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Inside Daicon IV's 40th Anniversary Exhibit




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Floriane



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2023 1:14 pm Reply with quote
Am I awake or do I dream?
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xstylus



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Floriane wrote:
Am I awake or do I dream?

The strangest pictures I have seen...
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2023 3:15 pm Reply with quote
xstylus wrote:
Floriane wrote:
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The strangest pictures I have seen...

Twilight~~!

The Daicon openings were such a great and unique thing born from early underground and otaku fan culture of the 80s. I can't imagine it being replicated in today's saturated media landscape.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2023 3:59 pm Reply with quote
The Daicon IV opening is still one of the best showcases of animation of any kind. A small group of at-the-time unproven animators with only passion and skill to make up for their lack of material resources made something all alone that was more resonant than almost anything born of studios and production committees.

Iirc there's an extremely rare laserdisk release and if I should ever find the means to acquire it, yoi know I'm going to buy a player just for that alone.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2023 4:21 pm Reply with quote
They certainly went all out with the presentation.
Swissman wrote:
The Daicon openings were such a great and unique thing born from early underground and otaku fan culture of the 80s. I can't imagine it being replicated in today's saturated media landscape.
It would indeed be hard for fan animation to stand out in a time where that stuff is common place. I don't even think anyone else was even doing fan animations at the time. Though that was Daicon III, IV sounds like it was done a bit more professionally.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2023 8:33 pm Reply with quote
The DAICON IV opening was something that technology has rendered almost superfluous.

But it’s still memorable enough that, decades later, people create something like this:

https://youtu.be/a9itFokPcaw
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Very few fan animations I've seen come anywhere near what Daicon IV accomplished. Technology may have made it much easier to make an animated video, but zooming a 3D camera around a bunch of CG models you downloaded from the Internet isn't remotely enough to make a *good* video; that still requires a ton of creativity, skill, and hard work.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 2:16 pm Reply with quote
Octorockandroll wrote:
Iirc there's an extremely rare laserdisk release and if I should ever find the means to acquire it, yoi know I'm going to buy a player just for that alone.


To this day I beat myself up over not buying a copy of it I saw at a Mandarake store several years ago, even with the hefty price-tag attached to it.
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Thanks so much for these images. I still remember the pure joy I experienced watching these for the first time in a convention hall, and that was in the early 2000s.
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Octorockandroll



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Nagsura wrote:
Octorockandroll wrote:
Iirc there's an extremely rare laserdisk release and if I should ever find the means to acquire it, yoi know I'm going to buy a player just for that alone.


To this day I beat myself up over not buying a copy of it I saw at a Mandarake store several years ago, even with the hefty price-tag attached to it.


On the plus side, if 2nd hand copies are still showing up in stores as of a few years ago it means there's hope yet!
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