Crossover

A crossover is what happens when two or more otherwise unrelated works are combined, typically by way of the characters from those works meeting each other. Crossovers are a popular subject of fanworks of all kinds, and official crossovers also exist, although they are limited by legal issues - those who currently hold the rights to the works involved must agree to make the crossover, and as such, official crossovers typically happen between works which are owned by the same company.

In fanvids, crossovers are typically created either by using masking to place characters from unrelated works into the same scene, or by very carefully selecting scenes which take place in similar environments and where the camera angles are such that the characters could plausibly be interacting. Both methods are most effective when the works have similar visual styles. For example, all clips used for a sequence might be from live action works, with the cameras zoomed in on the characters in question, with those characters facing in opposite directions, and taking place outdoors in grassy fields at sunset, so that the clips can be arranged to imply that the characters are facing towards each other and conversing. Crossovers are particularly common in Animash videos, where characters often are simply used to represent abstract concepts and play assorted roles in stories fabricated by the editors, regardless of whether these roles have any relation to the ones they played in their works of origin, and whether the characters chosen are from the same work or universe.