Sandrider


Date of Completion: 9/12/2005
Song: Star One - Sandrider
Creator: Breeman
AIM: HallwayDemon24
E-mail: breeman@gmail.com

This video took way too long... I started this video, probably before The Path of Least Resistance... I can't remember, but it was way back last summer. I had started it, then took a break to work on some other videos while I waited for more footage to become available as new Naruto episodes were coming out. I also needed to download a couple Raw episodes that I didn't have (just so it would be the best quality possible). Then I let the video sit for a while, it wasn't until the Gaara Vs. Kimimaro fight that I started to work more on the video. So... I finally got to work, and it took a lot of work and timing, and I finally finished this video. Probably one of the hardest videos I've made, but i'm proud with the results. It definately does Gaara justice, and acts as a sequal to my "Enter Gaara" video, using all the footage that wasn't available for "Enter Gaara". I'm glad it took so long, because now that the Naruto dub has started, it should get many downloads.

Kiyomaro's Judgement


Date of Completion: 11/30/2004
Song: Ayreon - Day eight: School
Creator: Breeman
AIM: HallwayDemon24
E-mail: breeman@gmail.com

Ah... Konjiki no Gash bell. I've been wanting to make an AMV with this anime for quite a while. Finally figured out a way to kill both the clock thing (which appears on every bit of available Kngb footage) and the subs at the same time. I turned it into a wide-screen vid. Now, I don't usually make a video wide-screen unless it already is widescreen, but I had no choice for this video. And cropping it even more would have been too much. Anyways, once I heard the song "School" by Ayreon, I thought of Kiyomaro, and this idea fit so well, I couldn't help but do it. I did use a lot of "flash" timing in this video, and went crazy with clip change timing. Hopefully you'll all be able to follow this video pretty well, even if you haven't seen Kngb. The theme of this video is Kiyomaro's life in and out of "School". In school Kiyomaro is the smart obnoxious guy who doesn't have any friends, simply because he finds them annoying and "not as smart as him". Gash, a boy Kiyomaro's father rescued from a forest in England, comes to Kiyomaro to help open Kiyomaro, and get him to be nicer and get friends and stuff. At first Kiyomaro hates Gash, but when Gash shows Kiyomaro true friendship, and saves Kiyomaro with his demon powers, Kiyomaro learns what he must do to change. And Kiyomaro starts to change, as more demons come to challange him. He then truly starts to beleive in Gash, and they fight their hardest to end the horrible demon battles. I tried to capture how Kiyomaro changes, with his most emotional moments in school, and his most pressing battles out of school. I think I suceeded, and if you watch Konjiki no Gash Bell before watching this video, you will see how this song was just right for the theme.

The Banishment of Shishio

When I heard the song "The Banishment" from Ayreon's very first album. Shishio immediately popped into mind. A while ago I got a request to do a Shishio video, since Makoto Shishio is rarely portrayed directly in a decent Rurouni Kenshin AMV. So, I had recently gotten my new dell, with a new DVD rom in it. My Rurouni Kenshin box set DVDs wouldn't work on my old DVD rom, but worked just fine on my new one. So I start ripping some footage and quickly get to work on this video. I cut the song, to skip to the main part of the song (cutting off most of the instrumental orchestrated beginning, but leaving enough to do my story intro) and cut the entire ending off the song, and ended it at the next best place. It starts out with some text I made myself, introducing Kenshin, showing that he has a task, to banish Shishio. I explain a little about Shishio. I then go to Kenshin as he is about to meet Saitou, and learn of the task he has to complete. He then departs, leaving Kaoru behind. Kenshin meets Shishio, but Shishio has a couple tricks up his sleeve (or on his glove) that put Kenshin out of the fight for a little while. Saitou then jumps in to take his place, and also fails. Everyone who tries, just can't beat Shishio. Then Kenshin awakens. And he rises up to banish the evil Shishio, that has corrupted the world to achieve his goals. And our story ends as Shishio burns, and takes Yumi with him... to hell. Oh, and the typo in the intro... "And he became Kenshin's predecessor." Shisho became Kenshin's successor. I think I thought I remembered hearing them call Shishio Kenshin's predecessor in the anime so I got confused and stuff... so yeah. It doesn't "ruin" the video though. <_<

The Path of Least Resistance

I got the inspiration to make this video after watching the first episode of Samurai Champloo. The song certianly fits the "music theme" of Samurai Champloo, and it is perfect for the effects I used, and the fast action.

I'm glad I used an original anime in this video, one that has been murdered by countless crap videos. I also chose a song that was more well-known, unlike most of my song choisec (Dream Theater, Symphony X, etc.)

The idea for the title of this video came from Nappy's "The Path of Most Resistance" Rurouni Kenshin (TV) AMV. Just like Nappy I used a Crystal Method song, and just like Nappy, I used a Samurai Anime.

In Nappy's video Kenshin's fights are against very tough opponents, and he has much resistance. In this video, Mugen and Jin fight some not so tough opponents (their toughest fights are against each other). So the title "The Path of Least Resistance" is just playing with Nappy's title, to fit Samurai Champloo.

Naruto's Home

My third Naruto AMV. This one is a Naruto themed video. I've been wanting to use another Dream Theater song for an AMV for a long time, and once I found the radio edit version of "Home" I knew it would be perfect for Naruto!

So February vacation, I started my video. When I reached 2:00 into the song, something happened to my computer, and I ended up losing everything I had done on my video. The project files, and most of the footage, were nowhere to be found.

I recovered the 2:00 preview, and began re-making the video from scratch. It was actually coming out better the second time, because I was noticing small timings I missed the first time.

A nice original thing I did in this video, was using the Naruto "Seal Swirl" as a flashing clip. I know in some of my videos, I put too many flashing clips, that are just a plain color. But, in this video, I make the symbol flash, and do some pretty cool things with it, like the spinning at 1:52.

I was originally planning to end the video with Naruto winning his fight with Neji, but as my progress on the video was delayed, new Naruto episodes were coming out, with magnificant footage of Naruto fighting Gaara.

As raw Naruto episodes are very easy to get when they first go online, I was able to get all the footage I needed rather quickly. I then worked very hard on my video, and finally made it to the part of the song where it switches to the cool instumental part near the end. (4:30).

All April vacation I worked hard on the ending of the video, getting the timing to be perfect. I was trying to use all the footage I could, and conserve footage because I knew I would need it for the ending of the video. I then overshot my target, and had very little room left to show both the end of the Neji fight, and the end of the Gaara fight.

To 1. Try out a new effect, and 2. Conveniently finish the video using as much footage as I could, with the limited amount of time left in the song, I combined the two fights showing Naruto's victory into one.

I made a diagonal bar come on the screen to split the two fights, so they would play at the same time. Then had the bar leave, as I faded out on a clip of Naruto looking serious. I think this is actually my best AMV ending yet!

All the footage used in this video is raw, without subtitles, or cropping of subtitles, or covering up of subtitles. My other two Naruto AMVs, are cropped. But I wanted to make this video perfect by using all raw footage. It's a good thing I have Naruto DVDs, cause the old raws are impossible to find.

Peace Maker Trailer

This is just a fun trailer to Peace Maker Kurogane I made for a Trailer contest on the DBZSC forums.

Enjoy! ^_^

Broly's Poison

A new Dragonball Z music video, after a much needed break. The theme of this video is Broly. I chose Broly because I haven't done a Broly video yet, and Movie 8 came out recently, and I have the DVD of Movie 10. The timing is perfect throughout the whole video, and It flows nicely. I tried out some new effects in this video, like the one with the flipping images. That effect fit great with the song. The quality for the Movie 8 footage is perfect, and the quality for Movie 10 footage is great! I definately haven't lost my touch with Dragonball Z music videos. Song requested by Son Gohi, awesome choice! Thanks for the idea!

Soujiro's Lost Soul

One day, I was listening to the new Blind Guardian album, and I was thinking about Rurouni Kenshin. I was planning to do another Rurouni Kenshin video, since I had just done two Naruto videos. Anyways, the song “Punishment Divine” had just come on, and I was thinking about Soujiro, since I had recently seen his episodes recently in Rurouni Kenshin. When the song was about halfway done, I heard the line “The strong will survive, the weak must die!”

I then knew, this was the perfect song for Soujiro.

I listened to the rest of the song again, and looked at all the lyrics. Sure enough, everything fit Soujiro perfectly! I decided to name this video, Soujiro’s Lost Soul, because I wanted to make an original title for once (not using the name of the song).

*Spoilers*
Soujiro is a boy who was adopted into a family who owned a rice bussiness. That family hated Soujiro because he wasn’t really related to them, but they had to take care of him. The family made Soujiro carry their rice into the shed. When Soujiro didn’t do what they told him to, they beat him. When Soujiro got mad, or cried, they beat him more.

Soujiro then decided to smile, and take all their abuse, therefore shutting off his emotions.

Soujiro heard a scream one day, and decided to investigate it. An assassin manslayer from the revolution named Makoto Shishio, “Kenshin’s Successor”, was killing some police officers. Shishio noticed Soujiro, and was about to kill him, when he noticed that Soujiro was smiling, and didn’t care if he died. Shishio, noticing that Soujiro did not have emotion, decided to turn him into a heartless killer. He gave Soujiro a wakizashi to kill the Rice Company family.

After that, Soujiro’s soul was bound to Shishio. Untill… Soujiro met Kenshin Himura. All his life, Soujiro believed in only one thing, “If you are strong you live, if you are weak you die.” Kenshin’s philosophy is the exact opposite. To protect the weak so that they can live in peace.

This idea of Kenshin’s frustrates Soujiro. After fighting for a while with Kenshin, Soujiro reflects on his past, and realizes that he didn’t really want to do the things Shishio told him to do, and that his Soul was lost.

After that realization, and a dramatic defeat by Kenshin’s “Ama Kakeru Ryu no Hirameki” Soujiro decided to leave Shishio, and wander away to find his soul.

Now for the lines in the song, that fit with Soujiro.

“It's warm and tender but very soon it will turn cold”
Soujiro is warm and tender, a nice boy. But very soon, he will turn cold and ruthless.

“It never rains -- it pours on me”
Soujiro feels like there is a little rain cloud following him around. It pours on him, but never rains anywhere else.

“The obvious point is I'm insane”
The obvious point is… Soujiro is insane.

“Was I aware whom I has slain”
Soujiro was not aware of the people he had slain.

“Witness my last breath, I do not regret a word I've said, The strong will survive,The weak must die”
Well, it’s obvious what this line fits with.

“Nature's law instead of God in heaven”
Soujiro follows nature’s law, not God in heaven.

“Well we all know there's no other side, It's good and evil, I know right between, there's no borderline, This is the punishment divine”
Soujiro knows theres no other side, only good and evil, and that there is no borderline… that is punishment divine.

Basically all the lyrics in this song fit Soujiro perfectly, but I decided to highlight these because they were important, and it’s sorta hard to hear them in the song.

This video took me, about a month to make, and It came out better than I expected. The song fit my idea perfectly and nothing went wrong. All the effects I used, worked well, and I am amazed I was able to pull this video off so well.

Enter Gaara

Naruto Video #2! This one is a Gaara theme video. The sandman theme of this video, is so obvious, and easy to think of.. I wonder why nobody has used it before. In this video I think I truly depict the evil that is, Gaara. The wavy effect near the beginning, was suggested by my friend Ian, and it worked great! The footage source for this video, was the same as "Sasuke, Fallen" so the quality is awesome! Some have told me that this is my best video yet!

Sasuke, Fallen

Contest/Convention: Dbzsc Video Awards 2003

My first Naruto music video! I used a long song in this video, because I had just recently got into Symphony X, and I've wanted to use another Progressive Rock song badly since "Goku's Revenge". So, one day I just decided to put this song in my editor, and try out Naruto. After I had done about a minute, I knew that this video was going to be great! This video was made pretty fast, it took about 12 days. I don't think I rushed too much though, because I spent a lot of time on it. The theme of this video is Sasuke, and the song shows how Sasuke fights against "The darkness that shadows his light". I used a blur effect in this video that I first used at one part of "Easier to Run", but I used it more in this video. Also, I seem to be doing very good with my non-dbz videos, so you can expect lots more!

Easier To Run

My first Rurouni Kenshin video, and also my first non-DBZ video released on Breeman AMV! This video took a while because I started making it during the end of school, and I got cought up in finals. But I finished this video almost two months after starting it and it turned out great. I know that Linkin Park is over-used, but I just needed to use that song in this video, it fit perfectly! I tried out a little bit of Lip Syncing in this video, and some new Digital Effects. Most of the footage I captured from my Cartoon Network Rurouni Kenshin tapes, and the rest is from the Rurouni Kenshin movie, called Samurai X: The Motion Picture. I hope you enjoy this video, I plan to make even more Rurouni Kenshin videos in the future, and possibly some with other (less used) anime's. (i.e. Naruto, Dual, Silent Mobius, Inu Yasha, SoulTaker).

Cataclysmic Clash

This music video is Great!!! I spent almost 2 months working on it! Plus I captured at 640 X 480! Thats twice as big as before! So you can expect the quality to be great. The theme of this video is Androids. It matches so well with the Android-Like Lyrics, in Game Over's Mega Man 2/3 ReMix. I have entered this video into the Otakon 2003 AMV contest. If you end up going to the 2003 convention, look for it in the AMV screeenings (Tape 4).

I finally did a gohan video! The second I heard this song "I Can't Help You" Gohan was the first character that came to mind. The video quality is great in this video except in some small areas that arent that noticable, and the sound quality is great as always. The punch precision was perfect, and this song is defitaly music video material.

Vegeta's Courage

My second Vegeta music video since Vegeta's Pride. This one came out ok, the song was suggested by Lauren Zimmerman, a fan who just instant messaged me on AIM after watching Redefine. Good lyrical meaning, quality could have been better at some parts, but for the most part this is a pretty nice video, thanks for the idea Lauren!

When I'm Gone