OKAY. I JUST HAD TO REDRAW THIS IMAGE I MADE OVER A YEAR AGO!!! Siblings amirite

Meet the Creator!

Introducing: Peace!

Commissions:  I do not and have never before done commissions, and as to whether I will try to do any in the future I honestly do not know. Maybe small ones, but I not sure yet

Social Media: Tumblr: @fallingtopeaces7​ AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/peacewing

Tell us a little bit about yourself!

Hewoo new frends my name tis Peace. I tis both an artist and a writer and that has consequently led me to majoring in animation, so you all might sees some animation stuffs from me later on. I luvs to come up with new ideas and worldbuilding, especially worldbuilding. Tis very fun to make a world and share it with frends X3! I also luvs to play DnD and hope to DM one day. Besides that, my favorite color tis blue and i likes many animals but i has a soft spot for cats. My nickname on Discord is Server Cat for a reason :3

What got you into creating? what inspires you to keep creating?

there wasnt really a big moment that made me want to start creating tis more of a slow build up til I went "I wanna draw sumthing for dis, so i shall" and i dids. However the metaphorical push over the edge into artist land was pokemon so i guess we cans say it twas that X3. what makes me want to keep creating are the fandoms i continuously finds myself in and my frends along with music. Music tis one of my biggest motivators besides my frends :3

What's your creative process like?

My creative process is pretty average. For my art I thinks up what i want to make and sketch it out and get it out how i wants in this stage. Then i do the lineart, color and shading then i done. For writing it also starts with thinking up an idea then I write down notes for it in a sort of outline. If its a multi-chapter fic then a oneshot then I add in characters and such along with places. Once I add in everything I thinks my story will include I come up with the beginning and the end and figure out what happens in the middle so it makes sense. Then I writes until its done X3

What kind of mediums do you like to use?

I mostly do digital art, but whenever I do traditional art i use a pencil and if I really wanna do something big i use other dry media like charcoal and colored pencils. Besides drawing I also like to take pictures of what i sees outside that i likes X3. I might post those pictures in the future :3

Is there a specific scene wrote that you are particularly proud of?

not really, at least not yet. Maybe once I start writing my bigger ideas I be able to choose one

Is there someone who inspires you and your writing or art?

my frends are great motivators and i cants really choose one since they all affect how i view creating stuffs :3

Is there something that you struggled with that made you grow as a creator?

multiple, too many count or name all that needs to be said are hands, legs, and feet

What got you into writing or art?

already kinda answered this earlier :3

What's your favorite part of the creative process?

the planning is definitely my favorite part cause WORLD BUILDING!!! X3

What's your least favorite part of the creative process?

executing the plan tis definitely the hardest part for me since my motivation tends to leave pretty quickly unless I really excited bout it

What's your favorite type of scene to write?

HUGGIES n HURT/COMFORT!!!!!!! GIVE ME THE HUGS!!! >:3 

What's the hardest for you to create?

getting the poses right for drawing tis very hard and writing the scene just right is also very hard. Everything looks and sounds great in the head but not out in the real world owo

What's your favorite genre to write?

hurt/comfort with HUGGIES!!! either that or just downright fluff and crack X3 

What fandoms do you enjoy creating for?

legend of zelda undertale and a few others i cannot remember for some reason right now OwO

What's the work you are most proud of?

I really like these: https://fallingtopeaces7.tumblr.com/post/616304650647404544/wind-you-came-back-this-is-for-the-weekly-prompt https://fallingtopeaces7.tumblr.com/post/616159948590710784/take-this-random-as-heck-angst-it-appeared-in-my?is_related_post=1 and the only fic i has made so far is this one with a frend: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23867086

Where do you post your finished works?

my art I post on my tumblr and I post whatever I write on AO3 here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/peacewing

ahjhhhhhhh so i went to this “type thursday” event thing where people will volunteer to show some of their design work (typography for the most part) and receive a critique from other attendees who are part of the graphic design/type community and i went bc it was at south campus and i was there anyways and greg told me i should go and was at the type center so i knew simon and some other teachers would be there so i figured why not and so i was sitting with greg and the two people who showed work were...not great... the first dude was developing a font in persian that was based on a typeface that was designed in the 50s but is kinda lost, anyways, he didnt have much to show and none of it was digital, it was just outline drawings, so even if most of us did know what we were looking for, it was hard to tell what was just a rough sketch or whatever and there were a few people there who knew arabic so they came up and gave feedback which was pretty interesting, but as greg said afterwards, it was a rough one to start with. and then the other two people who were supposed to present didnt show so this guy volunteered to present and it was...pretty bad...like he was showing his work on this personal project he was doing where he takes these quotes from famous designers that are about design and typography and does them in the in the style of the designer and then posts them on instagram in an attempt to educate and spread knowledge about design and type?? but were kinda super amateur and lame and he kept talking about how he reached out to each of the designers for permission to use the quotes and their approval or whatever, and like it was just not great, like if he were a student i would have given him a pretty tough crit but he was this middle aged dude and his sense of design was kinda meh and the typefaces he was saying were great are like shitty $60 myfonts.com fonts and like i could see greg cringe at the mention of one of them haha and like someone asked if how successful the instagram is, like if he has built a good following and he said that it wasn’t that successful and that basically he has about the same number of followers as he is following which isnt a whole lot, it was kinda pathetic 

so ANYWAYS after the dude was done, greg was like “that was pretty lame” and i was like “...yeah” and he was like “like, all those designers he mentioned, like he did this purely as a vehicle to get noticed by them and try and boost his own ego” and i agreed and then i was like “i mean i wasnt going to go up there though” and he was like “i mean, if you wanted to, like it would be good to talk about what to show so that the people here are actually able to like quickly understand what your intent is and are not distracted by dumb shit and can actually give feedback, like the first guy, he isnt even working digital yet?? like what are we supposed to critique, like come back when you are fucking serious about this shit!” and i was like yeah....and then i was like “i’m not gonna ever go up and show my shit though” and greg was like “FUCK, i mean, if it had been your work up there it would have been a thousand times better than this shit i mean anything you’ve done would have led to a much more interesting discussion than whatever this shit is!!” and i was just HSDLK:GDLHGLSDHKDHGKHSLDG”HLSK:DGHSDG”SDGJS THANKYOUUUU fucccckkkkkkkk i don’t really ask him about my work much and, i dunno, in his class it is much more about what is working or whatever and with the clash project the process was so difficult bc of my mental health that i know he thought the work was good but i was also probably frustrating the living shit out of him but yeah ahhhhhhhh it was just nice to hear...

like i know he thinks i’m a good designer but he also holds me to a higher standard bc of it but yeah... anyways... it felt good :)

(ahhhh also during my font design final last term i brought up something about type 5 and he was like “ahh i was looking at pictures of your type 5 project the other day, it turned out pretty fucking cool” which is like the highest praise from greg :))) anyways...)

i also met a couple of his former students from calarts and they were really cool but omg they had never heard him curse or anything and was like !!!!!?!? WHAT!!???? i mean “just put on sandinista! and fucking do it man!!” is the iconic greg quote and they were like shocked, it was pretty funny :)

FMP FINAL EVALUATION

For my final, I have made a film. This film after seven weeks I think still adheres to what I said I would do in my original project brief. The film itself is a short film that explores a possible ever lasting imprint new technology will have on this world more in particular the impact holograms could have in the communication centre as well the impact virtual reality could have on a humans mental being and how real it could fell to someone, given the circumstance. So the underlying story of my film is that a man wakes up in a blank room completely unaware of his new surroundings and tries to make sense of them, after becoming increasing stressed he drops to his knees and tries to calm himself why this is happening a hologram appears and greets him, they then conversate but the man becomes more so frustrated as she speaks in enigma and doesnt reveal to him whats going on. Eventually she confronts him and asks him why he killed his family, in complete denial and shock the man becomes emotional and frustrated, the hologram then turns hostile on him and once he has got to his peak of stress he is pulled out to discover he had woken up in VR, as part of an experiment for a VR police interrogation program.

In this unit I have made vast progress from point A when this was only an initial idea to point B where its now a film. I have gone across a whole journey of researching, experimenting, networking with film professionals and making to get to where I am now. Personally Im really happy I got this opportunity to do my own project and just ‘go for it as an inexperienced film maker and see what happens. On the other hand, did my final turn out how I wanted it to, well not even close, I made many errors during production due to both some errors I had had in pre-production as well as on set. In post is where I had the bulk of my issues as things wouldnt work, footage filmed wrong to do things to and I didnt have some essential footage I needed due to my battery dying a lot on set and my actors wanting to go home after a long day of filming. I then also had a massive problem in post with exporting, so the film is nothing like what I wanted it to turn out like and I think that could make it stray away from the brief a tad as its not as effective in portraying the story and message I wanted it to tell.

Methods as well as various platforms have been essential to this projects progression and my personal learning. So I really do credit the sketch book as my main source of development as it allows me freedoms to write and draw whatever I so please on the pages provided to let my mind run lose and develop my idea. I also think net working through Ravensbourne with the students in higher courses than me or who have been through these courses have helped with my idea development as hearing everyones thoughts is interesting and their ideas combine with what I can think up helps inspire new scenes and thoughts. The blog has been really useful as well in terms of only making my work better as reflecting on everything Ive done every day helps me to spot out things in which I have made an error in and see what needs to be done to improve my work next time. I have also found that surprisingly my weekly plan in my project proposal has helped me leaps and bounds as I have followed it religiously the past seven weeks and always reflected in my blog to check I was on schedule to meet the work in which I had set out for myself in the weekly plan. This has kept me more on target than ever and has made me think about the bigger picture more and about what is essential to the project. Keeping on track has helped me a lot with developing my project and being able to develop further if I distributed my time rightly.

In terms of targets met I managed to make a short film, and create my hologram in my short film. In terms of whether it meet its requirements to portray an imprint of new tech which in my film is holographic communication and the effects of VR on a human, will be down to how well the film reads now that its had to be drastically cut back because of my export problem that turned into a nightmare and me having to cut a lot of footage because of various issues. I thought I explored the internet very well to squeeze as much information on what I wanted out of it as possible, I also think this research informed my film well even though the film isnt great. I didnt really add any new targets but I think personally I meet all the ones is set to some extent.

Reflecting on my FMP I think I have gained the most valuable thing - experience. I have got to go out on my own and create my own project based around anything I so pleased as long as it adheres to the brief touch. It is around this experience that my ideas have developed. I think that what I done at first was dream. I maximised my idea and developed it to near full potential, I had a perfect image in my heads of how my project was going to look, I had researched how my hologram was going to look and how my film was going to play out in terms of development I had everything down right, until shoot day and post. This I see as a vital turning point in my project where my idea development almost had to change after I had got my footage as I had to then develop the idea to the point where it was realistic rather than perfect as it became quite apparent that perfect wasnt going to happen when I ran into my long list of problems. This I think was the most vital idea development as I then had to turn an idea that I had dreamed up into a realistic film that could be shown as I couldnt magically get the extra footage that I really needed as my actor had gone off to a job in New York for the next month to so re-shoot was not an option. This is where I had to think on the spot and manipulate the story and the footage in the edit to get a half decent story out that still somewhat portrayed the idea that I wanted to portray. This type of development I found way more useful to my learning; reflecting on it now as it was a more real world situation and could definitely prove to benefit me in the future rather than if everything had just gone prefect. However, I do still think its a shame I couldnt get the film out that I wanted to as Ive had to change It due to my issues, but saying this Im grateful I have a film that I can show that has taught me more than I thought it would have.

Personally without sounding like a snob I have not found group tutorials useful what so ever as ever time people commented on what to do next I was already one step ahead and probably doing it already, so in that respect I thought they were a waste of time for me personally and I thought I could have been doing more productive things with that hour and a half every week. Saying this I thought one on ones with my tutors was useful as they were more in depth and personalised. But the most useful feedback I had that I see as being essential to my project was networking with other students in courses higher than me as they are currently doing their FMPs and are experienced in FMPs as theyve gone through college and are doing their university degrees now. Two people in particular however have helped me out more than I could say, Cole who works at the I.T. Desk has a degree in Motion Graphics and Can who is just finishing third year of Digital Film here. They have helped me with developing my ideas and have invested a lot of time into me giving me feedback and honest opinions on what I should be doing and what I need to do going forward. 

So next time I definitely need a crew what has become apparent to me that is if you try to do everything by yourself you will struggle very much. As on shoot day I was so stressed out where I was trying to direct, manage actors, help my mum do sound, move my brother so that the green screen didnt have white light shining thought the back of it, camera man/shoot the whole thing myself so the clapper board and move the boom mic all at the same time. Also in post turns out I need an editor as I cant edit to save my life, I can see the shots and I know what I want when editing I just cant get it myself as Im too impatient and get stressed out by editing, saying this I defiantly need to improve my editing skills. So as a general I need to arrange to a have a crew next time. A big thing I also need to take away is that I need to be more prepared for disaster because this time round I had disaster in the edit and if it wasnt for Can and the guys at I.T. my film may have not came through.

In terms of skills Ive developed for industry, I think Im a better director now as Im starting to pick up on my mistakes and critically evaluate what needs to happen and what weve done wrong. I also think Im learning how to manage people better which is essential for time management. In terms of technical skills, I am learning slowly how to edit although I do not like it and dont intend to be an editor but Im learning none the less.

Building on my skill set going forward I strive to become a better director and be able to make even better stories that can adhere to even harder briefs. I need to build on my editing and understanding of editing going forward as its essentially the end game of film making once youre on the editing stage. I need to be more prepared as well going forward as I need to be able to be more resilient to problems that I face and more relaxed when dealing with them as stressing doesnt help your mind set very well and can be harmful to the bigger picture of a project.

Next year I intend to continue film making, continue getting better at it, continue making mistake and hopefully become the best film maker I can be so that one day I can get to where I want to be.