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20 Final Fantasy XIII (Hope Estheim) for ff20in20 round fourteen
+18 variations left behind
38 Total
for ff20in20
ff20in20 round fourteen: Final Fantasy XIII, Hope Estheim
10 THEMES
01
NUMBERS
02
HATS
03
GRAYSCALE
04
HOT
05
MONSTER
06
MIRROR
07
STOCK IMAGE
08
CONTRAST
09
RESTFUL
10
TOP
SET THEME: TYPEFACE
11
12
13
14
15
ARTIST'S CHOICE
16
17
18
19
20
variations left behind
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
Notes:
○ Inspiration HIT ME for this set, definitely
○ I LOVE LOVE HOPE, even though he gets all the hate in the fandom. I THINK HE'S THE MOST REALISTIC OF ALL THE CHARACTERS. Or maybe, more like it's easier to identify with him. |D I really wanted to claim him for this because of that lol, but when I took a look at the themes, I had realized that there aren't that many official images of him (like promo images/posters) so most of these are extracted screencaps from the game (thankfully I had screencapped the whole series lol but had to go through a million folders/images to find the good good ones that fit the themes). I ended up extracting most of the images (full size too, influenced by eriolchan lol) and used stock images as background from Getty Images |D fun fun.
○ 01, numbers The theme calls for text, is the impression I got form looking at previous rounds using this theme. I hate HATE this icon so much, it was the last of the themes that I did because I just didn't have any good ideas. I actually originally thought of doing an icon that had Hope with another character, about to go into battle, charging forward, with the text "all for one, and one for all" but I just couldn't find any good images to carry out this idea with (and I wouldn't know what to do about the background since it would be the characters... in front of a beast thing lol).
○ 02, hats I was dumbfouned when I saw this theme. Hope never wears a hat in the game, and none of the official images have him wearing a hat. I was gonna cheat a little bit and use an image of him wearing the cloak thing he wore during the purge but I thought it would be too plain and boring. I ended up getting a hat image from Getty Images and lol stuck it on him. I secretly think he would be a cowboy because of his bandanna lol. I like the result 8D but of course it went through trial and error especially with crops and making the hat look real.
○ 03, grayscale Oh man, I tried so so hard to find an image of Hope making an epic face, (which he seems to do left and right in the game, only character with real emotions and notable facial expressions lol) and I finally ended up with an image of him looking fierce. I wanted to choose an image that would seem good... grayscale since I don't do grayscale icons.
○ 04, hot I was originally planning on yet again using an image of Hope being fierce, but I felt the need to make it being literally hot by having him... lol being burned?! When I thought about this icon in my mind, it looked great but it didn't translate well when I went to photoshop.
○ 05, monster I was confused with what to do with this theme. I was gonna use an image of Hope with Alexander but Alexander isn't even a monster so... yeah I used another fierce image. I added blood splats to... show that he's a monster?! A monster that sheds blood?! lol
○ 06, mirror I love love this icon because I found images that would match so well with my idea, and it turned out pretty well! Nothing much to say besides that this took a long time and it was a lot of fun. 8D
○ 07, stock image I was ecstatic when I saw this theme because it's become my new found love in icons |D I was torn with what icon to select for this theme, since most of my icons this round were using stock images lol. I really like this one's coloring, though so it got the spot.
○ 08, contrast The contrast is the dark corner on the top left... and the rest is bright...?! lol went a bit loose for this theme. Loved how this one turned out. I had the idea that Hope would be looking at something beautiful or amazing, and I found an image of kites in a blue sky in my Getty Images folder, and thought it worked perfectly with this.
○ 09, restful Hope is looking restful... at beautiful sites? Lol I I don't think there are any images of him sleeping (unless he's like, knocked out lol but that doesn't seem restful does it?). I interpreted restful as peaceful.
○ 10, top I kept trying to do a top crop, but I gave up and ended up doing a bottom crop and flipped it |D. I really liked how this turned out, especially considering how low quality the image seemed every time I cropped it down. Really went out of the box for this one 8Db and I think it was a nice change of pace.
○ Set theme: typeface I really wasn't feeling this set theme because it requires the use of text, and not only that, but different typefaces (not fonts, but typefaces like serif, sans-serif, etc.) I used (in order) sans-serif, serif, blackletter, semi-serif, and script. I am loving what they ended up to be actually, besides 14 that looks like it jumped straight out of a Twilight poster. 12 is a quote from the scene; where Hope tells Lightning that Strategy Nora failed, and Light comforts him by saying she will protect him, and Hope replies with "If I am able to, I want to protect you, too." Cute scene C8 14 was a concept I had in mind since I got the themes, and it uses lyrics from the Danny Phantom theme song |D since I've been watching that this summer, reliving my childhood and these lyrics intrigued me every time ("a world unseen"). I am loving how it turned out, definitely my favorite from the bunch, and it is also the last one I made.
○ Artist Choice I went lazy with this, just went with random images with Hope being emotional, didn't try to match or anything (Why do people even make their AC set matching so much anyway? Never makes sense to me since they are supposed to be stand alone anyway? OH WELL) 16/17 only look similar because they're from the same scene, same lighting, and I made them around the same time (lol yes different PSDs). Favorite from the set would be 18.
○ Thank you so much for reading, I like to ramble.
○ ALSO, FORGOT TO MENTION, kikoshou at daisakusen really inspired me with their posts here and here! Beautiful iconist, really. 8)
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20 Final Fantasy XIII (Hope Estheim) for ff20in20 round fourteen
+18 variations left behind
38 Total
for ff20in20
ff20in20 round fourteen: Final Fantasy XIII, Hope Estheim
10 THEMES
01
NUMBERS
02
HATS
03
GRAYSCALE
04
HOT
05
MONSTER
06
MIRROR
07
STOCK IMAGE
08
CONTRAST
09
RESTFUL
10
TOP
SET THEME: TYPEFACE
11
12
13
14
15
ARTIST'S CHOICE
16
17
18
19
20
variations left behind
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
Notes:
○ Inspiration HIT ME for this set, definitely
○ I LOVE LOVE HOPE, even though he gets all the hate in the fandom. I THINK HE'S THE MOST REALISTIC OF ALL THE CHARACTERS. Or maybe, more like it's easier to identify with him. |D I really wanted to claim him for this because of that lol, but when I took a look at the themes, I had realized that there aren't that many official images of him (like promo images/posters) so most of these are extracted screencaps from the game (thankfully I had screencapped the whole series lol but had to go through a million folders/images to find the good good ones that fit the themes). I ended up extracting most of the images (full size too, influenced by eriolchan lol) and used stock images as background from Getty Images |D fun fun.
○ 01, numbers The theme calls for text, is the impression I got form looking at previous rounds using this theme. I hate HATE this icon so much, it was the last of the themes that I did because I just didn't have any good ideas. I actually originally thought of doing an icon that had Hope with another character, about to go into battle, charging forward, with the text "all for one, and one for all" but I just couldn't find any good images to carry out this idea with (and I wouldn't know what to do about the background since it would be the characters... in front of a beast thing lol).
○ 02, hats I was dumbfouned when I saw this theme. Hope never wears a hat in the game, and none of the official images have him wearing a hat. I was gonna cheat a little bit and use an image of him wearing the cloak thing he wore during the purge but I thought it would be too plain and boring. I ended up getting a hat image from Getty Images and lol stuck it on him. I secretly think he would be a cowboy because of his bandanna lol. I like the result 8D but of course it went through trial and error especially with crops and making the hat look real.
○ 03, grayscale Oh man, I tried so so hard to find an image of Hope making an epic face, (which he seems to do left and right in the game, only character with real emotions and notable facial expressions lol) and I finally ended up with an image of him looking fierce. I wanted to choose an image that would seem good... grayscale since I don't do grayscale icons.
○ 04, hot I was originally planning on yet again using an image of Hope being fierce, but I felt the need to make it being literally hot by having him... lol being burned?! When I thought about this icon in my mind, it looked great but it didn't translate well when I went to photoshop.
○ 05, monster I was confused with what to do with this theme. I was gonna use an image of Hope with Alexander but Alexander isn't even a monster so... yeah I used another fierce image. I added blood splats to... show that he's a monster?! A monster that sheds blood?! lol
○ 06, mirror I love love this icon because I found images that would match so well with my idea, and it turned out pretty well! Nothing much to say besides that this took a long time and it was a lot of fun. 8D
○ 07, stock image I was ecstatic when I saw this theme because it's become my new found love in icons |D I was torn with what icon to select for this theme, since most of my icons this round were using stock images lol. I really like this one's coloring, though so it got the spot.
○ 08, contrast The contrast is the dark corner on the top left... and the rest is bright...?! lol went a bit loose for this theme. Loved how this one turned out. I had the idea that Hope would be looking at something beautiful or amazing, and I found an image of kites in a blue sky in my Getty Images folder, and thought it worked perfectly with this.
○ 09, restful Hope is looking restful... at beautiful sites? Lol I I don't think there are any images of him sleeping (unless he's like, knocked out lol but that doesn't seem restful does it?). I interpreted restful as peaceful.
○ 10, top I kept trying to do a top crop, but I gave up and ended up doing a bottom crop and flipped it |D. I really liked how this turned out, especially considering how low quality the image seemed every time I cropped it down. Really went out of the box for this one 8Db and I think it was a nice change of pace.
○ Set theme: typeface I really wasn't feeling this set theme because it requires the use of text, and not only that, but different typefaces (not fonts, but typefaces like serif, sans-serif, etc.) I used (in order) sans-serif, serif, blackletter, semi-serif, and script. I am loving what they ended up to be actually, besides 14 that looks like it jumped straight out of a Twilight poster. 12 is a quote from the scene; where Hope tells Lightning that Strategy Nora failed, and Light comforts him by saying she will protect him, and Hope replies with "If I am able to, I want to protect you, too." Cute scene C8 14 was a concept I had in mind since I got the themes, and it uses lyrics from the Danny Phantom theme song |D since I've been watching that this summer, reliving my childhood and these lyrics intrigued me every time ("a world unseen"). I am loving how it turned out, definitely my favorite from the bunch, and it is also the last one I made.
○ Artist Choice I went lazy with this, just went with random images with Hope being emotional, didn't try to match or anything (Why do people even make their AC set matching so much anyway? Never makes sense to me since they are supposed to be stand alone anyway? OH WELL) 16/17 only look similar because they're from the same scene, same lighting, and I made them around the same time (lol yes different PSDs). Favorite from the set would be 18.
○ Thank you so much for reading, I like to ramble.
○ ALSO, FORGOT TO MENTION, kikoshou at daisakusen really inspired me with their posts here and here! Beautiful iconist, really. 8)
» Credit infinitemusing or coloredpastels if use of any graphics.
» Do not claim, edit, or hotlink my graphics.
» Keep my graphics within LiveJournal.
» You may ask for tutorials.
» Comments make me happy.
» Watch for future updates?
» Affiliate with me?