Beta Lyrae

First row is ic_animated Iced Tea challenge submissions (the Strikeforce: Morituri one I edited a little after the deadline, so it’s not identical to the submission post); second is icons I made at the same time and decided not to submit; third is alternate takes on some of the images made the day after.

(No, this time the challenge had nothing to do with circles. I just like circles. And it's a way to make the shape of Six Ages portraits work in an icon; they're rectangular and making squares of them is awkward.)

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Some quick icons from TFP Season 1.

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ic_animated round 81: Two's Company, submissions + alts.

Fandoms are Strikeforce Morituri, Transformers: Prime, and the French animated film The Girl Without Hands.

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Roundup of icons I made in May that weren't Strikeforce Morituri (that gets its own post).

1-5 were made for the palette generator challenge at retro_icontest; #6 was for the silhouettes challenge at icontalking.

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These were made for the At the Movies challenge at icontalking. #1-6 were originally posted there, as was an early version of #8 (#7 wasn't done in time, and the version of #8 that I posted had some issues).

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These are my entry for ic_animated's latest round. Posting them here just to have them on my journal too.

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Didn't manage to post February's icons before the month was up, so here's some catch-up.

Mostly Percy, with some of Leeds and Cecelia and one Cameron.

1-5 were made for ic_animated's Crayola round—can't resist the color yellow.

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This week, I spent probably too much time making probably too many icons of the same image. These are the ones I ended up thinking were good enough to post.

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Blather

Okay. I really, really like the cover to Transformers Skybound #10—Carly and Arcee stargazing together while Carly is sitting on the roof of her van. It's a pretty image, and I really love vengeful human teenager Carly and her quasi-familial relationships with giant robots from outer space.

It turns out it is really hard to icon that image. A simple wide crop (#1) works, but you lose the details and especially the expressions. A close crop is tough because getting both characters will also get awkward parts of Carly's car (#2 was the best I got in terms of a close crop).

So I thought of circular crops! (#11-15, #24) Which did work better... but I have very few circular frame textures, and some of those had a pretty small "frame". (One also has part of the circle spilling off of the icon, which was useful for hiding inconvenient lone headlights and things like that—#11—pity I didn't like the flame border that much.)

So I used those few (some with significant color manipulation, and with different circle crops because I wasn't sure how much to prioritize getting Arcee's hand in the frame—I do like the neon effect I ended up with in #12-13), and then it occurred to me I could make my own frames by just resizing circles of different colors, and set those on other backgrounds. More flexible! (#15-20, #24-25). For a most of these I just used a plain circle crop, but in a few I used the circle as a flat colored background, or a transparent one (#20 is my favorite of these).

Then it occurred to me that I didn't actually need to keep the whole background–I could just cut the characters out! This led to #5 and #10, where Carly is "sitting" on the frame. Then I wanted the starry sky back so I did some with the background in frames, and then I started playing with text (#6-10, #22-23). I like how some of these turned out a lot! Some of them do basically use the text as unreadable texture, though.

(Around here I forgot my original objective and made icon #3, which is actually a narrower version of the wide crop, using a recolored texture as a border.)

Then it occurred to me I could crop two separate circles, one for each character, and get some flexibility that way. Thus #16-20 and #25.

... And then I realized I'd done a solo icon of Arcee and not one of Carly, so I did #21 to make things even.

Anyway, I'm planning on inflicting it on ic_animated for the Screencap Pool round, to see if anyone else has ideas about what to do with it.

Last minute icons January 2026 edition, plus one from... last year? year before? not sure. Book covers, ancient coins, hypothetical fish, etc.

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