Cirno is a Genius

Ha ha! I made a video! It’s not Touhou, though.

This is my first anime parody video thing ever. I’m curious on how it will be received. It’s not as random as you think, as some time ago somebody on Nico Nico Douga made a TOP GEAR version of the K-ON! opening. It inspired me to make the opposite as I don’t think I would have ever have thought to combine the two, though deep in my mind I DID want to make a Top Gear intro using Touhou stuff. That would have been a bit harder, as I would have had to do all of the animation myself too. Anyway, if any of you have seen or know where I can video that video (The Top Gear guys in the K-ON! opening one) please, please please let me know!

This video wasn’t too hard, just time consuming. Rendering all the raws, finding the clips I wanted, learning new software… The Yui “no no no” park was rotoscoped using the new Rotobrush on After Effects CS5. It was amazing at first, but then it soon dipped into endless frustration. I’ve done rotoscoping professionally for years, and I could have done all 38 frames in Photoshop faster than I ended up doing with the automatic software. The problems ended up being my computer is slow and old, and that I was using an MP4. Maybe it will be better when I get a new computer sometimes soon

ANYWAY, this was a blast to make. I had so much fun watching it come together. The only problem I can see happening now is copyright issues. On Youtube I’ve successfully put off the warnings by writing a paragraph on fair use, and sometimes I get lucky with the music and an iTunes ad appears. (this being on other channels I run for companies or individuals) I have no idea what will happen on Nico Nico Douga, though. I’m hoping that this video will take off. I’d like to start getting more support from the Japanese community and hopefully collaborate with others here in Japan. I also will do anything in my power to promote Top Gear in Japan like this. It’s such an amazing show…

That being said, another video is on the way. I half started it a few months ago. It’s going to take a bit of time to do, as it has a lot of hand drawn animation. i won’t give away too much, but let’s just say it’s a parody of a certain short, spicy 1999 anime OP and it’s going to star one of my favorite tiny characters from Touhou.

I’ll be posting updates on it as I go via my Twitter and my Facebook.

I’ll try to post here more often too!

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