Not too much for me to say about this wallpaper that hasn't already been said: Dalarty has provided a descriptive walk through all the way from the concept idea, to its execution and ultimately its fruition. And you can really see how that careful planning paid off. But it just goes to show, good ideas take time---and a whole lot of patience!
Adobe Suite: $700. Junk food eaten while designing: $57. Hours spent working on a design when you could have been working: $350 dollars. The 10 minutes for someone to tell you you suck: Priceless
This was my submission at the Battleground against Gat. Link to thread of challenge can be found HERE.
I'm actually very satisfied with this wallpaper. I feel I achieved another gleam of experience in my quest in making wonderful graphics. This is entirely composed of photo manipulation and blending. It was a fun and exciting an experience. I feel it somewhat incomplete since I didn't get to it 4 days prior to my deadline of challenge XD. My style is to make a piece of art. I'm sorry if my walls don't seem very fitting on desktops but hey thats just my style XP.
Thank you Highknees for your critique on pointing out some of the smaller things I missed due to my exhaustion XD lol.
Well I like the background too. However I do think that it seems kinda out of context if you see the wallpaper as a whole. The show - if one has seen it - isn't as dark as this wallpaper seems to make it (even though all the elements you put in the background are certainly not out-of-place).
The best of this wallpaper is certainly the lightning. But while the background's lightning is perfect, the foreground's (especially the scan's) lightning seems to be rather strange. In the background the difference of bright and dull areas is extreme - while in the scan it seems rather as if an "average" has been picked.
Therefore I think the foreground doesn't really go with the background. But each of them looked at separately surely is a great view.
Oh and yes: the background seems to be a tid too realistic. If it were a rendered anime such as Appleseed or KARAS - I might have understood it.. but Blue Submarine No.6 is all but special in terms of animation quality.
Hope I didn't discourage you but I just had to state my opinion.
Of course - by all the critics I pointed out - the wall is great!
Congrats on winning! ^^ I think you did an awesome job with blending the background and scan together. I like the background a lot actually ;P I think it looks really cool and goes nicely with the scan you chose to use. The thunder gives a creepy sort of effect to the wall but it's cool XD Nice job!
Oh so this is what Gat was up against....
Well it's really awesome, no wonder you won that challenge.
Great blending of the scan and the background. The dark, ominous feeling brought from war is very well expressed in the waller, and the character has adds more darkness to it. I like how you placed the title, it's cleverly done. And I like the representation of the chaos and destruction.
Great work.
I'm definitely favin this ^_^
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Great work man.. i love this wallpaper... you have used the stoch photo in the right way :)
the dark feeling in this wallpaper is just amayzing.. really great work :)
+ fave. :)
The background on this wallpaper is absolutely STUNNING! I find it something very interesting to just pick apart and stare at. There's definetly a promising talent behind the work. The only problem I have with the work is that the character seems to be somewhat out of place in the wallpaper. The background seems to be the focus of the wallpaper and I don't think that's the original idea of the piece. But, like I said it's a very good wallpaper regardless. Keep it up and I hope to see more from you in the future.
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The photo manipulation and blending was done nicely and you used very cool colors in this. I love the background with the lightning and buildings even though it's getting destroyed (which is sad). The red clouds give off a war feeling to this wall which is probably the whole point. xD The scan goes with the wall perfectly and i love the idea of putting the title on the stone part. Fantastic job and keep it up! ^_~
Nice skills there. But maybe you might like to consider some contrast.
At least it makes the character being seen.
Kinda too dark, so it makes the character hard to see clearly.
Maybe should move the character a little to the bright side.
Experiment a bit. It might work.
Good job.
Don't know how you did it but this is just simply amazing. I've never heard of this anime, but this one wall that you have created has already given me some drive to see what this anime is all about, especially this character in particular.
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This was my submission at the Battleground against Gat. Link to thread of challenge can be found HERE.
I'm actually very satisfied with this wallpaper. I feel I achieved another gleam of experience in my quest in making wonderful graphics. This is entirely composed of photo manipulation and blending. It was a fun and exciting an experience. I feel it somewhat incomplete since I didn't get to it 4 days prior to my deadline of challenge XD. My style is to make a piece of art. I'm sorry if my walls don't seem very fitting on desktops but hey thats just my style XP.
Thank you Highknees for your critique on pointing out some of the smaller things I missed due to my exhaustion XD lol.
I hope everyone here can enjoy my new work ^_^.
Have a nice day.
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The best of this wallpaper is certainly the lightning. But while the background's lightning is perfect, the foreground's (especially the scan's) lightning seems to be rather strange. In the background the difference of bright and dull areas is extreme - while in the scan it seems rather as if an "average" has been picked.
Therefore I think the foreground doesn't really go with the background. But each of them looked at separately surely is a great view.
Oh and yes: the background seems to be a tid too realistic. If it were a rendered anime such as Appleseed or KARAS - I might have understood it.. but Blue Submarine No.6 is all but special in terms of animation quality.
Hope I didn't discourage you but I just had to state my opinion.
Of course - by all the critics I pointed out - the wall is great!
nice job
Well it's really awesome, no wonder you won that challenge.
Great blending of the scan and the background. The dark, ominous feeling brought from war is very well expressed in the waller, and the character has adds more darkness to it. I like how you placed the title, it's cleverly done. And I like the representation of the chaos and destruction.
Great work.
I'm definitely favin this ^_^
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the dark feeling in this wallpaper is just amayzing.. really great work :)
+ fave. :)
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The photo manipulation and blending was done nicely and you used very cool colors in this. I love the background with the lightning and buildings even though it's getting destroyed (which is sad). The red clouds give off a war feeling to this wall which is probably the whole point. xD The scan goes with the wall perfectly and i love the idea of putting the title on the stone part. Fantastic job and keep it up! ^_~
A definite add to my faves! +fave
i like the coloring the the mood that it creates.
great job!
the amount of detail put into this is fantastic, it all looks great too! keep up the amazing work ;)
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I realy like the dark clouds, they look so nice and this wallpaper has a real flare of warfare, nice setup
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At least it makes the character being seen.
Kinda too dark, so it makes the character hard to see clearly.
Maybe should move the character a little to the bright side.
Experiment a bit. It might work.
Good job.
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This is a fantastic wallpaper.
Please do more of such good Wallpapers! ^_^