Ugh.

[uberniftacular]

So. That fanmix?

The music part is DONE. :D

Only problem is that now I have to do cover art, and I want it to look good, but I can tell already it's going to be terrible. There are NO GOOD CAPS of Clint that I've managed to find. I've got a bunch of Coulson caps, but not a lot of good stuff with Clint. Particularly, I wanted to use something where he's NOT holding a weapon, and...well...those don't exist, apparently.

Know what else doesn't exist? A single shot in which Clint and Coulson are in the same frame.

Plus, I don't understand how people do such pretty blending and stuff. Like, I don't know, this one. Or this one. Or, oh man, do you guys remember any of the mixes veronicasleeps made before she deleted her journal? Those are like...my ultimate ideal. (THIS ONE! It's still on tumblr! And this one. God. HOW DOES ONE EDIT LIKE THIS?!)

Yeah. I genuinely don't understand how to do this blending thing. And tutorials on youtube are supremely unhelpful. YES I KNOW HOW TO CUT THINGS OUT OF THE BACKGROUND USING THE PEN TOOL. WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS HOW TO STICK MULTIPLE IMAGES TOGETHER WITHOUT THEM LOOKING LIKE THE FUCKING RANCOR BEAST.

(As kind of an aside, my brain is a strange place. So you know how in the minimalist Avengers art that's going around, Clint is represented by his bow, and Coulson is represented by a tie? So does that mean I can represent the ship by a bowtie?

...I am a MASSIVE DORK.)

...Yeah, this has been me bitching. Sorry.

On the up side, I keep listening to my mix over and over and I quite like it?

Comments

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

I think you should totally go with the minimalist thing, if you want to. It sounds cool, especially if you can get across in graphic form what the bowtie represents.

[uberniftacular]

Haha, um. I was mostly joking about that. XD Plus, I REALLY have no idea how to actually create shapes that look like things in GIMP, lol.

...I mean, I guess I could make the back cover a minimalist thing? Track listing, with a bowtie at the bottom in the middle, and a bow on one side and a tie on the other? (I'm playing around with the idea of doing something with the track listing where the Clint-POV songs are on one side and the Coulson-POV songs are on the other, to match what I'm doing with the lyric snippets... I guess if I could figure out how to do little graphics of a bow and a tie and a bowtie, that would uh...make the spatial representation a little clearer? Or something?)

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

It's your art, bb! Do what you want! :D

[uberniftacular]

I might go with something like that just because I'm having a hard enough time trying to work out something pretty for the front cover. So I might make the back something simple.

...Maybe. I don't really know. I AM HAVING AN INDECISION!

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

Flip a coin?

[uberniftacular]

I FIGURED IT OUT! Um. By which I mean I cheated a little: took the image I used for the front cover, threw a couple textures over it, added the tracklisting, and called it good. XD

BUT IT'S DONE!

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, good!

[uberniftacular]

Yeah. It was kind of a cop-out, but honestly, it was either that or just text on some sort of texture as a background, so I figured I'd make it look at least a bit relevant.

And the way I did the cover art, it made it so I could arrange the song titles so it's (relatively) obvious which songs are from whose POV.

(It looks a little uneven. The real reason is because Coulson-POV songs are hard to come by in ska. The reason I'm going to give to the public is that there are more Clint-POV songs because Clint talks too much. XD Or, at the very least, is more talkative than Coulson. [Which is an assumption I'm making based on all the fic I've read where Clint is shit at maintaining comm silence during operations. Yeah, IDEK anymore.])