THE GAME The game? Guess the Maker. Our challenge? To create icons with the styles of each wonderous_stuff maker. Your challenge? To guess which wonderous-makers made each of the 60 icons in the table below. To win? Simply take a guess in a comment to this post. You can guess once or twice, or as many times as you want. Since icon submissions were anonymous, we don't know the answers either.
Your guesses can be anonymous, and can be scattered across several days should you wish to fool the makers trying to fool you. Feel free to chat with your fellow guessers, and team up to decide who exactly made what.
Makers could submit up to 2 icons per theme, or submit no icons at all. Whether all 14 makers entered the challenge, or whether all the icons were made by only two or three makers is for you to decide.
Makers can reply anonymously to your guesses. Perhaps they will feel generous and give you helpful hints, or perhaps those hints can be a way to mask the truth. Keep in mind anonymous comments are allowed, so you can't be sure an anonymous helper is a maker either...
TRUST NO ONE.
COLOUR CODE 01-04 █████ Chippendale Mupp: Complex • Heavy texture use • Contrasting colors • Blending 05-09 █████ Sam I Am: Extreme contrast • Intense lighting • Multiple fonts • Single color focus 10-15 █████ Little Cat A: Sharp • Bold vibrancy • Yellow/warm coloring • Minimalism 16-19 █████ Red Fish: Daring texture work • In-your-face monochromes • Vivid colors • Text use 20-23 █████ Marco of Mulberry Street: Close crops • Glow • Soft lighting • Hair porn 24-26 █████ Little Cat Z: Deep shadows • Monochromatic coloring • Background extraction • Gradients 27-32 █████ Cindy Lou Who: Geometric textures • Close crops • Silhouette use • Unnatural yet flattering colors 33-35 █████ Horton (hears a Who): Boxed compositions • Handwritten fonts • Grungy but bright textures • Layered Images 36-41 █████ The Grinch: Out of the box texture use • Extreme compositions • Deep unique colouring • Gradient maps 42-45 █████ Foona Lagoona Baboona: Close crops • Bold lighting • Lightly grainy textures • Hair focus 46-50 █████ The Seven Lady Godivas: Matte • Faded • Playful • Delicate 51-53 █████ Zanzibar Buck Buck McFate: Pastels • Pale • Grunge • Light contrast 54-56 █████ Yertle the Turtle: Vibrant coloring • Darker icons • Blocking • Visible texture use 57-60 █████ The Cat in the Hat: Out of the box composition • Strong contrast • Contrasting colors • Deep shadows
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The Big Reveal will be posted on or around December 18th. THERE WILL BE BANNERS FOR GUESSING!