I wanted to play with light and color, and I like big, dynamic images. Much as I love vectoring and all that fancy, OCD inducing fun... I knew the kind of light I wanted to do would work better, in my opinion at least, with more realistic-ish images.
The biggest concern I have about this wall is whether or not the lights work, I'm always the first to question what I do, and it drives me nuts. I also debated whether or not to add a scratched effect. I'm currently uploading the scratch free one, but I'm still heavily torn on it. I hate being so madly ambivalent on my own stuff.
My favorite part is the colors. Like that weird combination of vibrant and muted you get in old photos. I know, I have weird likes in a wall, but that just adds variety or some nonsense. Whatever, my justification is silly, I really just like colors and how they can play off eachother, plain and simple.
I'm using a line from Firefly for the title because yeah, I just like the line.
EDIT: Have faded the lights a bit more and tried to darken things a little around Hope especially (it's tricky since, to me, it looked overly bright in the original).




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2 years, 11 months ago
Wow, I am impressed. It has a big canvas feel to it.
You called the overall effect, that of an old photo. I tend to see it as the kind of color that characterized the artwork of, those old short story sci-fi magazines and comic books of the 1950's. I love it when I can find the time to enter a library, that has a serious book collection, and browse the stacks to explore the worlds created by authors like: Frederik Pohl, William Tenn, Walter Miller, or even Isaac Asimov. I thought that the color in those artworks was a bit too muted, but the stories that I found in those old books have conditioned me to value the meaning of the images. I'm not an FF fan, but I like your wall.
2 years, 11 months ago
Omg this wallpaper is awesome. Great work. I''m looking forward to see more of your talent.
2 years, 11 months ago
<3 love the colors and all the ilumination /(O_O)/
2 years, 11 months ago
It's amazing fantasy. Your skill is drawing dramatic scene.
2 years, 11 months ago
Awesome wall. The colorful background is very beautiful and good work with the effects. I love this wall <3 fav+ Keep up your great work.
2 years, 11 months ago
I love it so much! It's nice to finally see a great final fantasy 13 wallpaper<3 ty
2 years, 11 months ago
Wow, so cool. ♥ I love the textures and lighting! So pretty!! There's a lot going on, but I think it all matches. What was the original scan(s) that you worked from? I'm curious. Anyhoo, nice job. *faves*
2 years, 11 months ago
This is a very beautiful wallpaper!Perfect job!!!Kongrats
2 years, 11 months ago
Nice mix of characters, the colors are nice so fav+ :D
2 years, 11 months ago
Not Bad. It very artistic and colorful, but feels too chaotic.
2 years, 11 months ago
I really love the vintage colors! It gives me a warm feeling inside. ^_^ The scratches and the lighting all look great to my eyes. You've done a wonderful job. Thanks very much for sharing this wonderful wallpaper. I'll be sure to get some good use out of it. :)
2 years, 10 months ago
woooow xDDD i love it soooooo much thnx <3
2 years, 10 months ago
Very Impressive, the colors you used give it a canvas feeling, reminds me of some of those old Star Wars paintings. Great work overall, this one will be on my desktop for a long time! +Fav.
2 years, 9 months ago
I love the color. Nice wallpaper. I like how you used all that white.
2 years, 7 months ago
Holy- epic much? It's very nice, but there's a lot going on in the wallpaper so I'm very lost as to where to look. Nonetheless, I still like it. Keep up the good work!
2 years, 6 months ago
i love the colors on this wallpaper. I'm in a bit of a FFXIII mood since playing it so its equally nice to see a decent wallpaper of this amazing pic!
2 years, 6 months ago
the best final fantasy xii wallpaper I've seen anywhere on the internet, congratulations, you've made a good
2 years, 4 months ago
This is awesome
2 years, 4 months ago
WOW?? This is really good!!! i like the coloring and the art =D
2 years, 4 months ago
I really love the colors of this one, but it is a bit too chaotic for me. Would of loved it more if Lightning was by herself since she is the focal point. Great job nonetheless!~
2 years, 3 months ago
Wow...stunning. Feels pretty crazy but awesome work nevertheless. Love the work you've done with the colours.
2 years, 3 months ago
Wow, there's not a square inch in this wallpaper where something awesome isn't happening! Obviously reminds me of the big chapter 12 intro where the party and their Eidolons enter Eden and start an all-out firefight on the racetrack.
I actually thought you got the title from the TVtropes article of the same name, since I frequent that site way too much. (Though, the article gets its name from Firefly, so...yeah). On whether the lights work: I think they definitely do. Everything's nice and visible, and the colors make everything nice and distinguishable. I like the use of green around the middle...very Cocoon-ish.
Great work!
2 years, 1 month ago
I think this is a beautiful wallpaper. Nice work on it. :)
2 years, 3 weeks ago
This is really good. Love it.
2 years, 2 days ago
Wow, amazing job! I love the subdued sort of camera flash effect to all the colours. The characters are so lifelike (Kudos to you and the designers :P) I'd love to see the scratched effect one!
1 year, 11 months ago
absolutely stunning!!! great job with the vintage lighting.
1 year, 11 months ago
Utterly gorgeous. I love this game and story so much.
1 year, 7 months ago
I really like this. The color effect you added enhances the motion blur and makes it feel even more like an action shot, not just a promo shot. Good job on keeping the focus on Lightning with the lighting.
1 year, 4 months ago
I really like how big and epic this wallaper looks. Just looking at makes me want to play FF13. The lighting works just fine for me. Thank you for sharing :)
1 year, 2 months ago
Wow, Pretty
1 year, 2 months ago
this is great! :D
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Whoa, this is super awesome! There's so many things going on, but it doesn't feel cluttered or messy. Also, the light effects were done really, really well. Good job!
7 months, 1 week ago
Wow. There's so much going on, and the color work fits well. I love it!