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 is an unconventional wallpaper. I was inspired by Soviet propaganda posters and the oh so cool laughing man logo which is displayed whenever a hack is occurring in Standalone Complex.
The logo is vectorized, then vectors were made for everything else you see, many layers were needed to get the complex strokes/borders. From a distance the text resembles Cyrillic, but is quite readable up close. The font used was Nyet.
A parchment paper texture was added to give it that poster like feel.
Originally I had the logo centered, however whatever I did kept looking like a flag instead of a poster. I finally settled on this composition which gives the poster like look even in landscape orientation.
I think you did a great job, I haven't seen many non tech ghost in the shell walls, and the fact that you went after that soviet posters look is even more awesome. Keep up the great work! And if you haven't done so yet, join the Ghost In The Shell group if you like.
I remember there was a pretty big thing with the soviets in GitS. Both in the manga (the first one, at least) and in the S.A.C. series. Not so much in the movies, though...
Either way, awesome wall. It looks really great. The little artistic bits and everything sure adds flavor to the wall.
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Wow, thats very creative! Me being a GITS fan, I noticed this right away ^^ The colors with that texture work very well and its much different from any gits wallpapers I've seen! Awesome job to sum this up!
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Wow. reely cool wall i reely like it it matshes with my desktop
and` its one of my favourate wallpapers
exslient job keep it up & im reely lokin forword for your next work(^_^)
Awesome use of text! That alone makes this wall very unique. I also like the simplicity of the background and how it beams out from the Laughing Man logo. Good work and keep it up!
Wow the Cyrillic style writing, and laughing man icon work surprisingly well together. It just screams U.S.S.R., which is an image that fits really well with GitS
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The logo is vectorized, then vectors were made for everything else you see, many layers were needed to get the complex strokes/borders. From a distance the text resembles Cyrillic, but is quite readable up close. The font used was Nyet.
A parchment paper texture was added to give it that poster like feel.
Originally I had the logo centered, however whatever I did kept looking like a flag instead of a poster. I finally settled on this composition which gives the poster like look even in landscape orientation.
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Either way, awesome wall. It looks really great. The little artistic bits and everything sure adds flavor to the wall.
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Wow, thats very creative! Me being a GITS fan, I noticed this right away ^^ The colors with that texture work very well and its much different from any gits wallpapers I've seen! Awesome job to sum this up!
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My world is constantly changing as I am, constantly aching to change..
And widescreen is a plus point.
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and` its one of my favourate wallpapers
exslient job keep it up & im reely lokin forword for your next work(^_^)
Great Job!!