aq-ui-line, adj. Of, relating to, or having the
characteristics of an eagle.
(Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
You've managed to find the homepage of Aquiline Studios,
the home of the anime music videos of Scintilla and Cyanna.
Enjoy your stay, and check out the videos while you're here.
Please use the links on the left for navigation.
6/7/22: Another major update to Scintilla's Plant Database, adding information from three new primary sources by Richard Bir, Kenneth Druse, and Michael Dirr and Keith Warren respectively. Also, the tags are now color-coded to show those that are unequivocally good or bad traits, for ease of identification. Check it out!
6/11/21: I've finished making the first major round of updates to Scintilla's Plant Database, adding information from the USDA's PLANTS database -- thanks to Dr. Glenn from RCSJ for the suggestion!
5/19/21:
It has absolutely nothing to do with AMVs, but I've just made a significant new addition to the site:
Scintilla's Plant Database, containing almost 500 plants as of this typing
(almost all woody ones, that is, trees and shrubs), painstakingly compiled from numerous independent
sources in an attempt to provide the most complete and objective information possible.
Putting this together with no help has occupied a ton of my time over the past four months, so I'm
glad to be able finally to announce its completion (at least as far as woody plants are concerned;
if I get really bored I might add herbaceous perennials at some point). I'm already finding it to
be more convenient than constantly cross-checking half a dozen different sources for any given plant
(I had enough of that in building it), plus I learned more about PHP and Ajax along the way. If you
find anything that needs correction, please
let me know!
4/6/20:
If you haven't already, go check out Cyanna's
"A Song for Our Time"
(Aggretsuko set to a delightfully apt little
banjolele ditty),
which ripped up the convention circuit in 2019 and currently holds a glistening star rating of 4.71
(out of 5) on A-M-V.org! It's not listed here quite yet, but it will be as soon as she gets me some
appropriate site assets to use.
Also, even though this has nothing whatsoever to do with AMVs, I've started documenting my
experiences with growing trees and bushes. You can check it out here.
6/4/18: Now for the SEVENTH year running, Scintilla will be running the AMV department at AnimeNEXT (June 8-10 in Atlantic City, NJ). Besides the ever-popular contest (the only contest where YOU, the audience, get to decide the winners of the coveted AnimeNEXT medals), we'll also have the fourth annual AMV Sing-Along and, brand new for 2018, a Dance Under the AMVs. (Here's the full schedule.) Come on out and let's have some fun!
8/11/14: Party like it's 2006 with the latest video from Scintilla, "Gibberish in Motion: When AMVs and Animutations Collide", otherwise known as two and a half minutes of flashy randomness and pre-Web-2.0 jokes set to a DDR song infamous for its awfully pronounced (and therefore easy-to-amusingly-mishear) English. If you're a fan of DDR or (F)Animutations, then you're especially likely to actually get the jokes here. Made finals at Otakon 2014.
7/21/14: We've just gotten the good news that both of us have once again made finals in the AMV contest at Otakon (August 8-10 in Baltimore, MD)! Cyanna's got a brand-new video in the Romance/Sentimental category, while Scintilla has a Comedy video you might have seen in 2013 at Anime Weekend Atlanta or Youmacon. Though the con schedule isn't up yet, we are definitely planning to attend the contest screenings and the Iron Editor competition at the very least. Feel free to say hi if you spot us! We don't bite, I promise.
9/11/13: Just dropping in to say that we'll both be at Anime Weekend Atlanta 19, September 27-29 in Atlanta, GA... where we'll also both be premiering new videos! Also, Scintilla has a Creator Spotlight slot in the VAT at 10:30 - 10:45 on Saturday of the con, and we plan to hit up the Editors' Dinner on Thursday night as well... plus just generally hanging out in the VAT a lot throughout the whole weekend, in all probability. Come say hi!
2/4/12:
I finally put together a collection of all of my 524 saved Away Messages
from AOL Instant Messenger. It's mainly because when I run a web search to see if anyone else out
there has thought of some clever twist on a phrase that I've just thought of, I usually can't find
anything. So perhaps if someone else out there in the world has the same problem, s/he can find
the joke they're looking for on this page and know that s/he is not alone!
It kind of runs the gamut, from simple unmodified phrases from the pop culture of my childhood
(like "You are RIGHT, Mr. Fettuccine!" and "Can you believe how much... Pringles you got?") to
wilfully misheard lyrics (like "Little Rock, Pasternack, Mickey Mantle, Marowak") to an awful lot of
jokes that you'd need to know both very specific sources of to get (like Hoobastank meeting digital
audio workstations in "AND THE PRO TOOLS IS YOU" and Beauty and the Beast vs. DDR in
"Gaston, you are positively from the Nonstop Megamix" and The Critic meeting college sports in
"ALL HAIL UNC! UNC IS LIFE!" and... you get the idea).
7/27/11:
With one day left until Otakon,
here's Scintilla's new video a little early:
"AMVじゃなイカ? (An Anime Music Squideo!)"
(for those that don't read Japanese, that's pronounced "AMV ja nai ka?"). It's a fun summertime
video about the little squid girl who wants to conquer the human race to get back at them for their
wanton pollution of the ocean... but ends up stuck working at a beach house restaurant to pay off
damages. This also marks the first time AS has released a video in full HD (1080p)!
Both "AMVじゃなイカ?" and Cyanna's "The 800lb. Gorilla"
(not released yet) were selected as finalists in the Dance/Upbeat category of Otakon's AMV contest!
In addition, Scintilla will be the MC for this year's Iron Editor™ competition at Otakon, in which
our two contestants have only two hours to come up with the best AMV they can, out of five animé sources
known in advance plus one Secret Source. There'll also be audience participation games with fabulous
prizes, plus the announcement of the AMV contest winners. So come check it out: Saturday, 6:30-9:30 P.M.,
in Panel 1!
Update: Scintilla's new video "AMVじゃなイカ?" just took home
1st Place in the Dance/Upbeat category at Otakon! Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote on
the videos and make this contest possible. AMV contests would not exist without you, the fans.
For older updates, click here.
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