Anime Mix AMV | Kirito vs. the DM | DopplerDo (1.5 HOUR EDIT) DopplerDo 2019-11-19 | AMV MADE LIVE IN 90 mins at Kumoricon 2019! That is a terrifyingly short period of time to make ANYTHING, but we pulled off a win, folks! Tasha Livingstone and Vancore made really good videos, too. I'll add them here when they throw them up!Check out Tasha's AMV: youtu.be/yArw2mhcGacTheme: Dungeons & DragonsAudio: "Dungeons and Dragons" by Mann Shorts (youtu.be/RihNxr0TH9g)Secret sauce: Fruits Basket (lol wat!!!!)So for context, my projects usually average 60-ish hours each, so being asked to make an AMV like this with a secret sauce I don't get to see until that 90 mins clock starts, is 2.5% the time or the equivalent of being asked to work 40x faster. We're all allowed notes and at the top of my notes it said "Editing style: bat out of HELL" to remind me I have zero time to look back. Ha I'm sure I accidentally used more than 10% overlord by giving him a little extra time at the end, but I had no time to check at all, so lol sorry if those accidental seconds went into DQ territory; it wasn't on purpose :p.Much love to the subs, as always!
Re:Zero AMV | Anything You Like | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2023-05-22 | Re:zero AMV about the king of all isekai simps, Subaru Nastuki. If you do not know, Subaru can go back in time to a "save point" to win the heart of a girl named Emilia. He tries multiple personas and actions to gain her affection and on the rare times he does, he is unfairly sent back to the save point to try again under different circumstances.Hello special, below-the-fold, there's-gotta-be-more-words, I-am-the-smasher-of-read-more-links subs. I'm glad you're here :). This one just started as a way to goof off with a silly concept, but when I produced it for an exclusive contest for editors, RICE 2023, it pretty much hit a solid 5-ish out of 10 lol. That bugged me enough to keep it around and work on it a lot more just to push it up the points ladder. It will never be a 10 out of 10, but I didn't want it to die in obscurity just because I was complacent :p.I'm working on two pretty serious projects and one experimental one that I look forward to publishing. I might do an AMA editing sesh soon just to say hey and give away any and all secrets. I hope you guys are so well it makes other people reject their gods because they are not doing quite as well lmao. Enjoy the great weather, everyone!
SakuraCon Iron Editor 2023 | The Fast and the Furriest | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2023-04-11 | I was very honored to be able to compete against @Xophilarus in the beautifully ridiculous SakuraCon Iron Editor competition where we get ~5 eps of each source (Aggretsuko, Beastars, BNA, Odd Taxi, and Boy & The Beast) and a secret sauce sprung on us (Bluey). We edited live for two hours in front of an audience and then had our videos judged. Mine ended up winning, but whew was it close with Xophi as an opponent. I'll link to their video when it is posted on YT :).Thanks to the peeps who came to SakuraCon and either came up to me in person or found a way to let me know you enjoyed watching it!
Re:Zero AMV | A Goldfish Wouldnt Love You Twice | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2022-10-30 | Schizophrenic Re:Zero AMV about dying relentlessly for a woman who has to learn to love you from scratch over and over again. It's a dark romance that flips from elation to paranoid insanity -- just like the series itself and a little like life itself XD.This one has a lot of very subtle techniques to keep a native look and feel despite the AMV being very feverishly paced. I hope you enjoy it -- it was a really tough narrative to pull off haha.This one also won the AWA Accolades Best Romance award if you know what that exclusive competition is. It's pretty brutally judged so it's really an honor.Thanks for checking this shiz out and reading my hidden descriptions in general. May you enjoy the most lit of lives XD!
Utena AMV | Love Is Not a Victory March | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2022-10-30 | Revolutionary Girl Utena AMV about how love will bring you to your knees.This absolutely beautiful song has a lot in common with the metaphors behind Utena's plot. At its core, Hallelujah is about how faith in God can be the final refuge for a man swallowed by a quiet desperation. God is frequently called upon in this song, but he does not answer. God is the last hope for salvation, but the evidence of his absence mounts all the while. In Utena, the main character (Utena, uh duhhh), sees the prince that saves her as a child as a near-religious figure. She idolizes the prince so much that she overlooks his role in enslaving and torturing Anthy and accepts it as necessary for the world of Otori. As she gets older, she is more critical and rejects the idea that Anthy cannot (or should not) be saved at her own extreme personal risk. Like God in this song, the prince is not coming to save Utena or Anthy, and the meaning of Hallelujah warps into a cold, desperate wish for a happy ending, a tree branch rapping on the warm window of God, aggressively tapping telegrams to no one.On a personal note, this is my daughter's favorite song by a long shot. I put this on in the car ONCE and from that point on she wanted to hear it all the time. Every night when I put her to bed, we sing the entire song together, her eyes peeking out in wonder from under a warm fuzzy blanket. She is 2 and she knows the words to every verse. "She tied you to the kitchen chair -- she broke your throne and she cut your haaaaiiir" is her favorite lyric, haha. There is no floor under the ocean of love I have for her.Thanks for letting me delay the launch of this one by two months so it could complete in the exclusive AWA Accolades competition. It won Best Drama! Thanks for all the love and for coming back to watch more AMVs you beautiful subs! Have a kickass Halloween tomorrow!
(Childhood AMV) Video Girl Ai AMV | This Moment | DopplerDoMini DopplerDo 2022-08-25 | (Made by 13 year-old DopplerDo - DopplerDoMini)Starting with the most heartfelt throwback AMV I never released. Video Girl Ai was one of the first anime I watched outside of the standard Toonami circuit of Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, Tenchi, and a few others. I really liked it. I was/am a sucker for meaningful intertwining of romance drama and metaphorical supernatural elements.If I'm being honest, anime has always influenced what I think about love. Love, to me, is an intense, grand kind of force. It overcomes insane obstacles by nature, but not necessarily easily. I'll spare you the monologue, but I have a wife and a daughter that I give absolutely everything to and even in exhaustion, I couldn't be happier. It's not something easily put into words, but I am so grateful to be engulfed by it each day :).Anyway, this is kind of borne from that early middle school budding thought. Enjoy while I cringe over here in the corner!
Madoka AMV | Eat Our Words | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2022-05-14 | Sayaka AMV about dying for a boy who doesn't love you back (and making friends along the way)!Sayaka's story has always been one of the most brutal in the Makoda series, in my opinion. Sayaka unknowingly exchanges her soul (and is effectively actually dead from that point on) so a boy she has a crush on can heal his arm and play violin again. This boy has no serious interest in Sayaka and promptly forgets about her. Just to stay semi-alive, she has to continually fight witches for eternity. Hell, she even gets imprisoned in a world of illusions in the timelines where she doesn’t get so lost she turns into a witch herself. Freaking brutal.This AMV bounces back and forth between the abject reality Sayaka’s decisions put her in and the lighthearted approach to fighting witches she adopts when she gets used to it. It wasn’t easy to make so I hope you enjoy it 😄Also, as always, you subs rock. I am always shocked someone, say, sees my AMV at a convention competition, likes it enough to vote for it, then thinks about it long enough to find it on YouTube, and then just feels like they still have to leave me a comment just to say something directly to me. I find that absolutely heartwarming and truly kind. So I love all of you back. I hope you’re living it up and kicking ass out in the real world!
Arcane AMV | Worth the Weight | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2022-04-11 | Arcane Vi AMV about the crushing weight of picking up Vander's legacy, charting her own path in a new era, and saving Jinx at the same time.This Vi AMV represents a real turning point in my style, in my opinion. It is heavily rooted in the lessons learned from "What We Mean When We Say We'd Give Up Everything" and the experiment, "HUMANS WIN." Both of these helped me understand how to deliver complexity and speed without overloading your eyes/brain in, what was for me at the time, an extreme song challenge. "Worth the Weight" is about applying the same principles, but with a much stronger plot line and emotional depth. It's actually a relatively hokey song from Encanto, the Disney musical, but interpreted in a very serious way for Vi. It has been an absolute pleasure to grow into this kind of project. There is a long way to go for me and that is the best part. I hope you try your hand at something creative and get hooked because it's a crazy ride XP.A very huge thank you to Xophi for the truly exhaustive beta testing. We did a full mind-meld to bring this to you. Xophilarus is a very talented editor (and with a refreshingly different style than me) that you should check out. Their channel is here: youtube.com/user/Xophilarus (have fun)
Jujutsu Kaisen AMV | HUMANS WIN | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2022-03-17 | HUMANS WIN is a Jujutsu AMV centered around justified, good-guy hubris. It's just a fun ride with some deeper meaning if you've seen the series.Jujutsu Kaisen was a show I initially avoided because it was instantly popular and heavily promoted everywhere, but... it's actually really good. It's the first series I've seen in a long time where the good guys genuinely have the upper hand nearly all of the time. It's something I didn't even realize I liked. It's snappy and plot driven. The second you think "I wish X dude would fight Y dude," the series delivers that exact second. Check it out if you haven't.(hiding this just for you :p)This project was a completely unmeditated one. I did not hear this song and think "this HAS to be a Jujutsu Kaisen AMV because it's sooooo perfect." In fact, you'll probably hate the song. It's really grown on me. I've come to appreciate all the snaps and turns in the rhythms and how absolutely relentless its pacing is. It's actually kind of the worst song to pick for an AMV in a way because of that. But that's why I picked it. Fast epic rap is something I know next to nothing about how to accomplish and I just wanted to get really frustrated by something lol. So this was just a fun challenge that I spent a good amount of time on, but it did not come out perfectly. "And that's OK," DopplerDo says to himself over and over expecting it to be true.See you with the next one soon! Also, thanks to all my subscribers. I have a pretty good memory of a ton of comments you've all made and a lot of them ping my brain while I work, whether it's criticism or what you think I do really well. Sometimes in a bout of frustration it can reset my attitude, so thanks y'all for realizing I'm a human and taking the time to go YO WHAT IS UPPPPP DOPP! XD
Jujutsu Kaisen AMV | No One Else Here Will Save You | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2021-11-01 | Jujutsu Kaisen AMV about Yuji's internal struggle to stay alive at the expense of others and his own sanity.In moments when it's a little slower than you might expect (I can hear you yelling at me to give you more punchy-punchy), it's a purposeful detachment from the visuals you might expect and I'm hoping you connect with Yuji's emotional complexity instead. The idea is that he is fighting to keep his innocence and he is slowly losing until he relies on Sukuna as a habit.As always, love you subs. Weird stuff coming soon!
Madoka AMV | Prayer from a Church on Fire | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2021-07-18 | Madoka AMV about the insanity that comes with going back in time to save a friend over and over.This one started as a MEP piece for keiichiface's birthday and just sat in my head poking me, wanting to be made into a real thing. If you like the music, it's really troubleclef with the good taste.Anyway, Madoka was something I had to watch a while back for a competition and the first three episodes almost made me puke rainbows, but the fourth episode really surprised me with how dark it gets. The whole premise of going back in time over and over to save someone who you can't save, who you have to not only watch die every time, but also have to put through abject, catastrophic misery, was pretty interesting. Homura gets so insane she's willing to rip Madoka's soul to save a piece of her innocence. Interesting show if you like being whipsawed :P.As always, I hope you fine subs are going really well. I hope you like what I'm about to put in the oven ;)!
Draft Mode: What We Mean When We Say Wed Give Up Everything DopplerDo 2021-07-06 | You subs asked for it and you got it! Here is a draft mode look at What We Mean When Oh My God I Am Still Reading a Title WTF. I hope it's interesting at this higher level. A detailed breakdown would be insane -- I might just do an AMA where that's on the table since I have no idea how to illustrate keyframe city without boring the hell out of you LOL. Keyframe city though is a paradise to me :p.Let me give you some quick things that you might conclude watching this:1. I almost always prototype -- meaning I slap the song on and throw things I've been thinking about down pretty quickly. When I have no ideas for a section, I just let a previous clip run long in case there's something that pops up and I get lucky. It's a hedge against ever thinking I'm too clever.2. After a good chunk of work, when I feel really attached to what I created, I duplicate the sequence in Adobe Premiere and call it something like "Draft 7 - brutality" to give myself permission to cut scenes I'm afraid of or try something different. If I massively fail, I know I can always just reopen Draft 6 like it was a save point. I've done this like 1,000 times and I have only gone back to a previous draft less than 10 times. It's crazy how often what I'm scared to do is exactly what I need to do. IRL I always define freedom as "being able to completely f*** up with literally zero consequences." This is just the editing version of that.3. I work primarily in sections -- this is mostly about how I focus, but musical phrasing is super important to me and it's a pain in the ass to carefully change two overlapping sections rather than approach them separately (most of the time).4. Again, iteration is way more powerful than inspiration. I enjoy the period of total suck before finding what works. Once I get into a groove and start making good pieces, there's no going back to the period of suck, which has it's own thing going. I sometimes laugh out loud at how bad an idea turns out and that is FUN to me.If you got this far reading, I really hope you're editing a lot yourself. If you're a smaller channel than I am feeling like you have to blast your AMV everywhere to get like 45 views, I implore you to enjoy the period of slow ramp-up. I really loved having 400 subs and knowing almost all of them individually and at 1K, it's absolutely great in a different way, but it's wholly different, even though a channel with only cats farting would have 4M subs. Enjoy the goddamn ride, you magnificent animal. You were not put on this Earth to count views!
Kill La Kill AMV | Heat Rises | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2021-05-26 | Kill la Kill AMV about clawing your way to the top no matter what.This idea came up randomly in an IC with TroubleClef and Sean.PNG and I got pumped to remake it without a crazy time constraint. I had a freaking blast making this and just had to share it with you XD)))))))
Experimental AMV | Fire and Wet Grass | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2021-05-22 | Are the new viewers gone yet?So I know this isn't what you're expecting, but I published this just to show you something quietly personal. I made this May 21, 2020 when my newborn daughter had finally fallen asleep next to me. I wanted to make something that was more like the first AMV I ever made. I remember opening some bunk simple editing program way back when with a handful of random anime clips I found on the internet, slapped a song I loved on the timeline and then just threw those clips at it and hit play. Lol the video was pure garbage because there was almost no editing (like this one), but I can't begin to express how deeply I was moved by it. You'd have to wait like 2 whole minutes, but then I'd see something click with the music by pure luck and it made my teenage heart knock against my ribs. I kinda knew then I would always love making AMVs.To be totally honest I work really hard on these things just hoping that after making 100 of these, I have a chance inspiring just a few people to open up some random free program and start making cool AMV themselves. Haha, I don't even know you but I do deeply care about you, which is why I respond to like 99% of years' worth of comments :).Let me just spell out what I like about this video though, because I know that watching a crazy raw AMV like this can be super lame if you didn't make it yourself:0:16 the muted explosive sound in the music matches the first firework0:33 the off-sync dragging against the music makes the moments going by more meaningful0:49 the change in music phrasing the second the two are alone, with the strings coming in, plays on an invisible tension there.1:00-:04 slow melting of the heart as the piano walks higher1:16 how the trill matches the intention of the hand gesture1:49 warm piano just deepening the sweeping peace2:07 subtlest but tightest sync to the hand gestureSO consider taking 10 minutes to grab some random clips, a song you're into, and slap it into whatever free BS software you have right now. You might not regret it ;)
Utena AMV | Haunted | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2021-04-14 | I recently did an IC with Vars where we had to use the Utena movie, but couldn't shake wanting to use the original series for it, so I made this afterward to get it out of my head :). LOL I don't mean to keep doing Utena XD!
Tamako Market AMV | Heartstring | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2021-02-18 | Tamako Market AMV about overcoming time and painful vulnerability in relationships set to "Cool Girl" by dodie.In dodie's words: "'Cool Girl' is a song about misplaced anger. Stemming from the suppression of communicating your needs in a relationship in order to attempt to be the most chill, cool, and loveable. It's bitter, desperate, frustrated, proud, determined, and unhealthy."I tried to take a break but I missed editing and you fine, fine subs too much. I hope you don't mind if I bust out the guitar around this ol' campfire XD)))!
Tower of God AMV | You Will Fall | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2020-12-24 | Tower of God AMV about a cold moon drawn to a star.Hey glorious subs! I just finished this one and I wanted to get it the heck out to you before the holidays so I didn't hit you with a dramatic AMV while you're having an awesome happy time lol. This is my gift to you all! Hope it's OK early :P!Gotta say 0:34-0:43 was the most fun to make. Actually, damn, it was all really really fun to make. Editing is one of my four main loves. I hope you have something that can grab you and give you and crank out a crazy amount of fun for the effort!
Revolutionary Girl Utena | What We Mean When We Say Wed Give Up Everything | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2020-12-20 | Revolutionary Girl Utena video that gets at the extreme amount of risk that Utena and Anthy take literally leaving everything behind to be with each other. I tried to make this classic fresh again to the best of my ability, but lol you tell me how it shook out XD.I'm not totally sure what to say about this one. You long time subs hopefully know I work super hard (as least as hard as I personally know how) to add to the really cool work within this hobby and as much as I can to the people in it :). This one felt so brutal, I'm still exhausted from it lol. Please enjoy the combo punch of all the techniques I've learned so far :D))))).I love all you crazy subs and I (you're going to have to believe me here) really sincerely hope you had a kickass 2020. I know the pandemic has sucked donkey butt, but I hope you are still fighting the good fight to make it as good as possible for yourself and as many people as you can affect. Here's the best I can do for now! I'll try to get another one out before the year ends because you are all so awesome! Thanks for chilling and checking out my work! I don't take it for granted!!
Psycho Pass AMV | Confessions of a Justified Killer | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2020-09-24 | A Psycho Pass AMV about the twisting of good intentions, tragic circumstance, and an evolving obsession.I always say this, but damn this took everything I had and most every technique I've learned. This song is a longer one with massive builds and Psycho Pass is an intellectual thriller (I totally recommend it btw) that I needed to get really clever with, but the concept really fits, I think, so I had to do it. This was originally for AWA 2020 but as much as I love competing there, I have a very hard time sitting on a completed video because all of YOU are my priority. Even though I know you all have tons of subscriptions to tons of channels--and my stuff is not the center of your world at all lol--I can't tell you guys how awesome it is to have you guys signed up to see my next AMV. 800 subs is way more than enough. I'll keep busting my butt to help breathe more life into this kind of niche hobby :p! Also, if you're one of the thousands of drifters, I love you, too; I just wouldn't loan you any money sry XD!
Beyond the Boundary AMV | Everything I Wanted | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2020-05-31 | Beyond the Boundary AMV about love and appreciation peeking through a thick fog of depression, mostly inline with Billie Eilish's original intentions for the song.For about a year or more, I've been really experimenting with what sync even is. Hard cuts are better than any fancy transition when they're used well, but even so, the reason the camera shake preset editors get so much unwarranted praise is because, even if a hard cut is appropriate, anyone can do it -- sync is thoroughly commoditized and dead as a differentiator at this point tbh. Internal sync, where like an arm moves to a beat, rather than a cut, is only a slight improvement and it can't be used as often as needed. Even moreover, fanciness for the sake a fanciness is an obvious cover for mediocre editing; it has to be really brutally tied to a concept to have any real artistic meaning. People will give views to fanciness, but won't stop to remember who you are if that's all you employ.So in this brutal world (this brutality is why I love amvs so much), I made this to experiment with serious integration of sync styles and fanciness all tethered tightly to a somewhat ironic narrative. It's just an attempt to catch up to people already pulling this off well -- BioticAMVs comes to mind right away. As always, there are literally no presets or plugins in this. Every scene was color corrected from scratch and was handled as carefully as I know how. After "Carry Me Home," where I tried to remaster every scene (lol try making 480p look decent in 1080p sometime, esp. Naruto :p), I've really started to understand how light and colors work in general. But that said, I'm just starting to understand and this is just a humble attempt at meeting the brutal expectations of the amv world where no one cares who you are unless you hit a 9.5/10. LOL now troll me XD!
Beyond the Boundary AMV | Died In Your Arms | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2020-05-30 | Kyokai no Kanata AMV about the wild pain of rejection after sacrificing everything for someone. It goes against the fluffy plot of the series so I hope you enjoy the twisty plot twist!
K-On! AMV | I Was a Rockstar | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2020-05-02 | K-On! AMV about the wild magic of stepping up to the plate and chasing your dreams.I actually only took a look at this anime because I know shorisquared likes it so much and I pretty much made it for him :p. This was super hard to make because the characters spend most of their time eating cake around tables lol, but I tried to focus on the heart of the anime: how meaningful it is to start something, dream recklessly, and conquer your fear of performing/sharing.On another note, I am just one dude in the universe, so this is totally subjective, but out of the millions of strategies out there for achieving your dreams, I feel like this is the only one you need to remember:1. Figure out what would be fun to accomplish2. Ask yourself what you would *give* to achieve it (e.g. I would give 1 hour a day, etc.)3. Be generousMuch love to you all and good luck with your own unique dreams!P.S. I hope this raises awareness for Claudio's awesome music! Watch her perform this some live for TEDx here: youtu.be/q5yxIzs5Wug. I actually randomly stumbled across this talk and clicked because I looked at the title and was like "Hey, that's what I try to do" and I got sucked in :p.
Draft Mode: Starboy | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2020-04-21 | Hey everyone! I get some private messages about editing and what I often struggle to communicate is that 1) there is a lot of iteration, more than inspiration, and 2) understanding how other editors think is more important than absorbing their single-use techniques.Let me know if this is helpful to you editors on the channel or if there are any other videos you'd like this view on. I keep all my sequential drafts :p.This isn't for views. It's just an attempt to give back a little bit :p
Sekko Boys AMV | Hope as a Business Model | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2020-04-20 | Do you subs think I wouldn't be here for you on this HISTORIC day??? I have -- look me in the eyes, you beautiful animal -- I. have. your. back. Hope it's OK if I brought the boys.So came up with this idea in March and I literally thought "what's the worst thing I could edit to?" Boom. I used the first popular motivational track I found, then "what's the literal worst source for this?" Boom. Sekko Boys. Hands down.Now, SEKKO BOYS is the WORST LOW BUDGET ANIME I HAVE EVER SEEN! I only had it on my hard drive because of the first ever Kumoricon Battle Royale 2017 when Sekko Boys was my secret sauce: youtu.be/xlStRFsZ6L0. The camera almost never moves, the CHARACTERS never really move, and I had to warp the crap out of the plot to make this narrative work. LOL I actually got so sucked into composition and light, I had to take a step back and remind myself this is a 4/20/20 AMV.Also, please subscribe so I can finally realize my dream of making $0.P.S. If you're looking for something to watch ironically on this fine day, Sekko Boys is not a bad option XP!
Revolutionary Girl Utena AMV | Starboy | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2020-04-16 | Revolutionary Girl Utena AMV about losing ego, attachments, and deep trauma in the pursuit of freedom and agency.Utena is story that doesn't really live in its plot line, but rather in the depth of its esoteric metaphors that a viewer has to decipher themselves. Every character is living in a heavily controlled world, victims of their perceived roles and sense of confidence within them, and at some point have had innocence violently ripped from them. Everyone seems to want to go back to a time where they last felt control except Utena and Anthy who conspire to break free at any cost without knowing what's beyond (and we don't get to know either). Its my opinion that Utena and other characters can transform into cars because it's a metaphor for using your own power and how necessary it sometimes is to strip most of yourself away to abandon a poisonous world. I really tried to stay true to the artists' metaphors, but be as inventive as I could at the same time.*you still here?*I gotta say I first thought this song was a really typical bombastic song, but when you really listen to the lyrics, it's about an artist who is so bogged down by materialism, drug use, and a fear that he's too far down that road to climb back out. He's actually turning on his fans and blaming them while simultaneously mocking them, hence the "ha, ha, ha" chorus and starting the whole song off by saying, "I'm trying to put you in the worst mood." Interesting and gutsy move for an artist.I hope this concept is fun for you to think about. It was crazy intimidating to start this and I gave it more of my energy than any video so far. I plan to keep having to say that ;).Quick thanks to all my amazing subs that get this far. I want to let you know that I don't ever ask you to subscribe or like things because I really respect that fact that you know how to freaking use YouTube lol, but honestly, 669 (nice) subscribers is more than enough. I don't tie my ego up into that count; I'm genuinely excited to hear from every one of you :D! Stay safe out there and make your first AMV in lockdown! Join the club :)))))))!
Howls Moving Castle AMV | Times Gone | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2020-03-20 | Haha alright here you go! -- drive.google.com/open?id=1oXOFko8gD8d14Zgvt2Ed_XYfvHLEsRH4An obligatory thank you to bensound.com for the bad elevator music :p.If you don't know, this is a parody of zombo.com!
Revolutionary Girl Utena AMV | No Choice | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2020-02-09 | Revolutionary Girl Utena AMV about love, betrayal, and ending up right where you started despite tremendous effort to leave.Haha I don't want to nerd out too hard, but I made this around the idea of a literal revolution, as in one complete rotation. Even though that's not technically what "revolution" means in the Japanese anime title, it's a really strong motif in the series: the endless dueling, the chicken-and-the-egg problem with the world Akio wants born, etc. That's why it starts out with a record player and a carosel, and why it ends the way it started :p.The awesome music is from Pomplamoose and ft. Andie Case. I've been really getting into Pomplamoose in the last year and you should definitely watch them perform it here: youtu.be/bgAIPwTlnHg I was inspired by the funky creative energy they all have :DAs always, you subs that get down here are the best! Thanks for taking a minute to listen to what I have to say in the middle of your glorious YouTube spiral :p. Stay classy, subs.#amv #utena
Naruto AMV | Carry Me Home | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2020-01-03 | Naruto AMV about the immense pressure on Naruto's shoulders as he tries to get Sasuke back from Orochimaru and Obito, deliver on his promise to Sakura, and repair team 7's relationships at the same time.Wow have I wanted to make a Naruto AMV like this for a very long time. I had an absolute blast making it. More importantly, HAPPY NEW YEAR +2, you awesome subs! Thank you x9000 for hanging out and watching my stuff!A million thanks to BioticAMVs for the seriously great beta. Feedback is one of the most powerful things on this planet XD!So you like descriptions, brah?
Madoka Magica AMV | Stockholm | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2019-11-07 | I've had this idea for a while and finally got around to it :p. I put a lot of thought into this one and hope you enjoy it!
Death Note AMV | Stomp Me Out | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2019-11-06 | I loved making this Death Note AMV! Death note is in my top 3 anime series of all time, so please watch it right now if you haven't had your mind bent by it yet.
Death Note AMV | Far From Any Road | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2019-11-03 | Visually inventive Death Note AMV that tracks the creeping disillusionment of Light until it consumes him entirely.This AMV emulates the original True Detective opening with it's excessive picture-in-picture style overlays (often double exposure). When I started this project, this seemed like a massive challenge, but hey, 12 drafts later I was sad to finish it and move on. I learned so much about narrative, color blending, and balancing a viewer's focus with the visual complexity I wanted to stuff in every second.I made this for Anime Weekend Atlanta, which is an exclusive contest, so I've had to sit on this since the deadline months ago. It was super frustrating keeping this from my illustrious subs, but hey it's here now, and more will be coming in fast :p!
Cowboy Bebop AMV | Shame of Life | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2019-06-29 | "Once, there was a tiger striped cat. This cat, died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives. And he had various owners that he didn't really care about, the cat wasn't afraid to die. Then ONE day, he met a white female cat, the two of them fell in love and lived together happily. Well, the years went by and the white female cat got old and passed away. The Tiger Striped cat cried a million times, then he also died. But this time.....he didn't come back."Oh hey subs, some subtle things no one will think about unless I point them out:1:08 - This is all three of the famous Julia falling death scenes combined -- these are so common that I wanted to do something new with them. The way Julia's hair curls around Spike's fingers like ripples moving away was deliberate -- an added layer to the neglected rose in the puddle motif. Pause here and just check out how the colors interact in a rad way.1:13 "Hiding in the bushes" - lol i just like that this worked out in a cute way1:18 "Like a bullet in the freezer" - Vincent is an extremely talented soldier who was trapped on the icy hellscape of Titan and forgotten -- something dangerous kept in long-term storage. The freezer spinning into space after was icing on the cake. That freezer scene needed to be used in at least one Cowboy Bebop AMV.3:52 -- This ending text doesn't actually appear in Cowboy Bebop, but it's one of my favorite monologues that really serves as an self-referencing allegory. I tried to make it have the same feel as the stuff that's in the series.Watch the rest of the Cowboy Bebop AMV Quadrilogy!Down the Road: youtu.be/0wvvk6tpJ0IThe BEAT: Side A: youtu.be/VWxf6wIf4s8Desperado: youtu.be/JwFQLAFBP1AThanks for coming to my TED talk ;p!
Ghost in the Shell AMV | Between Two Worlds | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2019-04-26 | Alright, so this is actually an homage to one of the first AMVs I ever saw when I was like 11 years old: "Beyond Good and Evil" by Sailor Death Productions (I can tell from the name that middle school was rough for this person, too lol :p). Link: youtu.be/L4cXG1XeyaoIt's super basic by today's standards, but it really inspired me to start thinking about making AMVs myself and I've had a desire to make my own updated AMV to this old song with Ghost in the Shell.Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Sakura Con 2019 Opening Ceremonies AMV | High Hopes | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2019-04-19 | Hey, everyone! I made this anime mix AMV for the Sakura Con 2019 Opening Ceremony. I set it to drop at the same time that it plays at the actual convention, so hey, you're watching it with me and the crowd! Sakura Con is awesome -- my hometown con -- so let's get HYPED :p!Lol I had to work with pretty random sources (I tried to prioritize the animes that the convention panelists are from), but I tried to add that sweet emotional friction that keeps you from knowing just how to feel exactly. If you want to space out (and many people will because they're with their awesome friends), it totally works as fluff, but if you know the anime backstories, there's some emotional depth for you to have intellectual fun with :p. The song is upbeat and about ambition, but it also tries to weave in some really serious themes, so heck let's make it sad sometimes :p.But in the end, I'm just trying to do a quick favor for the kick-ass folks at Sakura Con. They work so hard and this opening video is likely to be the least impressive thing at the opening ceremony compared to all they've done. If you have time to thank the staff and coordinators in general, please do :)! Oh, and if you're AT Sakura Con this year, I'll be there, too! Let's chill!
BNHA AMV | Cant Stop Me Now | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2019-04-16 | This was my original BNHA AMV idea before "New Kings." Lol can you tell I am not the biggest fan of Midoriya-based AMVs :p? I mean "Pure White Gold" (made by the talented Sean.PNG) came out and that's the ceiling, folks. There's nothing else to do with Deku :p.I really tried to keep this tight and relatively raw to align with Bakugo's personality. His rise to greatness is a slow burn in the series and its often spurred on by his frustration with those around him and I tried to focus on that.
BNHA AMV | New Kings | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2019-02-24 | A BNHA AMV that takes a sharp turn and focuses on the bad guys. LOL guys this was so crazy technical in the subtlest possible ways. I almost miss working on The BEAT: Side A :p.Shoutout to rgb who inspired me to give camera blur a fair shake. It was a lot of fun to learn the unique constraints it has.As always, I love all of you subs. You're a bunch of beautiful, filthy animals XD! Here's my soul in the shape of a 3mins AMV :p
Monogatari AMV | Give It Up | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2019-02-07 | A Monogatari AMV that just goes nuts. I really loved all the crazy work that went into this. I hope you find it pretty fun :D!Dear all subs: you are crazy awesome! I am super grateful that you come check out what new shiz I'm up to :P.
Madoka Magica AMV | Going Under | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2019-01-10 | A Madoka Magica AMV that I hope actually makes sense lol. Madoka is so psychologically complicated and some of the metaphors and motifs are so buried that it's really difficult to just tell a good story, especially when lyrics force a particular arc, but I gave it my best. So yeah, no super fancy effects like in "The BEAT: Side X" -- just an attempt at capturing the psychological pain of Homura as she slides toward being the literal embodiment of evil as she tries to rescue Madoka and let her (or at least a piece of her) live a normal life at any cost.
Madoka Magica AMV | Hard Reset | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2018-12-09 | Puella Magi Madoka Magica is honestly well worth your time. I highly recommend this series despite the fact that the very last thing I would normally watch is a magical girl anime.1) The art is extremely risky for a studio to produce and I love that they said screw it this is the kind of art we want to make, and 2) it's a clever subversion of the standard magical girl (or mahou shoujo) genre that hasn't changed much since the Sailor Moon days. It takes about 3 episodes to start making you say "wait, where the hell is this going?" but the wait is worth it in my opinion.I actually only watched this series because I competed in Kumoricon's 2018 Battle Royale and the theme was "Magic and Mayhem" (secret link to my 2 hour live edit here: youtu.be/8EikGNuWlxc). As a grown man my reaction to the theme was youtu.be/31g0YE61PLQ, but I saw that Madoka was on the list of sources I could use and I'd very recently started watching the Anime Crimes Division which references it in the first minute here (youtu.be/F2BT-cK2ZG4), so I sat down to watch it just to know what I was working with. After about episode 4, it pretty much hooked me, so I can't help but recommend it.Lol sorry about ALL of the links I just made you click on, but here are some more. I want to give a quick shout-out to my editor friends that donated a good chunk of their time to give me solid feedback:BecauseImBored1 (her channel: youtube.com/user/BecauseImBored1)Xophilarus (her channel: youtube.com/user/Xophilarus)TheDestineeAMV (her channel: youtube.com/user/TheDestinie22)SliceOfLife (her channel: youtube.com/user/SnapDiddly -- [haha what, "SnapDiddly?" XD] -- live beta on an old version here: twitch.tv/videos/343939745)If you don't know the above editors, you really should check them out. I'm subscribed to them all.Happy holidays, you beautiful subs! Quick shout out to AngelMaeVictory for all the support, UpturnTheUncool for crazy helpful feedback, NinjaEdits and Ultimate Saber for always watching vids literally the second I publish, and Anthony Smallen and his Bebop crew that started a "DOPP-LER-DO" chant when I edited live at Kumoricon 2018 (lol you guys rock :p).
DopplerDo Kumoricon 2018 Battle Royale - 2 Hour Edit DopplerDo 2018-10-29 | MADE LIVE IN TWO HOURS - THE YEARS. KEEP. COMING......Secret sauce turned out to be 3 random episodes of Dragon Ball Super :p. We found out at the top of the competition lol. Love Iron Editors :D!
Anime Mix AMV | The BEAT: Side B | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2018-10-01 | Hey guys I thought I would also upload the original the BEAT AMV that premiered at AWA Pro 2018. This one is a lot different, but you can see how it ultimately evolved into Side A. This one is really a much more upbeat, irreverent version of Side A and it has a silent movie scene and a good drum solo I really liked making.Let me know which is better: side A or side B! Any hey, you have your favorite no matter which one is better :p!Shout-out to Kireblue who suggested I release both under "Side A" and "Side B!"
Cowboy Bebop AMV | The BEAT: Side A | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2018-09-30 | I've probably put more mental energy into this video than any to-date and I think it turned out well, though I'm super curious as to how I could have made this better, so feel free to tell me :p.This was originally an entirely different AMV that I submitted to AWA Pro 2018, which had a much more Upbeat feel, but I got some awesome criticism that I went overboard jumping from different anime to anime and I took that heart and started (mostly) over with straight Cowboy Bebop. So, this is side A -- the video that came out on top -- but I will upload Side B soon so you can see what the original looked like. I honestly like them both quite a bit -- Side B has a pretty sick drum solo in it I'm pumped to share.Anyway, as always, you guys rock. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my vids. I realize you have lives and it's pretty cool that you're here reading this description. Thanks for stopping by and feel free to holler at me in the comments :D!Shout-out to Kireblue who suggested I release both under "Side A" and "Side B!"
Owari no Seraph AMV | Live to Keep Score | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2018-08-01 | Owari no Seraph/Seraph of the End AMV that follows Yu's revenge against the vampires that have taken over Japan.After Yu's family tries to kill him and vampires kill the new family he grows to love, Yu dedicates everything to counter the growing vampire threat after he narrowly escapes to life the vampires' livestock.Anime: Seraph of the EndSong: "Run and Go" by VeorraA lot of the editing in this is internal, meaning the motions are crazy controlled to sync with the music and then I wrap it in a camera movement, so it looks native. The idea is that you can just focus on the story and the music brings it alive by enhancing the emotions in the scene :p.
Evangelion AMV | Deep Blue | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2018-06-03 | A psychological Evangelion AMV that looks at the deep mental conflict of Evangelion's main characters, specifically Shinji & Gendo & Rei, Misato & Ryoji, and Kaworu. I had a great time juxtaposing moments of kindness with the characters' darker realities and consequences."Deep Blue" in this AMV, to me, is the familiar reality each of the characters in Evangelion yearn to return to, but that reality is just as sad as it is comfortable.I really kept this quote from the band in mind: "The way that I always describe addiction is that it’s very sexual in a way. You have this beautiful thing that’s staring at you and it’s constantly telling you to dive in. Then you actually decide to give in to whatever your struggle is, and it just pulls you down. It does a 180 and literally controls your life. Whether it be addiction, anxiety or depression—the feeling is that you’re trying to swim up from the depths and it’s just pulling you to the bottom of the sea."This is by far the most technical and hopefully smoothest AMV of mine to-date. I really hope that the work is so invisible you don't believe me and just feel the flow :).Link to "Swivel" by Xophilarus (which is awesome!): youtu.be/5IZ1BfUDJu4?list=PLdW9dj-ipN7vE2WR0LZG5Kz-ErRu0vh8CHer channel: youtube.com/user/XophilarusLike, comment, and subscribe if you enjoyed it! This is a pretty active channel :D!Anime: Evangelion 1.11, Evangelion 2.22, Evangelion 3.33Song: "Bottom of the Deep Blue" by MISSIOEditor: DopplerDo
Evangelion AMV | Sanity Test | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2018-05-02 | Intense, inventive Evangelion AMV with an incurable addiction to sync of all kinds. Let me know what you think!Anime Source: Evangelion 1.11, Evangelion 2.22, & Evangelion 3.33Song: "Reborn" by Kaivon
Trigun AMV | Frontier Psychiatrist | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2018-04-14 | This Trigun AMV has been in my head ever since I heard "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches and it's been one of my favorite songs for like 10 years. The style is unapologetically retro and I try to make that obvious in the intro. A lot of the editing is so subtle you won't notice and THAT'S PERFECT. Just enjoy this fun Vash AMV, forget about me, and bop your head ;)!Link to Unlucky Artist's "Counter AMV" mentioned in the credits: youtu.be/QCC5e3qHmDk (subscribe to this guy; he is waaaay better than me!)No pressure to hit the subscribe button! I know all my subs by name and I'm enjoying the smallness of this channel. But if you come on board, feel free to drop a comment! I'd love to hear from ya!
Your Name AMV | Disappear Here | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2018-02-21 | Romantic, inventive Your Name AMV focused on Taki and Mistuha from Your Name (Kimi no Na Wa).Illustrious subs, those comets that pulse to the music at the beginning took waaaay too long, but I had a kickass time making this :D
Koe no Katachi AMV | Silent Wish | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2018-01-23 | A story of love and redemption. Shouko is deaf and relentlessly tormented by Shoya as a child, but as adults they fall in love and save each other.
Cowboy Bebop AMV | Down the Road | DopplerDo DopplerDo 2017-12-21 | Fun, inventive Cowboy Bebop AMV that has a huge crush on the Bebop plot.Guys, you have no idea how nuts making these rewind effects from scratch were... unless you're another masochistic editor -- then you know.Where I can't help rocking out to my own damn video: 1:18, 1:31Special, "do you see what I did there?" moments: 1:27, 1:38, 1:52, 3:05
