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neonspider ([personal profile] neonspider) wrote in [community profile] neonspiderwebs2016-01-25 05:47 pm

30 multifandom icons: 10in30 and technique20in20 entries



Fandoms:

Free! [11]
My Neighbor Totoro [5]
Supernatural [5]
Teen Wolf [4]
Guardians of the Galaxy, Les Misérables, LOST, Once Upon a Time, Star Wars [1 each]


Two challenge entries in the same post this time!

first, [livejournal.com profile] 10in30 Round 1! I claimed my current OTP: Rin Matsuoka / Haruka Nanase, aka rinharu, from Free!. I seriously love these two together and that's why I made them as shippy as I could, that's why all the text, there were SO many good quotes both from the series itself and from the people working on Free! so that's what I mainly drew inspiration from.
This is my first full set of an animated subject; I've made the occasional anime icon here and there but they've been pretty lazy so here I wanted to really try and see what I can do with these caps. Which I still need to practise more and I did have a few technical problems but I'm surprised at how much I actually like the end results. But that might just be because anything with this ship is gold to me lol. OK I'LL SHUT UP about rh for now :) here's the set, hope you like them! ♥



CLOSE x5



FAR x5



close crops:

1 - This scene was a must, Rin hugging Haru super tight and crying cause he's happy to be back together with Haru (and the others) and they just had an amazing experience together and it's just super fluffy and amazing. ♥
2 - This is an incredibly flirty quote from Rin to Haru. I can't even with these two. I wanted to have one icon here about their competitive relationship and the UST they clearly have because of it. That's not ALL there is to their relationship by any means, unlike a lot of anti-rinharu folks seem to think. This is not even the main thing about them imo, but it's still pretty awesome and keeps them both moving forward. Unfortunately nobody can probably find any use for this icon, cause whoever you comment to with this icon will think you're flirting :p
3 - Accoring to the director, their relationship is the core axis of the show, so that's what I wanted to portray here.
4 - I felt a strange need to include this entire quote by Haru's voice actor because it's very relevant to my interests, haha. That's a lot of text and the result might look like crap but I'm soooo happy that I managed to somehow cram it in cause it's that important :3
5 - this is a lazy icon, I just chose some cap of them and made it colorful, the crop is a bit odd and obscure, in case you can't tell what's going on it's Haru grabbing Rin's arm in their intense fence scene, but yeah no special meaning to this one.

far crops:
1 - What you're seeing here is the good old 'only one bed' trope, so... there's that. Rin chooses this particular moment to talk about his fond feelings for Haru and this is one of the things he says but I love everything else from this scene too. I had to use this scene, it's one of their best for sure.
2 - I went with the future theme cause one thing I love about this ship is that in s2 they found that they have the same dream and the same future of professional swimming. they inspire each other towards that goal, and Rin helped Haru find his dream when he was at his lowest. These two are perfect for each other.
3 - This one was inspired by the list of things that Haru reacts to, according to his voice actor: water, swimming, mackerel, and "things relating to Matsuoka Rin" ;)
4 - Now this one is inspired by this lovely quote by Rin's voice actor: '[Haruka and Rin] just feel like the ‘destined pair’ for one another'. It made a nicely short text for a change so I had to use it besides I think he's 1000% on point there, the show even gives us the 'red string of fate'.
5 - In this one I wanted to showcase how utterly romantic the visuals relating to this pair are. there's a cherry blossom three symbolizing their special bond, and when they think of each other the scene sometimes gets blurry and bright and we see cherry blossom petals flying everywhere. Like, make of that what you will but I'm gonna say they're in love alright. the quote is there mostly as a decoration but it reads 'it's my turn to show you a sight you've never seen before' :)

now consider all this and tell me how some people don't see rinharu????????? :o


Next, my set for [livejournal.com profile] technique20in20. It's a multifandom set cause the ability to do that is one of the cool things about that comm. I like my rinharu set more than this one tbh but there are a few in this set that I'm proud of too. The theme names may seem a bit cryptic so check the challenge post for further info if you're curious about what we actually had to do here :)
The category set was about a 'dream world', some things picked from a fandom we'd like to actually experience. I chose My Neighbor Totoro, because I despise being a grownup/old as fuck (or at least too old for anything fun!) and my biggest wish is to get to relive my youth and be a carefree child and have childlike fun and excitement and there's all this and much more in the magical, mysterious, fairytale-like world of Totoro. The specific things I chose to include in my dream scenario: having fun & running around beautiful nature, investigating mysterious places and creatures, flying and being friends with Totoro :D
Anyway, hope you'll find something to like in this set, it was a really fun challenge to participate in and I'm glad the comm is back! Hover for fandom.


10 THEMES
Levels I put a spell
on you
Sky full of stars Purple rain Should I stay or
should I go?
Rivers of Babylon D.I.S.C.O. Text me in
the morning
Sandman Take me for
a ride


5 CATEGORY - SOME KIND OF HEAVEN
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5


5 ARTIST'S CHOICE
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5



Snag all you want, credit if you want to, but don't hotlink and please don't use my icons as bases or resources
Feel free to watch the comm :)
Comments would make me super happy ♥
apologizeg: (Lost // Locke)

[personal profile] apologizeg 2016-01-25 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
LOVE the far set so much! The colors and compositions are just awesome. I think the second one is my favorite.

You totally nailed purple rain, it looks a lot like it's raining!
Love the colors in I put a spell on you, the crop in sky full of stars, the colors in should I stay and the coloring in sandman. The text and crop in ac1 is really clever! Great ue of texture in ac3 and I love the vintage look on ac4. :)

<3
aravishermione: ((lost grunge))

[personal profile] aravishermione 2016-01-25 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Great set!! Love the colors in the anime ones and the effects in Take Me for a Ride are fantastic. Snagged Castiel, Allison, and Isaac and will credit ♥

[identity profile] xafirah.livejournal.com 2016-01-25 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I love your compositions! And coloring! Especially on "Rivers of Babylon" - it looks really awesome :)

[identity profile] raiindust.livejournal.com 2016-01-25 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Woah this post is full of incredible things! In your 10in30 set, I am super amazed at how beautifully your colouring just translates across into animation. And also jealous. #2 and #3 are just, wow. The intense monochrome colouring in #2 is so beautiful, and I love how perfectly you've used blocking here, and yet still captured so much in the icon. The text placement is all kinds of perfect as well. The vibrant colouring #3 is just lovely, and the subtle lighting really adds such a beautiful element as well. Once again, the text work has been done so spectacularly, I love the gradient and how it mirrors the solid colours you've used - so clever. Everything about the composition of #8 wows me so much, I love the use of space, and how beautifully the individual elements are placed together to create such a cohesive icon. The colour pops so beautifully against the black too. And the colouring of #9 is so incredible. I love the softness of the blue and pink tones, and the use of texture to create a complex composition is just wow.

Your technique20in20 set is flawless as well. The composition of Levels is holy freaking stunning. Love the vibrant and gorgeously lit colouring you've used, and the way you've contrasted the colours on the outside to the colours in the center is amazing. The crop of D.I.S.C.O. is just, wow, and the texture work that you've done is freaking flawless. Love how gritty it is, and yet the vibrancy you've given it works so beautifully along with it. The playful nature of your Category icons really comes out, I love how they are soft and full of gorgeous light textures, it works so beautifully together. AC#1 is amazing. I got a really throwback vibe when I first looked at it, I think the B&W with the strong contrast and perfect text placement really reminded me of the first Supernatural icons I saw on LJ like, 10 years ago. And the composition and texture work in AC#5 is ridiculous, the colour combinations are stunning, and the overlay of everything is just remarkable.
violateraindrop: (Star Wars: that is one messed up family)

[personal profile] violateraindrop 2016-01-25 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The colors on the 10in30 set are just awesome! I also really like the text use, especially on 2 and 6. The composition of the Star Wars and GotG icons is also fabulous, as is the coloring of the Category set :D
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[identity profile] anobrain.livejournal.com 2016-01-26 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
holy amazeballs your icons are perfect!
how can i, a simple human, get on your level of perfection when it comes to making icons??!!?
i really love levels, should i stay or should i go, disco, text me in the morning, take me for a ride, cat1, cat4, ac3 and ac4.
i cant even express the feelings im feeling about rivers of babylon O_O
i wish i knew how lol
but overall, i really love your icons and i cant wait to see more
:D

[identity profile] thelazyprince.livejournal.com 2016-01-26 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
eeeeeeeeeee, rinharu rinharu rinharu!! ♥ can't wait to upload these to my userpics, they're perfect. thank you :)

[identity profile] fly-meaway.livejournal.com 2016-01-26 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Your creative in the far icon set is beautiful. The colouring is so bright and you just make that work. And every single icon is just a piece of art, very unique and so beautiful. I also love close2 especially- how gorgeous. I also love AC1, the text just really works here without feeling too overpowering. And the black/white as well as the contrast looks so good. The icon just holds so much emotion. I also love the colouring in "i put a spell on you" and cat2 and cat3 and just everything about cat1 and cat5. Again so creative, so unique. So good.

[identity profile] paintedtarget.livejournal.com 2016-01-26 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
All of them are amazing but I can't get over how lovely your compositions are on levels, should i stay, purple rain, cat4 and ac5!

[identity profile] tturners.livejournal.com 2016-01-26 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG THE COLOURS HERE. I AM SO IN LOVE !!!
I adore the second, fourth and fifth icon of the close crops set,
and first, second and fourth of the far set. I adore your compositions very much, the text placement is so on point and
the way you work with shapes and textures leaves me speechless. :3

I also love yoyr icons for technique20in20, in particular: levels, should I stay or should I go, text me in the morning, AC #5 and the whole category set.
Saving the Totoro icons! ♥

[identity profile] alfiri.livejournal.com 2016-01-26 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this set! My favourites are the SW Levels one and 1, 2 and 4 of Totoro! :) I especially like the greens of 1 & 2, they are so vibrant but also soft :D
sietepecados: (Movie: Pulp Fiction)

[personal profile] sietepecados 2016-01-26 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
These are truly amazing!
I love the rich and vibrant coloring and composition on I put a spell on you. Also the composition on Purple, Text me in the morning and Cat #1 looks relly great!
And the category set is so adorable! :)

[identity profile] narnialover7.livejournal.com 2016-01-27 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Lovely icons! My favorites are the far set. :D

[identity profile] oviedo.livejournal.com 2016-01-27 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
re: 10in30, love the simplicity in #1 + the crop is literally perfect! I also really like the blocking and the vibrant-yet-somehow-soft-as-well colouring in 10.

[identity profile] starry-night.livejournal.com 2016-01-28 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
So many colours....I love it! Seriously, you do vibrant colouring so flawlessly and combined with your amazing compositions, everything just looks stunning! <3

I adore all of your 10in30 set! Amazing colours and compositions, and your text use is awesome! For the Close icons, I absolutely love 2, 3 & 5 in particular. The compositions of 2 & 3 are gorgeous (2 especially), and I love the crop and the softness in 5.
For the Far icons, I love all of them but especially 2 & 4. The vibrant colours and clean lines in 2 works perfectly and in 4 I love the combination of the pink & blue and the composition is fabulous! And I also love that you kind of have a faded gradient going through the set, with 1 being crazy vibrant and 5 being somewhat less vibrant.

For the technique20in20 set, Purple Rain is flawless! Perfect combination of colour and b&w, and the composition is amazing! I also really, really love the colours in I Put A Spell On You, the crop in Sky Full of Stars, the crazy neon green in Rivers of Babylon, the muted tones in Sandman, the effects in Take Me For A Ride, everything about Cat 1 & 5, the minimalism, text and contrast in AC1, the...ah hell, I adore all of the ACs here.

[identity profile] thyla87.livejournal.com 2016-01-28 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG!! So much creative here and colors!! These are all great conquest! I love these, both set are incredibly gorgeous !!! :) I don't know where to start! I can't believe that they are your first anime set, just like you would have made them much more! So talented! :) I will snag some, will credit =)

Some mine favorite;

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I just adore this crop! A truly wonderful angle and layout! I love his hair, too!! So purple ♥♥

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Perfect level! Your text this set is incredible! I love the monocrome and the contrast!!

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wow ♥♥ I don't know what to say. Awwwww!!!! Text, colors, different font and everything are just amazing!!

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I can't wait to see this episode!! Again, you text skill ♥♥ So wonderful colors and light!

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I love the composition!! I mean, so perfect!! Stunning!

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wow :)!! Again, amazing composition and layout! Love text and background!! The colors are stunning and unique!

And your technique set ♥ LOVELOVELOVE!!!

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Love the colors, composition, levels!!

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I need new words to describe how amazing your icons are :D ;D I mean, i just love this; texture and bg works so well and I love colorful grunge :)

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I love your complex icons; perfect colors and muted tone!

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So amazing!! The blending and colors are winningly lovely ♥And texture work is STUNNING! or are they brushes.

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OMG! How you did that ;D The water gif is magnificent and the bg and his face work so well!!

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aww ♥♥ I love your idea this set! They are so innocent :D I love the colors and the lighting is super pretty!

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Love the composition and the colors!!

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Super perfect crop! And text ♥

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Super cool!! Composition, texture, the contrast; everything work !! :)

Thank you so much for these!! :)
tinny: Something Else holding up its colorful drawing - "be different" (__howlsmovingcastle)

[personal profile] tinny 2016-01-28 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Finally, I have time for commenting on your icons!

10in30:

I don't know the canon ( not an anime fan... ), but I think you did a good job with the source material. I think the ones where you added clean textures (#7 and #8) work best, but I like how you grungified it in #9 and #10, too. #6 is beautiful and so universally understood without any canon knowledge. Basically, I love your whole far set.

technique:

I liked that challenge, it was very difficult in places. My faves are Babylon!Sam and Disco!Lydia, but "text" and ac3 are also eye-catching. I really like the animation on "take me for a ride", that's the swimmer character, right? That's so very fitting and kind of hilarious ("all he ever thinks about is water"), and I love it.

Totoro is a wonderful ideal for the category set, and they all look peaceful and joyful, so... total success.
novindalf: ([ac]; peggy carter; neon)

[personal profile] novindalf 2016-01-28 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Eee you made icons! Love your Far icons so much (the colours and text ♥♥♥) and also Purple rain, Should I stay or should I go?, Text me in the morning, Sandman, Cat1, Cat5, AC3 and AC5

[identity profile] littlemissnovel.livejournal.com 2016-01-28 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I so need to watch free.

For 10in30: Anyway, I love your text work! My favorites are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

For technique20in20: The texture used in 2 is stunning! I love the close cropping in 3!

[identity profile] rizbef.livejournal.com 2016-01-29 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Such amazing sets!
I love the coloring and text use in your 10in30 set! 5, 6, & 7 are my favorites.
2 and 6 from the technique set are so artsy and cool, and I just adore the Totoro category set!
<3

[identity profile] teaotter.livejournal.com 2016-01-30 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Your compositions are amazing!

[identity profile] petite-tomate.livejournal.com 2016-01-30 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
You. like. Free!. and. Haru. Rin.

I NEED A MOMENT TO FANGIRL PLEASE

I'm so delighted to see Free! icons from you, it's such a good surprise!! And I read all your inspiration text about them and I'm just ;_;. They've been consuming my life for more than 2 years now and I can't seem to get out. Definitely one of the best pair out here!

As for your icons, you're as creative as ever. I'm so impressed with how much text you can put in them, witchcraft! The first far crop is definitely my favorite. The scene is golden and your icon just captured that so beautifully! And the last one about the cherry blossom ♥. Your colors are so pretty as always. The Star Wars icon is WOAH! what a composition!

Definitely waiting for more animanga icons from you now! :D

[identity profile] scoobyatemysnax.livejournal.com 2016-01-31 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
good god, i get busy with rl and when i come back there's so many new icons from you *_______* i should disappear more often, if these are the results i come back to! lemme just say i just finished voting for the sets @ 10in30 and i was soooo happy to see you made rinharu icons! but it was so damn difficult to just pick two, omg D:

starting with 1, i realllyyyyy love the colors of it omg! the way you've made rin's skin so nice and warm and pretty and also we get to see his qt little teef :B amd the second one, i love how rin's pink and haru's blue *duuh vel, so dumb*. the composition's really wonderful... and now that i'm actually moving onto the third one i'm just stumped because basically all of your compositions on the close crops are stunningly beautiful and like ...wtf is this sorcery? D: idek how you've managed to make anime CLOSE CROPS interesting and not just *face crops*, yano, no there's actual composition and words and colors and it's magical, definitely. i really love the text on 4, because it's so neatly spread over the icon and the way there's tiny lines over some of the text, like on the top, bottom left side and the right, because it makes me think of a cover of a magazine! so please, give me the rinharu magazine rn, because i would like to read it right now C: then the colors of the far ones, ohmygod! i absolutely LOOOOOVE the 1st one (technically 6 i mean), because it's purple and there's rinharu on the same bed and the colors over the icon are in such perfect combination with the rich purples and the pink pillows and ahhhh i'm so in love with it *____* the vibrance on 7 is perfect. it's like i'm staring into the sun and i can feel my skin clearing and my vision turning 20/20 and just everything gets better while i'm looking at that icon. 8 has an absolutely BRILLIANT composition and it's just such a *you* icon! because you always manage to make all kinds of unique and different compositions and i'm always so impressed how you manage to keep your icons so interesting in a mere 100x100 canvas?? that's fuckin' art, man, lemme tell you that. 9 looks like it's the cover of a fairy tale ~~disney movie or something. and i would gladly watch it if it were :D

then there's technique20in20, so congrats on completing it (unlike me lol) and producing even more beautiful icons! i love the blocking on levels and yaaay a star wars icon woo hoo! i'm totally in love with the colors and texture use on the cas icon. you really know how to win my heart with your purples ♥ i remember you called me somewhere an enabler lol? and probably you're right, because rn i'm going to compliment your magical colors of the swanqueen AND sam icons. and then the lydia icon after that, because not only is the crop gorgeous, but the gritty textures and the colors too. i feel dumb tbh, because i'm just here flailing all over the place and probably my comment is totally unreadable, but you have to be used to deciphering those by now lol :P i am actually CRYING at the beauty that is the haru icon with the waves and the water, because that icon is fucking genius. like, i know i said that for your other icons too, but this is legit, my favourite one from the entire post. and it's just because i love haru so much, no. it's because it's so out of the box and it works so gr9! i would really like to take a peek into your brain for some icon ideas, because you always seem to come up with such interesting ideas and not only that, you actually execute those ideas perfectly!!! tell me, how is that fair?!? :P i know i know, life isn't fair *sigh* i'm also happy to see you've iconed studio ghibli yaaay! the blocking on the 1st one is really neat, and i also really like the 3rd one because borders and the colors and composition of 4's perfect. again. then i have to compliment the colors on your gabriel icon and the texture use on the icon next to it, umm alison i think? yes, the flowers go so well with her clothes and it's really awesome.

i should say i'm sorry for the wall of text, but i'm not. i'm really not :P

[identity profile] scoobyatemysnax.livejournal.com 2016-01-31 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
oh and CLEARLY you have very quickly and very masterfully become an anime iconner. well done! i bow down to your skills~ ♥

[identity profile] kateheightmeyer.livejournal.com 2016-02-01 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Great batch! ♥
The colors and texture use is awesome! I LOVE Rivers of Babylon and AC 3!

Saving a lot! ♥

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