*** Semi-finalist for VCAs 2006 – Category “Best First Video” ***
The video is a ‘summary’ of Evangelion’s The End film, so
all the images in the AMV are shown in (almost) the same sequence as in the film.
I started this project in November 2005, so in about two months (approximately 100 hours) I studied After Effects 6.5 and created this video.
It was my first experience with AMV and After Effects, but I’m a code developer and I already knew concepts like ‘keyframes’, ‘layers’ etc., so I quickly understood how this software works.
In the first pre-release, the video had many effects on it, but before the official release I removed many of them to create a cleaner video; however, I did not remove the subtitles. That was a wrong choice….
In March 2006, I re-rendered the video without subtitles and at better quality (with some encoding tips from my friend rei.andrea), available as a ‘direct link’.
Here you can download the JPEG of the mosaic used in the intro: it’s a mosaic of Rei and Eva01, made with all frames of the film ‘The End Of Evangelion’ using AndreaMosaic free software.
Anime
Evangelion – The End Of Evangelion (Renewal)
Music
Artist : Within Temptation
Intro : Deceiver of Fools (Album: Mother Earth)
AMV : Forsaken (Album: The Silent Force)
End Titles : Memories (Album: The Silent Force)
English Lyrics
Now the day has come We are forsaken this time We lived our lives in our paradise, As gods we shaped the world around No borderlines we'd stay behind, Though balance is something fragile While we thought we were gaining, We would turn back the tide, it still slips away Our time has run out, our future has died, There's no more escape Now the day has come, We are forsaken, There's no time anymore Life will pass us by, We are forsaken, We're the last of our kind The sacrifice was much too high, Our greed just made us all go blind We tried to hide what we fared inside Today is the end of tomorrow As the sea started rising, The land that we'd conquered just washed away Although we all have tried to turn back the tide, It was all in vain Now the day has come, We are forsaken, There's no time anymore Life will pass us by, We are forsaken, Only ruins stay behind Now the day has come We are forsaken this time Now the day has come, We are forsaken, There's no time anymore Now the day has come The day has come The day has come
Italian Lyrics
E' arrivato il giorno in cui saremo dimenticati Abbiamo vissuto le nostre vite nel nostro paradiso Come Dei modellammo il nostro mondo Nessun confine da rispettare Benchè l'equilibrio fosse fragile Volevamo risalire la corrente Ma mentre pensavamo di guadagnarci essa lentamente scivola via Il nostro tempo è finito, il nostro futuro è morto Non c'è via di salvezza E' arrivato il giorno In cui saremo dimenticati Non c'è più tempo ormai La vita è trascorsa Ci hanno dimenticato Siamo gli ultimi del nostro genere Il sacrificio è stato troppo alto Fummo accecati dalla nostra avarizia Abbiamo cercato di nascondere ciò che temevamo Oggi è la fine del domani Il mare si è innalzato La terra che avevamo conquistato è stata spazzata via Anche se tutti abbiamo provato a girare indietro la marea Tutto è stato vano E' arrivato il giorno in cui saremo dimenticati Non c'è più tempo ormai La vita è trascorsa Ci hanno dimenticato Solo rovine alle nostre spalle E' arrivato il giorno Siamo stati abbandonati questa volta E' arrivato il giorno in cui saremo dimenticati Non c'è più tempo ormai Ora il giorno è arrivato Il giorno è arrivato Il giorno è arrivato
Software
Adobe After Effects 6.5 & TrapCode’s Plugins
AndreaMosaic
VirtualDubMod
Media Player Classic
Adobe Illustrator
UltraEdit-32
Links
JPEG intro mosaic (25.7 MB, 7617×5240 pixels)
Download Direct (190 MB, 704×384, Best quality available)
One of YouTube copy
