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.
I had to make a wallpaper last Saturday...
Jigoku Shoujo came to my mind, since I love the dark, creepy, pretty design of Ai. [The series, however, is boring... as hell. =D The fillers/repetitive episodes, I mean.]
Well then. I decided to use this scan (Minitokyo). I extracted and cleaned Ai's figure.
From the beginning, I want her in a dark, degradated, creepy, sad, hopeless scenery. To compose it, I started by two stocks (sky and a cement decayed room), by Resurgere (at DA). Although, they are almost unrecognizable now... :D Then, messing up - shadowing, adding (my own) textures, bla, bla, and bla.
The wallpaper took me about two hours of work (not counting with the extraction, that needed about 20/30 minutes).
Hope you like it... ;o] Oh, and I will gladely accep good sugestions for a title!
Comments (approving and also disapproving ones), favourites, tips, suggestions, et cetera are precious to me! ;3
Thank You!
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EDIT!
Oh, wow!
It was really a pleasure to red each comment...
I must THANK again all the people who favourited, commented and downloaded this wall! The "shivers", the "horror movie"... God, I am so glad you felt that and liked the wall!
~Totally made my day! :3
By other side, yours comments were very, very useful, they shown me defects that I wasn't aware, they worn me about some important details in a walpaper.
For exemple, I must confess that until now I never looked at the function of a wallpaper while I was making one - to display in the desktop! So, elements like my signature shall never lie in the upper places.
So, I will TOTALLY upload a new version of this wallpaper, to try to fix the problems you had shown me. I can't do it today since I have an academic work to finish (already in delay), and opening Photoshop is dangerous Dx - but I will work in it ASAP!
Things to change:
+ Try to clarify if Ai is floating or at the ground;
+ Blur softly the side of the room that id a little less than the other one;
+ Change the signature placement;
+ Give Ai some shadowing, and try to blend her better;
+ Get rid of:D the glow around Ai - specially because it is notorious only in the bottom half of her figure. (Indeed, this was already bugging me! :3);
+ ...
Once again, I'm very grateful to all of you! ♥
EDIT II!
Second version uploaded. I hope, to better one...
A very good anime even if sometimes it's repetitive. I like the effect put on this combination.
The result is very good but the writings on the upper right corner are a little bit out of place.
Anyway, good work.
It's really awesome - the dark atmosphere, the sky and the abandoned building fit perfectly. I'd add more shadows around/below the girl, though. It kind of looks like she's floating in the air...But if that's the effect you wanted to achieve, please ignore this. :D
Wow!
this is really nice wall,
I've always loved dark and elegant walls,
it always gets into me.
i would give alot of credit for the background,
cause it looks great!
Enma looks so cute just standing there all
by herself in the rain.
although i would prefer it better if she was
wearing her new kimono,the one from season 2.
The perspective put into the bg is really surreal and eye catching! The texture used like from an old film texture really brings out the wallpaper. Colours between bg and character matches very well too... simply real and fantastic!
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I kind of like the wallpaper, it a bit darker thani would like that but still its a nice wallpaper, i am really impressed by the effect use in it, its clean and well finised, great job on it
The scan look perfectly well with the BG even though there is one thing that bother me is the quality of the BG , it looks pretty funny with the side of the building being blurred and the other side is not
overall this is a great wallpaper, great color scheme and great text you used
I like how it has a faint grunginess to it, and with the rain it has a heavy feel that adds to the creepiness. The atmosphere for this piece is really very well crafted. One thing I wondered about though- is she supposed to look like she's floating? She sort of does to me, but I guess it doesn't really matter since she has a bit of a ghostly presence anyways. Nice work!
Very nice wall indeed. I think that you could have made a second version were Ai would have adjusted brightness/contrast to stand out less through. Nice use of stock and effects ^^
OMG!! this is awesome dark wallpaper!
I love the BG, and omg the atmosphere looks scary and oh the place as well! lol
it's completely incredible work! Keep it up.
+FAVV it ^^
Ho, DAMNNN. emo chick. XD
wow, this wall...just having a glance at it...it sends shivers down my spine. X___X
well done, i have nothing to say...just wow.
+download.
+favorite.
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Jigoku Shoujo came to my mind, since I love the dark, creepy, pretty design of Ai.
[The series, however, is boring... as hell. =D The fillers/repetitive episodes, I mean.]
Well then. I decided to use this scan (Minitokyo). I extracted and cleaned Ai's figure.
From the beginning, I want her in a dark, degradated, creepy, sad, hopeless scenery. To compose it, I started by two stocks (sky and a cement decayed room), by Resurgere (at DA). Although, they are almost unrecognizable now... :D Then, messing up - shadowing, adding (my own) textures, bla, bla, and bla.
The wallpaper took me about two hours of work (not counting with the extraction, that needed about 20/30 minutes).
Hope you like it... ;o]
Oh, and I will gladely accep good sugestions for a title!
Comments (approving and also disapproving ones), favourites, tips, suggestions, et cetera are precious to me! ;3
Thank You!
* * * * *
EDIT!
Oh, wow!
It was really a pleasure to red each comment...
I must THANK again all the people who favourited, commented and downloaded this wall! The "shivers", the "horror movie"... God, I am so glad you felt that and liked the wall!
~Totally made my day! :3
By other side, yours comments were very, very useful, they shown me defects that I wasn't aware, they worn me about some important details in a walpaper.
For exemple, I must confess that until now I never looked at the function of a wallpaper while I was making one - to display in the desktop! So, elements like my signature shall never lie in the upper places.
So, I will TOTALLY upload a new version of this wallpaper, to try to fix the problems you had shown me. I can't do it today since I have an academic work to finish (already in delay), and opening Photoshop is dangerous Dx - but I will work in it ASAP!
Things to change:
+ Try to clarify if Ai is floating or at the ground;
+ Blur softly the side of the room that id a little less than the other one;
+ Change the signature placement;
+ Give Ai some shadowing, and try to blend her better;
+ Get rid of:D the glow around Ai - specially because it is notorious only in the bottom half of her figure. (Indeed, this was already bugging me! :3);
+ ...
Once again, I'm very grateful to all of you! ♥
EDIT II!
Second version uploaded. I hope, to better one...
The first version can still be found HERE.
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The result is very good but the writings on the upper right corner are a little bit out of place.
Anyway, good work.
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I liked Ai e i loved your wallpaper, specially the textures used. Congratulations!! \o/
I will add to my favorite list now ^^v
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It's really awesome - the dark atmosphere, the sky and the abandoned building fit perfectly. I'd add more shadows around/below the girl, though. It kind of looks like she's floating in the air...But if that's the effect you wanted to achieve, please ignore this. :D
Anyway, great wall. *favs*
but i like it...
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this is really nice wall,
I've always loved dark and elegant walls,
it always gets into me.
i would give alot of credit for the background,
cause it looks great!
Enma looks so cute just standing there all
by herself in the rain.
although i would prefer it better if she was
wearing her new kimono,the one from season 2.
Very well done in the making of this creepy wall.
I honestly got shivers down my back when I first saw the thumbnail.o_o
overall this is a great wallpaper, great color scheme and great text you used
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I love the BG, and omg the atmosphere looks scary
it's completely incredible work! Keep it up.
+FAVV it ^^
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wow, this wall...just having a glance at it...it sends shivers down my spine. X___X
well done, i have nothing to say...just wow.
+download.
+favorite.