Empire Ants

Making this massive, four-part set of two thousand and sixty-four icons nearly broke me. At several points, I threw my hands in the air and declared my attempts to fix lighting and colour grading good enough. So just know that I tried until I could not try anymore and suddenly understand why only a select few scenes were iconned by others who tackled this movie.


( Close your eyes. And whatever happens, don't look. )

Who needs icons of an adorable, palm-sized dragon who looks remarkably real? Everyone! Glad I could clear that up for you.

Made with screencaps by eggplants, whose post is the entire reason I know this show exists. I haven't watched it yet, but maybe I will someday!


( Here there be cute dragon icons. )

If you don't love unicorns, you are wrong. Or you just don't like unicorns... in which case, it is my humble opinion that you are wrong.

This got way out of hand, and you can see the quality getting better as I tested different techniques while making these. By the end, I finally had the facepalm moment of realizing I could use Photoshop layer groups to maintain the different backgrounds and place the foregrounds on them. Oops!

Made with several sets of graphic assets from both The Hungry JPEG and Creative Fabrica, combined and altered in various ways.



( Be a unicorn in a field of horses! )

It took me a ridiculously long time - over a year, in fact, after the absolutely lovely capseroo fulfilled my request - to make these icons, but finally they're here! Back when I watched this movie, I could have sworn Vivian was a ginger, which I guess is just a testament to the terrible calibration of the television I used back then.

This set includes a small number of icons with glowy werewolf eyes and a white wolf. And like one single icon featuring a tattoo.


( I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hateful as the other. )

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