This wallpaper is based on a vector by Madcat over at the image boards on http://www.sos-dan.com/ . There are about 40 layers making up the background believe it or not. It took quite a bit of work manufacturing all the leaves, I created many custom shapes and custom brushes in the process.

I did have to vector the shadows and integrate the characters in with the background which was no easy task.

A warm tone was also added to give a more autumn light look, as well as a very subtle soft blur.

Thanks to session zero for the suggestions.

There is NO 4:3 version this time, I could not bare to cut off Haruhi's beautiful legs by cropping, if you want to commit that grave sin do it at your own peril!!