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Random character project by jsfunction and thyla87
20 multifandom icons (10 by
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jsfunction, 10 by thyla87)Fandoms: Banshee, Free!, Hannibal, LOST, Once Upon a Time,
Person of Interest, Sons of Anarchy, Teen Wolf, The Borgias, The Lord of the Rings
Okay, so this is something fun that me and thyla87 came up with: we're gonna make icons of 10 characters for each set. First we randomized 10 characters (we won't bore you with the details of how we randomized them but if you wanna know, ask - please ask in fact. I love rambling about algorithms!) and now you get to choose which of them you'd like us to continue iconing. The 3 that get the most votes will move on to the next set, and the other 7 characters will be randomized again. In case of ties, more than 3 could make it to the next set, we don't want to bother the watchers with tiebreakers :p We agreed that the icons can also have other characters visible.
We're not sure how many sets we're gonna make like this (10 would be really cool tho cause that would mean 100 icons by each maker!), or what the posting schedule is, we're just doing this for fun for as long as we're inspired by this project, which we currently are so the next set might happen pretty soon :) I'm just super glad to have some iconing mojo again, it's been a while! There's an icon dump of other earlier made icons coming too at some point soonish but I'm just too eager to start this project so here we go.
The icons
Our random characters for the first set were:
- James 'Sawyer' Ford (LOST)
- Emma Swan (Once Upon a Time)
- Stiles Stilinski (Teen Wolf)
- Cesare Borgia (The Borgias)
- Nanase Haruka (Free!)
- Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)
- Jax Teller (Sons of Anarchy)
- John Reese (Person of Interest)
- Will Graham (Hannibal)
- 'Lucas Hood' (Banshee)
| Maker | Sawyer | Emma | Stiles | Cesare | Haruka |
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| Maker | Aragorn | Jax | Reese | Will | Lucas |
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The poll
Which characters would you like to see in the next set? You can vote for as many as you like, but only 3 will move on (unless there are ties). The voting will last for 3 days, it is open until saturday 21.11. 22:00 UTC. Please note that you're voting for characters, NOT icons, so you're just voting for characters you like, and not characters whose icons you liked the most!
[Poll #2028305]
Episode discussion
We also watched one episode of each of the shows these characters are from; if anyone is interested in our opinions or discussing the episodes/shows, you can read our thoughts behind the spoiler cut, and tell us your own thoughts in the comments - we'd love to discuss these fandoms :) This was just a bit of extra fun though, and we didn't have to icon that specific episode.
js (3.17 Catch-22): This is my favorite show and I loved this episode. it had a very lost-like mysterious plot and atmosphere. Loved the stuff with Desmond and the flashes, and I loved his struggle between wanting to see Penny and wanting to save Charlie, and I like the selfish side that this episode explored but of course love that he ultimately made the right decision. My favorite scene was probably Desmond in the convent, without a sense of purpose and not believing life has anything for him; that really resonated with me emotionally. Other highlights include Des and Penny first meeting (yay!!), Desmond saving Charlie (I got chills when the conversation from the vision started to happen), and basically everything about Desmond. What I liked less was the lack of Ben scenes and the B plot with the stupid quadrangle drama was sooo unnecessary, but overall a really strong episode!
thyla (3.19 The Brig): Lost never became a favorite of mine even though I watched two seasons of it. Even though I watch some scifi I didn't understand some things in this show, and there were more characters I didn't like than ones that I liked. Then again i did like some minor characters! I like that Lost has quite a dark mood, and the idea of a group stranded on an island is a good one. I just got bored during s2. Now I randomly watched 3.19 and quite liked it actually. The mood was dark and twisted. I've seen some scenes between Ben&Locke before and they seem like a good non-canon ship, that would probably be a plus if I started to watch the show again. The connection between Sawyer and Locke's dad was interesting and I liked Locke manipulating Sawyer into killing his father. Also, Jack had become less trusted which was a surprise, at least in the beginning of the show he was a typical hero. So all in all the show had its good sides and bad sides, I found more of the bad ones in the beginning of the show, but based on this one s3 seems more interesting than s2 and I even got curious to see how Ben and Locke meet again and what would happen in the next episode.
Once Upon a Time
js (5.08 Birth): I love OUAT too but not as much as LOST. I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS EP but all my thoughts are very spoilery. Basically I loved some of the plot twists and the drama and the emotional scenes. What I don't like is how this is suddenly the Hook show and everything is about him, ugh. But I looooved the selfish thing Emma did in this episode. it was freaking awesome and showed a side of her I hadn't seen before and it was really interesting even if it was largely influenced by the darkness. Also, the SQ well scene!!! Loved it despite the problematic use of dagger. I'm really hoping someone will want to discuss OUAT s5 with me?? (I also watched 5.09 ofc but it was a lot less interesting and didn't have our character.)
thyla (1.01 Pilot): I find the idea of this show interesting and it's a popular show, but for some reason it's not really my thing. I didn't love the characters, except for Rumple.
Teen Wolf
js (5.01 Teen Wolf): I decided to rewatch s5a before 5b airs, because unlike the previous season this one was a bit... distant to me. It didn't really click with me somehow even though cyberpunk and mixing science and fantasy elements sounds like a super cool concept. I think what bothered me was the heavy focus on characters I don't care about: the new ones like Donovan and Theo, and out of the old ones the super boring Parrish got waaayyy too much screentime and my fave Lydia's screentime revolved too much around him. Just give her a good story, that hasn't happened since like s3. .__. But all that aside, this ep was still pretty strong, I loved Stiles' determination to hold onto his highschool friends and the scribe scene, especially 'A.A', was so touching.
thyla (2.04 Abomination): I love this show, mostly s1-2 for the humour, and for the Sterek. I love the characters and how they develop during the show. The Jackson plot developed in an interesting way in this episode, and the Sterek pool scene was cute :D
The Borgias
js (1.01 The Poisoned Chalice+1.02 The Assassin): I don't watch a lot of period dramas cause I find the genre a little too serious and dry and often way too violent for me. However I really enjoyed The Borgias! These episodes were super captivating and I liked the scheming pope and Cesare seemed like a really complex and interesting character as well. The plot was fascinating, loved how everyone had their own goals and did interesting stuff to achieve them. There was maybe a bit too much violence for me but for the most part I loved these eps.
thyla (1.01 The Poisoned Chalice): This seemed like an interesting series, I liked the characters and I like period dramas. I liked the twisted sibling relationship, and I also liked the assassin. The other characters seemed interesting as well, and I liked the atmosphere of the episode. I could watch more of this.
Free!
js (1.01 Starting Block of Reunions!): I've only watched two anime shows before, so it's not what I'm typically into, but ofc every anime is different and I quite liked this first episode. It was a lot of fun, and I liked the grumpy Haruka a lot, and his relationship and past with Rin was interesting. I could see myself watching this but it was freaking difficult to icon I'M NOT AN ANIMATION ICONER OK I never know what to do with the caps that are already super colorful and pretty :o
thyla (1.01 Starting Block of Reunions!): Ok, I think, based on this only anime I've seen, that it's probably not my thing. It felt a little silly to me, but I did like the focus on the characters.
Lord of the Rings
We didn't watch any of the movies because they're very long and we've seen them already, but feel free to discuss them too!
Sons of Anarchy
js (1.01 Pilot): Well it's a show about tough guys doing tough guy stuff, so not really my thing at all lol. I get how people could like this, it seems like a well made show and everything but for me this was a bit too much violence and fighting and guns and explosions, and none of the protagonists seemed sympathetic with the possible exception of Jax. I felt really bad for him due to the situation with his kid, however even though I usually like tragedy, that particular plot was way too heavy and anxiety-inducing for me and was very difficult to watch. I liked Gemma, her scene with Wendy was the best part of the episode. This was an interesting one-time watch but now give me something nice and sweet and soft with less guns and more escapism kthx :D
thyla (1.01 Pilot): This is one of my favorite shows, I love the plot and the idea of the show. I like the themes of brotherhood and how important family is to them. I preferred to first few seasons over the later ones, where the familycentricness seems to have faded a little. Starting from the first episode, the show felt really promising, and I liked the feel of the show. I love all the characters except for Jax and Tara, so I was disappointed to get Jax as the character to icon.
Person of Interest
js (2.01 The Contingency): I quite like PoI, I've seen s1 so this was a good reason to start s2. I'm already a fan of Root, and Finch remains my fave. Reese, not so much, but I do love how much he cares for Finch and how desperate he is to find him. My favorite parts were the flashbacks to the development of the machine. Yesss give me all the software development and testing backstory :> my least favorite part of PoI is always the actual crime stuff, I just find it difficult to care about these characters of the week, I'd like a more continuous longer plot but it does seems like the show is maybe headed to that direction with this Root stuff, which is promising. All in all, quite an enjoyable ep and I loved Reese's final speech to the Machine!
thyla (1.01 Pilot): This seemed like an interesting and different crime show. I like the main characters and the idea of the show.
Hannibal
js: This show is way too disturbing for me to watch OR EVEN THINK ABOUT so I stayed far away from it! :p sorry...
thyla (1.01 Apéritif): I still haven't watched s3 but I wanted to go back to the first episode. I liked the show and the episode a lot. Hannibal is wonderfully twisted and mysterious, I just love him. Will is also a dark character and I found his psychological issues interesting. I loved the slow pacing of the episode and the progression of both the investigation and the character relationships.
Banshee
js (1.01 Pilot): New show for me, usual crime show stuff like shootings and fights, not my thing tbh. I particularly didn't like the main character, I'm so over these generic gritty action antiheroes that seem to be everywhere now. I did like a few of the other characters like the super charismatic Job but overall this was way too action-y for me with little focus on emotional stuff or the atmosphere.
thyla (1.01 Pilot): I started with the first episode since I hadn't seen the show before. The episode wasn't as addictive as most of these, but I loved the characters of Sugar and Job. The main character Lucas was a bit of a stereotypical hero, even though he had his dark side. I didn't like the romance either but the idea of a criminal posing as a sheriff was quite good.
We'd love to hear your thoughts on our icons and these characters/shows/episodes! :) Feel free to snag any you like but please credit the correct maker. If someone wants to copy this idea for their own character voting project, we don't mind at all. If you would like to join our project instead, I think that could be arranged as long as you're easy to contact, have time for this, let me do the randomizing (seriously I'm in love with my algorithm and I don't want to change it!) and are fine with iconing any fandoms and characters :>
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Also the coloring in the colored frame of Sawyer is FANTASTIC it is so vibrant and colorful and well if you're gonna icon lost you might as well take full advantage of the colors, especially the greens, which you difinitely did :) and the bw animation is a fun idea! I like the muted grunge look and blending on Stiles (why am I not surprised about the Sterek here? :p). The close crops and colorings on Borgias and Haruka are both stellar, I especially love how you amped up the cyans on Haruka and the peachy skin tones on the Borgias, and the yellow hair brings a wonderful color pop to the icon.
I also love the extra vibrant colors on Aragorn. Jax has some lovely vibrant colors too and I like the composition, especially the size contrast between the faraway crop and the close crop, and the negative space + fullbody crop on Reese is an amazing composition too and the bw coloring also adds to the lovely minimalism. Will has some lovely warm muted colors too and creative use of text. Love the crop and contrast on the Lucas icon too, I really like that it's vibrant but with lowish contrast and matte look!
To conclude, all of your icons are great and I'm glad to do this project with you, can't wait to get started on the next set once we see who moves on :D loved reading your thoughts on the episodes too ESPECIALLY ABOUT BOCKE THAT SEEMS VERY PROMISING YES GOOD.
(Also, some campaigning to everyone else who happens to read this: VOTE EMMA, I WANT TO HAVE A FREAKING FEMALE CHARACTER IN THIS AND SHE IS AWESOME AND THE BEST ONE TO ICON. also I'd love to see lost make it, even though Sawyer's not my fave.)
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Georgeous icons by both of you! My favourites are:
by jsfunction:
- Stiles - I love the retro look on the icon and the georgous colors + I love the dotted texture that adds additional retro feel;
- Haruka - this icon is georgeous, I wish I watched the anime, so I can use it, the text and colors are great;
- Lucas - great composition on the icon, it definitely goes to my inspiration folder.
I can't believe I'm seeing Banshee icon on LJ, I thought I was the only one who watches the show. I found out about the show over spoilertv, where many people recommended it to me, the premise didn't really catch me, but I decided to check it out regardless. And I wasn't dissapointed, I binge watched the 3 seasons in 1 week and can't wait for the final season (Eliza Dushku has joined the cast, so that makes me even more excited). But I really enjoy action packed shows and I also love EVERY character in the show (mostly Job ofc) and without being spoilery I'll just say that there are also very emotional scenes in the show, I recommend to check a few more episodes before you decide whether you'll continue watching it or not. :) It's one of my favourite shows ever!
by thyla87:
- Sawyer - the colors are georgeous and that's pretty much the perfect Sawyer cap ♥
- Emma - I love the composition and the repetition of the image, and Emma + Hook = ♥
- Cesare - love the retro look on the icon and how the lips and hair of Lucrezia are enhanced, that brings a wonderfull look on the whole icon
And by the way, I love the idea of joining you guys if you don't mind, I think it would be a great way for me to start iconning again, because lately I'm rather "meh" on making icons and neet some motivation :D
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yeah I know one episode is way too early to judge any show, I mean i didn't even like LOST from the start, and it's my fave now. Farscape was pretty blah for at least at season until it suddenly became awesome and also one of my faves. So yeah, sometimes it takes a few eps for the show to get good and that's ok! :D I'm glad to hear that Banshee gets better, and that Job remains awesome, and Eliza Dushku is the best I'm usually not at all interested in actors/actresses and their other shows even if I like the character, but Eliza Dushku and Michael Emerson are probably the only two exceptions. i just want to see them in all the things. ♥
yaaaay it would be super awesome to have you on board; I'm currently busy with some work stuff but as soon as I can I'll PM you with some more info! I had the same problem with iconing motivation for a looong time and I think it's because I wasnt watching anything and didnt know what to icon; this really has kickstarted my mojo again and I hope it will do the same for you too :)
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Job is the most badass character on the show! He has the best lines and I love, love the scenes with him! But I'm kinda rooting for all the characters, because all of them are awesome in their own way :D
Great, I may not be very active at iconing recently, but I'm on LJ every day, so whenever you can. :) My problem with fandoms is exactly the opposite, I watch a ton of shows and can't pick what to icon, because I want to icon everything :D So a little restriction to only 10 characters will be great and I hope to kick my inspiration again :)
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and thak you, I'm really excited too, I even made 7 out of the ten icons and I like most of them (which is rare for me :D)
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first of all *high fives everyone that voted for more haruka icons* hell yeah, i am so here for that ♥
second of all, good for you guys for coming up with something so fun! my laptop broke and i lost everything 4 months ago and i haven't had the will to even open my new photoshop :c but after looking at such pretty icons, i might just do that! also i'd love to hear how you randomized those first characters - i hope if haruka doesn't make it through the next round, there's still a chance of us getting more anime icons from you guys! :D
third of all, congrats on the gorgeous icons you two! WOW *____*
you guys are seriously awesome for coming up with this and should be both so proud for making such pretty icons. you rock :D
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ugh, so sorry to hear about your laptop crash, that is the nightmare scenario alright D: I really hope you feel like opening PS again anyway, even just one icon post of yours would make my lj feed 986654% more awesome!
AND YESSS THANKS FOR ASKING ABOUT THE RANDOMIZING. I love talking about this and yes I think you'll like this answer since a) there definitely IS a chance for more anime and b) YOU CAN ACTUALLY AFFECT THE LIKELIHOOD OF THAT :D
so what we did is, a while ago out of pure scientific curiosity I made this huuuge excel file where I've listed the fandoms of all the icons in icon posts that have been pimped at boxedcolors. So there's just a list of fandoms, and how many icons there have been of that fandom. I keep this file up to date. There are also columns that translate the icon amounts into indexes, so for example if the first fandom has 100 icons and the second fandom has 1 icon, the indexes 1-100 would mean fandom 1 and only the index 101 would mean fandom 2. Then I use a random number generator to pick a fandom index, so here we have a random fandom yay! I like this way of randomizing because the likelihood of a fandom being picked is proportional to its popularity, so yes it favors fandoms that people are most likely to want to see icons of, but there's always that completely random element too so smaller fandoms also have a chance.
But, it's still not a character so what to do?? it would be ideal to also pick a random character from that fandom but it would be tricky since how should we draw the line between which characters are relevant enough to get on the list which we randomize from? Sooo, instead of a random character we use the fan favorites - the one that is featured in the biggest amount of ao3 fics. because lbr those are probably the ones that most people also would like icons of. If the same fandom gets randomized twice, we just pick the next most popular character from it etc. But once a character is 'voted out' that same character can't reappear on this project, but other characters from that fandom can.
Soooo, since you're a boxedcolors member... go ahead and make a HUGE post of all your favorite fandoms, and you might just skew the likelihoods of them being randomized ;)
thanks again for the super awesome feedback and fo letting me ramble about algorithms ♥
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Seriously, to the both of you, how the heck do you color icons this amazingly!!
Will ya both teach meee??! lol
jsfunction: what the heckadkjflja!!!??! The colors you've used in the icons of Sawyer, Stiles, Cesare, Jax, and Lucas makes me wanna cryyy!!
They are so phucking amazing! And don't even get me started on the icon of Reese!!! How the heck do you make such flawless icons! From the text, blocking, colors, ughhhh I dont even knowww, it's just so amazing *O*
thyla87: I LOVE LOVE LOVEEEEE the icons you've used with multiple images!!! Especially the one of Jax! That coloring is just so amazing and fits it so well!!!!
I also love the cropping and coloring on the icon of Cesare! It's so vintage-y, but also still vibrant-y, I don't even know how that's possible??!!! But that icon is sooo flawless *0*
The colorings on the icons of Haruka, Aragorn, and Lucas are also so pretty!
Great job to the both of ya, and I hope to see more gorgeous icons soon!!
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thanks again for the lovely feedback :3
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jsfunction - I absolutely love the coloring and grungy look on Cesare and the dual personality look on Emma. Also, did I mention Jax? lol. Love that one and your composition on Reese and Lucas. I am always amazed by the complexity in some of your icons in how you are able to get so much on one icon and it still flows so well. Great work!
thyla87 - I love your composition on Emma as well as the natural coloring with the black and white. The composition and coloring on Jax is fantastic and I really like your comp. and use of neg. space and cutout on Reese.
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Anyway, John Reese <3
Seeing POI icons always makes me happy! And I really adore both your icons :D
So, you're both not that far into the show? You have a wild ride ahead of you!
It does get more serialized in S3! S5 will likely be the last season and it's only 13 episodes, so I expect there won't be so many standalone episodes.
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I think thyla is actually a bit further into it than me, it's more her kind of show, I was never that much into the crime genre. I liked s1 ok and would like to watch some of the characters like Finch and Root in another setting, like... just programming stuff or doing something funny? Maybe one day I'll find the time to watch the rest but rn I don't have any immediate plans to continue, since there are so many things to watch and I've mostly gotten over my Michael Emerson crush :p (took long enough!)