Do you remember Galaxy Bounce from 2006? It was good, it won some awards but I always thought it could be improved. Introducing Galaxy Bounce 2012, remake of my 6-year-old AMV with improved editing, effects, 720p, 60fps and an exclusive remix of the original song Lifelight by Sugar Jesus.
I got the idea of doing this remake 2 years ago when I was chatting with Overdrive who already helped me with video encoding. I was telling him that I was looking for a bluray version of Pale Cocoon (which doesn’t exist) and he proposed to upscale the DVD version for me and filter it to improve quality. The result was really impressive, just what I needed for HD remake.
The improved video quality was nice but I figured that a simple remake with the same song wouldn’t make a good impact. I needed something to freshen the AMV, like a new version of the song, remix maybe. Since I recently worked with Andrei Basirov from Sugar Jesus for my Binary Overdrive AMV and I knew that he was very good at remixing, I thought I’d ask him if he would be interested in taking part in this project. He immediately accepted and told me that he needed the vocal track of Andy Hunter’s song as well as some other elements like SFX and chorus tracks in order to start working on the remix.
I managed to contact Andy and tell him about the project. He already saw the first Galaxy Bounce AMV few years ago and loved it. He agreed to help and sent me the audio tracks that Andrei needed. It took a while for Andrei to come up with the first version of the remix as he’s been very busy with his job but it was worth waiting. This first version was already high quality but Andrei is a perfectionist and he kept getting back to me with improved versions every time I gave him feedback.
I put my summer AMV project on standby (Quantum Ripples) and started editing as soon as I got the first version of the remix. Although I basically just had to replicate the editing from the 2006 AMV, it took me a while to remember and redo some effects. I also realized that I already had a good level back then and there are even some quick transitions that I didn’t manage to redo very well so I just took them directly from the old Galaxy Bounce, hopefully you won’t notice it. This remake is about 1 minute longer.
Once again it was a pleasure to work with Andrei. Having Andy Hunter on the project put some extra pressure and motivated me to do things well. I spent about 5 months working on this remake (including lazy-time playing Deus Ex). There are a lot of new effects, most of them are about details that you might miss but if you compare with the old Galaxy Bounce, you should notice them (check out making of).

Pale Cocoon is a 22-minutes long OVA by Yasuhiro Yoshiura. The intro of the AMV is my 2010 AMV Binary Overdrive and I also used other old AMVs on screen tracking and you’ll also notice captures of Quantum Ripples (that I was editing at that time) on the main screen.
Some comments about the old Galaxy Bounce were mentioning that it looked like the story was about a guy editing AMV and suddenly discovered some footage that made him want to explore reality or something like that. I thought it was a very cool idea and I could develop it using screen tracking to insert my previous AMVs everywhere. It required a lot of time and effort; I had to spend about 1 hour for each screen tracking. I did try to simplify the work using some tracking plugins but the result was disappointing so I just had to do them frame by frame using Premiere’s basic corner pin effect.
Andy Hunter – Lifelight (Sugar Jesus Remix)
This Remix was never officially released due to the lack of response from Andy’s old label which still holds the rights to this song.
The download link contains the AMV Edit, Original Mix and Instrumental version.
Galaxy Bounce 2012 Edit
Original Extended Edit
Instrumental
I really like this Remake, I would go that far, to say that this is one of your best Videos.
Oh yeah. I’d love to see you to do a remake of ‘Vectorman’. I thought it was a great AMV at the time but I know you can do better. ‘Ghost in the Shell’ is a great anime also but you haven’t used it in any of your recent AMV’s.
Holy crap awesome! <3 Je t'aime Nostromo. (no homo)
Amazing.
Awesome. Simply awesome! When I first watched Galaxy Bounce, I thought it was an AMV that would endure the test of time, but now you have just made it better. Again, awesome!
ohhh man very nice.
Thanks for making and sharing this exceptional AMV! I’ve consistently loved your work!
Please continue to brainfry me. I’m seriously addicted to your stuff.
l like your job , especialy transitions it’s your strong point. and there is always a story in your amv, i like well.
Sugar Jesus is amazing!
Reading this I’m extremely impressed at the extremes you went through to improve upon your original work.
Honestly, hearing that you went as far as to contact the original artist to request for assets so you could work with someone to have your own remix developed blew my mind and maybe even just as impressive; learning Andy Hunter saw, and was a fan of, your original Galaxy Bounce.
This blog was a fantastic idea by the way, understanding your work more helps me appreciate it more than I was able to before. Keep up the amazing work, Nostromo and I love forward to future projects even more.
I watched your original Galaxy Bounce in 06 when I was in high school. It was an inspirational peace for me back then, after watching this I’m inspired again. Thanks!
Bonjour, Mr Nostromo, j’ai reçus le logiciel adobe première pro cs6 et je voudrai savoir, comment faire les suivit d’images comme sur votre making-of. Merci.
Je ne pense pas que Premiere dispose d’un outil de tracking automatique. C’est possible avec un plugin. Sinon c’est à la main en utilisant les images clés (key frame) mais c’est plus long. Ça consiste à positionner les éléments par-dessus la vidéo de fond et à définir des repères qui vont permettre au programme de déterminer une trajectoire. Sur les mouvements simple ça marche assez bien mais si ça bouge beaucoup ça peut être impossible. Il faut manuellement gérer le zoom également si le déplacement se fait en profondeur aussi.
Pour cet AMV j’ai tout fait en manuel. Les mouvements sont tellement compliqués que j’ai dû tout animer image par image pour chaque incrustation.
This was brilliantly done – I have always loved this song (both the original Andy Hunter version, then the Sugar Jesus version), so your rendition of it was just the topping on the cake. Keep up the great work!