O-Oh my goodness
Click to viewSecond Place: Audience Favorite, Drama Category - Anime Los Angeles 2011
Winner: Judges' Choice, Drama Category - Anime Los Angeles 2011
The AMV that won best in show was also in Drama, so I wasn't expecting much. I was surprised when they told me I came in second for audience choice. I started crying when they said I was judges' top choice for drama.
Other creators kept telling me they liked my video and that they voted for it.
One of the creators in the Pro category told me I should enter my video in the AX contest - pretty much the AMV big leagues.
During the replay, after my video ended, one person in the room spoke up: "Okay, who else needs a tissue?"
I MADE THIS OVER THE SPAN OF ONE WEEKEND IN MOVIE MAKER. MOVIE MAKER. WHAT IS THIS. I DON'T EVEN.
So I was a laughing, blushing wreck for much of the awards ceremony (such as it was) and after the contest, well into dinner. lynxgriffin and ghettopeach have the patience of saints for putting up with me there as well as all the live-long day. XD My prize? A certificate, a bit of publicity, bragging rights, and a paid weekend pass to next year's ALA - where, hopefully, I'll have another video entered.
I will have a con report with pictures, as well as something about Just How Crazy My Life Has Been Lately, up tomorrow. For now, I'm going to bask in this unexpected, relatively minor, yet highly cherished victory, and then go to bed. Today has been long, but tons of fun and well worth it.
And here I am, tearing up again. Go me. XD;;;