Motoko skydiving over Bangkok! You'd probably call this a 'scenic' wallpaper.
This one started with the background. It is a creative commons photo of Bangkok from flickr, I did some major curves adjustment, desaturation, color shifting and smartblurring. Then some diffuse glow to make the lights glow a bit. The anime is drawn pretty accurately so I just wanted to remove the texture from things, but keep the realistic look.
Luckily I found a nice scan of the Major, I extracted and then added some 'vapor trails' to make her stand out from the night.
For the typography, I wanted to keep it simple without overpowering, if you like your walls with no text, it's all black underneath, so it's easy to remove the text yourself.
Thanks to everyone in Session Zero for your suggestions.
Widescreen 4 evuh!
4:3 Version for the regular people: http://www.weheartcode.com/gits_skydive_1600.jpg



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6 years, 3 months ago
Hmm..looks like i will be the first..anyway..coming to the point. The wallpaper idea impressed me a lot. I kept on wondering why people never made a scene like that. So thank you. Coming to the judging part...the falling effect could be more focused on and the BG a bit less dark. But hey i m writing all this after downloading the wallpaper. So I simply loved it
6 years, 3 months ago
Well it is really good I guess... City looks great at night afterall. Good job. Keep it up :/
6 years, 3 months ago
The stock image is nice and clean, and the light glows look really good. The scan itself is a bit out of the bg, but it's not too bad, considering it is a photo and a scan you did a good job. Widescreen stuff rules:)
6 years, 3 months ago
Nice details and a fitting background for the diving character an overall great job for one of my favourite anime:)
6 years, 3 months ago
Wow. What a great GITS wall. The vapor trails were a stroke of genius; I didn't even realize that you had added those yourself.
PS: wide screen rules!
6 years, 3 months ago
Nice looking paper. It fits the mood of the series. The vapor trails are fantastic. Thanks for this paper.
6 years, 3 months ago
Nice effects concerning the city, but she looks slightly too artificial for the makeup of the rest of the city :)
6 years, 3 months ago
IS HE GONNA BE ALRIGHT?! j/k j/k i love this wallpaper its amazing. great work i love it! ^_^
6 years, 3 months ago
Holy crap this fantastic. I wish I had a monitor that would take that resolution, i'll be passing it off to my brother if he wants. I love the city scape, trully beautiful. I had a hard time seeing Motoko in the picture though. it was kind of dark.
6 years, 3 months ago
This looks like something you'd see in between breaks on AdultSwim. Overall excellent wallpaper. Keep up the great work!
6 years, 3 months ago
Love the serie, love the wall, love it all!! ^^ Favourite.
6 years, 3 months ago
This is great, I like the background, thanks alot!
6 years, 3 months ago
This is really good luv the effect . You did very good.
6 years, 3 months ago
Awesome choice of city for the background of the wall, as it looks just as bustling and organic as 2034 Tokyo. I like the scan you used and the contrasting is very nicely done. Good job and keep up the good work.
6 years, 3 months ago
awsome
6 years, 3 months ago
That's a nice style you made there. 7/10
6 years, 3 months ago
6 years, 3 months ago
ive noticed that all pictures involving a city scape of some kind are always truely magnificant wallpapers. and this one is no exception
6 years, 3 months ago
really like the work on the background...looks really kool...makes me wish I had a widescreen wallpaper...I least I'll +fav
6 years, 3 months ago
BRAVO BRAVO. Im very picky about wallpapers made from GITS. This is excellent. The BG is perfectly blended with scan, the cleanup is superb. The choice of scan and dept layout of the BG works perfectly for me. This looks so expetly done it might aswell have been in the anime.
GJ x 10000 +fav
6 years, 3 months ago
i love the color scheme of the background. It makes a dark thing. I would suggest greensish tones to reminds section 9 no ?
6 years, 3 months ago
hi there!!! i saw this wall at SZ... i think it ended really nice :) i like how you have changed the colors... and the hole wall seams to blend well!!! also... the character really seams like he is falling.. well done... keep it up!!! kisses
6 years, 3 months ago
Its a good wallpaper... nice work...
6 years, 2 months ago
Oh! she fly on sky in town . but what's this town ?
6 years, 2 months ago
Awesome wall, the background is great! Thank you for 4:3 version too.
6 years, 1 month ago
simply beautiful. set as my current desktop wally @1440x900
5 years, 11 months ago
Wow quite a fascinating wallpaper, although the person is a bit hard to see against the dark background~ but it's still quite effective~ nice work!
5 years, 9 months ago
Wow This is a great wallpaper. The background is really nice. The city looks great it looks like some work was put into this wallpaper. Again great wallpaper. Nice job and keep up the good work.
5 years, 8 months ago
Great wall. The best Ghost in the Shell wall I've seen so far. Keep up the good work.
5 years, 8 months ago
Night cityscapes always seem to look fabulous, and combining this with Ghost in the Shell's overall science-fiction feel really brings out the both of them. However, this particular night scene, to me, seems a bit inconsistent with its city lighting, maybe a little further downtown to where there's more lights, yet not so much that it ends up heavily drowned out?
It is a great wall nonetheless =)
5 years, 7 months ago
That city background just awesomely fits with how Motoko is. This is one of the best wallpapers that I've seen on GiTS. A must fav.
5 years, 6 months ago
is a good wall, but a little overcharged for me
5 years, 6 months ago
I like the glowing look of this wall as well as the "blur" around the Major. Nice work.
5 years, 4 months ago
wow, that looks cool.
5 years, 4 months ago
Well done on it, good job on the effects.
5 years, 4 months ago
Very nice wallpaper. Fav.
5 years, 3 months ago
Great wall ; very well made.
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5 years, 3 months ago
とってもクールな壁紙ですね! ダウンロードさせていただきます~!
5 years, 3 months ago
Two things; I really like the way the roads stand out. Also I like the motion blurs coming off of her.
4 years, 11 months ago
Great wall ; nice job !
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4 years, 11 months ago
This is beyond amazing everything about it is perfect you did a fantastic job!
4 years, 9 months ago
the streets and the buildings really do remind me of japan, its busy and advance, and with motoko flying around, heheeh.. really gits feel :) nice job and nice choice of background and colouring!
4 years, 9 months ago
Nice colours, and thanks for sharing this beautiful Ghost in the Shell Wallpaper with us.
4 years, 8 months ago
It's scenes like this that illustrates what Henry David Thoreau meant when he said: “City life is millions of people being lonesome together.”
Living in the city myself, I agree with this totally. At night I look out from my appartment and I marvel at the deathly beauty we have created that breathes beyond my window...its existence maintained by the steady streams of lights; its silent heartbeats the summation of the pulses of the numerous and nameless others like me.
Perhaps it's the dynamic contradictions like this that made me enjoy all the Ghost in the Shell series so much. GitS is a medium through which artwork meets philosophy, and this wallpaper - though created from a scene in Bangkok - is a picturesque screenshot of the anime.
4 years, 2 months ago
Is fantastic, i love the scene fits perfectly...
BTW, awsome wall...
+fav
4 years, 1 month ago
Having just watched "Cash Eye" again this one stood out to me. It shows the majors personality so well. Always completing the mission but doing so with her own sense of style.
3 years, 4 months ago
I love this one. Nice job.