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.
For once, I'm submitting my new wall here first, rather then at MT ... I seem to get more useful comments from here anyway at least.
Although I typically do not create walls in the retro/minimalistic style I decided to try it out in one of my anime walls. I also went splat crazy to mae the wall have a little more creative edge. I've created non-anime art using this style, but this is the first time I havr featured an anime wall with it.
The wallpaper was designed to complement the Aspiring Mafia I have over at Minitokyo.net and served mainly as the layout basis for the mafia's makeover. The stark contracts of color and the simple color theme of red, black, and white worked well to bring out the characters, yet make them blend seemlessly with the background.
The main shape of this simplistic tech wall is circles. Throughout the wall you will see a circle spiral behing the Saiyuki characters. If you look closely you also will see that the background isn't merely a plain white one. There is a gradual fade of grey and retro circles to compliment the larger circles. Lots of splats were made to give the appearance that the circles themselves were just stamped on and are dripping ... kinda like the blood from someone who has been shot ... or something XD . Hey, they have guns and that's where the idea sprang from XD .
Last, I had to fix up the scan a bit, but some areas were near unfixable. The original scan was far less vibrant and very grainy. If I could find another scan of this image of high quality I would almost certainly use it. The most notable area I couldn't fix without making it look worse, in fact the only area, is around Sanzo's hair ... you'll notice a slight blur. damn thing is evil. Hell, I might even vector the thing later XD . So if any of you know where to find a big lovely scan of this image tell me because it would make my day :D .
Overall, this wall is just meant to be a something of an organized chaos :D .
The wall is cool ^^ I like the colors that you used..
Uh, but, you mispelled the name... It is Kazuya Minekura, I think you missed the 'e' there ^^"
Good job by the way ^^v
Wow... a Saiyuki wall? wahhh...very CoLLL wallpaper... i like the simplicity of the background, it's like paintball shooting eheh... very very nice... wow... look like they are really pointing guns at me... awesome...thanx
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It's a very nice wallpaper i like how well the colors in the background go along with the scan... since you already pointed out the fuzziness around sanzo's head there's nothing else much to say other then great job! i loove saiyuki! thank you!
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The scan images still have scan remnants in it and it gives it an odd texture but I love your background. Your background certainly matches the images quite well. Very stylish as you said. It has a boy band kind of feel to it.
Wow...the colours really work, excellent choice and composition. I'm not really sure with the contrast of textures between the background and chars, cause it seems the bg is more defined than the chars =P Other than that, it's great!
WOW i really love this wallpaper it looks nice and stylish. i love the colour in this wall and the whole pose and atmosphere of it.its really nice to see all of them in one picture instead of one by one. but why is SANZO is the only one who is holding a white gun instead of black? anyway its a fantastic wallpaper
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Wow, nice! its a cool wallpaper!
the only thing about it that bothers me is the lack of detail in the hair. when you cut the pic out or whatever, you lost alot of the cool details in the hair. >.> it could be done better. thats all i wanted to say. . . sorry
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Although I typically do not create walls in the retro/minimalistic style I decided to try it out in one of my anime walls. I also went splat crazy to mae the wall have a little more creative edge. I've created non-anime art using this style, but this is the first time I havr featured an anime wall with it.
The wallpaper was designed to complement the Aspiring Mafia I have over at Minitokyo.net and served mainly as the layout basis for the mafia's makeover. The stark contracts of color and the simple color theme of red, black, and white worked well to bring out the characters, yet make them blend seemlessly with the background.
The main shape of this simplistic tech wall is circles. Throughout the wall you will see a circle spiral behing the Saiyuki characters. If you look closely you also will see that the background isn't merely a plain white one. There is a gradual fade of grey and retro circles to compliment the larger circles. Lots of splats were made to give the appearance that the circles themselves were just stamped on and are dripping ... kinda like the blood from someone who has been shot ... or something XD . Hey, they have guns and that's where the idea sprang from XD .
Last, I had to fix up the scan a bit, but some areas were near unfixable. The original scan was far less vibrant and very grainy. If I could find another scan of this image of high quality I would almost certainly use it. The most notable area I couldn't fix without making it look worse, in fact the only area, is around Sanzo's hair ... you'll notice a slight blur. damn thing is evil. Hell, I might even vector the thing later XD . So if any of you know where to find a big lovely scan of this image tell me because it would make my day :D .
Overall, this wall is just meant to be a something of an organized chaos :D .
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Wall Specs:
Time Taken: 6 Hours
Techniques Used: Vector, Brushwork, Splatting, Scan Enhance/Fix, More Splatting
Layers: 29 Layers
PSD Filesize: 25.3 MB
Scan Source: Minitokyo
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Because we all know it's possible to be as stylishly unstylish as you are XD .
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i like the colors you used too, spiffy^_^
The circle design makes this wall seems friendly too. Nice combination of shapes.
the characters and the background's colors are nice
good job
Uh, but, you mispelled the name... It is Kazuya Minekura, I think you missed the 'e' there ^^"
Good job by the way ^^v
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the only thing about it that bothers me is the lack of detail in the hair. when you cut the pic out or whatever, you lost alot of the cool details in the hair. >.> it could be done better. thats all i wanted to say. . . sorry
I love Hakkai&Goku
Great job.OK Go to Saiyuki
Oh yeah I love red
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