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Jan 31, 2012 15:12

A couple of folks had asked to see some of the creative things I was working on...

I missed several days this month because I was really sick. As in: I missed a week's worth of time at work because I was sick. And I rarely take even a single sick day much less more than one in a row. :/

The weekend following that was Tourney of the Hand over at westerosorting, with 4 days worth of puzzles, challenges, and creative contests. I didn't enter as many as I wanted, because I was still not really feeling well, but I was actually pretty pleased with my creations for all of the contests I entered.

All the voting for the contests have now ended, so I think it's ok to post my stuff.


The first contest is to create your own "Demotivational" image.



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The second: Re-imagine the cover of one of the Song Of Ice And Fire novels or tv-show episodes in a minimalist fashion. The directions specifically said: "Minimalist graphics are characterized by bold shapes, sharp silhouettes, chunky colors, distressed looks, and most importantly: condensing a lengthy story into a single simple image... Please remember to emulate the retro, minimalist style of the examples in your entry as best as possible." I was really happy with this, and thought it achieved the goal really well. (while I like a lot of the other entries, including the ones which appear to be winning, I DIDN'T think that they achieved what the rules stated was being looked for. :( )



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Third contest: Create a graphic using lyrics that you think are perfect for a given pairing. While I happen to think that Wideawake's "Broken" fits MOST of the eff'ed up relationships in the shows I love (I actually want to do a Sam & Dean vid to the song one of these days) I thought it was especially perfect for Jaime and Cersei, and again, I kinda love the way the image itself turned out... and I did blending and textures and all kinds of fun things to create it. :)



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Fourth: Create a series of "Tumblr Edits" (which it took me 3 days to realize just meant "graphics") by choosing 3 of the following:
01) Favorite house.
02) Your favorite character.
03) Your least favorite character.
04) The character you love to hate.
05) The person you think should rule Westeros.
06) Your OTP.

My entries:
04) The character you love to hate - Melisandre (I'm kinda fascinated by her, and I don't know that I really hate her. But I do love the quote from Maester Cressen. :) )



05) The person you think should rule Westeros - Stannis (Yes, yes, yes. I am wholeheartedly a Stannis fan. And since he's the only person who actually CARES about the kingdom, he's the one I want on the throne.)



06) Your OTP - Jon/Dany (Ok, I'm not really a Jon/Dany shipper. My OTP from this show would probably actually be Jaime/Brienne... with the friendship between Stannis and Davos being a very close second. But I saw this picture and was just STUNNED by the amount of pretty.)



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Next: an elimination-style icon contest. You create 4 icons, and each round the creators of the bottom X icons get eliminated. The first round, my icon came in first place with almost 3/4 of the people voting choosing it as one of their top 3. Then my icon in the 2nd round got the least number of votes, so I was eliminated. :( (which means that #3 and #4 didn't even get shown.) #1's theme was "Star". #3 was "green". #2 and #4 had screencaps supplied.

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And finally... re-image Game of Thrones as a tv show of a different genre. Images of the actors in other roles can be used... although 11 of the 21 images I used are actually from GoT. We weren't allowed to crop the images in any way-- only re-size them and lay them out how we wanted. Considering I didn't even have an idea of what to do for this one until about 5 hours before the contest ended, I think it turned out pretty decent.


Modern day telling of a zombie apocalypse story.
Set sometime in the near future, a strain of genetically-engineered DNA (extracted from fossilized Direwolf DNA) accidentally gets released into the world, causing rabies-like symptoms in humans and eventually turning them into flesh-eating zombies. Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon are world-weary detectives who find their devotion to duty put to the test. When Robert is incapacitated by an attack, Ned must take on a new partner in rookie hotshot Jaime Lannister. Along the way, people will fall and others will triumph, because when you play the game of zombies, you win or you're dinner.

From looking at how the voting was going over the past week, I'm not even going to place 3rd in any of the contests, which is kind of disheartening to me. My only consolation is that *I* was pleased with the graphics, so everyone else is just a poopiehead.

My time since the Tourney has been spent trying to figure out how to create an evil Tinkerbell costume. Talking with Joe about it last weekend gave me a bit of an inspiration, so I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do... and now my living room looks like Pixie Hollow exploded all over it. I've decided I kinda like the glittery carpet look, though. :p

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