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Fly... by °Phill  3 weeks 19 hours  ago

Fly... by °Phill 3 weeks 19 hours ago

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This wallpaper captures the urban essence that proliferated the art of Ghost in the Shell in every incarnation of the series. Phill does an amazing job of capturing a moment of surrealism.

While there are a few, stray building angles and shadows, you find that your eye forgives the minor details and instead focuses on the overall scene that is larger than life, with lights trailing off into infinity.

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°akiranyo 11 minutes ago
Ah, I see. So after approving is possible to change to even a not listed resolution.

^hatesyou 17 minutes ago
The first was a 4:3 wallpaper. The low res widescreen version has been added later.

°akiranyo 19 minutes ago
Kath: That means that the first was 1440x900?

^hatesyou 22 minutes ago
The 1280x800 version has been uploaded by the user as a first revision. Might pay to get your facts straight before complaining.

°akiranyo 24 minutes ago
We should go up with resolutions not down. Btw AP resizes 1440x900 automatic to 1280x800.

~probe53 24 minutes ago
Oh, fellow widescreen users eh

~thebigfatwhale 26 minutes ago
Im glad, because 1280x800 fits my laptop screen :3

°akiranyo 35 minutes ago
Hmmm, AP makes such a big fuss about resolutions, but I see again a 1280x800 being accepted. Not even listed.

~cybil 46 minutes ago
Dance floor anthem - good charlotte <3 emoticon

$motogp 1 hour 53 minutes ago
LOL.hey cyb check your PM =3

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$LordYosho
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2 years 5 months ago
Need some suggestions on how to improve this wallpaper

http://www.animereflections.com/ver4.jpg

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~acidflower
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HWERE IS THAT ?!
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2 years 5 months ago
Ok, so good extraction. Very nicely done. I think she should be a little more to the center. The background, is what gets me most. It's just some filter you did. You need to think of a different background, or improve on this one. Maybe a beach, since Hayase (? x_X Been so long since I watched KGNE) is in a bikini. I think the text should be made less noticeable, and have the attention focus more on the girl.

You've got a good start, and keep improving on it.

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$LordYosho
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2 years 5 months ago
I have made this wall about 4 times improving on it and no help on it. I mean the BG is 3d I would have to re render the BG to work with the to fix it. any other suggestions?

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`SoyLaTigre
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Would you like fries with that?
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2 years 5 months ago
Well... the bg just seems a little too clear-cut and futuristic to fit that particular scan. The background looks sort of like water, maybe expand on that a bit? The Scan itself is good quality, and the extraction's perfect. Maybe duplicate the layer, apply a glaussin blur and set it to 'overlay'.

But I agree with acidflower- if you gave it a bleach-like theme, it might fit the scan more as well.

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~scarsword
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2 years 5 months ago
Yeah I like your extraction(much better than mine~~~)~~~but i think it would look better if you move the girl a bit to the center~~~and the background seems a little plain~~~try to think about other theme?
anyway its a good beginning~~~~keep working~~im looking forward to seeing a better job~~

~Rusthlen
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2 years 5 months ago
^ all of the above. :) what is very simple that i would suggest as a start, is to simply change the font of your words, it seems too bold and straightforward, and in a scan as this and the colors you are using, it makes a more calm blue feeling. The background is there, but the thing is, its just there, not omg its there, but just there. If its any possbility try playing around with blue colors and i would get rid of the bottom water flowing you have there, its blurry and it doesnt match with your top water flow. :)

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`the11342
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2 years 5 months ago
Obviously Rusthlen, you have a problem with other's font lol
but this time i agree with you i think the font doesnt match the character and the way she stands. also the BG definitely doesn't match the toon, too futuristic, and full of photoshop effects or whatsoever it doesnt have a single touch of a scan oranything. This character is the kind you put in an anime BG or something similar.
my last words will be: DARN I WISH I COULD EXTRACT AS WELL AS you DO!

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~Ramius
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2 years 5 months ago
The scan is beautiful andalso the animation you make! But the background is too empty and colourless!

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~azn32boi
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huh?
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2 years 5 months ago
Well, all of the above is saying to change the theme of the background, but they didn't say what to... Or any hints. So I say... I imagine that she's kneeling against the ledge of a pool. Could be inside or outside pool, personally I would like it outside, with the sun and all.

^_^

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$LordYosho
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2 years 5 months ago
Thanks for all the feedback guys I will revamp it ASAP ^_^

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~KarimB
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2 years 5 months ago
Hiya lord yoshi
Well there was one suggestion that Iread of in this thread, as to what to change it too, well not change it too, but a hint in one direction and that is that she does indeed look like she just got ut of the water, about to go in it. or somewhere close to it, so there is something you could defently go on. The thing with the background I find , is not that it does fit with the scan or so but more it is too clear, even if you spent alot of time modeling and rendering, you still enup with an image (granted it has been rendered) but still to clear. Same as if putting a stock image and then extracting anime to go ontop, so hwat I would do is focus some attention away from the 3d bu doing some brush works between it and the anime. The font is also something I would change but mainly because I know it is a DS9 font and I love that seris and sort of sacrelige ;-) not really but just belongs with DS9...call me sentamental ;-) but hey what the heck ;-) In any case I guess the hard part for you is to decide what it is you want to do. But I hope this helps

Cheers
KarimB

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~Rusthlen
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2 years 5 months ago
Haha, Karim B wrong person, not aznboi its lordyosho. :)

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^Dias
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Friends. Interesting people, aren't they?
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2 years 5 months ago
Contrary to what others have said, I can still see extraction problems around her hair. There are specks of subtle white lining along her hair in various parts. The scan is not cleaned up as I can see scan noise on her especially the light blue areas of her hair and swimsuit as well as the white ribbon.

And a tip on 3D rendered backgrounds is that it doesn't look good if it magnifies the 2D aspect of the image (i.e. makes the character look flat like a cardboard cutout).