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.
Hi again :)
This is my third wallpaper - and I hope you like this one as much as you liked the others (or maybe even more?? :D)
I worked on it about 70 hours.
My work could have been divided into 3 parts: the close scene of Aoi and Kaoru,
the far one and the background.
I captured the appropriate scenes in the "Enishi" special, where Kaoru meets Santa-Aoi. Then I started Adobe Illustrator and began to vector trace the close scene. It was quite easy, because I saw all the shadows and highlights I had to draw. The more difficult scene was the far scene, because I couldn't see all the parts of the
face of each of the persons. So I had to try to use the faces from the close scene and
seemlessly integrate them.
The most interesting part was the background: I had a vision of it before I even start
vector tracing the images. But how to get a pine tree in a position I could use for this
wallpaper? Simple: thanks goddess I know a friend who has 3D Studio MAX and the plug-in "Tree Storm" (and a very powerful PC to render the stuff on ^^). So I asked him to let me use his 3dsmax and placed a tree (300000 polygones are quite much :> ) and rendered it. Then I opened all the source files I had (finally about 90mb ^^) and started to create a composition. I positioned here and there and finally came to the decision to let the scene take place on a dark, cold winter-evening... winter... wait! Yes! I had to create some snow on the tree and on the bridge side. So ... Photoshop was my friend.
I just started by randomly clicking on a newly made layer with a white round and soft
brush... and ... it looked like snow! So I put more and more of it onto the tree and the bridge. Of course it's by far not the best way to put some snow - and if it is - I am the wrong person to do this (I am not really good at hand-drawing). But to me (and some of my friends I asked to look at the wallpaper) it looks quite convincing (though of course there are much better possibilities :). Finally I blured that layer.
One more thing left to say: someone told me he/she didn't like the faces in the background. I thought so too for a moment - but on the other hand I really do like it, because it creates a nice, cold-evening atmosphere - or at least it stresses it.
I really like Ai Yori Aoshi. And in contrast to other animes, where I only like the
female characters - I don't mind to look at Kaoru too, since he is really a poor guy and I somehow sympathesize with him. Of course I like all the other characters - but that scene touched me to tears when I saw the Enishi special for the first time.
I hope you like this wallpaper as much as I liked doing it :)
Of course - as always - I am very thankful for any critics (especially if you could suggest what would be better :D)
OMG! what can I say O_OU it's impressive, the vector art is very clean and perfect detailed, the tree is amazing! I looked at it for five minutes zooming in and out, is amazing! and the background fits simple perfect with the scene. Btw, I like Aoi series too, like a lot Aoi and Kaoru in the background. Sincerely congratulations!! instantly fav!!
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This is what i'm talking about
impressing, cool, good.
good detail, good effect
all done cleanlly
all the details are amazing
the snow, the chars it self
good, esuperb as i can say
no critics for this one
since it just so good.
MUST HAVE. FAV one
This is so sweet and cute! OMG!!!! It's so awsome! I hope I could figure out how do something like that someday. Anyway, it's your third right?! Then bring the fourth one! Don't ever stop makin' these wallies!
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This is such a sweet wallpaper. the moment captured is such a romantic holiday feel. XD
i love the background and the tree, and the glow of the snow on it, hm i think thats snow.
anyways beautiful job and the stars and the water is wonderful too.
very nice work +fav
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This is my third wallpaper - and I hope you like this one as much as you liked the others (or maybe even more?? :D)
I worked on it about 70 hours.
My work could have been divided into 3 parts: the close scene of Aoi and Kaoru,
the far one and the background.
I captured the appropriate scenes in the "Enishi" special, where Kaoru meets Santa-Aoi. Then I started Adobe Illustrator and began to vector trace the close scene. It was quite easy, because I saw all the shadows and highlights I had to draw. The more difficult scene was the far scene, because I couldn't see all the parts of the
face of each of the persons. So I had to try to use the faces from the close scene and
seemlessly integrate them.
The most interesting part was the background: I had a vision of it before I even start
vector tracing the images. But how to get a pine tree in a position I could use for this
wallpaper? Simple: thanks goddess I know a friend who has 3D Studio MAX and the plug-in "Tree Storm" (and a very powerful PC to render the stuff on ^^). So I asked him to let me use his 3dsmax and placed a tree (300000 polygones are quite much :> ) and rendered it. Then I opened all the source files I had (finally about 90mb ^^) and started to create a composition. I positioned here and there and finally came to the decision to let the scene take place on a dark, cold winter-evening... winter... wait! Yes! I had to create some snow on the tree and on the bridge side. So ... Photoshop was my friend.
I just started by randomly clicking on a newly made layer with a white round and soft
brush... and ... it looked like snow! So I put more and more of it onto the tree and the bridge. Of course it's by far not the best way to put some snow - and if it is - I am the wrong person to do this (I am not really good at hand-drawing). But to me (and some of my friends I asked to look at the wallpaper) it looks quite convincing (though of course there are much better possibilities :). Finally I blured that layer.
One more thing left to say: someone told me he/she didn't like the faces in the background. I thought so too for a moment - but on the other hand I really do like it, because it creates a nice, cold-evening atmosphere - or at least it stresses it.
I really like Ai Yori Aoshi. And in contrast to other animes, where I only like the
female characters - I don't mind to look at Kaoru too, since he is really a poor guy and I somehow sympathesize with him. Of course I like all the other characters - but that scene touched me to tears when I saw the Enishi special for the first time.
I hope you like this wallpaper as much as I liked doing it :)
Of course - as always - I am very thankful for any critics (especially if you could suggest what would be better :D)
Enjoy!
User Comments!
the night scene is just great, nice wallpaper!
impressing, cool, good.
good detail, good effect
all done cleanlly
all the details are amazing
the snow, the chars it self
good, esuperb as i can say
no critics for this one
since it just so good.
MUST HAVE. FAV one
The tree is amazing O_O
maybe I need to watch that anime >_>
-- There is no spoon --
the background looks awesome and the snow on the tree is fantastic!
great work!
i love it :)
good for holidays :D
i love the background and the tree, and the glow of the snow on it, hm i think thats snow.
anyways beautiful job and the stars and the water is wonderful too.
very nice work +fav
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