AMV Blitz and Anime Remix

[Falciferum]

In the beginning there were AMVs, sporadically and chaotically strewn across the internets, some were good, some were not so good and some were just plain stupid.
In 2004 a community rose up with a mission to make order of this chaos, to embark on a project to create, arrange and showcase the very best AMV clips the world had ever seen. The name of this project, "the work which will become a new genre itself" was called AMV Hell (and if you do not recognise that name stop what you are doing immediately and look at this thread). Over three years the AMV Hell community produced 6 complilation videos, between them containing over 700 individual clips. Each are so brilliant they make for compulsive viewing for anyone with so much as even a fragment of anime-fan, internet-geek, video game-nerd or film-buff about their persona.

In the final days of September 2007 the AMV Hell franchise was brought to an end, but it did not leave without potential successors to its AMV empire. Its community split itself in two, AMV Hell bore two children. The works which came to be known as Anime Remix and AMV Blitz.
Both projects are determined to continue the legacy of AMV Hell and both are in bitter rivalry with one another. Both are competing to produce the funnier, cleverer and more epic AMV clips, to become the more worthy heir to AMV Hell and the new king of anime music videos.
One has already released their first compilation, Anime Remix's Mix 1.
Go and watch it, and see what you think.
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tl;dr, Two new AMV projects have emerged to replace AMV Hell:

Anime Remix
animere-mix.com/index.php

AMV Blitz
www.amvblitz.com/forum/

Go check them out, as of yet Anime Remix is the only one of the two to have released anything yet.

[unowen]

On behalf of all at AMV Blitz, I thank you for your support! Our scheduled release is July 14. It has been, and will continue to be much work, but we strive to make it all worth it in the end! And, although we are closed to new submissions, we still invite you to join our community, have a laugh, and be prepared to jion in on our NEXT project!

[Falciferum]

Holy shit, I didn't expect that. Erm, you're welcome.

[unowen]

"Talk of the devil, and the devil he shath appear ~desu."

You'd be surprised how farour eyes and ears go...

However, you will have to surrender that avi, Falciferum. Might you have a larger version?

[Falciferum]

Only very slightly I'm afraid, however this search yielded some interesting results.

[unowen]

Yes, well, I would agree with 'interesting', at least up until page 9. Then, the tag 'disturbing' is used. After that, it goes back to 'interesting'.

[Falciferum]

*looks*
Oh Christ, they animated it as well.

[unowen]

It's the type of thing that makes you want to track down the 'artist' and castrate them with a wooden cooking spoon. But, dismemberment with blunt objects is not the point of this thread (...yet), so it shall be left alone.

In any case, as an update, we have already stopped accepting new submissions, and are essentially done with the first pass of sorting and scrubbing what we have. We are lucky enough to have some veteran AMV Hell editors give us a hand giving us insight (as well as clips), though, we also have had some relative newcomers surprise us with some top-notch stuff! So, we are very excited as to how this is turning out. Hopefully, some of you editors out there will be able to join us for one of our next projects, which will be officially announced sometime closer to the release of this one.

[Maruno]

Is there any particular reason you don't just throw in everything you have? I understand the need for quality control, but do you use every good clip you receive, or just some/most of them (perhaps holding onto some to be used in a later compilation)?

[unowen]

We are trying to use every good clip we have, without TOO many inside jokes (one's where only fans of a particular anime might get the reference. Also, we are trying to make sure they have a decent flow. Pure randomness, in reality, is really not all that funny. If memory serves me well (which it usually doesn't), only one clip comes to mind when I try to think of clips that we decided were good, but would fit better in a later project.

[unowen]

Well, it's the home stretch. Submitters are now waiting anxiously for release along with everyone else. We do have one request, though. We are looking for any volunteers with Maya 2008 to aid in some render farming with our OP. If you would like to help, or know where I can find others that might be interested, please PM me so we can get everything situated. As always, we appreciate your support!