Activity #12 - Step Up

[tinny]

For this activity, you have to make sets of icons that increase one of their characteristics.

You can e.g. increase brightness: start with a dark icon, and make every subsequent icon brighter, or increase the number of subjects: start with an icon with 0 persons on it and every subsequent icon must have one more person on it, or increase redness: start with blue, go through purple into red. You get the idea, here are a few examples:




Text Size: Small Text -> Large Text

neatmonster

Levels: 1 Level -> 4 Levels

tinny

Complexity: Simple -> Complex

jellybeansraw

Saturation: Grey -> Purple

sietepecados


More Ideas:
Dark -> Light
Far Away -> Zoomed in Close
Pastel -> Vibrant
Child -> Old Person
Morning -> Evening
Everything visible -> Everything obscured
Sharp -> Blurred
Full Icon -> Lots of Negative Space




* Every set must consist of at least 3 icons, so a progression is visible
* There is no limit on the maximum number of icons per set
* You can make as many icons as you like, and as many sets as you like
* Please submit your icons (and URLs!) to this post, all in one comment (if possible).
* Everyone can participate, you don't have to be a member of this community.

Deadline: EXTENDED Saturday, April 21 2018 Sunday, April 22 2018, your end-of-day

Comments

[fueschgast]

Ooh, interesting challenge!

[tinny]

Thank you! I thought we've really been improving over the last year, and this seemed like it could be challenging for all of us. (I kinda feel I have to step up my challenge game, here, too, since everyone has been doing so well.)

Questions?

[tinny]

Ask them here.

Re: Questions?

[sandy79]

Are different hairstyles in a character enough? Or a through-the-years, like I did in the AC portion of this set: https://sandy79.dreamwidth.org/94674.html?

Step Up Submission from Breyzy

[breyzyyin]

Child -> Old Person

(Character: Aurora from the video game Child of Light)

http://i67.tinypic.com/2jdonk4.jpg
http://i63.tinypic.com/34yagxt.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/2qkqpt1.jpg


Far Away -> Zoomed in Close

(Character: Liv Moore from the TV show iZombie)

http://i66.tinypic.com/21m4sx2.jpg
http://i64.tinypic.com/2ihbkso.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/2ytxw8z.jpg



I realized that my schedule for April is going to be insanely busy, so I have to submit these early to participate at all. O_O; This was a really interesting challenge though! XD

I hope I did it right (for Child -> Old Person, I did a character who starts in the story as a child, then turns into a teenager, then turns into an adult). ♥

Re: Step Up Submission from Breyzy

[tinny]

Wooow, I love all of these!

I'm especially impressed with Liv, you did an amazing job with the fake backgrounds. I know you're usually iconing animated source material, but Liv came out great, as well!

Thanks for participating, even in a really busy month! <3

Re: Step Up Submission from Breyzy

[alexia_drake]

Great progression in the first set.

I love the vivid colors of your iZombie icons! Beautiful crop on the third one.

Re: Step Up Submission from Breyzy

[timetobegin]

these are really cool ways of doing it!!

like the brains in the background on that second set :)

Re: Step Up Submission from Breyzy

[abyss_valkyrie]

Nice idea!!i definitely love 1,great use of texture!the 3rd crop is pretty great!

Re: Step Up Submission from Breyzy

[ascendant_angel]

Both sets are great but I love the far away zoomed in, the textures and the colouring amazing not to mention totally fitting with the show.

[ascendant_angel]

I've been quitly lurking so far, but this should like great challange

[tinny]

Great, I'm happy you like it! <3

I'm looking forward to what you will come up with!

[tinny]

You still have until end-of-day tomorrow, if you'd like to enter! I'll happily extend the challenge, too - the next one only starts in ten days. THere's lots of time for an extension.

[timetobegin]

more >> less negative space i guess, it's not really far >> close. I was trying to get the blues to be light to dark, but it's not really working ahaha.

All Zari from Legends of Tomorrow.

[breyzyyin]

These look great! I love Zari from LoT, so I was so happy to see these! XD

[tinny]

Ooh, but those definitely are far-close, and light-dark! Very cool set!

I like the first and last ones best, and the middle one has such great shiny lighting!

[alexia_drake]

Nicely done. Beautiful colors and lighting. My favorite is the third one :)

[abyss_valkyrie]

Great work with the colour progression and the crops becoming closer!!Defnitely love 2,3 and 4!

[ascendant_angel]

I love these, I say it totally fits far to close and love the simple but bright and colourful look.

Step Up

[alexia_drake]

Dark -> Light

All of Spike and Spike/Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (the fun things is that they could almost also fit for Muted Colors -> Vibrant Colors but it was not even intentional! lol)



https://i.imgur.com/c56JJkb.png
https://i.imgur.com/JSnnzIq.png
https://i.imgur.com/GaCB9I1.png
https://i.imgur.com/cKxFxEl.png
https://i.imgur.com/zYhvWnZ.png

Muted Colors -> Vibrant Colors

All about Jace from Shadowhunters.



https://i.imgur.com/OWktpIg.png
https://i.imgur.com/SXzpA0N.png
https://i.imgur.com/DYjIv9X.png
https://i.imgur.com/IKDriz1.png
https://i.imgur.com/uzNXXhj.png

Re: Step Up

[timetobegin]

oh these are wonderful.

Jace is so fun to icon, actually, he always seems to have really interesting lighting around him.

I really like the second spike icon, and #1 & 4 on Jace

[tinny]

I was going for Jake going from fully visible to completely obscured, but then I also tried to work in zoom and color... not sure I quite succeeded, but it was a lot of fun, in any case! :D



Brooklyn Nine-Nine x5


https://abload.de/img/b99_223_06.59g9ule.png
https://abload.de/img/b99_223_20.50acvmugh.png
https://abload.de/img/b99_310_19.2040uww.png
https://abload.de/img/b99_223_12.32kjuwj.png
https://abload.de/img/b99_504_18.52ar3ued.png

[alexia_drake]

Beautiful use of textures and lighting. My faves are the second, third and the last one. I do see the progressions in colors and zoom in.

[sheliak]

Theya (first row) and Jenela (second row) from the game King of Dragon Pass. I should probably have picked just one of them, but I figured out partway through that they aren't actually quite identical and then I wanted to use both Theya's kid portrait and Jenela's old one, so... two sets, of characters who are almost but not quite identical.



https://i.imgur.com/Q0mu3cl.png
https://i.imgur.com/p0g7Hsh.png
https://i.imgur.com/AqW4f39.png
https://i.imgur.com/wRMNkbL.png



https://i.imgur.com/dlMZTvJ.png
https://i.imgur.com/v9pJN0z.png
https://i.imgur.com/l17VHvA.png

Alts:


https://i.imgur.com/Aa6wxQA.png
https://i.imgur.com/5c2pEdP.png
https://i.imgur.com/iUonJWm.png
https://i.imgur.com/ToaOYWa.png



https://i.imgur.com/lgcQwBH.png
https://i.imgur.com/yGYauld.png
https://i.imgur.com/ZLf7u8t.png

(I was going to be more ambitious and do some other characters too, but... this is what I actually got done.)

[tinny]

Niiiice!

The two characters really look similar, I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference if you hadn't said anything. :D

I like the ones with the light background better, I think, but both versions have their appeal.

[fueschgast]

D'oh, I made my icons before looking at the prompt again. I did a progression of Pottermore illustrations from before registration to registration and the first 3 Moments. Good thing I'd made some more icons, so I re-ordered and exchanged one icon. I present to you a progression in the number of animals:



http://fatfrog.info/Ma/A/HP/Avas/PM/1.1.2-Deluminating.gif
http://fatfrog.info/Ma/A/HP/Avas/PM/1.1.1-catreadingstreetsign.png
http://fatfrog.info/Ma/A/HP/Avas/PM/registration-BookofAdmittance-center.png
http://fatfrog.info/Ma/A/HP/Avas/PM/beginning-PrivetDrnight-owls.png
http://fatfrog.info/Ma/A/HP/Avas/PM/beginning-BookofAdmittance-bgowls.png

[tinny]

Oh my, that happens to me a lot, too! I'm happy you managed something after all!

Those are incredibly cute! I especially like the animated one, number 2 with the cat, and number four.

[ascendant_angel]

Progressively closer croping



zoom in and light to dark blue



scerencaps from summer-glau.com

[alexia_drake]

I love the lighting in all of them :)

You must really love that last image of Summer Glau if you also used it for fandom10in30 ! lol It's too hard to pick favorites...