#the animatrix amv

[nando161mando]

Animatrix-AMV Deftones-Back To School

[someawesomeamvs]

Warning: Potential spoilers, sexual imagery, depiction of drugs

Title: Moon Powder

Editor: mastamindamv

Song: Fitzpleasure

Artist: alt-J

Anime: Bakemonogatari, Nisemonogatari, Monogatari Second Season, Clannad After Story, Gyo, Ef - The Latter Tale, The Animatrix (anthology film)

Category: Drama

[khagihan2000]

Making this AMV was totally drained my energy and has to fix every goddamn scenes. So, this is an ode or tribute to animations from 1980s to 2022 that we watched.   @neopuff

Song: Dance with The Dead - Robeast

List of the films:

1980s

Heavy Metal

The Last Unicorn

Starchaser

The Time Master

Gandahar

The Fuma Conspiracy

American Pop

Hey Good Lookin’

Plague Dogs

All Dogs Go To Heaven

Secret of the NIMH

Nausicaa: Valley of The Wind

Oliver and the Company

AKIRA 

Royal Space Forces

Neo Tokyo

Char’s Counterattack

Patlabor: The Movie

Golgo 13: The Professional

Venus War

Rock and Rules

Footrot Flats

Macross: Do You Remember Love

Little Nemo: Adventure in Slumberland

1990s

Spriggan

Perfect Blues

Memories

Roujin Z

The Thief and The Cobbler

The Prince of Egypt

The Iron Giant

Cat Don’t Dance

Ghost in The Shells

Lupin III: Dead or Alive

2000s

Kung Fu Panda

Monster vs Alien

Cowboy Bebop

Redline

Triplet of Belleville

Titan A.E

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Spirited Away

Metropolis 

Fantastic Mr Fox

Coraline

Paprika

Vampire Hunter D

Interstella 5555

The Animatrix (OVA)

Paprika

2010s

Kung Fu Panda 2 and 3

Tintin

City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes

Rango

Into the Spiderverse

Isle of Dog

Lupin The First

Megamind

Lego Movie 1 and 2

The Congress

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

The Bloodspray of Goemon Ishikawa 

Kubo and Two Strings

MFKZ

Anomalisa 

2021

The Mitchell vs The Machines

Mad God

Hathaway’s Flash

Sing 2

2022

Puss in Boots 2

Wendell and Wild

The Bad Guys

Mad God

[residualself]

The Matrix is everywhere. It's all around us. Happy 20th Anniversary to #TheMatrix This AMV is a tribute to a series that inspires me each and every day. Neo is my hero. Check out Residual Self "We Can Escape"

[canmom]

Animation Night 6

‘I should get some friends to watch me! me! me! and aeon flux’ I said, and somehow we’re now on to the sixth consecutive week of animation festival! fuckin nice imo. I’m gonna keep running these as long as you all enjoy them because there is no shortage of great animation...

We’ll be starting at 7pm UK time as usual at twitch.tv/canmom. That’s four and a half hours from this post!

Tonight we return to anime short film collections, because I just can’t get enough of that sakuga juice! We have Neo Tokyo, Short Peace, and the Animatrix...

Neo Tokyo/Manie-Manie (迷宮物語 Meikyū Monogatari, lit. Labyrinth Tales)

This is one of the earliest anime package films, dating back to 1987. The western title Neo Tokyo is something of a misnomer, since as far as I know none of the segments are actually set in Tokyo. It features three films:

Our framing story, Labyrinth Labyrinthos: a girl plays hide and seek with her cat and stumbles into a mysterious labyrinth...

Then we segue into Running Man: a driver ascends to some sort of higher plane of consciousness during a deadly race. featuring some great 80s anime cyberpunk imagery, which you may have seen sampled in an AMV or two. Given its subject matter, the film is strangely slow-paced - don’t expect Redline here - but it’s still worth seeing for the visuals!

And last my favourite in the collection, which unfortunately I can’t find a gif of - Katsuhiro Otomo’s Construction Cancellation Order. A human employee of a multinational company is sent to a robotic construction project deep in the rainforest, with orders to cancel construction. The robotic foreman has other ideas. Features Otomo’s machine animation at its best!

Short Peace (2013)

The most recent animated package film I have, and one of the first to really make use of modern non-photorealistic CG techniques, to generally great effect! There’s a lot of shorts in this collection (all broadly around the theme of Japan); my favourites are:

Possessions: an travelling craftsman has an encounter with a full shrine’s worth of yokai, but luckily he knows exactly what to do. Absolutely charming short.

Otomo breaking from his usual style to do a gorgeous period piece about the Great Fire of Meiriki in 1657. It’s animated in this unique high-angle orthographic style, and looks really beautiful...

A Farewell To Arms meanwhile is set in a post-apocalyptic future Tokyo, where a group of mercenaries work to clean up unused weapons. Unfortunately, they encounter a powerful robot tank, leading to a tense hard sci-fi mecha battle that’s a more grounded than even the realest of real robots.

The Animatrix [2003]

Lana and Lily Wachowski are many things but one of them is ‘massive weebs’. Following the success of The Matrix, they used some of that $$$ to get a lot of high profile anime directors to make short films set in the Matrix world. Watching today, the Animatrix holds up really well, featuring some absolutely inspired animation. A few highlights (putting in a cut since, this is getting quite long):

Final Flight of the Osiris is one of only two films produced by the short-lived Square Pictures, featuring the closest to photorealistic animation 2003 could do in a very horny sword fight. Square Pictures would go on to make Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, which failed hard at the box office but may be a lot more enjoyable if you have a tasty plasma to view it on...

The Second Renaissance, a two-part sequence by Mahiro Maeda (who made one of our favourite films on Genius Party) establishing all the backstory left out of the Matrix films. Gorgeous imagery, but heads up that this features some potentially very unsettling images of an android girl getting attacked on the street in a way that’s uncomfortably reminiscent of a transmisogynistic attack, so I will take care to warn appropriately.

World Record, featuring direction and key animation by Takeshi Koike of Redline fame: an athlete briefly finds his way out of the Matrix at the height of SPORTS. Shows off the extremely stylish harsh shading, perspective distortion and near-camera work that Koike is known for.

Kid’s Story, directed Shinichiro Watanabe of Bebob and Champloo fame. A kid connects to Neo in a chatroom, attracting the attention of the Agents. This has an incredible chase sequence with key animation by Shinya Ohira.

Beyond, directed Kōji Morimoto, whose work I think we’ve become a big fan of over the course of the animation nights! Kids discover a glitch in the matrix in an abandoned house.

There are a number of other great shorts - we’re going to see more of Peter Chung, bringing us right back to square one! - and I’m dead excited to watch this again.

So yeah: 7pm UK time, twitch.tv/canmom, see you all there!

[darkpuck]

thinking about doing some videos on the side for coin.

not amvs obviously, but like... discussion videos and so on.

i’ve a general list of things to look at that i may yet add onto but so far:

The Legend of Zelda

Dungeons and Zelda

Intelligence of BotW enemies

Lynels: AAAAAAAAAH

The Matrix

Seraph and the first One

Names and their meanings

First Movie

Protagonists

The Agents

Protags, sequels/animatrix

It's the little things (details)

Exiles and the System

'The little things' would be minor details in costuming and also in the background -- like how, for example, Agent Smith has seven-sided sunglasses in the sequels.

does it mean anything? WHO KNOWS?

but it's a nice detail that makes him stand out from other agents