Round 40 - vgicontest - week 40

[tinny]

Another one where I waited for the right round number to come around. Whereas the original comm was weekly, so this was their fourtieth week, we are monthly. This is our fourtieth month! Thank you all for participating here. <3

This challenge was originally posted to vgicontest (video game icontest) in July 2012 here.

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Challenge Post by adrastea

And here we are... Week 040! Wow time goes fast or is it just me?
I hope to see a lot of pretty icons to break another record of submission here on vgicontest. I know you all can make it. So to help a bit I'll give you more images for the image theme like I did on week 010. You have a lot to play with. Good luck and don't forget you can submit up to six icons!



» General Theme: Fog of War
This is both a technical and a interpretative theme. For this theme I want
your subject to partially hidden by something. You can literally use a
fog or make a foggy effect with textures and stock image or you can use
another effect/texture/image to partially hide your subject. As long as
part of your subject is hidden somehow it's okay for this theme. Any
questions feel free to ask. :)

▫ examples:




» Lyrical Theme:Savage Garden - Crash And Burn
♬ (youtube link)
You must use at least three consecutive words.

lyrics

When you feel all alone
And the world has turned its back on you
Give me a moment please to tame your wild wild heart
I know you feel like the walls are closing in on you
It's hard to find relief and people can be so cold
When darkness is upon your door and you feel like you can't take any more

Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone

When you feel all alone
And a loyal friend is hard to find
You're caught in a one way street
With the monsters in your head
When hopes and dreams are far away and
You feel like you can't face the day

Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone

Because there has always been heartache and pain
And when it's over you'll breathe again
You'll breathe again

When you feel all alone
And the world has turned its back on you
Give me a moment please
To tame your wild wild heart

Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn

» Texture Theme:




ellaangelus | innocent_lexys | tinebrella
midnightroad | innocent_lexys | erzsebet
twinstrikeish | tartankilts | meathiel



» Image Theme:




BioShock Infinite | Breath of Fire V | Ragnarok Online
Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy | Dynasty Warriors 7 | Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
Resident Evil 6 | Super Mario Galaxy | Fragile Dreams

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» ORIGINAL RULES - for reference only
▫ You may submit up to six icons.
▫ You may combine the themes in a icon if you want.
▫ You may use only official images: official arts, screencaps, artbook scans, etc. No fanart is allowed.
▫ Icons must be freshly made for the contest.
▫ Icons should fit the LJ requirements: 100x100 pixels or less, less than 40kb, in .png, .gif or .jpg formats.

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» NEW RETRO_ICONTEST RULES - mandatory

The original comm was restricted to video games sources - of course this does not apply here. Any fandoms (and stock) welcome. But in case you do like to icon video games to challenge yourself (or just because you love them <3), of course you're welcome to do so.

You can mix and match the themes however you like. The provided images are - just like the textures - allowed to be directly used in your icons. The original rules say that no fanart is allowed - this is still the case here, too. (Although some of the provided images above look awfully fanarty to me... I'll just assume they're not. See comments below, I've been assured they are all official art. I have no clue about video games, so wouldn't be able to tell either way.)

▫ you may enter as many icons as you like. minimum 1 icon.
▫ submit your icons as a new entry into the community. if there are more than five, put the rest under a cut or a link to your unlocked journal post. tag your post with round number and your username (or ask me to tag it for you).
▫ submit the URLs along with your icons. I'll only put the first five per person into the roundup post. Either you only list five, or I'll take the first five.
▫ make an effort to leave positive feedback on other participants' posts. <3
▫ read the full rules here in our userinfo.

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This comm generally runs from mid-month to mid-month every month, always ending on Fridays. There is no voting. I will make a roundup post containing up to 5 icons per person after every challenge.

Deadline for round #40: Friday, July 17th your end-of-day

Comments

[picnicnic]

can comfim none of those images are fanart; there are so many styles in video games, and some I think are concept art, which can differ greatly from the final product, but it's all official art!

[tinny]

Oh, thank you so much! <3 That's very reassuring.

[picnicnic]

No problem!