【A-L1】 Innocent x Haven 【Gemini】

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
It happened. Gemini came back for another chorus battle, one year after LSO ended. Our visuals crew from LSO all either had their own ACB groups already or were busy, so we've got new friends on visuals now ;o;)b They did amazing things!

And as usual, Gemini members split up the mixing work, with me on main mix and mastering. Aaaaaaah I have to say it was not easy—for any of us on the team for that matter; we were all busy with work and/or school or.. had to evacuate from a hurricane...... Okay, it was very rough. Thankfully there was a 24 hour grace period after the deadline, because we couldn't submit our entry until 19 hours past the deadline. @___@ And it was really nobody's fault in particular, because the video finished rendering at the same time I finished mixing. Or maybe it was my fault because I was the one doing the rendering (god bless fast work laptop) and I had to split my time between mixing and figuring out all the right plugins and assets. But still, that's really fucking embarrassing to me—that I was mixing up until about 18 hours past the deadline. I'm deeply disappointed in myself about that. The mix ended up sounding pretty good I think, thankfully!! I appreciate having been told that this might be my best mix and I want to be proud of that! And I don't know what I could have done differently that wouldn't have impacted others negatively unless we settled on a bad mix. It's not like I was mixing slowly or that I procrastinated? As soon as the vocals were passed to me, I mixed every night when I got home from work, until I slept sometime between 2 AM and 6 AM. On the weekends, I mixed literally all day long, with only two occasions I had already made plans to spend with friends. Sometimes I would sleep with an alarm set to go off in 3 or 4 hours. And on the day after the deadline, I wasn't even at the point where I was tweaking minor things—I was still mixing and trying to make things cohesive. Aaaaaaah stress and sadness. In conclusion, I suppose I'm just not meant to handle this sort of a timeline. Anyway, it'll take some time for me to recover, but I'm glad that we got an entry in after all!

[Edit: Two days later I just learned that we were the very last entry to submit...... iiii feeeeel soooooo baaaaaaadd screams]

Also, I animated a small section when I had some downtime at work last week. xD It's the shouting part at the bridge with the stage lights, which is... pretty simple but I had just learned how to use lights in After Effects for the first time for this!

Whining aside, here is our entry and please enjoy!!!



【A-L1】 Innocent x Haven 【Gemini】

- Please feel free to turn on/off CC for singers' names! -

Theme Interpretation: "What is bliss?" Take my hand and let’s find it together! Start with a smile and run with me - towards that Haven with an open heart. 

MP3: https://goo.gl/AJ61dL
ACAPELLA: https://goo.gl/PFWakB
SCRIPT: https://goo.gl/7WTbh6
VISUAL RESOURCES: https://goo.gl/hhgFdb

Song: INNOCENT BIRD x SEVENTH HAVEN - Mashup
Inspired by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDHj5...

Title: SEVENTH HAVEN
Artist: Tokyo 7th Sisters (セブンスシスターズ)
Composer: kz (livetune)

Title: INNOCENT BIRD
Artist: AZALEA
Lyrics: Aki Hata (畑亜貴)
Composer: Tetsushi Enami (江並哲志)
Arrangement: Tatsuya Kurauchi (倉内 達矢)

VOCALISTS
Eva - http://www.youtube.com/waterpixieva
Mimi - http://www.youtube.com/mimimoiselle
Ryan - http://www.youtube.com/RyanEatPho
小さな (chiisana) - http://www.youtube.com/ChiisanaChanx3
Jeffrey - https://www.youtube.com/jevacado
Jay - https://www.youtube.com/jaysingyou

MIXERS
Main Mix - Eva 
Timing - Mimi 
Tuning - Ryan 
EQ - 小さな (chiisana) 

ARTISTS
Concept and Design - pash & kane
Vocalist Sketch and Base Lines - pash - http://piikoarts.tumblr.com/
Coloring & Staff Art - kane - https://www.facebook.com/mprincekane
Line Art - Ange - https://twitter.com/qqnge

ANIMATORS 
Sawヽ( ・∀・)ノ -
 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZc_...
小さな (chiisana)
Eva

- We now find our six protagonists in university, where they play whatever the heck games they want. -

Walküre (Macross Delta) Cosplay @ AX2017

With much delay (my procrastination), I'd like to share the pictures I got to take at AX this year during a mini shoot with friends~ I'm thankful that they invited me to shoot since I basically never do them, and thus I only have phone pictures and selfies to show for most of my cosplays haha. And ofc it was fun working with them ^^ This is the Mikumo costume that I sewed last year! This year, I broke combo and didn't have the time or inspiration to make a new costume. :/ Hopefully next year, the pieces will fit right.

Photography: Muramatsuri Photos

Freyja Cosplayer: Paprika Mari