I am retired from anime music video creation and no longer edit AMVs or maintain these pages. These web pages have been left here for historical reasons. The AMVs themselves are no longer hosted here. Some have links to my animemusicvideos.org profile where they can be downloaded from. Due to animemusicvideos.org's policy of never letting a creator remove their video files once uploaded, I've chosen not to upload the rest of them because I believe creators should be allowed to maintain control over distribution of their works.

Video: Wonda
Audioc: Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix - Wonda
Source: Sailor Moon & Sailor Moon Live Action

This was my track for the DDR Project 5th Mix - the final DDR project headed up by the original group who started the first DDR group editor project years before. This project debuted at Anime Weekend Atlanta 10 in September of 2004.

The idea for this video was simple - a fun, upbeat video centered on Sailor Venus that switched back and forth between the live action show and the anime.

Unfortunatly the only Sailor Moon live action footage available at the time had the time hard-coded in the top-left corner of it so I was forced to come up with an animated watermark to cover it. The watermark alternates between a V and the kanji "ai" or "love."

This video is not individually downloadable. It can be seen in the DDR Project 5th Mix. Unfortunatly being live action in amongst mostly anime the compression wasn't nice to it on the DivX version of the project which was distributed. It's much better if you can get a hold of a DVD copy of the project.

Video: Country Road
Audioc: John Denver - Country Road
Source: Whispters of the Heart
Debut: Anime Weekend Atlanta 2004

I wanted to do something new for AWA X but didn't have much time, so I did this cute little idea I've had for a while. I was able to get it done in a few days and sent into AWA's Expo contest.

The John Denver song "Country Road" is the theme song of Whispers of the Heart (they play it in the opening and ending scenes of the movie and the character even sings it in the movie after she translates it into Japanese) so I thought it would be kind of cute to do a video to the original song.

Video: Yuppie and the Alien
Audioc: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Yuppie and the Alien radio commercial
Source: Onegai Teacher
Debut: Anime Weekend Atlanta 2004

I heard the audio commercial for a TV show called "Yuppie and the Alien" in the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack and thought it would make for a cute, quick, little trailer so I did it to Onegai Teacher.

This is the only video I've done without first watching the source.

I think doing trailers is actually quite different from AMVs in that you have a specific set path you have to follow in the audio (wheras with music there is more room to be creative.) I edited this like a "normal" TV trailer - ie. audio for a scene starting before that scene is cut to, nothing too tight or fancy, etc.

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Anime Weekend Atlanta Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix project track 03 - B4U

Video: B4U
Music: Dance Dance Revolution 4th Megamix track 04 - B4U
Video Source: Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, Fatal Fury, Spirited Away, Mahou Tsukaitai, Excel Saga

This video was part of the Anime Weekend Atlanta Dance Dance Revolution 4th mix project which was the 3rd DDR project to debut at AWA. Like the previous year's DDR 2nd Mix project (which my Get Up 'N Move) AMV was part of, this project is being pressed to silver DVD and being sold via the AWA Video Art Track sponsor's web site - http://www.expertdv.com Please stop by their web site, check out their editing systems, and order the DVD! The cost is purely to cover the production of the silver DVD (no editors profit from it - it's purely a fan and NOT a commercial production.) This year's DDR 4th mix DVD will also include Hsein Lee and Ian Robert's videos from the Iron Chef contest this year as well as the entire first DDR project (which was done to the DDR 3rd Mix.) Speaking of Iron Chef, I've been named as the challenger for next year!

The DDR project is WILDLY popular showing at many anime cons all over. This years project was nothing short of spectacular. It keeps getting better each year. In case you're not familiar with it, one of the Dance Dance Revolution continuous mix soundtracks is selected (this year it was 4th Mix) and a group of top-notch AMV editors all do videos to the different tracks. From there it's all combined into a continuous 74 minute dance music video program. The editing, creativity, and variety in it is OFF THE SCALE. I spent over 100 hours on my track B4U (which is one of my fav tracks to play in DDR too ^_^;

I started on my tracks months before the deadline. I showed it to my good friend Patrick Bohnet (Quu) and he had so much constructive criticism that he couldn't tell me on AIM, he had to call me to tell me! He was trying to help, but it upset me a bit which was good because it lit a creative fire. 100 hours later I had a video that I'm incredibly proud of. The audience reaction to it was really good. Thanks Quu! I also have to thank Jeff Heller (Gambitt of Nightowl Pictures) because B2U from the previous year's project was a major inspiration to me. I was so proud to be part of this project and can't wait for next year when we do the DDR 5th mix soundtrack.

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The Lost Aluminum Studios Sailor Moon video ...

Video: Ordinary World
Music: Duran Duran - Ordinary World
Video Source: Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon
This video was done sometime in 2000 then literally forgotten about for 3 years.

Three years ago I did a Sailor Moon video that I literally put in a box and forgot about. Recently I was going through my box that has all of the CDs of source clips for my classic videos like Try and Blue Mercury and I came across a set of CDs labeled "Ordinary World." I copied them to Buranshe (my editing system) and rendered and was moved to tears by what I saw.

After watching it I began to remember the whole story behind it. I made it not too long after it became clear that I had no future with a girl who I loved more than anything. I was depressed and confused and when I finished I boxed this video up along with my feelings and moved on. The video I moved on to however was still heavily influenced by this one and used a number of the same clips ... it was Dreams of Red.

I think this video is much more emotional than Dreams of Red ... I was holding back when I did that one. This one spends a lot of time showing Rei as a normal girl with normal problems ... as well as a Sailor Senshi with the HUGE, inescapable, responsiblity of protecting everyone. It lets you relate to her and feel for her. In contrast Dreams of Red tries to tell you about Rei by showing you examples from her life of things that she did, felt, and believed in. Dreams of Red is different in that it lets the viewer connect the dots to form a picture of Rei.

Artistic notes:

Everyone knows that a superhero is super and that anime characters are powerful and brave. But what we can really relate to is their normal, everyday, human side. In this video (like my others) I take the approach of making a video largley about Hino Rei, as opposed to Sailor Mars. I show the vulnerable and emotional side of her, that we all have in ourselves.

I tried to use a lot of smooth and natrural feeling transitions based on brightness, color, or continuing motion from one scene to the next. I also spread out her transformation sequence and cut it in between other scenes. It was my way of showing how Rei/Mars grew and evolved as a character.

I show several intense situations such as the tree turning into a daimon (which is obviously going to attack Rei) and Mars firing an arrow toward Neherenia as she's holding Neptune in front of her, but I never show the outcomes of these situations... I did that on purpose as my way of saying it never ends. There is always another struggle going on and there may or may not be a happy ending. I'm not focusing on what happened, I'm focusing on what Rei/Mars did and how hard she tried.

Technical notes:

This video is old school. It was done sometime in 2000 with footage captured from VHS. After re-discovering this video I spent about 9 hours filmstripping and letterboxing out subtitles. I hadn't yet done those tweaks when I first edited the video. I adjusted a few bad cuts by a few frames too (cuts on interlaced frames, cuts right before scene changes, etc.), but other than that this video is the same video from 3 years ago.

The video quality of the source is pretty mediocre by modern DVD ripped footage standards. The interlacing and video quality made it difficult to produce a good looking, reasonably small file for distribution, but I did find an ideal group of settings to produce a good MPEG1 which was of similar quality to a divx5pro version I encoded ... so I decided to just distribute the MPEG1 since it is so trouble free compared to divx.

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Video: AluminuM-3P.mpg
Video source: Chobits, Battle Angel, Armitage III, Metropolis, Key the Metal Idol
Music: KTz - AM-3P (from DDR 2nd Mix)
Debut: Otakon 2003

I love androids! After I got involved with the AWA DDR 2nd Mix project I started playing DDR and heard AM-3P for the first time. I loved it and thought it would be fun to do a fast paced tribute to androids.

I liked the version of the song from the DDR 2nd mix continuous mix soundtrack, so I used it. I used the lead-in from the previous track for my title screen and then tacked on the last few seconds from the non-megamix version of the song for a clean ending.

This was my first multi-series video in a while. The overlays are from the original 1920's movie Metropolis. I composited the piston explosion at the end. This video was just plain fun to make!

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Video: Adolescence
Music: Jennifer Warnes - First We Take Manhattan
Video source: Utena the Move
Debut: Anime Weekend Atlanta 2002 Pro contest - best drama nominee

The ideas and themes in the Revolutionary Girl Utena movie are told through pure symbolism and metaphor. The movie is about breaking out of your shell, it's about seeing through things that you convince yourself are true because it's easier to accept than the truth and it's about growing beyond your limitations.

I really enjoyed the movie. It clicked with me and I understood it's message well. I did this video in a similar vein with the movie - which was using a lot of symbolism and metaphor to convey it's message. So don't look for too much direct literal relationships between the lyrics and scenes but rather more metaphors and symbolism.

One of the ideas that I wanted to express was that everything goes full circle and in cycles - so the video ends the same way it starts. I considered editing it so it could play in a perfect seamless loop, but the end was a little too abrupt when I edited that way, so I decided to fade it out at the end. Nonetheless, it still forms a smooth loop when repeated. I also had trouble matching up the composited ending (see technical notes below) with the positioning and wall pattern in the first scene which was another reason I didn't edit it into a perfect loop.

I wanted this video to have a flashy, shallow, almost pretentious opening because in the movie shallow superficiality is what Utena is trying to break free from and it's what you see holding other characters back. The in very last scene Utena has a very confident look in her face as she says something. The camera cuts to a zoom of her lips several times, but it's left to the viewer to wonder what she said.

Nothing in this video is random or filler. Every scene was put there because it fit in with what I was thinking. I didn't do this video with any particular intention of entering it in contests or even posting it on-line. It was just a personal project. But after a while I thought it'd send it to AWA's pro contest just for fun. It was nominated for best drama, but lost against Akimbo's Fathers and Sons DBZ video. Fathers and Sons was an excellent video and I didn't mind loosing because I don't consider this video a drama. It's a commentary, it's a little uplifting, it's a little inspiring ... it's really hard to pick a genre for that. I don't really want it considered a drama or too serious. I just want it taken for what it is.

Technical notes: The editing is pretty straight forward and clean. At the end I wanted a nice slow pan back from the monitor screen. But in doing that the scene as a whole looked flat and like a cheap zoom, so I sliced it into layers in Photoshop and animated the wall, the monitors and their shadows separately and very subtly in AfterEffects to give the ending shot a little depth. The effect is very subtle and without me saying anything you would just assume that's the way the scene was animated in the original movie. Even with the depth I still had the problem of the still image in the right monitor looking too static, so I had to add another layer and mask and filters to give it a very slight flicker. When it was all said and done the last 30 seconds of the video took more than 10 hours of work and a nested 14 layer composite to do. But I was really happy with the very VERY subtle results it had.

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Video: "DDR1"
Video and audio sources: Watch and see ;-)

We are all familiar with DDR 2nd mix, 3rd mix, 4th, 4th Plus, etc. But no one ever mentions where it all started.

Very few people know about DDR's true FIRST appearence in the 1980s.

Download this video clip to see the TRUE FIRST appearance of DDR!

Editing notes:
This is just a little gag video I put toghether and has nothing to do with the NES project or any of the DDR projects ^_^;

I animated and edited this together mostly using Photoshop and AfterEffects. I used Premiere for the menu screens because it made it easy to line up the sounds and cursor movements. The AfterEffects composition for the second song was 235 layers! Thank God each layer was a simple graphic which I kept duplicating and then moving where I wanted.

This video is dedicated to the crew of the space shuttle Columbia who died as their ship broke up on re-entry on Feb 1, 2003.

Video footage: The Wings on Honneamise
Music: Star Trek: Enterprise theme (Russel Watson - Faith of the Heart)

I had the idea for this video for some 8 months but never did anything with it. I decided to throw it together to show at my panel for AWA8. I did 90% of the editing in on the Sat. before AWA.

The opening to Star Trek: Enterprise is about exploration and man's progress over the years from ocean going vessels to star ships. The Wings of Honneamise has a very similar theme iteself - it's about man's first faultering steps into space. So I only thought it appropriate to do a Honneamise video to the opening theme of Star Trek Enterprise.

I originally wanted to recreate the intro to Enterprise using scenes from Honneamise, but the video just didn't come together like that. After AWA I took some time to try and redo it and make it a scene per scene copy of the Enterprise opening in line with my original idea but then I realized that idea wouldn't work. To recreate the intro. to Enterprise I had to use many generic images from Honneamise of ships and graphs and charts and such. By doing that the video completely lost the connection that I was trying to draw between the two. It was much more effective to use scenes the way I did to tell a story that is parallel to the Enterprise opening rather than trying to recreate it. Unlike my Closer video, recreation just didn't work here.

After I did this video a handful of people came out of the woodwork all saying that they had this idea and they hadn't done it yet, they were going to do it, blah, blah, blah. I was first

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Video: Heaven's Door
Anime: End of Evangelion
Music: Guns-n-Roses / Knockin' on Heaven's Door
created: Summer 2000
released: Anime North 2002

A while ago I posted a "guest" video. It used End of Evangelion footage to Guns-n-Roses' version of "Knocking on Heaven's Door."

The video was posted under the guise of a guest video and I played dumb when people asked me who created it.

The truth is, it's mine. I did it back around the summer of 2000.

By the time I did this video I was already feeling pressured to do bigger and better. This video was lacking something. I didn't feel it had the same spark as Blue Mercury and Try which had already been completed (although Try hadn't debuted on-line yet.) So I shelved this video.

By the Fall of 2001 I was growing weary of the pressure to always somehow beat your previous videos. I did like this video, so I loaded it up and went about finishing it. I thought that the result was really outstanding. I thought it would be fun to release a video without my name on it and see the reaction. The reaction was great - people really liked this video. So I've decided to let my little secret out :-) I actually showed this at AWA 2001.

Of course I knew that I released a video anonymously then later revealed that it was mine there would be some people out there who would doubt my claim to it. So I made sure to watermark it before ever releasing it. Click here to find the hidden aluminum in the first release (without a title screen.)

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Video: True Faith
Anime: Pokemon the first Movie
Music: New Order / Tue Faith
completed: Summer 2000

This is not a "new" music video. It's one that I did two years ago and never released.

I fell victim to the bigger, fancier, more complex hype and let this video fall to the wayside because of it's conventional editing. I also had concerns that it was too similar to an Evangelion/True Faith video that Duane Johnson did some years back.

I had seen Duane's video to this song once or twice when I did this video, but I didn't remember any details from it. All similarities between this video and Duane's are due to similar interpretation of the song. I showed this video to him before releasing it and it has his blessing.

I liked the first few seasons of Pokemon and the first movie. Mewtwo was your classic tragic villain. He wasn't evil, he had just been screwed over by the man. That's one of the things this video focuses on. It is one of what is probably only a handful of serious Pokemon videos.

I don't think this video is on par with my best ones. I will be posting another video in the beginning of June. Then after Otakon I will be posting a brand new video that I place on the top of my list for powerful videos that I've done to date.

This is my longest video weighing it at 5:54.

Video: My Obnoxious Neighbor
Anime: Tonari no Totoro
Music: Snot / Stoopid
Created Dec 2001
Debut: Katsucon 2002

People always talk about how well a song matches anime. I wanted to do a video that was a complete and utter mismatch. This has inadvertently been done hundreds of times, but I wanted it to be a good video!

Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) is the most gentle, benevolent, children's movie ever made. It has no antagonist, no conflict, and not a single ounce of ill will in it. Despite this it is wildly entertaining and one of the most enjoyable movies ever.

One thing that jumped out at me was the amount of energy the two main characters Mei and her older sister Satsuki had. After watching the movie I wanted to use a song with a lot of phonetic energy. This past fall I had several opportunities to hang out with Jason Salce (RYS) and see a number of his videos. He introduced me to a band called Snot who was perfect for this twisted video.

One funny thing about this video is I never clarify who the obnoxious neighbor (as indicated in the video's title) is. It could be the children or the slam dancing woodland animals as Scott A Melzer called them ;-)

Interesting info on Hayao Miazaki and Totoro
I recently read the book Hayao Miazaki: Master of Japanese Animation It had some very interesting background info. on his movies. In Tonari no Totoro the girls mother was sick and in the hospital. Miazaki's own mother was sick hospitalized with spinal tuberculosis for most of Miazaki's childhood. The hospital in the movie (Shichikokuyama) was in fact a real one that was well known for it's treatment of tuberculosis in the mid 1900's. So the story with the mother was something from Miazaki's own personal life.

The book also went on to say that totoros were what all three sizes of the forest spirits were (it wasn't just the name of the big one.) The name comes from Mei's mispronunciation of the word "troll." She refers to them as Totoro because she thinks they look like a picture of a troll that she saw in a book. The totoros themselves are purely a creation of Miazaki and not found anywhere else.

Technical production notes:
The footage I had to work with was somewhat limited. It was difficult to keep up the high level of energy. In order to keep it from becoming to random I more or less separated it into 4 sections. Initially it focuses on Satsuki, then the attention shifts to Mei, Totoro, then the Nekobus in the end. I wanted certain scenes at certain points of the song, so that is what more or less determined the layout of the video.

A lot of people are probably wondering WTF is a Super Saiyan doing in a Miazaki video (^_^;) When Satsuki screams her hair stands up just like a Super Saiyans from Dragonball Z, so heck, I rolled with it!

This is the first video I've released where I used both Premiere and After Effects in the editing and effects.

I did a neat little trick at 3:36 in the video. When the Nekobus landed it did so very softly without shaking the screen. It looked too sill, so I actually shook the screen for this shot.

Warning: This video contains brief nudity and adult situations - PG13 Don't download without your parents consent if you are under-aged.
Title:  Torn
Originally completed Spring 2000 remade Fall 2001
Music:  Natelie Imbruglia - Torn
Video:  Perfect Blue

Most Perfect Blue videos that I've seen have been from a psycho stalker point of view. I never saw the movie this way. Perfect Blue to me was more from Mima's confused, doubtful, depressed point of view. Mima wasn't fully aware of the dangerous people around her until the end. In fact she thought that she was the dangerous one herself. The focus on the dangerous stalker is only an experience that you have as the viewer, not the character.

In keeping with my style of getting inside the video and deep into the characters, I made this video from Mima's point of view. Some people have told me that this video doesn't accurately represent Perfect Blue. Perfect Blue is all about perspective, who's eyes are you looking through?

Artistic notes: When Mima is leaning over Me-Mania's shoulder in his room her lips move as she says something. I like the intrigue of knowing she is saying something but not knowing what she is saying, so I left this scene in tact (even though moving mouths in music videos can be distracting if not used carefully.)

Technical notes: When I went to remake this I realized that I really liked my previous scene selections and transitions, so I recreated the exact same video with only minor scene differences. I even left the one canned transition because it works. The major difference is that the editing is cleaner - the movie is letterboxed and I made sure to not let any transitions extend into the black area, I've come to think that looks very amateurish. When I originally did this video I had subtitled VHS to work from and it didn't capture that well. I remade this from the DVD and still had quality issues. The Perfect Blue DVD is flat out the worst looking commercial release I have seen in my life. It is horribly grainy, has frames full of macroblocks quit often, and has very weak color and a narrow brightness range. All of these factors make it compress like garbage. I re-encoded it AT LEAST 20 times using everything from Tmpeg to Nandub SBC, from MPEG1 to DivX, with a huge variety of filters before I came up with an MPEG1 file that looked the best out of all of my encoding attempts.

Caution - Adult content.  You MUST BE 18 to download this video, no exceptions!  I will not be responsible for any consequences whatsoever that come from downloading or viewing this video!  You've been warned!

Music:  Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Video:  Key the Metal Idol
July 2001

This video is very different from my others in that I sat down and synthetically made this one up. It wasn't the result of any great inspiration or a thought that entered my head on it's own. Although I did use my hate of the animal researchers (U. of Pitt. Neurobiology) who I was doing computer work for at the time as motivation. Since then I have transferred to another department because I OPPOSE ANIMAL RESEARCH!

In Dec. 2000 I thought that a Key video to some type of techno or industrial song would be cool. After searching around I felt some kind of relationship between Key and Closer, but I wasn't sure what it was yet. I began editing a "conventional" video and it fell flat. Needing my HD space back I deleted my 24 gigs of Key scenes along with Closer. Later during summer 2000 I was feeling starved for a good idea and decided to go back to Closer. But this time I had a plan. I watched NIN's own video for this song over and over trying to pin down what gave it it's atmosphere and style. I then transposed that over to my Key video.

I wanted the video to look like it was done on old film. So I created a "lens change" transition like is found in NIN's Closer video. In the olden days, to zoom in they would change lenses in the camera and you would see the old lens slide out and the new one slide in. I also created a "damaged film" transition where the film response would rise and it would begin to jump right before a cut - as if a defective piece of film rolled by and it has to be cut and spliced. I wanted to pay close attention to detail, so you'll notice things like cigarette burns throughout the video. A cigarette burn is the circle that you see in the top right of a film periodically. It marks where different reels were spliced together. The overall appearance of the video required a minimum of 3 filters to achieve. I say a minimum because not every scene has the same filters and settings, it depended on the scene's lighting, coloration, etc. what filter combos I used. I also wanted some scenes to stand out more than others, so you will notice different old film effects - more scratches in some scenes, more flicker and jump in others. This is consistent with old film productions, because of inconsistent quality across reels of old film. Also, I de-interlaced the master copy by blending the fields together. This softens the picture and creates a bit of a ghosting effect during motion - something that you can still see in movie film today.

Overall this video probably ranks among the top technical videos done to date because it is a lot harder to stick to a style and have a consistent appearance throughout a video than it is use use a lot of fancy, different, special effects throughout a video.

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Title:  Dreams of Red
Music:  Sting - Desert Rose

Dreams of Red is my third and final Sailor Moon tribute video.  Like Blue Mercury and Venus in a Bottle, Dreams of Red has it's own style.  Dreams of Red is more of an artistic composition than a music video.  I was really trying to push video art to it's limit with a  powerful theme and equally mesmerizing visualization. I like using multiple tracks of video at once, but am tired of the same old, overdone, transparencies. So I came up with a picture-in-picture effect. I coordinated it so that the video in the background and the picture-in-picture window play with each other. Sometimes they compliment each other, sometimes they contrast, but they always work together to communicate the point. I also wanted the background to look like it was a painting, so I washed the color our a little and added a canvas like texture. This is much more noticeable in the master (the MPEG compression to get it down to 45 megs had a bit of a smoothing effect on this).  

I am NOT doing any more Sailor Moon videos, so please do not ask me about Jupiter or Saturn. I had a couple good ideas and I did them - I don't have any plan or commitment to do videos for all of the characters.

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Title: The Moon's Home

First of all, I made this video for ME, so I'm not too concerned if it will be popular or not.  I wanted to do this video but didn't want to spend the money on the DVDs, so I used mediocre TV recordings as the source.  It was my plan to add video noise and color degradation.  The TV recordings had plenty of noise already, so I only had to mess with the color!  All black and white scenes and scenes with weak and faded color are intentional.  One note about the title:  The song's name is Tsuki no Ie which translates to "House of moon" or more accurately"The Moon's Home." But I thought that "House on the Moon" sounded more elegant and dreamy.

The first time I listened to Tsuki no Ie I thought it was one of the most beautiful songs that I had ever heard.  I also thought that Outlaw Star had a beautiful story of friendship and extremely different people coming together.  I was also moved by the ending - Jeane could have wished for anything, but he wished for something he already had.  I wanted to focus on these aspects of the show that get overshadowed by the action and violence.  I also decided to go against AMV taboo with this video.  First I use a Japanese song from the show's own soundtrack and secondly I use plenty of scenes of characters talking.  I found that it only takes a little creativity to get past using a song from a shows own soundtrack (typically this is avoided because it seems kind of redundant like watching the intro. or credits).  I also found that you can get away with using scenes of characters talking if the video is done in the proper context.  Normally seeing a character move their mouth breaks the flow badly.

This video was one of the first AMVs make extensive use of black and white, a medium used heavily in other forms of art such as photography.

This is a little parody that I made, it is not a full music video.  There is no editing in the first half of it, this part is intended to set the mood.  It is pretty obvious where the editing begins though :-)  This is a sad example of what boredom, a computer, and anime can lead to!

This short is so stupid it's funny  I'm not just saying that either because I've received several reports of people injuring themselves from falling over and breaking their chairs because they were laughing so hard.

I love characters that are too crazy to be affected by reality and that's exactly what Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky the 4th is. This is an award winning (Katsucon 2001) action video with a touch of comedy.  I don't like the BackStreet Boys, but the song and video were meant for each other. It's a mistake to not watch this video just because it is the Backstreet Boys.  I made it after Otakon 2000 when I saw a good Evangelion video done by Vicbond007 to the same song.  This video is very lighthearted and happy and I guarantee it will cheer you up (regardless of liking the music)!  This video has very clean editing and visual quality and was released in 2000 long before the current flood of Cowboy Bebop videos.

Title: Super Beast 

A lot of AMV editors like to do at least one live action video.  Several people have done The Matrix.  I decided to do crazy, off the wall, high flying, magic Kung Fu, movies!

I kept the editing simple because there was a lot of action going on in the scenes.  This video is fast, fun, and wildly entertaining as it pays tribute to over the top Kung Fu movies.  

Title:  Try

The song Smoke is packed with so much feeling: sadness, inspiration, isolation I had to pair it with Lain.  Another cool aspect of the song is the way it builds more and more inertia as the song progresses.  I did my best to reflect the confusion and intensity of the song with confusion and intensity of video images.  You'll notice that layers come and go with the flow of the music. I coupled this with ultra smooth transitions to make a very fluid video.

Many people have told me that this is one of the most emotional videos they have ever seen and it is one of my personal favorites. 

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Title: Blue Mercury

Mizuno Ami is a very interesting character.  She is not like the other senshi, she often has a sad, worried look in her eyes, and needs prompting to have fun.  Despite this, her smile and gentle nature makes you feel affectionate toward her.  This video doesn't attempt to dress her up or portray her as a super soldier of love and justice.  It is a very frank, honest look into her character.  Blue is a reference to her personality, not her colors.

This is my most well known and recognized video.  If someone could only see one of my videos, this is the one I would want them to see.  I even got e-mail from a deaf person who liked this video!

Title: Every Breath

You MUST be 18 or older to download this video. It contains mature content and adult situations. NO EXCEPTIONS!

When I saw Perfect Blue for the first time I was utterly amazed.  It's story, it's plot twists, the wonderful direction of the whole thing.  After watching it one evening, I immediately started capturing and editing.  I initially started watching the movie around 8:00pm. By 5:00am this video was done!

This video is incredibly distrubing. It portrays certain things as real and from a very personal perspective of the character. One of the reasons for this videos long absence from my site were several e-mails that I received from women who had been stalked or raped. They found the portrayals in this video a little too realistic. I didn't want to psychologically damage my viewers, so I moved on to other videos. The best way to describe this video is to say I've seen a number of "beat me, rape me, stalk me" Perfect Blue videos. This one is more of an "I've been beaten, I've been raped, I've been stalked" video. None of this is from my personal life, it's all the product of a highly active imagination and a desire to make my portrayals as human and universally understandable as possible. If you want to see a video about my life (at the time it was made) then watch Closer! I was a puppet of cold, heartless, scientists when I made that video. Fortunately, like Key, I was able to escape.

The capture quality of this video is pretty medicore. I actually did a higher quality remake of it recently and discovered that the degraded video quality really added to the mood of the video, so I threw away the clean, new, version and stuck with the degraded old one.

Warning:  Major Evangelion Spoilers!

Title: Crossroads
Video footage:  Serial Experiments Lain, Sailor Moon, Neon Genesis Evangleion, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Transformers
Music:  Bone Thugs -n- Harmony - Tha Crossroads
Completed Winter 1999

What can I say. After being plagued with wrist and hand problems for a long time I was really depressed when I made this video.  But I think it makes a better video when it is based on your feelings and not the fact that you like a particular show or song.

This is another one of my personal favorites.  Not many people catch this video's vibe, but those who do have told me how much it has moved them. Rather than talk about it too much, I'd prefer that you see for your self what it is about.

Title: Sailor Kombat

I did this video just for fun and it came out really well.  I thought it was time for a Sailor Moon video that wasn't set to a love song.   This video is pure action and gets the blood pumping!  Despite the generic song, this video is far from generic.  It is a far different take on Sailor Moon than your used to.

I'll never forget the day this idea came to me. I was driving to work. I used to have a pretty 25 minute rural drive from Hanover to Gettysburg (the historic Civil War town in Pennsylvania) when I worked at Gettysburg College. I got this idea and couldn't wait to get home and start working on it at the end of the day. I listened to the song repeated the whole way home and knew exactly which scenes to go after!

Title: Venus in a Bottle

I've always found Aino Minako/Sailor Venus very inspirational.  She is a caring friend and a brave soldier.  I don't think that she gets all of the attention that she deserves, so I made this video as a tribute to her.  This was the first in what became a series of Sailor Moon tributes.

In this video I tried to differentiate between Minako and Venus.  You will notice that in every fast sequence that goes with the beat the shots are of Venus, while many of the other more flowing scenes are of Minako.  I've always been fascinated with the duality of the characters in Sailor Moon.

Title: Fake! 

This was my first Lain video.  Lain is an interesting show because it has a moving emotional side like I bring out in my video Try, and it has a harsh, cold, dark future side to it that I bring out in this video. 

I've grown a lot since this video and don't consider it one of my better works. I highly recommend watching Try first! To it's credit however, and to the best of my knowledge this was the third Lain video ever made.

RATED NC-17, you must be 18 or older to download!

Title: One Ninja Army
Video footage:  Ninja Scroll
Music:  Rob Zombie-Dragula (Matrix sndtrk remix)
Created Spring 1999

Even though this was an early one it turned out really well.  Originally I did this video to the original Dragula and entered it in Otakon 1999's music video contest, but it got cut due to the volume of entries (probably the sex and violence played a roll too)! I then remixed it with more complex editing and better selected footage to the remix of the song from the Matrix soundtrack.

To my knowledge this was the first Ninja Scroll video. Since then MANY generic action and ninja videos have been made. Don't let your fatigue with generic action videos stop you from download this one. It is far from generic.

Title:  The Reflecting God
Completed:  Fall 1998
Music:  Marylin Mansion - The Reflecting God
Video:  Fist of the North Star (movie)

This was my 2nd video that I made after my Armitage III.  I still wasn't familiar enough with digital video and in trying to reduce the size, I converted my video from 352x240 mjpeg down to 320x240 Indeo 5 which killed the quality (and introduced bad scaling artifacts from Premiere's poor scaling).

Quality issues aside, the editing is horrible by my standards.  After I did my original Blue Monday video and Ninja Scroll, this one feel to the way side and was removed from my site.  I had originally made this video 1997 using 2 VCRs, but the quality was so bad it put it in a chest and forgot about it.

This video has been retired and is no longer available for download.

Title: Hey 3rd, Nice Shot! 

This was my first digital music video.

Despite it's age, this is an OK video (certainly not as bad as most first videos are.)  I look back at some of my older stuff and old stuff of other people and think "did we think those videos were good?"  But I look at this one and actually find it acceptable. I've even considered redoing it.

This video shows the harsh situations that unfolded on Mars through Ross Sylabus's eyes.  Many of the scenes are something that he would have been seeing or thinking first hand.  Other scenes make a point of showing his eyes looking at something.  From the beginning I've always liked having a constant theme or idea throughout my videos.

One more note: Many people ask me what hardware and software, etc. they "need" to do a video. Videos are created by people, not comptuers. The best stuff in the world won't make you any good. I"ve seen great editors work with low end hardware/software and horrible editors who had very high end systems. This video was done on a Pentium 200MMX with 64 megs/ram, Matrox RainbowRunner, 6.4 gig HD, and Premiere 5.0 in 1998. It was pretty poor equipment, but it's only that - equipment.