retro_icontest | 8 by 2 icon challenge
Mar. 9th, 2025 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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retro_icontest! The challenge was to make 8 distinct icons from just 2 screencaps... And since I can't do anything halfway, I gave myself the additional challenge of using something live action, since I've had Dramatica Act 2 Brainrot from working on subtitles!
This challenge was a lot of fun, but I ran into some trouble because of the second screencap I chose. I picked it because I wanted to have multiple characters from the cast to chose from, and while the size/shape was good for making the composition I'd had in mind for the last icon, because my video source was only 720p, that meant that the individual characters were pretty small! That was especially a problem trying to icon the two on the upper level of the stage -- their faces were pretty much ENTIRELY lost. I managed to work around it as best I could, but it meant I couldn't easily make as many icons of them :C
Overall, though, I'm really pleased with how this set turned out!
( Alts, caps, and links under the cut! )
retro_icontest! The challenge was to make 8 distinct icons from just 2 screencaps... And since I can't do anything halfway, I gave myself the additional challenge of using something live action, since I've had Dramatica Act 2 Brainrot from working on subtitles! | 1 - Blank One | 2 - Blank Two | 3 - Textured One | 4 - Textured Two |
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| 5 - Desaturate | 6 - Rotate | 7 - Text Required | 8 - Two-in-One |
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This challenge was a lot of fun, but I ran into some trouble because of the second screencap I chose. I picked it because I wanted to have multiple characters from the cast to chose from, and while the size/shape was good for making the composition I'd had in mind for the last icon, because my video source was only 720p, that meant that the individual characters were pretty small! That was especially a problem trying to icon the two on the upper level of the stage -- their faces were pretty much ENTIRELY lost. I managed to work around it as best I could, but it meant I couldn't easily make as many icons of them :C
Overall, though, I'm really pleased with how this set turned out!
( Alts, caps, and links under the cut! )
