Well, I'm glad I'm finally able to share my first wallpaper with you - very glad actually, since I've been working on this for so long. My biggest problem was a constant lack of time, which made it kind of difficult for me to work on this - I had many ideas which eventually got forgotten. Either way, mostly because I'm on vacation for a while now, I managed to finish this. So let me tell you few words about this wall:

Spirited Away is, and probably will be my favorite anime of all times. I'm a huge fan of Miyazaki's work, and I was determined to make a wallpaper for SA (and for other movies too - but let's concentrate on this one now).
All I had was few low-quality screencaps, and I realized there is no other way but to vector it.
Now, I've done some vectoring before, so I had some experience, but I never did such a major vectoring job, which also made things a bit more difficult. But you know what they say, step by step...
Before I forget - I made a collage with all the images I used for this wallpaper, so you can see it too: click for collage!

As you can see, my final image is quite different from the original. I changed lots of things, eg. fences on the building - I didn't like the original ones. I also completely removed some parts, like trees and the building and shrine that were originally located at the right - now, it may be simply a matter of taste, but I thought the wallpaper will already be "full" enough. I wanted to have a sky with clouds in the background, without any other details. At the very beginning, I had some other ideas too for that right part of the wallpaper, but gave up on that in the end. Still, I prefer it like this.

Like I've already mentioned, I'm still far from being an expert in vectoring, so I'm quite aware of the fact some things could be done much better - I tried my best, and I hope to get better in a near future.

When I was done with the building, I started to work on characters. I wanted to include all the major characters and some minor ones too, but I had to ditch some people (spirits...) in the end, simply because they didn't look the way I wanted - in other words, they would ruin my concept :D
So, I picked few of them and placed them in a way I thought would be the best - so, we have Yubabba here, the baby, 3 heads, cow-gods, No face, Kamaji, the frog, the manager, and, of course Chihiro with her mother (I wanted to add her father too, but I couldn't find a pic I liked. Sorry dad. Sorry Haku too.)

In the end, I added some textures, trying not to over-do it. I'm a big fan of textures, so, nope, this wall couldn't go without them :D
The only part of the wallpaper without any textures is the part with Chihiro and her mom - why?
Well, this was my way of sort of separating them from the world of spirits - since they belong to our, human world. I needed to make that "border", between the real and spirit world, without making it too noticeable.

Is there something else? Probably, but I can't think of it now - lucky you :D
Ah yes, textures I used were from DA! and Texture warehouse.

Also, I made a birds-free version (forgot to mention it - those aren't really the birds, but those paper-birds that were attacking Haku - I vectored one and copied the rest - they are all the same anyway, more or less). I love those little paper things, but I suppose someone maybe doesn't, so here's that version too:
no-birds version.

I didn't forget the people who don't have widescreen: (sorry, the flag had to be cropped!)
1600x1200 (no paper-birds) version:
1600x1200 no birds version

And just in case the download link for widescreen isn't working:
1920x1200 version: (with birds)
1920x1200 (original version)

(and in case the non-widescreen version (with birds) isn't working too)
1600x1200 version

Whew, my fingers hurt from all the typing!

p.s. dedicated to Ali3n, for his endless (indeed...) support regarding this wallpaper, and to Elrond81, just for being there ^-^