Uploaded August 2012 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
Unpitched: youtube.com/watch?v=z2GuZcn6qAk&feature=relmfu
Yup, the video I consider to be my crossover 'masterpiece' is here....again XD.
I actually uploaded the unpitched version of this video over a year ago, but didn't get around to pitching it until today. So, to the 200+ countries that have been blocked from seeing this video until now --- I'M SORRRRYYYY!!!!
Still, I'm so annoyed that I had to pitch this. Evanescence sounds horrid with pitching and since I didn't go back into the original Vegas file to just pitch the music (I pitched all of the audio in a new Vegas file because I didn't feel like waiting 2 days for this to render...) Jim sounds like a prepubescent chipmunk TT__TT
Oh well. Enjoy anyway.
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The original description:
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Yes, that's right -- no more fake-outs! After two years in the making Stained is finally here on Youtube as it was meant to be seen: COMPLETED! :D I'm so excited right now you don't even know!
PLOT SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT! READ ONLY AFTER WATCHING!
So, couple of things.
1. Even though there were things I probably could've fixed up a bit in 'Part 1' of Stained, I decided to just leave it alone. Only thing I did was add the "Trespassers!" soundbite I was missing in the first place.
2. I was originally going to include a minute or so of video after the photographs in the credits. It would've had Sinbad as adult Jim, Teen Derek as teen Hogarth, Nita or Chel for Lilo...but I couldn't find anyone for Nani, which is part of why I pitched the idea. I might eventually finish it and upload it as an 'extras' vidlet, but not any time soon.
More stuff:
I think the vid's pretty straightforward; aftermath of a tragedy and how the characters deal. One thing that I know I'll probably get questions about (besides songs/character/movie names...DON'T DO IT OR I WILL SMITE YOU!!!!! AND SMITE YOU GOOD!!! I HAVE CREDITS FOR A REASON!!) will be the 'explosion' scene. It took me a while to figure out how Jim would move on from living in grayscale, mourning his parents and the life he could've had, to moving on and living a new life despite his loss and I decided that there needed to be a definite rupture. And nothing says 'rupture' like explosions, right guys??? Lol, so, on the literal scale you could say Jim discovered one hellova photoalbum and you could wonder on about who put it there...go ahead, wonder away! OR, look at it on a symbolic level, which is how I intended it to be. So, while Jim is looking at the place where he found his parents' bodies he experiences what I'm calling 'a collision of memories' (aka the blue sparkly bits). The last thing he remembers is when his parents brought Hogarth home for the first time, how happy he was to be a big brother and how proud his parents were of him. That's when Jim realizes how important it is for him to love and cherish the family he does have (Hogarth) rather than hold onto the family he's lost. Also, I tried (well, not 'tried', to be honest it happened by accident XD) to give that whole part (explosion to Jim floating down) a 'death, heaven and rebirth' feeling because I feel like his old self had to die in order for him to be able to begin again.
Oh, and a little bit on Nani and Lilo. My favourite girl to pair with Jim is Audrey, but I found Lilo and Nani to be the perfect pair for the brothers since, in the movie, the sisters also grow up dealing with the loss of their parents. I saw Jim and Hogarth and Nani and Lilo as two halves of a family that, together, make up a new whole one :)
Anyway, that's all I can think of for now. Laters!
~NS
Unpitched: youtube.com/watch?v=z2GuZcn6qAk&feature=relmfu
Yup, the video I consider to be my crossover 'masterpiece' is here....again XD.
I actually uploaded the unpitched version of this video over a year ago, but didn't get around to pitching it until today. So, to the 200+ countries that have been blocked from seeing this video until now --- I'M SORRRRYYYY!!!!
Still, I'm so annoyed that I had to pitch this. Evanescence sounds horrid with pitching and since I didn't go back into the original Vegas file to just pitch the music (I pitched all of the audio in a new Vegas file because I didn't feel like waiting 2 days for this to render...) Jim sounds like a prepubescent chipmunk TT__TT
Oh well. Enjoy anyway.
~
The original description:
~
Yes, that's right -- no more fake-outs! After two years in the making Stained is finally here on Youtube as it was meant to be seen: COMPLETED! :D I'm so excited right now you don't even know!
PLOT SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT! READ ONLY AFTER WATCHING!
So, couple of things.
1. Even though there were things I probably could've fixed up a bit in 'Part 1' of Stained, I decided to just leave it alone. Only thing I did was add the "Trespassers!" soundbite I was missing in the first place.
2. I was originally going to include a minute or so of video after the photographs in the credits. It would've had Sinbad as adult Jim, Teen Derek as teen Hogarth, Nita or Chel for Lilo...but I couldn't find anyone for Nani, which is part of why I pitched the idea. I might eventually finish it and upload it as an 'extras' vidlet, but not any time soon.
More stuff:
I think the vid's pretty straightforward; aftermath of a tragedy and how the characters deal. One thing that I know I'll probably get questions about (besides songs/character/movie names...DON'T DO IT OR I WILL SMITE YOU!!!!! AND SMITE YOU GOOD!!! I HAVE CREDITS FOR A REASON!!) will be the 'explosion' scene. It took me a while to figure out how Jim would move on from living in grayscale, mourning his parents and the life he could've had, to moving on and living a new life despite his loss and I decided that there needed to be a definite rupture. And nothing says 'rupture' like explosions, right guys??? Lol, so, on the literal scale you could say Jim discovered one hellova photoalbum and you could wonder on about who put it there...go ahead, wonder away! OR, look at it on a symbolic level, which is how I intended it to be. So, while Jim is looking at the place where he found his parents' bodies he experiences what I'm calling 'a collision of memories' (aka the blue sparkly bits). The last thing he remembers is when his parents brought Hogarth home for the first time, how happy he was to be a big brother and how proud his parents were of him. That's when Jim realizes how important it is for him to love and cherish the family he does have (Hogarth) rather than hold onto the family he's lost. Also, I tried (well, not 'tried', to be honest it happened by accident XD) to give that whole part (explosion to Jim floating down) a 'death, heaven and rebirth' feeling because I feel like his old self had to die in order for him to be able to begin again.
Oh, and a little bit on Nani and Lilo. My favourite girl to pair with Jim is Audrey, but I found Lilo and Nani to be the perfect pair for the brothers since, in the movie, the sisters also grow up dealing with the loss of their parents. I saw Jim and Hogarth and Nani and Lilo as two halves of a family that, together, make up a new whole one :)
Anyway, that's all I can think of for now. Laters!
~NS
