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.
This wall actually began with Meyrin in it, but since I figured there are far more Athrun + Cagalli fans, I should make two versions. So, I uploaded the Athrun + Cagalli version here, and the Athrun + Meyrin version is here:
I got a ton of help and advise on this wall from Champ0342 - thanks Champ!
Onward to info about the wall:
I vectored both Athrun, Cagalli and Meyrin (in her version) from three different scans. I'm really proud of how Athrun came out especially, he doesn't look like a vector to me. The Cagalli image was chosen because of two reasons: lighting fit the image, and her pose fit the image. I did much more outlining than I normally do, but I like how it came out.
The background was a play off of the ending where all the characters are on the beach at sunset, but I wanted the angle to look "naturally" distorted so that you could see up into the sky and past the clouds into space. The stock images that I manipulated are all from Stock Xchng (http://sxc.hu).
Other than that, I played around with filters and painting and blurring, and used some textures from DA! (as usual, I love those textures).
UPDATE:
There is an NO TEXTURE version of the wall available here:
All the effort you put into the wall was well worth it, but if i where in your place i would have kept the original version with Meyrin, because it`s a cool idea and not used before.But this picture is nice too.
The colors are beautiful! The expressions of the characters fit well with the background. I love the idea of the sunset and the nightsky; works wonderfully.
The sky is very beautiful. The perspective of the sky was a really good idea and it has a nice mix of colors. Athrun and Cagalli look great, too. Also, nice choice of a title and good job.^^
Athrun and Cagalli make a really good couple, and you wallaper certainly shows it ^^ The background goes perfectly with the image of the two, and the quote fits, as well :)
Wow! i like the texture! very cool and the sky too! beautiful colors! also the outline of the characters pulled it off! it's good and the text fits nicely well! very nice job and keep up the work!! fave
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The background looks kinda fake no offense..
maybe you should darken the colours more..give it a 3d look.
and the text is getting in the way..<.>
nice pic though, looks cool here^^
What a fucking waste, there's NO REASON to vector it if you are going to slap a texture on top.
The texture is fine on the bg, but WHY ON TOP OF THE SCAN. if you are going to slap a texture on top to "BLEND" then you are doing it for the wrong reason.
See i'd bash you if you just slapped a texture on top and didnt vector it, because that just shows that you are too lazy to clean the scan... .BUT YOU SLAPPED A TEXTURE ON IT so now it shows how you are stupid because you wasted all that time vectoring it to just ruin it with a texture. I even see why vectoring is all the rage nowadays, you people seem to think its such a better way of recging, but if you actually took the time to LEARN how to RECG then you'd realize that what took you 3 days to do would only take you 30 minutes.
Oh well, ill just say it's a good wall because it is good... but it doesnt show any originallity and shows that all YOU know how to do is follow trends. GOOD DAY.
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http://img321.imageshack.us/my.php?image=athrunmeyrindestiny15rd.jpg
I got a ton of help and advise on this wall from Champ0342 - thanks Champ!
Onward to info about the wall:
I vectored both Athrun, Cagalli and Meyrin (in her version) from three different scans. I'm really proud of how Athrun came out especially, he doesn't look like a vector to me. The Cagalli image was chosen because of two reasons: lighting fit the image, and her pose fit the image. I did much more outlining than I normally do, but I like how it came out.
The background was a play off of the ending where all the characters are on the beach at sunset, but I wanted the angle to look "naturally" distorted so that you could see up into the sky and past the clouds into space. The stock images that I manipulated are all from Stock Xchng (http://sxc.hu).
Other than that, I played around with filters and painting and blurring, and used some textures from DA! (as usual, I love those textures).
UPDATE:
There is an NO TEXTURE version of the wall available here:
http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ahtruncagallinotexture6jx.jpg
Since I got so many requests. Enjoy!
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i realy like the color theme and the background is just awesome
pretty good scan also i likte this one good job :)
*InToXicAting bLossOmS*
very well done
*adds 2 favs*
maybe you should darken the colours more..give it a 3d look.
and the text is getting in the way..<.>
nice pic though, looks cool here^^
What a fucking waste, there's NO REASON to vector it if you are going to slap a texture on top.
The texture is fine on the bg, but WHY ON TOP OF THE SCAN. if you are going to slap a texture on top to "BLEND" then you are doing it for the wrong reason.
See i'd bash you if you just slapped a texture on top and didnt vector it, because that just shows that you are too lazy to clean the scan... .BUT YOU SLAPPED A TEXTURE ON IT so now it shows how you are stupid because you wasted all that time vectoring it to just ruin it with a texture. I even see why vectoring is all the rage nowadays, you people seem to think its such a better way of recging, but if you actually took the time to LEARN how to RECG then you'd realize that what took you 3 days to do would only take you 30 minutes.
Oh well, ill just say it's a good wall because it is good... but it doesnt show any originallity and shows that all YOU know how to do is follow trends. GOOD DAY.