I’ve mentioned before Pokemon Abridged Version, written and performed by HomeStarRunnerTron on Youtube.  It had excellent voice acting (for a parody) and a quick wit, very in line with “Abridged Series.”

The idea of “Abridged Series” is to take a 30 minute cartoon and shorten it to about 10-15 minutes, overlaying new dialog that somewhat matches the original intent of the show whilst changing the exact words to be much funnier.

HSRT’s Pokemon Abridged videos were pulled from YouTube, apparently due to a mix of using Pokemon footage and some clips of some fameous songs.  DCMA takedowns for a parody?  OF COURSE!  Welcome to the new free world.

Various clips I’ve found of the video around are of random quality, don’t stream well, or (shock) are pulled for DCMA violations.  So I’m hosting my own streams on my own server of this excellent PARODY.  Enjoy.

Thanks to Dreamhost for your servers.

I’m working with a Youtube user named TylecAsroc on his fandub of Spice and Wolf, a very enjoyable anime.

I started as just a voice actor, but ended up expanding my role by presenting him with new titles for his fandub, based heavily on the original titles of the show.

The new video was produced in Adobe Premiere CS4, of which no doubt you will hear in the future.

I also wanted to do this to learn how to upload HD video to youtube.  It’s easier than you think, and looks oh so good.

Warning: Anime “artsy” “god-girl-is-naked-but-it-looks-like-a-white-leotard-kinda” in the video at the beginning. Those wacky Japanese.

Click Here to see it in it’s full HD glory.

To keep up to date with the fandub, you’ll need to follow along with TylecAsroc, here:  TylecAsroc’s user page on YouTube.

One final note;  until I had done this encoding route for YouTube, I simply didn’t appreciate the power of the H.264 codec for having great picture in tiny (relatively) files.

It’s not the final version. Changes have already been made.