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.
[Full view please if you want to understand my (sad excuse for a) sense of humor. XD]
While this wallpaper looks deceptively simple, it took me quite a few days to get it right :P (stopping in between to do the momiji wallpaper). Hopefully, those who've watched Fruits Basket remember this scene from the anime. ^___^
Took me half an hour to scan through the episode to get sufficient screencaps for this. -_- 50% of the time, I worked on the other scans, hoping to make a succession of scenes, but then after vectoring them all, I deleted them and brought up this scene. -______-;; I wish I could have figured out earlier what I wanted to do.
I kept it monochrome because I rather like the effect and it doesn't detract from the text.
I'm crossing my fingers hoping that most of you are familiar with the literary vocabulary. ^^ If not, that's okay, too. It just might not be as amusing. I guess this wallpaper is a hit or miss. ^^;
I'm actually really pleased with this though... >_>; So without further ado, I bring you Le Tragedy.
PS
For those who are inquiring about the title, yes, it was an intentional typo. ^^;; Sorry about the confusion!
Edit: Some of you felt that there was too much text, so I took the "Setting" out. >_>; I really couldn't part with the rest of it. T_T My apologies. Hopefully this is a little better.
The grayscale and shading looks very nice, although I think just a bit of color would have been nice - perhaps some pale colors for the title and crown, or just another monochromatic color for the background instead of gray. I do agree that the simplicity of the scans requires a clean look, like the one you've achieved.
There is just the right amount of text, too. However, it seems unnecessary to repeat each of the "terms," once normally and once with pronounciation marks. I think it would simplify things just to have the pronounciation marks, but put them in the larger font to distinguish them from the definitions.
You want to be careful with the definitions themselves. For example, you seem to conflate pathos with suffering: pathos is the feeling of the observer, while suffering is the feeling of the character. In other words, pathos can be evoked or aroused by suffering, but they are not synonymous. Also, I am a bit confused about "villain" - what does "antagonist or yummy" mean? :) I'd love to see more references within the definitions to things from the show, linking the text to the subject more and more humourously.
My only other critique has to be the spacing and layout. Everything is a bit crowded towards the bottom of the wall. If you lifted the title and definition of "suffering" toward the top of the wall, the other definitions wouldn't be quite so bunched together and the arrows would be unnecessary (since it's quite clear what they refer to).
In spite of the few small adjustments I would suggest, I have to give this wall very high marks for originality and execution. I'm definitely a fan!
Hahaha...this is great. I just finished this series actually, so I went looking for some good pictures related to it. Poor Yuki...being crushed under the weight of the jelly buns. Though I guess that was a better fate than getting squashed by Tohru's hand instead when she tried to catch him...
Hahahaha! This is brilliant!! We just studied this in my English class, so I thought this was hilarious when I first saw it!! Good job!! poor Yuki... I l oved that scene in the anime... xD
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I just love this wall! It's so simple yet totally awesome. I don't even like Yuki (I know... *gasp* right? Can't help it), but I LOVE this wall. In a way I would like to see a color version as well... but I'd probably hate that. You're right, monochrome just adds to the whole vision. Truly adorable. So funny. I wish I could think of things like this. Then maybe I could make some decent walls :P WONDERFUL, BRAVO!
I love this! It made me laugh so much! >w< I think it looks great in black and white...not that I know how it looks in colour, but anyway... Good stuff, thanks for sharing!
This wall caught my eye in the random wallpaper banner up there I must say that you have a nice sense of humor. I did not watch the series yet though, so I don't know what you were referring to in the wall ^^ The concept is great, but the font of the text doesn't quite agree with me o.o
I like how you used the text in the wallpaper. The arrows also emphasize the objects and make the wallpaper more hilarious. Very nice and original idea!
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[Full view please if you want to understand my (sad excuse for a) sense of humor. XD]
While this wallpaper looks deceptively simple, it took me quite a few days to get it right :P (stopping in between to do the momiji wallpaper). Hopefully, those who've watched Fruits Basket remember this scene from the anime. ^___^
Took me half an hour to scan through the episode to get sufficient screencaps for this. -_- 50% of the time, I worked on the other scans, hoping to make a succession of scenes, but then after vectoring them all, I deleted them and brought up this scene. -______-;; I wish I could have figured out earlier what I wanted to do.
I kept it monochrome because I rather like the effect and it doesn't detract from the text.
I'm crossing my fingers hoping that most of you are familiar with the literary vocabulary. ^^ If not, that's okay, too. It just might not be as amusing. I guess this wallpaper is a hit or miss. ^^;
I'm actually really pleased with this though... >_>; So without further ado, I bring you Le Tragedy.
PS
For those who are inquiring about the title, yes, it was an intentional typo. ^^;; Sorry about the confusion!
Edit: Some of you felt that there was too much text, so I took the "Setting" out. >_>; I really couldn't part with the rest of it. T_T My apologies. Hopefully this is a little better.
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The grayscale and shading looks very nice, although I think just a bit of color would have been nice - perhaps some pale colors for the title and crown, or just another monochromatic color for the background instead of gray. I do agree that the simplicity of the scans requires a clean look, like the one you've achieved.
There is just the right amount of text, too. However, it seems unnecessary to repeat each of the "terms," once normally and once with pronounciation marks. I think it would simplify things just to have the pronounciation marks, but put them in the larger font to distinguish them from the definitions.
You want to be careful with the definitions themselves. For example, you seem to conflate pathos with suffering: pathos is the feeling of the observer, while suffering is the feeling of the character. In other words, pathos can be evoked or aroused by suffering, but they are not synonymous. Also, I am a bit confused about "villain" - what does "antagonist or yummy" mean? :) I'd love to see more references within the definitions to things from the show, linking the text to the subject more and more humourously.
My only other critique has to be the spacing and layout. Everything is a bit crowded towards the bottom of the wall. If you lifted the title and definition of "suffering" toward the top of the wall, the other definitions wouldn't be quite so bunched together and the arrows would be unnecessary (since it's quite clear what they refer to).
In spite of the few small adjustments I would suggest, I have to give this wall very high marks for originality and execution. I'm definitely a fan!
Poor Priince!
Very funny. I loved! ^^
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Poor Priince!
Very funny. I loved! ^^
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