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July 2018 Featured Creator

What is a Featured Creator?

Write Way Studio’s “Featured Creator” segment is my way of showing appreciation for the creators of the world. Creative outlets are limitless, because there is no end to human imagination. Every month shows the succeeding featured creator. If you would like to be a part of this collaborative project, contact me at [email protected]!

My tenth guest creator is an artist and writer known as Emi!

Introduction

This lovely lady goes by both Emi and Emily! She was born the sixteenth of March, currently twenty-one years old. Her home resides in New York. At the moment, she is a college student going for Computer Animation and Interactive Media, with an Associate’s in Illustration. She absolutely adores character design, complete with storyboarding and writing in the art of storytelling. As an emphasis on her passion, Emi confessed that “you can always catch me with a sketchbook in hand and story ideas to discuss.”

She comes from a variety of educational backgrounds, from primary Catholic school, public high school and then the college she presently attends, the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City (or FIT for short). There is one year left for her Bachelor’s degree. She is unsure of what she will do afterward, either to go to a community college to potentially gain a teaching degree or extend her Bachelor’s into a Master’s degree after the graduation from FIT.

What Sparked the Creator Passion?

Cartoons and video games influenced Emi early in life. For television, she grew up on PBS Kids and KidsWB while her older brothers played with a Nintendo 64 and GameCube. Nowadays, it’s mostly cartoons she watches, especially if it is animated. She plays any video games she can get her hands on – new and old! A family trait of hers that she inherited would be the artist’s eye, a characteristic that would influence her even today.

An Animated Beginning

Emi revealed that “the game that really sky-rocketed [her] love for the world of imagination, and still fuels [her] to this day, is The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask.” There are numerous other games she played when she was younger. Banjo Kazooie, Yoshi Story and Spyro name a small few. Japanese-based games introduced her to the world of anime and manga after she discovered the Internet. There were multiple phases as she cycled through an assortment of anime, from Sgt. Frog, Ouran High School Host Club, Black Butler, and Princess Jellyfish. All of them have led to her current obsession, My Hero Academia. Studio Ghibli also holds a special place in her heart.

She recently read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and thoroughly enjoyed the book. She is currently invested in a book called Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates; it is a fictional story sharing the inner thoughts and feelings of the one and only Marilyn Monroe. Emi confessed that Oates is her favorite author since “her level of writing is where I aspire to be.”

“We All Live In A Yellow Submarine”

Yet, there is one film that stands above the rest in her eyes. As she called it, “the magnum opus of all animation, imagination, storytelling, creativity, illustration, and music [can only be] Yellow Submarine directed by George Dunning, produced by Al Brodax, Story by Lee Minoff, Art Direction by Heinz Edelmann, [and] based on the song of the same name by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.” The movie stands as a huge inspiration for her, and since it is based on The Beatles with their songs, only has Emi adoring it more. The experience with the picture repeatedly “kindles [her] aesthetic and motivation to create . . . [because of] how much it means to [her].”

Interestingly, Emi possesses the uncanny fan-ability of quoting the object of the fanatics. In this case, Yellow Submarine, complete with “accents . . . tones . . . and everything.” Oh, yes, being a dedicated fan can definitely come in handy, if you become creative with your resources. Emi even confessed that, for the previous semester, she wrote a final paper of hers (AKA the grade-that’s-most-likely-to-be-OP for a college-level course) centered on the film.

I pulled a similar power move with Studio Ghibli films for a Linguistics class. But that is a story for another time.

Future Projects

For now, Emi is focused on improvement with lots of practice and taking time for herself. Toon Boom is an animating and storyboarding software that she uses for 2D animation. Besides working with the software, she has a plethora of other outlets to utilize.

As previously mentioned, this young lady is concentrating on her senior thesis to rightfully obtain her hard-earned degree. This summer, Emi managed to actively participate with multiple zines as both a writer and an artist in order to remain imaginatively occupied. There is also her summer internship position, where she works on storyboards and animatics for a production company called O.T.O TV.

If you are intrigued to know more about the company, check their social media links down below!

· Twitter

· Facebook

· Instagram

Where To Find You? Support You?

Luckily, Emi can be found on multiple online platforms! There is also the possibility of supporting her creativity by visiting her online shop or even submitting a commission. Don’t hesitate to ask her more about it!

Social Media

o Tumblr

For her original story and characters!

o Instagram

o Twitter

Portfolio Website

Various ways to support Emi!

o Commission Information

o Ko-fi

o Tictail Store

Last Tidbits

There are a few random things to know about Emi. To start, she is right handed and a Pisces! Her favorite food is any form of a potato. She listens to music every day in order to improve her groove. Her favorite Beatle is Paul McCartney and her favorite Disney film is Beauty and the Beast.

Emily then concluded our interview with a message to all of you lovely readers, “I wish you all a lovely day. Thank you for taking time to read up a little bit about me, my life, and my passions. Your support means the world to me.”

Important Notice

Please understand that some information will not be shared by the creator’s request. If you cannot understand that, there is not much more I can do to help you. Safety is a top priority here, and I am here to help the creators, not instigate negative behavior.

Collaboration Disclaimer

The information provided in my Featured Creator articles is, in fact, from the real people, not some random Internet bot. I do not use random stock photos to fill an imaginary photo quota. Any photos in the Featured Creator segment are provided by the creators with permission to use them in this manner. I want to support the original person behind the work, not a random online copycat creeping around.

To Emi,

I honestly can’t remember how I found you on Tumblr, but I am so happy I did. Not only are you a hilarious young lady, you also are creative and insightful. I am not much older than you, and yet we will be both getting our respective degrees with the completion of the following school year. Most of the other creators I’ve worked with before were, for the most part, already out of school and being full-blown adults. So that was definitely a nice change of scenery I did not expect.

As a fan of both your writing and art, I was really excited to work with you on this collaboration! Despite the problems we’ve encountered across this little project, please know that I don’t make a habit of it. Truly! I had a lot of fun working on this. I hope that happiness shines through somewhere in all of this.

I wish you luck with your final year of school and I can’t wait to work with you again on a different project (if you’re interested, of course)!

Sincerely,

Jasmine Love

MLA Citation (8th edition)

Emi. Personal E-mail Interview by Jasmine Love. July 2018 Featured Creator Collaboration, 18 June – 5 July 2018.

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