SGA Icons 104 Thirty Eight Minutes For SGA Rewind (Second Group)

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This is the second batch of SGA Icons for Thirty Eight Minutes.  There will be one more group for this episode, posted as soon as I finish retouching them.  I am including four Icons in larger size, one is from a previous post,  an Icon that I happen to like and three from this group.  I am continuing to experiment with different styles and approaches to Icon design.  If anyone has any requests please let me know what you want. 

	Atlantis Long Shot 104
	Carson With Highlights 104
	Elizabeth Against Stripes 104
	Elizabeth Facing Left, Stripes 104
	Ford Shooting Bug 104
	Ford Worried Close-Up 104
	John Temporarily Dead Bug Removed 104
	John With Bug Trying to Be Brave 104
	John Close-Up Tan Square 104
	John With Eyes Closed with Bug 104
	John With Bug, Bug Wants His Dog-Tags 104
	John Facing Wraith, Bug is Attached 104
	Teyla and John in Rose Square 104
	Rodney Watching John 104
	Rodney Strange Picture Interesting Shirt 204
	Saving John's Life 104
	John Facing the Wraith, Blue with White Outline 104
	Teyla, One of My Favorite 104
	Teyla Worried 104
	Radek at Work 104

 

 

Comments

Re: Look out world, here she comes!

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Thanks for your encouragement. This batch was harder than the previous ones because the screencaps were much less ideal. This is the 4th episode of the show, and also the first major character interaction episode. A lot of the action takes place in a confined space, there were lots of good face shots to build icons from. This was an especially good episode for Teyla, Aiden and Elizabeth but not so good for Rodney. The lighting artists who lit this episode, gave me great help with better effects. And I think some of the make-up especially for Elizabeth was much improved.

The top large icon (Sheppard being revived), is a terrible icon visually but it is a very important scene for fans. So I tried to make it as clean as I could. I took a character out of the foreground and de-cluttered the area around Sheppard's head to simplify the image. It is still too muddy. I'm not sure the icon-sized graphic is readable. The floor is all cloned in, and not a very good job, but considering I did it without a grid, it came out okay. And at Icon size no one will notice the bad cloning.

John kneeling in front of the Wraith was another terrible screencap. I could only do so much with it, but it is a compelling image and needed to be included. There were several other images I just couldn't make work. I'm hoarding them in a separate file to try again when I understand this program better.

The real challenge is how to present characters in the middle-distance and have them recognizable. I've only just started working on those difficult icons. I'm also leaving spaces within some of them to include type. That's a whole other level of complication.

After I post the next batch I'm going to take a short break from icons and do some writing. Vacation writing sounds wonderful to me right now. I am packing some more before I go to bed tonight, I'm slowly getting things organized. I will call you later.