Hotaru / Saturn AMV - Shadows of the Night

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Uploaded by on Sep 1, 2008

Watch in high quality! Much better!

This video is now available for download at AnimeMusicVideos.org at http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=162166

It seems like like I have been working on this video forever, but I finally finished it. The song is "Shadows of the Night" by Pat Benatar.

In case you were wondering, yes I had to lip-synch (chromakey and animate) almost all of the mouth movements, as well as Saturn's flowing hair at the very beginning. On a couple of occasions, I would have to output a clip to a series of stills and paint out her mouth - quite tedious. In some cases, I put in teeth where none had been drawn before.

Speaking of Saturn at the beginning, that sequence was built with a separate layer for the star field, background purple glow, hair, shoulders and neck, face, eyes, bangs, and mouth. I also had to mirror her left earring from her right, since the source picture had hair over her left ear.

I put lens flares on a few of the clips, and often chained separate clips to make a contiguous shot (like Hotaru having her mind probed by Saturn).

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Uploader Comments (KRende)

  • How did you get the video at such high qualitly, I am making a Hotaru AMV myself and my video no matter what I do I cant get it looking this good.

  • @JynxBlack13 I downloaded from Sailor Moon Center and converted them from MKV to AVI to use in my software.

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  • i luv this song!!!!! :D

  • Ah! I love this song, and I love Pat Benatar! Very good choice for hotaru.

    Wow. I wasn't expecting the animation in the beging, very good with that! I love how you kept on syncing the same line perfectly through the song.

    Joined with the matching of "running" and "hand", this was basicly a perfect video.

    I also like how you kept the pulse pattern from the song and made it a visual for the video.

    This was truely an outstanding video. Thank you so much for submiting!

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  • LMAO I hear this song every night at work and I'm like "damn this soooo sounds like it belongs as an old anime theme song".And sailor moon was the #1 I was thinking of.wow...just wow...

  • @KRende which program did you use to convert the MKV to AVI, everything I find will only let me do a few min of video until I shell out some cash, is there any that will work for free that I can convert the entire files?

  • @KRende Thanks alot, I appreciate it ^_^

  • god,you are great to doing it! i love it! 5/5 stars!

  • Hotaru Rocks From mysyerious person i made up today because i was bored in the corner named bob and i used to be able to relate to hotaru from 3rd to 5th grade because i had 3 friends and eveyone hated me except my 2 friends 1 new in 3rd grade then hated me then liked me again wierd huh

  • Great vid and grret song. U get my seal of approval

  • cool! Sailor Saturn rocks!

  • I have watched several Sailor Moon AMVs and I must say this is amazing! I enjoy Pat Benatar's music and I have for a while, but this song is so perfect for Hotaru that I feel newly acquainted with it. It's one of my favorites by Benatar because of the harmony chords. When I watched this video, I started crying. The clips are synchronized so perfectly with the lyrics! Thank you for posting this!

    My favorite part (or the part where I cried the hardest) is the "midnight angel". :)

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