If not one of the most known and versatile bands on the face of the planet, Queen's music is known to be diverse and spellbinding. Naturally, there is a wide variety of videos made to many of there songs. Join us as we journey through the music of Queen AMV style!
Friday September 28, 2012 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Renaissance - Habersham2450 Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30339
Very popular last year, we have even more slots for our many attending editors. Let them razzle-dazzle you with their favorite creations and even present some behind the scenes features and commentary of their works!
Friday September 28, 2012 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Renaissance - Habersham2450 Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30339
Would YOU like to make and Anime Music Video? All you need these days is a mid-range computer, your MP3 and DVD collection and the Interwebs. Join VAT Director Daric "Jingoro" Jackson and friends as he demonstrates the basics of making your own AMV. We'll cover artistic and technical topics and answer questions from the audience.
What happens when you take an audience interactive original gameshow concept and build it around AMVs? Well, you get the AMV Gameshow of course! It's full of fun, entertaining videos and chances throughout the entire show for audience members to participate and win lots of prizes. And, oh yes, since it's hosted by a Canadian, you'll certainly have to find out how a sprinkle of Canadian content fits into game play!
Help celebrate the hobby by joining Nat-chan in counting down - in no particular order - a selection of the best videos released during the past year. Together we can enjoy the experience and when it's all over, you'll want to grab them all.
The completion Universide, a self-fulfilling Mayan prophecy: A music video project to end the 21st century. Come see the latest installment of the ADD-driven comedy masterpiece extravaganza spectacular sensation phenomenon smash.
Friday September 28, 2012 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT
Renaissance - Habersham2450 Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30339
The AMV roast is a special time in an editor's career. We select only the best, most ripe AMV editors we can find. Carefully prepared, we then present them to you live on stage and begin spouting insulting degradation, immoral euphemisms and otherwise naughty words in their general direction for your personal amusement. Nowhere else at any convention will you get this much schadenfreude in one sitting. Which decorated AMV maker will be our victim this year? I supposed you'll have to be there to find out!
Friday night would not be complete without the VAT AMV Dance! Come on down and dance to your favorite AMVs as we pump up the volume and get you grooving.
Friday September 28, 2012 10:00pm - Saturday September 29, 2012 12:30am EDT
Renaissance - Habersham2450 Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30339
How do we top last year’s Marathon of Morning Hell you ask? How about an MTV-style countdown of the some of the best and funniest Comedy AMVs out there! Yes indeed, we’ll stay up past dawn to count them down. You’ll just have to stay awake if you want to see some of the best ones out there as we count down to “one” into the wee hours of the morning!
Very popular last year, we have even more slots for our many attending editors. Let them razzle-dazzle you with their favorite creations and even present some behind the scenes features and commentary of their works!
Saturday September 29, 2012 11:00am - 1:00pm EDT
Renaissance - Habersham2450 Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30339
Come and take a look into the world of the Cosplay Music Video and some of the clever ways Cosplaying is featured to music. From storytelling to eye-candy effects, take a journey on the other side of music video fandom.
Do you like AMVs? Yeah you do. Do you like Awesomecore? You bet your sweet moustache! Join Fall_Child42 and ZephyrStar as we force you ... er ... yeah ... to watch some of the absolute best and worst AMVs ever made by human beings. Trust us, you won't be disappointed.
Join us once again for our gala awards ceremony, screening the very best of this year’s contest entries from our Exposition and Professional Contest with the Commercial Parody Contest sprinkled in between.
Epic. Alan Clontz returns to defend his Iron Editor title against a Brian Moore in an all out AMV Hell bonanza! They'll have two hours to create, right before your eyes, a new music video that includes footage from the dreaded “secret ingredient” and other selected anime. We’ll keep you entertained with AMVs, games and prize giveaways while they duke it out. Join us for two hours of editing prowess, mini-games, prizes and hilarity. We will be also featuring a tribute to our fallen comrade Patrick Bonnet.
Saturday September 29, 2012 6:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Renaissance - Habersham2450 Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30339
THE FUN HAS BEEN DOUBLED! Join Dr. Dinosaur, ZephyrStar, and inthesto as they provide TWO HOURS of your favorite diminutive colorful equines, complete in Anthology format! We will start by showing our newly finished epic masterpiece, PONIES the Anthology II, followed by a showing of the original, PONIES the Anthology. We will be joined by several of the talented creators who contributed to both of these projects and after the showing we'll be taking your questions, comments, and friendship in general!
Saturday September 29, 2012 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
Renaissance - Habersham2450 Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30339
You know you want to put those moves you learned in Dance Central to good use. Jingoro will keep the VAT hoppin' into the wee hours as he mixes the latest hits. Can't dance? We've got you covered. Get +5 dexterity with provided glow sticks. (And if you really want to impress, +5 charisma with deodorant — not included.)
Like yuri? Yaoi-curious? Enjoy H-AMV’s? Come party with members of Chaotic Bad Raptor as they showcase some of the best “after-hours” videos that cannot be shown in the normal AMV Blocks. These are videos of all types for your late-night viewing pleasure. 18+ and as always "Ladies in free!"
Sunday September 30, 2012 12:00am - 2:00am EDT
Renaissance - Wilton2450 Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30339
Have you ever found yourself unable to sleep at night and you find yourself in that weird place few have ever reached before on the web? Hang out with a fellow insomniac as he presents some of the weirdest, funniest and interesting videos ever found on the internet. There will be some profanity and suggestive themes in some of the videos shown.
There's gold in the VAT archive, and VAT staffer/AMV guru GloryQuestor is spending Sunday morning mining it out! Join him as he pulls out all kinds of video art gems, from 90's classics to today's hits, from the VAT archive.
Sunday September 30, 2012 2:30am - 8:00am EDT
Renaissance - Habersham2450 Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30339
Nothing starts your Sunday afternoon off better than an injection of humor. Join in as we present some of the most recent AMV's from the world of comedy.
Join Chris Bobko (ZephyrStar) for a look at the original works of independent animators working in and out of the anime style today. We'll take a look at some conventional AMVs that make great use of original 2D and 3D animation, and then we will discuss indie artists who have created their own films.
Last year we brought you "AMVs That Made Us Buy The Anime" so this year we thought, why not do a sequel? We'll show some cool AMVs that made us run out and buy the music. Join us to discover some great bands and artists stylized with AMVs!
Sunday September 30, 2012 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Renaissance - Habersham2450 Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30339