Miscellaneous icons for August
It's a few days early, but since my disk full of "pending icons" is filled to bursting, I really need to get some of them cleared out!
Here are thirty-six icons: [8] Abbott and Costello; [4] Vincent Price; [2] Vincent Price & Peter Lorre; [5] James Cagney (most with Frank McHugh and/or Pat O'Brien); [1] Edward G. Robinson; [2] Anthony Perkins (Psycho); [6] Jean Harlow; [3] Olivia De Havilland; [2] Margaret Dumont; [3] Disney animated (Snow White and Bambi).
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Awards (from classicicontest and silver_stills):
#15: 1st place (Classic Icontest: Best Friends)
#29: 1st place (Classic Icontest: Costumes)
#32: 2nd place (Classic Icontest: Margaret Dumont)
#34: 3rd place (Silver Stills: Disney Animated Movies)
Commentary:
* The Abbott and Costello icons were originally entered in a challenge at silver_icontest, but that community has gone mysteriously silent. I'm quite disheartened by that, since it was the icontest I enjoyed the most, and was most successful in (besides my own).
* The Vincent Price icons came about following a TCM marathon (because we all know those are dangerous). I wanted an icon of him for myself, and those are the overflow. Please pardon the tongue-in-cheek humor of the second Price-Lorre icon; I find it hilarious, quite honestly.
* Most of the icons of Cagney and company were made for a "best friends" theme challenge. Respectively, the films shown are Here Comes the Navy, Boy Meets Girl, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, some of the ones that best display Cagney's repore with his real-life friends McHugh and O'Brien. (I haven't any caps of them as brothers in The Irish in Us, alas.) I'm really proud of the winning #15; I'm not even that fond of O'Brien by himself, but the offscreen relationship between those three very silly boys gives me Chronic Warm Fuzzies. The last one--of Jimmy's Silliest Face Ever--is included just because.
* Edward G. Robinson is seen here in The Sea Wolf. I heartily recommend it, as one of those rare films that actually improves upon the source book.
* The Norman Bates icons were also made for the "best friends" challenge, and the first even tied with #15 for the win, but I declined to count it. The second one was me trying a different effect with the same base, and liking it enough to keep it.
* I actually like the first Jean Harlow icon a lot. I was rather surprised that it didn't place--but I'm not complaining, because as the mod of Classic Icontest, it's gotten a little embarrassing to often win almost by default because of a low number of entries.
* The De Havilland icons were all made for a "costume" challenge. I'm not thrilled with #29, but it won anyway--no doubt for the reasons outlined previously.
* With the Disney icons, again, came two effects that went in different directions with the same base. They were actually both allowed in the challenge. The second one reminds me of a Van Gough painting, but I like the first a bit better, and I was pleased that it was awarded.
Next up, I will be posting twenty-eight X-Men icons in the next couple of days, after the results of one last icontest are in.
Here are thirty-six icons: [8] Abbott and Costello; [4] Vincent Price; [2] Vincent Price & Peter Lorre; [5] James Cagney (most with Frank McHugh and/or Pat O'Brien); [1] Edward G. Robinson; [2] Anthony Perkins (Psycho); [6] Jean Harlow; [3] Olivia De Havilland; [2] Margaret Dumont; [3] Disney animated (Snow White and Bambi).
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Awards (from classicicontest and silver_stills):
#15: 1st place (Classic Icontest: Best Friends)
#29: 1st place (Classic Icontest: Costumes)
#32: 2nd place (Classic Icontest: Margaret Dumont)
#34: 3rd place (Silver Stills: Disney Animated Movies)
Commentary:
* The Abbott and Costello icons were originally entered in a challenge at silver_icontest, but that community has gone mysteriously silent. I'm quite disheartened by that, since it was the icontest I enjoyed the most, and was most successful in (besides my own).
* The Vincent Price icons came about following a TCM marathon (because we all know those are dangerous). I wanted an icon of him for myself, and those are the overflow. Please pardon the tongue-in-cheek humor of the second Price-Lorre icon; I find it hilarious, quite honestly.
* Most of the icons of Cagney and company were made for a "best friends" theme challenge. Respectively, the films shown are Here Comes the Navy, Boy Meets Girl, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, some of the ones that best display Cagney's repore with his real-life friends McHugh and O'Brien. (I haven't any caps of them as brothers in The Irish in Us, alas.) I'm really proud of the winning #15; I'm not even that fond of O'Brien by himself, but the offscreen relationship between those three very silly boys gives me Chronic Warm Fuzzies. The last one--of Jimmy's Silliest Face Ever--is included just because.
* Edward G. Robinson is seen here in The Sea Wolf. I heartily recommend it, as one of those rare films that actually improves upon the source book.
* The Norman Bates icons were also made for the "best friends" challenge, and the first even tied with #15 for the win, but I declined to count it. The second one was me trying a different effect with the same base, and liking it enough to keep it.
* I actually like the first Jean Harlow icon a lot. I was rather surprised that it didn't place--but I'm not complaining, because as the mod of Classic Icontest, it's gotten a little embarrassing to often win almost by default because of a low number of entries.
* The De Havilland icons were all made for a "costume" challenge. I'm not thrilled with #29, but it won anyway--no doubt for the reasons outlined previously.
* With the Disney icons, again, came two effects that went in different directions with the same base. They were actually both allowed in the challenge. The second one reminds me of a Van Gough painting, but I like the first a bit better, and I was pleased that it was awarded.
Next up, I will be posting twenty-eight X-Men icons in the next couple of days, after the results of one last icontest are in.