Children of Daicon

[pheenix42]

*APPLAUSE*

'nuff said! =D

[emnoir]

AHAHA THANKS !!

[AbhilashGregory1985]

Super badass ! Gainax big time !

[freshdoug]

This is the greatest thing ever! Saw it at Youmacon 2010. It's too bad you didn't have any Panty & Stocking in this but it wasn't out yet. :P

[KingJaggerjack]

I truly loved this amv at Otakon last year for some reason I feel nostalgic and getkinda teary eyed everytime I watch this lol

[firegirl26]

I LOVE IT

[Trilby425]

What's that live action clip right at the 4:00 mark from?

[machina21]

@Trilby425

The "Ride on Shooting Star" music video. Its on one of the FLCL DVDs. I forget which volume, probably volume 1.

[Trilby425]

This is awesome, and I generally loathe all AMVs.

[itachiroxmeep]

You know, I saw this at Otakon and was meh.

Now, I kick myself repeatedly for not voting this for Best in Show, cause it really deserved it.

[Citrakite]

I think you just broke my fragile little mind.

I reject your reality and Substitute Gainax's.

[ShinRanka]

Is that Hideaki Anno rocking out at 2:12? Where did you get that?

[machina21]

@ShinRanka

Im not sure who it is, I imagine its someone who works at ( or worked at) gainax. It was taken from one of the later episodes of "His and Her Circumstances). Strangely enough, that particular face also appears in FLCL. Anno does appear in the video, but its very, very quick.

[Gwern0]

1. Would've been nice if you had gotten closer to 'all of Gainax' - early stuff like _Money Wars_ or _Blazing Transfer Student_ aren't impossible to find.

2. the Tokyo Otakuland was a nice tribute to _Otaku no Video_ - but why couldn't it blast off as well?

3. the 'ohayo' _Gunbuster_ ending tribute was *very* amusing to me

4. you wasted almost an entire minute just displaying the Twilight Prologue lyrics? Good grief.

[machina21]

@Gwern0

1. Yea, im missing some early stuff but If cant get it on DVD i'm not gonna use it, most of the time anyway.

2. Blast off? That would have been pretty spectacular, but I'm not skilled enough to pull it off. Hell, I was barely good enough to do this video as it is now.

3. It could have been worse, I could have more closely follow the original which has about 40 seconds of just black screen before you see the stars.

[DBZfandev]

Absolutely beautiful.

A perfect tribute to Gainax. 

[enemyofbohemia]

Fantastic! I wonder if ELO knows how much old school anime fans love this song?

[Gwern0]

@enemyofbohemia They know/knew and you better believe they made _Densha Otoko_ pay through the nose when they wanted to license "Twilight" for their DAICON-tribute opening.

[finalfantasy696969]

How did u do: The buildings? The part were you re-wind and saw the picture get drawn? When the stars turned into squares?

[machina21]

@finalfantasy696969

Lets see-

The building was ripped off from this tutorial at a great website to learn stuff about after effects, called Video Copilot.

Rewind: I used Time remapping to reverse a clip of the video. I used an effect called "Write on" to make it look like it drew. And the stars turning into squares was me messing around in after effects. I wanted to do something else, but I liked how it looked so I kept it.

[finalfantasy696969]

@machina21 Thanks! You are god!

[machina21]

@finalfantasy696969

Naw, Im just some goofball from Los Angeles :)

[Gevvyiihto]

My pick for best of Otakon. In the six years I've gone this is by far the best AMV I have seen.

[doughboy56plg2000]

I've seen a lot of AMVs for 9 years...and certain AMVs has brought some tears to my eyes......and this one did.......but they were tears of joy n_n. I usually enjoy amv's that collaborate more than one anime in one AMV.

I voted this best of show at AX but u know the majority of votes usually goes for what anime is popular and the fans don't usually choose on artistic style.

I never knew this amv was based on daicon 3 &4 which i did check up on that info. 2 me....best of show at AX 2010:)

[SablePhantom]

Very original. But I think this has more of a niche appeal so I guess that is why it did not win in AX for its category? Still my gosh brings back my memories this AMV XD There are a few animes in there I've watched quite some time ago... and props to having even PuchiPri in there... it is such an unknown anime that unless you are a fan of the game you probably won't even heard of it XD

P.S. anime honestly is only mediocre really. I only watched because I play the game XD

[dbsommers1]

Very nice. Saw it at Otakon and was impressed.

[rebelcheese]

I normally can't stand 80's synth music but Gainax makes everything better. Great video!

[IXIBathoryIXI]

My pick for best of show at AX. Absolutely fantastic tribute to Gainax and it's always great to hear that ELO song again. 5/5 A++

[nemalki]

A brilliant homage to a brilliant company. I am curious what kind of tools/software/witchcraft/devi­l's pact you have at your disposal to make something like this.

[Zipperman2000]

I don't even know what to say about this. This is just... Man...

[MsGeek703]

Sweet! Considering the troubles Gainax seems to be going through financially and creatively, this is a fitting summation and coda to the animation studio "By fandom for fandom." I hope they aren't on the way out but the feud between them and Anno over the remaining two Eva films is a really bad omen. One of the neat things about this as well is that it shows just how deep and broad their output has been. And yeah: 505 views for this hardly seems fair. This should be a featured video.

[rpelzer]

Man, you put some serious work into this...... Bravo!

[Snarkotica]

Thank you very much for this. The days of my first-gen III and IV are gone but not forgotten.

[diligentsesame]

Anime Expo MC: "Who here in the audience actually remembers the original Daicon?"

Me: *raises hand*

Although technically I don't remember it since I wasn't born yet but I think I have the soul of an oldschool nerd. :)

[Fenriswolf86]

Man I have been looking for this video since Anime Expo ended. I loved it so much, ELO is one of my favorite bands and Gainax is one of my favorite studios. Props man this is top notch stuff keep up the good work! ! !

[HunterKillerKX]

Saw this at AX, it blew my mind.

[Chikara512]

@HunterKillerKX

Seconded. I thought this video was absolutely amazing. I would have liked it to win another award.

[Carbine84]

I watched this one in the Expo, and good job, man!

[machina21]

@Carbine84

Thank you. =)

[Kilocron]

It seems criminal that it only have 140 views. Truly a fantastic Gainax tribute. Well done indeed, sir. A far cry better then 99% of the other "windows movie maker" garbage videos out there.

[machina21]

@Kilocron

lol. We all have to start somewhere.

[finalfantasy696969]

@Kilocron If it makes you any better, this was shown at Manifest as 'one of the best AMV' pannel, and that's how I know of it

[zarkbot88]

@Kilocron Beauty that veers from the norm often goes overlooked, sad but true