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.
Okay I started this wall a month ago with a completely different idea of a natural scenery (you know the mountians and trees and all them purdy stuff) but...it turns out I am completely clueless when it comes to landscaping...so eventually everyday I worked on this wall a little by little over the month and eventually came up with what's before you.
First that big blob of crap I call a cloud was painted by me (yea I know it sucks, but I've spent alot of time trying to fix that) then I overlayed parts of stock images of clouds over it so the sky wouldn't look as bland.
Second, the builings were basically cut and paste parts a the city here and there, then smudge a little, then add some black shadows near the bottom (too lazy and unskilled to reacreate the harbour)
Third, I then painted the water (notice how much it sucks?) and the played with the perspective to make it look right, not much else to say here
I wanted the city to look like this image of Gotham City I saw around a month or 2 ago, and the name is foreshadowing the city's imminent doom after sunset.
Now if you've read this far...then you have a longer attention span then me because it took me 15 minutes just to type up to here...
And BIG thanks to dhias and xcf33 for their comments and crits and also some resources.
Beautiful, I'm glad that you chose and city scenery instead of natural one. It really adds depth to the picture and the title goes nicely with it. I like the dark contrast on the eva01. Anyway gj and keep up the good work.
Atmosphere much? Text is perfect, but I'm thinking it might look a little cooler if it was moved a little more into the wall balancing the black space between the edge and unit 1 instead of sitting on the edge.
Holy. F**king. Sh!t. This is simply just too good to put into words. Three words I want to say: 'I need it'. The clouds are so...omg, finely tuned. The EVA is such a strong symbol in the wall, I can't find any words to describe it besides 'perfect'. geez...you guys keep forcing me to change my desktop =X The text is applied very well, though it can do with a little less glow =P Okay, I can't really say anything much about this wall, it's too 1337 for me XD +fav
I am definitely going to fave this wall and put it up on my desktop when I am able to! The scenery is very lovely and I definitely think you are being too hard on yourself by saying parts of it suck. The water itself reminds me of what its like riding the ferry in Seattle when its choppy, and I really like that natural cue that flows with the title, "Prelude to Destruction." Excellent work and I very much like how all the colors and scenery ties in with the theme.
Pretty good~! I like the concept and the idea of yours. nice texture lookish. the clouds...aren't that bad, on the first eye it looks like clouds, on the second, it looks like a half cloud of explosion(fits the destruction part as well). you made the city pretty well... not bad, just kinda repetetive... well yeah...the water...for me it was more like grass, but it's a nice try. great wallpaper with minor problems =)
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Really like the lighting on the character. The color scheme works really well and the placement of the text flows seamlessly. However, I think the grunge textures seem out of place. After all, the character is flawlessly smooth in shape, color, and detail. It just feels like you could have gone with smart blurs and medians as opposed to noise and grunge. But it's your work and either way it is gorgeous, and I must say that I love the quasi-silhouette. Thank you for sharing this!
I'm generally not a fan of mecha walls, but the colors in the sky really caught my eye... beautiful job with that, as well as all the other elements in this wall ^.~ I agree with 'knees that slightly less glow with the text might make it better, otherwise... beautiful job with this XD, It's so nicely dramatic XD
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First that big blob of crap I call a cloud was painted by me (yea I know it sucks, but I've spent alot of time trying to fix that) then I overlayed parts of stock images of clouds over it so the sky wouldn't look as bland.
Second, the builings were basically cut and paste parts a the city here and there, then smudge a little, then add some black shadows near the bottom (too lazy and unskilled to reacreate the harbour)
Third, I then painted the water (notice how much it sucks?) and the played with the perspective to make it look right, not much else to say here
I wanted the city to look like this image of Gotham City I saw around a month or 2 ago, and the name is foreshadowing the city's imminent doom after sunset.
Now if you've read this far...then you have a longer attention span then me because it took me 15 minutes just to type up to here...
And BIG thanks to dhias and xcf33 for their comments and crits and also some resources.
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The sunset colours and the city background very fitting.
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Besides that ... simply perfect.
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Great lighting and I adore the clouds.
The sky in the background is just wonderful and I like the shadows..
Grat job on this one.