanta 2014

Author's comment: I started this a while back for a 3 day Iron Chef thing and had only about 2 minutes of it done at the time. I ended up wanting to watch Chihayafuru more and kind of put it off to the side for awhile. I came back to it later once I realized I wouldn't get the other video I was working on done in time for Anime Weekend Atalant and took another 3-4 days to finish this and clean it up a little.
In some ways I wanted to work on it more, but I just couldn't get motivated and wanted to move onto other projects. I really like Chihayafuru and kind of want to do another video with it though.

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Author: Shin
Anime: Chihayafuru, Chihayafuru 2
Music: The Script - Long Gone And Moved On

Очень атмосферный профиль одной из героинь аниме Puella Magi Madoka Magica .

Author's comment: THE FEELING IS GONE, ONLY YOU AND I
IT MEANS NOTHING TO MEEEEEEE
THIS MEANS NOTHING TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH
VIENNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Finalist for Best Artistic Endeavour in the Anime Weekend Atlanta 20 Professional contest.

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Author: Scintilla
Anime: Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Part III: Rebellion
Music: Ultravox - Vienna

We begin first round voting of AMVNews: Free Zone 2014. 68 videos took part in the contest. 11 contest videos rated lower than 3 points were excluded from voting. All 53 contest participants whose AMVs are eligible for the first round can take part in the voting now, as well as 28 jury members (Turbo, Galia and Kitty, altermann, S.A. Robert, Leonifa, trampler, LIA, KG7x, welivetoday, Carpet-man, MIBIHA, Amy Lee, leon.by, NewOvermind, TritioAFB, uncinx, maxximm, Fox114, lokkiclu, katalex, Theredflash66, MigeL, Lady_MooN, Daru, EvilSpiritAmvs, GINBR:), Alina Vega, RiceAMV). Voting in first round is totally voluntary. There are 5 contest nominations to vote in. Finalists in each nomination will be chosen during first round voting. First round voting ends October 19th, 12-00 Moscow time (UTC+4). Link for voting form can be found in "Authorization" block, right upper corner of the webpage. You can fill in the form, add and change anything as much as you want till the end of voting period. Contest participants do not see their own videos in the list and can't vote for them.

If you have any questions concerning voting procedure please contact site administrator via private message