I was inspired by the wonderful music video stills that besetting_sims recently posted. I found myself drawn once again to the challenge of making a completely animated music video for deception_pass' very own This Velvet Oblivion, and finally was able to take on and complete the project today.

You have two choices for watching the video- YouTube or directly downloading it from me. The YouTube link will be faster, but the quality has been lowered substantially. The download I'm offering on my site is very high quality 640x480 resolution, .wmv format, about 45MB. Depending on bandwidth issues, the link may come down, in which case you can just watch the YouTube link. The video runs just under five minutes.

The links:

"Shine Like The Stars" on YouTube
"Shine Like The Stars" direct download, 44.8MB (you can use right-click and 'save as')

['Shine Like The Stars', original song by The Mission]

(there will be an outtakes gallery for the video shoot later- too tired to post it now...)

A couple of quick things:

+ The outtakes gallery for the video shoot are now online. You can find them here, 15 pictures +1 title image.


+ I've uploaded two earlier videos I'd made to YouTube. They're pretty simplistic, but I thought some of you might want to see them. They're two I'd put up quite a while ago, but we've had a lot more people join us since then.

'Sim Monsters'
- My first attempt at making a video using Sims. Very simplistic- features the boys of This Velvet Oblivion dancing the smustle to Cruxshadows' 'Monsters'. September 19, 2005.

'Deception Pass Movie Trailer'
- My second attempt at making a video using Sims. A faux movie trailer for Deception Pass featuring 'Time's Scar' by Yasunori Mitsuda. October 3, 2005.


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Now that I've gotten that out of my system, it's back to work on the new episodes!