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Cory Doctorow wrote:

World's greatest anime mashup

Last week I saw the most incredible piece of mashup video I've ever seen -- "The Race," a mashup of over 100 anime clips. It's characters from over 100 cartoons participating in a rotoscoped "Whacky Race," while high-octane music jabbers in the background. The creators at Istiv Studios graciously granted me permission to post a copy of the video online. Now you can see it too.

Quoting the creator:

After a few minutes of editing i realize that, just putting characters in a race, make them run from a point to an other, should be boring. So i had the idea to put in it some "Chibi Things"-like fighting. Now my race became a fighting race. A sort of "Wacky Race" with participants, tricking, cheating, to win the great prize. I was prepared to do a lot of rotoscoping, but at this point i never imagined how much of cutings i'm going to do, to complete this project. After 1 year of editing, and many stops caused by boringness, world of warcraft or my Ph D. rush ... i finally finish the vid.

Ah not as impressive as I hoped it would be. Still cool though.

Yeah, I feel the same way. This is a case where I respect the amount of work that went into the piece more than the final result.

Screw that outcome! Go Ed and Al!

Pretty cool video. (=

From an editing standpoint, that was a work of art. I cannot imagine how long it took to cut in each individual character.

From a production standpoint, it's amazing.

The only thing I can think of to make this better would be a different selection of music. Overall, freaking genius!

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