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SDCC Seras Victoria Figure Photo Shoot

Published on June 22, 2008 in Anime Figures, Anime/Manga, Multimedia and Photography. 0 Comments

SDCC Seras Victoria Figure Photo Shoot

Pictures I took of the lovely Seras Victoria figure from the Hellsing manga and OVA (Ultimate), San Diego Comic Con edition. This is the second Seras Victoria photo shoot I’ve done, the first one was with the production black/burgundy figure and can be found here.

This is a limited edition, SDCC 2005 figure has become quite hard to find due to its low production run.  The silver/white metallic looks great in sunlight.

Above is the NextGen gallery, which I am trying out. Click here for the Coppermine Gallery.

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Serial Experiments Lain font

Published on May 27, 2008 in Anime/Manga, Multimedia and Website. 2 Comments

Here is a font that looks much like the Serial Experiments Lain font used in the series logo.  It is known as loveletter.

Source: Chiaki J. Konaka’s web site (which uses this font).  He is also the scenario writer and story editor of “serial experiments lain”.

I am going to use this font often…

How to create a modern Anime Music Video (2008).

Published on May 23, 2008 in AMV and Multimedia. 0 Comments

The goal of this guide is to teach one how to create an Anime Music Video, not including the actual timing and editing of the footage itself that can found on YouTube or in the editors documents.  This will help with the most difficult part of AMV creation, prepping video and audio for editing then exporting and encoding the completed Anime Music Video.

Throughout this guide I reference ErMaC and AbsoluteDestiny’s guides to all things audio and video version 3 (aka READFAG).  What I wrote here is more-or-less an extremely simplified version of that text with ease in mind.  The depth of their guide is excessive for easily bewildered beginners to the AMV creation hobby.

So, this is how you make a high video/audio quality AMV in 2008.

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How to Resize 16.9 DVD footage with AVIsynth

Published on May 22, 2008 in AMV and Multimedia. 0 Comments

If you are a AMV creator or have read “A&E’s Technical Guides to All Things Audio and Video version 3 (BETA) ”, then you already know that you can resize 16:9 footage with lines like this

LanczosResize(720,360)
AddBorders(0,60,0,60)

But in my case, using Kino’s Journey as footage; the result from the above lines made the video look fat, widened.

To correct this I instead used lines below instead, which I came up with the original DVD footage dimensions as a reference point:

LanczosResize(720,408)
AddBorders(0,36,0,36)

With the above dimensions, the characters look more correct to the original DVD footage. I wanted to make this public to help others who were in my situation.

Comment if this helps!