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.
Team Olivia and Kelsey are epic win! ♥ Yes, I just had to say that. :3 This is the first time I've ever done a collab, and I do believe I chose the right person to work with! Oli-chan is the best ever~ Seriously, if it weren't for her, I wouldn't be where I am with walling now. She's been my "sensei" ever since I first met here over a year ago. XD So yes, it was only natural that she and I make a wallpaper together. It was really her crazy idea at first, and I was doubting my skills to contribute at all, but I think we produced something really nice. :D I hope you guys think so, too. Widescreen is love, so you'd best view that one.
First, the quandary of choosing the right scan to use took a while! With my lack of being online, it was especially hard to communicate and get fast answers...so that maybe took a week. XD We were thinking about whether we should do a vector or not, but since I said "no" to that idea [poor self-esteem in vectoring] we decided on a landscape-y texture wallpaper. :3 And because of my love for Oofuri, we chose this scan:
Oli-chan is wonderful at painting, so we figured that would be the right choice! She painted the lovely clouds and made the sunset background. She also worked with the lighting on the guys, to make it look like they are indeed walking outside during a sunset! I couldn't do that. XD She's so great~ So what'd I do? I extracted and cleaned/reconstructed/repainted the scan. I had to paint in the parts that were obstructed by the stupid crease, and then I proceeded to repaint/smudge the areas that were really crappy looking...like everywhere where there was the sunlight beams in the original scan. The biggest problem was Abe-kun's (guy on the right) catcher vest protector thing. Um, so that took a while. I'm not the best extractor/cleaner. ^^; Then, after we sent files back and forth, I got to work with the textures and the text/title. Oh, and I added the grass and painted those pathetic trees. XD
I liked the wallpaper without textures, but we agreed on it since she was annoyed by her clouds [though they're perfect], and I wasn't happy with my scan cleaning...so yeah, we decided on that. I wanted her to do the texture work, since she's an expert at it, but she insisted I do it. ^^; So I'm sorry if it looks bad~
Oli-chan was wonderful with her painting skills! And she gave me all the textures, which were originally from Desktopanime. She and I took some good time with this, but I'm hoping it was worth it [I think it is]. Oh, and as for the title, "Of tiffs and good plays"...well, they Mihashi and Abe seem to argue a lot (more like Abe-kun yells at Mihashi), so that's where the tiffs part came in, and "good plays" as in good plays during the baseball game. :3 It's odd, but whatever~ I hope you like it! *hugs Oli-chan* We did it. :D
Edit: As requsted, here are the textureless versions:
The background looks great, nice painting on the trees, they look fine, xD I don't know about that texture though, I think it would look better with out it.
Yay you finally finished! It looks great girl really some of your best work right here ^o^ The resolution is just killer so high quality and the image is sweet and calming I love the looks on there faces and the sweet blush on there cheeks so charming I wish I had such a great friendship. I also am just in love with the clouds and grass perfectly fitting in with the atmosphere, simple yet just stunning at the same time. I love it GREAT JOB. A+ and a fav
Oh nice work on the sunset colors. You guys actually did a great job on painting and cleaning up the scan. Im not usually a great fan of textures, but i actually think it looks nice here because it gives it some sort of a nostalgic look. ^^
Great wall! I really like the warm colors and I think the boys look very nice. The textures also look great. I wouldn't mind seeing it without textures though. Definitely a +fav.
Really nice work,it looks like a old picture;)
I like the scan too and I think the color and the back how you make them looks better than in the background:3
Really nice work
+fav
Crazy idea? You say that I am crazy?! *eye twitches*
But yeah, it was a huge surprise for me to see the wallpaper on the front page, I didn't expect you to submit it so soon! I never thought we'd make the scan look so good! *excited*
CHIIMU 4 EVA!!
Told ya people would like the wide screen! I know I do, it's awfully difficult to find good wide screen ones! And they like the background too!! *dances around happily*
And you HAVE to write a tutorial on how to make those trees, or else I'll go insane!
Anyway, I'm looking forward to our next collab :3 *major glomp* We make EPIC things together!! d^_^b
P.S. Stop crediting me for everything, your part is amazing too!
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Wow! A really nice wall from two great artists! I like A LOT the textureless version it looks really beautiful
They look really clean and the clouds are great^^ Awesome one!
Wow! Really nice~! I mean lookin at the original and your wall version
the lightning on the scan is really well done
and the background is amazing as well
Again, you did awesome job.... Well you guys did. Looks like a lot of editing was done and also some detail editing was pretty awesome too! It's good to see another wallpaper in AP World!
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I never watch the anime, but it is a nice wall, the textures, brushes, it all fit into this wall. But why the rank only C+? That bcos lots of people dont know the anime; including me that is, its just not fair is'nt? After all those hard work. If i'm the one that gave rank, i'll gave an A+ for this.
I never watch the anime, but it is a nice wall, the textures, brushes, it all fit into this wall. But why the rank only C+? That bcos lots of people dont know the anime; including me that is, its just not fair is'nt? After all those hard work. If i'm the one that gave rank, i'll gave an A+ for this.
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First, the quandary of choosing the right scan to use took a while! With my lack of being online, it was especially hard to communicate and get fast answers...so that maybe took a week. XD We were thinking about whether we should do a vector or not, but since I said "no" to that idea [poor self-esteem in vectoring] we decided on a landscape-y texture wallpaper. :3 And because of my love for Oofuri, we chose this scan:
Oli-chan is wonderful at painting, so we figured that would be the right choice! She painted the lovely clouds and made the sunset background. She also worked with the lighting on the guys, to make it look like they are indeed walking outside during a sunset! I couldn't do that. XD She's so great~ So what'd I do? I extracted and cleaned/reconstructed/repainted the scan. I had to paint in the parts that were obstructed by the stupid crease, and then I proceeded to repaint/smudge the areas that were really crappy looking...like everywhere where there was the sunlight beams in the original scan. The biggest problem was Abe-kun's (guy on the right) catcher vest protector thing. Um, so that took a while. I'm not the best extractor/cleaner. ^^; Then, after we sent files back and forth, I got to work with the textures and the text/title. Oh, and I added the grass and painted those pathetic trees. XD
I liked the wallpaper without textures, but we agreed on it since she was annoyed by her clouds [though they're perfect], and I wasn't happy with my scan cleaning...so yeah, we decided on that. I wanted her to do the texture work, since she's an expert at it, but she insisted I do it. ^^; So I'm sorry if it looks bad~
Oli-chan was wonderful with her painting skills! And she gave me all the textures, which were originally from Desktopanime. She and I took some good time with this, but I'm hoping it was worth it [I think it is]. Oh, and as for the title, "Of tiffs and good plays"...well, they Mihashi and Abe seem to argue a lot (more like Abe-kun yells at Mihashi), so that's where the tiffs part came in, and "good plays" as in good plays during the baseball game. :3 It's odd, but whatever~ I hope you like it! *hugs Oli-chan* We did it. :D
Edit: As requsted, here are the textureless versions:
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Hey, zakuro, you guys finally finished! :'D
The background looks great, nice painting on the trees, they look fine, xD I don't know about that texture though, I think it would look better with out it.
that scan is love by the way. < 3
Great job, you two~
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And, the color you use, is just perfect! It fix the atmosphere of memories and great moments with each other.
Thanks for sharing and keep going!
A fav! ;D
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Oh nice work on the sunset colors. You guys actually did a great job on painting and cleaning up the scan. Im not usually a great fan of textures, but i actually think it looks nice here because it gives it some sort of a nostalgic look. ^^
Haha yeah! Widescreen is LOVE. < 3
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i like how you did the scene and colors absolutely work
with the bg
I like the scan too and I think the color and the back how you make them looks better than in the background:3
Really nice work
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But yeah, it was a huge surprise for me to see the wallpaper on the front page, I didn't expect you to submit it so soon! I never thought we'd make the scan look so good! *excited*
CHIIMU 4 EVA!!
Told ya people would like the wide screen! I know I do, it's awfully difficult to find good wide screen ones! And they like the background too!! *dances around happily*
And you HAVE to write a tutorial on how to make those trees, or else I'll go insane!
Anyway, I'm looking forward to our next collab :3 *major glomp* We make EPIC things together!! d^_^b
P.S. Stop crediting me for everything, your part is amazing too!
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They look really clean and the clouds are great^^ Awesome one!
the lightning on the scan is really well done
and the background is amazing as well
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baseball rulz! xD
this series is good i love this wall