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3 Qihun / Hikaru no Go + 3 Nirvana in Fire vids ♥ This was exhausting but the quantity made me feel better about the quality haha.

Hikaru no Go

Cupid (Shi Guang/Yu Liang)
A Tiktok-style edit for the prompt: Shi Guang and/or Yu Liang go to sleep on far ends of the bed from each other but wake up to realize they are snuggling". NOTE: fast cuts.
Watch on: AO3 / Tumblr / Twitter


Here's to Never Growing Up (Shi Guang/Yu Liang)
For the prompt: Shi Guang/Yu Liang go-themed wedding day. In my mind, their wedding is just a big go tournament. XD NOTE: fast cuts
Watch on: AO3 / Tumblr / Twitter


Anhe Bridge (Gu Yu + Go Club)
For the prompt: Gu Yu-centric + 安和桥 vibes + If you feel so inclined to make it shippy with Jiang Xueming I would love that too but no pressure. NOTE: Lyric translation is by me and might contain mistakes - feel free to point them out!
Watch on: AO3 / Tumblr

Nirvana in Fire

Nirvana in Fire OP (Mei Changsu/Xiao Jingyan)
For the prompt: Fan video of Mei Changsu and Xiao Jingyan with their typical drama, longing, tragedy, to the music of the opening!
Watch on: AO3 / Tumblr / Twitter


I of the Storm (Mei Changsu character study)
For the prompt: Mei Changsu or Mei Changsu & Xiao Jingyan focus
Watch on: AO3 / Tumblr / Twitter (part 1) / Twitter (part 2)


Hello, My Old Heart (Lin Shu | Mei Changsu/Xiao Jingyan)
For the prompt: Mei Changsu (Lin Shu)/Xiao Jingyan, romantic or platonic. For fic: post-canon reunion, angsty with happy ending please. For non-fic: any setting, prefer non-AU.
Watch on: AO3 / Tumblr / Twitter

Watch on YouTube

Crossposted: AO3 / Tumblr

For marquisguyun's Cdrama Gotcha for Gaza prompt: "Mei Changsu or Mei Changsu & Xiao Jingyan focus" (I went with MCS focus because all my other NiF prompts are MCS/JY and I have Jingsu fatigue hahaha)

I earmarked this song (I of the Storm by Of Monsters and Men) as a MCS song a while back, so while it was a good to have the opportunity to make a vid out of it, I wish I had a lot more time to refine it! I kind of botched the audio edit and I'm not very happy with the typesetting, but I wanted this out of the way before the end of the weekend because I still have two more prompts to fill. Tbh I originally intended to just do the first verse, but apparently I love the song too much and all of the lyrics are all too relevant, and I haven't even gotten tired of it the way I have with all the other songs I've vidded.

Note to self: export text-less version before deleting process file!!!

One more day til the donation + fanwork request window for Cdrama Gotcha for Gaza ends—I don't think any more assignments/pinch hits will be coming my way but who knows!

Watch on YouTube

Crossposted: AO3 / Tumblr / Twitter

For the prompt "Fan video of Mei Changsu and Xiao Jingyan with their typical drama, longing, tragedy, to the music of the opening!"

With thanks to llonkrebboj for the translation beta! Working with hard subs terrifies me but I needed to do it for the ~aesthetic~ orz

My brain right now is in "This Is the Worst Thing I've Ever Created" mode in the sense that I like the individual parts but can't reconcile them into forming a cohesive concept. I guess it's acceptable as a fundraiser gift I banged out in a weekend (I was hoping to be done with my assignments before ZXC's drama dropped—though realistically I don't have the energy or the attention span to watch anything these days). I think it's just that the first time I didn't have a clear vision of what I wanted to achieve, and it shows. Also I was too lazy to go back and redo the color grading in the first scenes and didn't realize how much it'd bother me.

PS. For future!me who will no doubt try to remember what we did - the font I used was dear ivy.


As for the smoke overlay, I downloaded a (free to use without attribution) video clip of smoke to turn this


into this


which blended beautifully with clips with black backgrounds while giving them a bluish tint :')

For nirvanainfirefest Challenge #3: DVD Commentary, I'm gonna try to walk through the process of creating the multimedia NiF x Persona 5 fusion that I created for swanfrost for NiF Exchange 2018 [best viewed on carrd]. I've always wanted to document it because it went through so many phases, I just never knew how to begin.

For the prompt: ensemble cast | persona 5 au, feel free to follow the plot of p5 or to use the setting/lore as inspiration! notes: bonus points for character study-esque writing and using the mcs/linshu naming conventions cleverly; happy ending please

At the time I was creating it, I was also doing a lot of tedious work at night, and I was working on NiF Exchange in bits and pieces to give myself a break. I mostly remember the backaches and basically had to avoid being on the computer on my downtime for like 2 years. :)) I have an office chair now, though, and life has been better (and more productive) because of it. Can't believe I waited til 2021 to get one. /o\

tl;dr - summary of the process:

Coming up with the concept (in which I decided I wanted to do a fanvid/lyric vid)

Outlining what I wanted to include in the vid

Initial studies and visual development

Learning to vid and do basic motion effects on AE ajs;afjda;fja;

Tracing selected characters into lines and vector shapes on AI (I just needed 5, enough for the Phantom Thieves deck)

Designing the cards on PS (again, I only needed 5 of each design)

Putting the illustrated and animated elements in the vid

Realizing I could do the rest of the tarot deck, actually???

Presentation: gifs, carrd

WARNING: Mega-long and image-heavy post ahead!
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