Icon - Spin Me About

[browncoat2x2]

Listening to MA soundtrack while looking at screencaps of Mal and Inara dancing from Shindig is interestingly appropriate *G* If I had the time (and patience) I'd make a Mal/Inara vid with some of that music. :o)

Anyway, I was playing around in photoshop and this is what came out. Not too sure on it, but, it's something, considering I haven't done much of this in a long while.

I was trying to capture a sense of movement - like spinning, eh? - by the motion blur in the background, but at the icon scale, it gets kinda lost and doens't really give the effect I was hoping for. :o/

What do you think?

Comments

[agent-rouka.livejournal.com]

It's very pretty! I especially like the flare of white light on the left. It really adds this sense of.. being close to something special and intense. :)

I don't get a sense of motion, necessarily, from the background because it appears to have a certain solidity with the choppy patterns in the blurs, but it certainly emphasized them being alone together, with everything else just fading into a faceless mass around them, which is almost as good, especially in this moment of dancing. Ohh, symbolic! *G* Or metaphorical, whatever. Hehehe.

In other words. I like!

[browncoat2x2]

Thankee!

[ohvienna.livejournal.com]

This is getting weird now. I'm making a kind of crazy fanmix (just an EP) for "Shindig," full of all just kind of fun, party-ish music (just need to make art, gah), and I have a song from the MA soundtrack on it (Aphrodisiac). :)

And I like your icon very much, as it reminds me of this promo image from Moulin Rouge (yay, google images):

Because you're fast like a freak?

[browncoat2x2]

ooooh, eerie! ;oD It really does fit well, though, doesn't it?

And thanks! Yeah, it is sorta reminiscent of that shot...

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I really really like that one! Tres shiny :) it almost reminds me of film the way the image is duplicated 3 times, like we're just seeing one frame paused for a moment...

[browncoat2x2]

Yeah... It was a widescreen screenshot, but I didn't want to lose any of the edges around them, so, thought I'd try that... I thought it was film like too... and I tried putting the bottom part of the frame at hte top, but I didn't like how that looked as much, so it's the way it is ;o)