Enjoy!Follow My Lead (FML) - Dance VersionKoopiskeva2015-10-23 | Video - Original Stop Motion (Haruhi Figmas)
Audio - Girl's Day - Female President
Welp, this is the stop-motion only dance version of FML.
I actually completed filming/editing this before the AMV version. I was thinking about adding effects and finishing up the lip-sync that I had done for the AMV version, but I'm very happy to leave it as a clean version of the dancing only. It is pretty satisfying seeing it side-by-side with the original.
The bulk of the production definitely went into the stop motion filming - though I also spent quite a bit of time even just making the sets, learning how do stop motion in general, learning how to film it, and the render times were pretty ridiculous after applying a few filters to the raw/4k footage.
Anyways, please enjoy!Follow My Lead (FML) - AMV VersionKoopiskeva2015-09-28 | Video - Original Stop Motion (Haruhi Figmas) Baka and Test
Audio - Girl's Day - Female President
Welp, it seems I'm back into it. O:
I started this around November 2014 (actually I had a different video idea a month prior), and it has been quite a journey with this one. Fun fact - my daughter Mae was not even born yet when I started this. How things change. :P
In 2014, I was getting back into watching anime and had joined the Quickening contest to shake off some editing rust. I quite enjoyed the process again, so I wanted to make a full video on my own once more. I saw this show called 'Baka and Test' (which seems pretty underused actually), and loved it. I wanted to make a quick and fun video (sounds familiar...).
My wife Grace had always been listening to k-pop so I've been pretty bombarded by it for many years now. I asked to see if she could find me a fun song to edit with. Watching the Youtube show 'EatYourKimchi,' she found this song for me called Telepathy by Girl's Day. I was pretty excited to start my video with it. As I started the prepwork for editing, I decided to listen to other Girl's Day songs just for background music..... and then Female President came on. I was hooked.
So, a crazy idea came into my head to recreate the actual dance version of the music video (precursor was that I made a quick stop motion video for the Quickening). I kinda knew what I was in for (hence why I named this video before starting - fml) - but I really had no idea just how ridiculously time-consuming and maddening it would end up being. Truly FML.
Just a little about the premise of the vid - Feel free to look up the lyrics/translation of the song, but it is about telling girls to not be afraid of making the first move on a guy. So basically, the Baka and Test girls visit the SOS Brigade for some help with 'boy problems.' Nothing really complex here. :P
Here's some of the prep work for the stages I built and a shot of the filming setup- http://imgur.com/a/UMfYE
Anyways, here's the end result of a year of filming/editing. I learned so much in this process (both in production and post), and love how it turned out, that I can definitely say that it was worth it. Would I ever make another stop-motion video? I'm not sure. I need a break again. :P
Enjoy!Follow My Lead (FML) TeaserKoopiskeva2015-09-06 | Just a teaser for my upcoming video(s). I've been working on this for quite some time (started late 2014) and happy to be finally nearing completion! Should be up in the next couple weeks. Enjoy the small teaser!(kinda)dancefightKoopiskeva2014-09-20 | My round 3 video for the 2014 Quickening AMV contest. I wanted to try something a bit 'different' from the usual dance amv... I think it was mostly successful - though I don't recommend making a stop motion video in less than week... :P Good times though. o:
All the other videos I made in the contest can be seen in this compilation - youtube.com/watch?v=ORqWy3VFfPQEuphoriaKoopiskeva2012-01-24 | Originally Released: 4/1/2003
Euphoria
Editor: Koopiskeva
Video: RahXephon
Artist: Frou Frou
Song: Must Be Dreaming
Waking Hour
Editor: Koopiskeva
Video: The Place Promised in our Early Days, Beyond the Clouds (Kumo no Muko, Yakusoku no Basho)
Artist: Vienna Teng
Song: Gravity