Mirror post...

[absolutedestiny]

This is a mirror of the post I've just made at ink_vids containing my Little Mermaid video. I figured it might interest some others to the new community.

Thanks go to sarahtheboring for setting up this community. It would be nice to see some more non-anime animation videos around and discussed.

So, I figured to commend the occasion I'd repost my video using Disney's The Little Mermaid that I created earlier this year. It's kinda anime inspired as it uses the opening theme from the 3rd season of Card Captor Sakura composed by the ever-talented Yoko Kanno and sung by pop sensation Maaya Sakamoto. Far too well written a song for a simple anime theme imo :)

However, those who aren't familiar with said anime need not worry, it's not particularly important - the main link is that 'CCS' is a magical girl show where a girl transforms to something else, has adventures, has cute animal-like sidekick etc etc. I figured it would be fun seeing this DIsney movie as being a sort of magical girl story too.

This premiered at Jacon in orlando but missed out on the Best Disney award (apparently because I'd already won the Best Video award for my Gunbuster video... oh well, I'm not complaining).

Final note is that this video has a japanese song. Now, as the lyrics were essential to the video (it being a character profile) I decided to subtitle it. When I first posted this video I had optional subs as an extra file but people had trouble viewing the subs and couldn't be bothered, which would have lossed a certain amount of meaning. If you really don't want to see the subs, I have put them in a black border outside the video so they are pretty easy to ignore if you want to.

So, without further ado here's the video:

AbsoluteDestiny - Magical Dreamer (45mb divx5)


EDIT: As the ink vids community was deleted, I managed to recover the post I made there:

So, I figured to commend the occasion I'd repost my video using Disney's The Little Mermaid that I created earlier this year. It's kinda anime inspired as it uses the opening theme from the 3rd season of Card Captor Sakura composed by the ever-talented Yoko Kanno and sung by pop sensation Maaya Sakamoto. Far too well written a song for a simple anime theme imo :)

However, those who aren't familiar with said anime need not worry, it's €not particularly important - the main link is that 'CCS' is a magical girl show where a girl transforms to something else, has adventures, has cute animal-like sidekick etc etc. I figured it would be fun seeing this Disney movie as being a sort of magical girl story too.

This premiered at Jacon in orlando but missed out on the Best Disney award (apparently because I'd already won the Best Video award for my Gunbuster video... oh well, I'm not complaining).

Final note is that this video has a Japanese song. Now, as the lyrics were essential to the video (it being a character profile) I decided to subtitle it. When I first posted this video I had optional subs as an extra file but people had trouble viewing the subs and couldn't be bothered, which would have lossed a certain amount of meaning. If you really don't want to see the subs, I have put them in a black border outside the video so they are pretty easy to ignore if you want to.

So, without further ado here's the video:

AbsoluteDestiny - Magical Dreamer (45mb divx5)

Comments

[permetaform]

Loved the vid! Particular bits I liked was the clip of the male mermaid on "dreads, love and uncertainty" (everything she's expected to want?), and how there was the clip of the ship at :32 with the piano notes chiming in matching the light flickering. Also the clip at :58 with her tugging up on Eric gives me shivers, it works wonderfully with the lyric and the percussive sounds of the song at that point. Same with the percussive at 1:17 heading into the mini-bridge, that shot of her could have been wasted so easily on some other major beat but it's placement here is perfect, same with her transformtation sequence at 1:34. Love how her toes wiggle with the key notes! I also get shivers when the horses jump the gap, and good choice with the pacing of the 2:24 to 2:45 seqence shifting into the introduction with Ursula with the addition of the heavy beat at the bridge. Then the conflict is resolved and then the conclusion, an ending of the story which is very satisfying. Again, great vid! I'm so glad someone's finally vidded the Little Mermaid!

[jingoro.livejournal.com]

That is still one of the utterly best Disney videos I've ever seen.