With a quarter of a million views and a fifth of those viewers favouriting the video, this shadowplay rendition of Bad Apple by Alstroemeria Records is set to become a top Touhou classic, and for good reason…
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i came
Me too. Touhou forever.
Its okay guys coming together isnt gay unless you make eye contact ;)
it haz a good frame rate which makes it looks real-like.
I wonder how anime would like like that.
no, its when balls touch
touhou is garbage
Toho, however, is excellent.
Great video, my only problem w/ some of the Touhou girls is why guys think the ones in the granny caps/granny nightgowns are sexy or even cute? Not all the girls but I notice several of them dress like 90 yr old 18th century women. Someone tell me why that's sexy? I'm dying to know.
Not everyone likes girls that dress like sluts like the girls today do.
I should inform you that there are actually lots of Bad Apple videos out there;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQJvH1CCGU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mx-tx3lRiA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY50o9KmbSo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3xcQfuzeE
I don't know which was the first, though.
Nice transformations <3
"..why guys think the ones in the granny caps/granny nightgowns are sexy or even cute?"
Blasphemy! How dare you badmouth Patchouli Of Knowledge. But still, seriously, i'd prefer girls in fully covered frilly Victorian dresses over women that are too poor to buy new clothes for themselves that they decided to wear their 6yo sis/daughter shirts.
And I would prefer a Victorian dress wearing girl over commonly dressed girl at any time. :3
...They just can make any girl look like a cake that must be eaten.
lol, whatever, i like more how the actual girls dress, i like sluts :P
I don't even care how sexy or cute they are, that video is just astounding.
Absolutely incredible.
i jizzed in ma pants >:9
epic classic
I saw
I hit him right dead in the jaw
I saw and came
Vici.
i didnt see a cirno. where was cirno. :(
Yah it needs more Cirno also the three fairies.
Indeed, the ⑨ is weak in this one...
Trust me,even without Cirno in this video, there are nothing to lose, nothing.
and also the the sound quality is realy bad, wish for someone to fix it.
Too many people reupping the vid with bad quality. Go find a direct download for better sound quality. The FTV-subs' raw is much better, at least,
And I came again.
im still "cameing" D:
How? I found this to be extremely terrifying.
Well this whole video is a lesson, if you are terrified then you simply are left in indecision...
x2 My pants were dirty before I realized it.
Oh wow...
for some reason i want to play an mmorpg like rose or ragnarok now
Well done.
Indeed.
I wonder if any cosplayers posed for the silhouettes.
I'm pretty sure those silhouettes are 3d rendered.
umumumu... give me HD and i can go to heaven
Have fun in heaven.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkgK8eUdpAo
Most Impressive. Well Done.
Wow. Stunned me.
The 'shadow art' rendition, or to me, 3D animation rendered to appear shadow art like was seriously impressive. And if im right.. I can't wait to see a full color rendition..
Plus I'll never get tired of watching this.
must download.....
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sib2L6A6xgw
n1, thx ^^
Pretty cool use of b'n'w - Anybody here now the Film Renaissance? :)
Here's the same video with the original storyboard:
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/video/niconico/sm8630663
That was astounding!
Spectacular!
I lack the words...
this Came out on my birthday. and it was the best Birthday gift Ever.
Wish it had been the long version or at least plunked Meiling into it. So close to perfection.
awesome video!
Trippy...
Where's Cirno?...T_T
Short version that this based on, doesn't have anything between Marisa and Patchy. Why I was hoping for the long version (or the short long version).
No Cirno. Other than that it's fantastic.
very smooth motion!
wow, it'd be nice if it wasn't just shadows like that.To actually see their faces is nice but this is to awesome as is.
Nicely done.
The video didn't work for me. Just black. Unless that is the joke.
That happens, just reload it.
wow with such a cool video like that with graphics that are quite smooth its such a wonder they dont bring out a new game
Shame the moonspeak is saying nico is down.
I wonder why~
such a nice vid I wonder who sings that song
Not just simply a vid - This is a true work of art! Inventive as well as imaginative.
Originality is such a rare commodity these days.
Looks like a 'remake' of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77lzxV-sJE to me, or perhaps it's vice versa... Vid still rocks =)
Boner for 3:28 seconds, yes.
\o/ Wow, just wow.
So, where's the video?
yeah, where is it?
Normally I don't like Touhou, but goddamn that was well done!
I don't even get what the big deal with Touhou is.. has all this stemmed off those shoot 'em up games?? Do those games even have a plot?? How does anyone even know what the characters are like?
someone.. enlighten me to the phenomenon of Touhou..
Yes.
Yes.
From the official descriptions and ingame dialogs.
Have you ever played a game that you can only beat if you have had eight mugs of coffee in one sitting? That game is Touhou.
Those who work hard at it (that number is up there, apparently) virtually have to obsess with it in order to get good at it.
This obsession led to numerous memes, largely revolving around:
1) The catchy soundtrack from the series
2) The many distinct characters, most of which are lolis.
I leave you with two thoughts:
1) There are no buses in Gensokyo.
2) Sakuya claims that they are real. But they could be pads...
Thanks Anon and TeeHee!
I don't see how they're distinct when I played through three of the games, read through all of the dialogue and still don't know who's who. When it gets into pure moeblob territory, characters begin to "all look same."
Did you open the box and install the game without ever once reading the intros and reading the character bios included in the box? Shame on you.
By the way, I most certainly recognized 70% of the characters shown. The rest were from games I haven't played.
Did you read any of the official manga or novels or anything else?
Play Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil on normal. Laugh at how "this is not hard", Continue to WTF this is insane from stage 3 on. Then try Hard mode and really experience some crazy crap. Finally... if you succeed... do the extra stage... MWAHAHAHAHA!
I liked having Marisa (B) because of Master Spark.
The only problem is that you can't use it against Flandre in the Extra Stage. At all. She turns into an invincible bat.
I still have yet to beat it. :(
Bah! Reimu (B) is the strongest! Use her.
their site is down for maintenance until 9:30 japan time.
Where's the link or what are you supposed to do to view it. Do you stare at the picture or click on it or what?
video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIMgD_gShU
Was this all rotoscoped? It's just too perfect for animation.
Nico Nico Douga ⑨ is under maintenance.
There's also other Touhou Bad Apple vids.
Just watch the video(s) elsewhere.
upscaled "HD" one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkgK8eUdpAo
Nicely done 3D rendering. I kinda wish it wasn't monochrome, but either way it's quite enjoyable.
I think the monochrome adds to the charm, especially since the lyrics of the song strongly revolve around the abstract usage of black and white.
Also, to all the people who were having difficulties watching the video, Nico was down for about an hour for maintenance, it should be fine now.
Can't stop watching it...
Yeah, I'm not seeing any video at all -- just the black / white picture at the top of the article.
(waits for this comment to be voted down due to SanCom's technical error)
Firefox 3.5 and Windows 7, btw.
It's actually Nico Nico Douga's technical error, not Sancom's. Their site was under maintenance. As of now, it's up.
^ same anon here
Anon's high def link above works.
Youtube thanks you for the page view, SanCom! =)
Guysssssss.... IOSYS>All :)
The complete lack of Mystia singing with the Prismrivers is depressing.
Short version is like that. Miss Cirno and Meiling too.
Did everybody here came just by watching that pic?
Neko Miko Reimu is a good classic too.
Music could be good =/
REDalice's version of bad apple is one of my favourites... but this one is good too :]
My thoughts as well.
The cum is everywhere!
What? Shadow bad apple?
Well that explains it!
winX30000000000000000000
It was just a matter of time everyone started spamming it everywhere.
At least I had to see it before the spread rage.
wow, so real!
seen it,since i check nico charts daily,where i usualy choose certain interesting videos
The beginning reminded me of "We Interrupt This Programme" often heard in YTMND.
But yeah, super cool.
Great work this is.
Love it.
This is very good, and you can really understand what this means....
genius
Yes. everyone should see it. Its the best thing since......ever.
It is wonderfully done. Thanks for sharing.
where can i find the games for this? I like it but i dont know much about touhou.
What anime is this from?
Im pretty sure it says Touhou at least twice in the description and you can find out that its a game instead of an anime from the previous comments.
well that was awesome
this is awesome!!!
AWELSOME .-.
I want to say this was epic, but i feel that would be a drastic understatement.
Looks like it was heavily inspired by Capsule and Yasutaka Nakata.
Really cool video, and good song. And I just realized nico changed alot of things, i don't really like the new category thing... combining all of やってみた is kind of annoying.
Great animation, timing, and pretty awesome sequence
Why can I see depth when they're silhouettes????
The motion of light produces the illusion of depth.
It's called depth of field on 3d models
Who came right after Yuka? It can't be Komachi.
Elly, Stage 3 boss of Lotus Land Story (or Touhou 04). Only her would use that kind of scythe.
DIE TOUHOU.
YOU MADE ME CAME.
FUCK
-_-
Is there a link for a direct download version?
Not just a HQ Youtube link, but an official release of the video.
Indeed. Ar maybe a copy of the video hosted on the SanCom server? This is certainly one of the most artistic things I've seen in a long time. The the song sure wasn't bad.
Anyone know where can I can this song at?
This is just epic beyond words.
For the people asking how this was made i have a slight suspision(sp?). Seems like it was made using 3D software, and onloy rendering the alpha channel of the images. The camera movement in the three dimentional space is too well animated (characters and all) as to be hand drawn completely.
Ok, any one wanna get into a discussion as to how they think it was made? The technique is too good as to ignore it... And as anonymous said above, yes, it is 3D depth animation. Prolly only rendering the Alpha channel of the animated characters. Would be safe to assume that the author didnt use any textures on the model as they would be completely ignored. Also gotta say, i love the camera movements on it!
Also, any one know where to get the song?
Although there may have been depth in the source 3D models, there is no depth to the output; a 2D animated image is produced. Also, depth is not expressed in the output image itself via shading. All colors are either black or white, with the exception of shadows and high-speed blur effects.
Take note of the occasional evil smiles of the characters. These could be vector graphics superimposed over the silhouettes, or they could be black/white enforced textures.
My guess is he used Twixtor Pro for either Premiere or Vegas.
You can draw motion at only a few frames per second, and then have the program generate in-between frames using vector processing to smooth it out.
After X number of passes you'll have zero duplicate frames within whatever FPS your project is in (so 60 unique frames of motion in a 60 FPS project).
Similarly, you can convert NTSC (29.97 FPS) into Double-NTSC (59.94 FPS) to give footage that super smooth look.
Only a guess though.
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Here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUf5580qmuI&ap=%26fmt=22]'s a short clip I made that way myself using about 10 or 12 frames from 0.4 seconds of animation in Princess Resurrection.
Notice what was once only a few frames could get extended to about 15 seconds and still feel somewhat natural.
I'm not a pro like whoever did this gorgeous Bad Apple, but if you want to see another pro applying this concept, check out the God of video editing Nostromo_vx [http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=160388].
That said, whoever did Bad Apple must have drawn all the lines themselves, so holy crap were they devoted (and clearly talented as well) O_O
Right, I wasn't paying attention. Now that I saw the whole thing from start to finish, it's obvious they were animated 3D models. The broomstick flying looked so natural in the begining it clouded my viewing comprehension :\
But the transitions in particular along with some of the miscellaneous bits (like those smiles) were probably done using vectors. Like you say.
I think they used Maya, there is a render module in it called Maya Vector that gives about the same results as in the video, also the cloth simulation looks like they used the nCloth module.
Then they post processed it to do the transitions and stuff.
Wow, that was amazing.
Yes it was.
The 3d illusion with the monochrome was quite stunning.
I'll admit it. I was expecting just another generic fan animation, but that was amazing quality. I'm happy I decided to watch that.
Id go with vector animations put after on any post production software, it it was done through the 3D models, there would have been evidence of alot more details on the models like where the neck and the clothes come together.
This takes the words out of my mouth.....this deserves a nobel prize.
Well Obama got one for nothing, I can't see why the makers of this couldn't...
Cheap shot aside, who is it that came after Yuka? I can't recall any character other than Komachi who has a scythe.
Scratch that, I got it.
It's Elly from Lotus Land Story. You can tell from the curly hair at the back of her head and the weird curvy-shafted scythe.
Seems odd to have her, and of all people a stage 3 boss, in amongst all the Windows crowd, but she has a relationship with Yuka (who preceded her in the PV) so I guess it's okay...
Its Elly from stage 3 of Lotus Land Story from which the song Bad Apple originated.(Stage theme not Boss)
Yeah I realised that shortly after posting my original comment, but apparently the reply I made to myself after doing so didn't get through.
Cause it got overuled by my splendid comment. Jk don't worry I've got your back~ (and not in that way either)
I don't know much about Tohou but I dig the song and video animation.
When I saw it yesterday I immediately thought pure epic win.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WHYL9J8P
Here is the mp3 download link
I'm so glad everybody likes this video as much as I do.
That's talent.
THIS VIDEO IS BRUTALLY AWESOME!!!!! GREAT ONE!!
Now with sub:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICeU3GfLGAo
That's based on the Touhou wiki lyrics, which are both wrong and do not make much sense at all. Here are some proper subs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzEUeWnV73U
*Jaw drops*
This is too awesome.
Pure win!
this may be too much to ask but id love to know who appeared in order. the only one i could i recognize was sakuya. and thats coz i like her. not really a touhou fan,but i like the music invovled
Awesome! Touhou 4 life!
that was mostly excellent. sad at the lack of cirno oh well.
Is there an official version available for download somewhere?
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WHYL9J8P
This is the mp3 version
Love it, watched it many times already.
Aki sisters? Who are they?
Wow, a lot of comments. Seems like Touhou is as popular as every.
Artefact has the same naming sense for images as me
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc/marisa-in-flight-bad-apple.jpg
omg.... this was so cool. X3
Wow, fuck yes.
This makes me smile
Nobody can resist a well animated dance.
"You can turn off the funny squiggles flying across the pretty pictures with the speech bubble icon in the lower left corner of the big black box above."
-Holy Shit Thank YOU
Fantastic!!!! A little more improvement on some animations but the transitions are amazing. XD
Epic.
http://www.mediafire.com/?vmn2nlyhwye
Mp4 ;)
I rewatched this vid over 6532636363452 times
I don't even know how many times I've already watched it xD Definitely putting the song on my MP4 and phone (as a ringtone)
It loops! It loops!!!
It's a sad thing, that I can't watch the nico nico videos in the nico nico player anymore. It will load, and it will play the squiggles, but no sound and no video for poor old me :(
That was a very impressive video (understatement). Imaginatively put together as well (drastic understatement). Even though I'm not that into the Touhou girls (obvious lie).
Is there Inubashiri Momiji anywhere in this clip?
Very impressive BTW
Yes, but only briefly. Right after Reisen's appearance.
So beautiful and sexy...
`Bad Apple` was a Touhou classic already, even before this. So, yeah.
this calls for an anime
(or more doujin ones :))
Simply Amazing. I was wondering what 3D software was used for this piece..
thats great; gotta look up more by this group!
Probably the greatest music animation I have ever seen in my life. And yes. I came. Several times. All over the place. Now I have to clean it all up T_T
*watches again*
E X C E L E N T (no more coments XD)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F8W84FV0
Rip of the HD upscale from Youtube. Good quality, I can confirm it!
I don't know, I thought it all felt kind of plastic. The song was repetetive and reminded me of all other songs that sounds like that (girl singing + lots of generic sound), and the animations wasn't bad, but they didn't really feel alive either.
anyone heard how to get hold of the models used?
SWEET!
Touhou IS excellent. toho is just some random Japanese film studio. 東方ＦＴＷ
Suprisingly some people think of the studio when I mention it probably because TOHO is the studio that makes the Godzilla films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86wcQrEpBF8
An upscaled version with subs.
special move, infinity fap...
This was epic.
I should watch Touhou now.
You should PLAY touhou, it's not an anime (officially)
Though Touhou is a "trend" I'm not familiar with, the praise heaped upon this remarkable work of art is well deserved.
SON, I AM DELIGHT.
No points for guessing what the scouter says about this MAD's power level. ^_^
awesome vid, and song....ty for the mp3 link