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The amount of patience, hard work and an eye for quality is what defines this wallpaper. Character is painstakingly vectored off a real life toy image with references to screenshots. Despite the difficulty level, ~pvc24 still manages to nicely depict the image in anime fashion and yet able to find the mental strength to come up with a background composition that is both aptly fun and pleasant in atmosphere.
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~LenasLover
1 minute ago
I'm not bringing her back. Next vcitim. Shoot Moto. He insulted me. :P
~Moto101
2 minutes ago
Indeed you do, thanks :D I needed that, and well, since you're a woman I guess you have the power to get back to the kitchen and make me some food :D JJ :P
$damoser
2 minutes ago
Let's test this theory... hmm... we need a subject *shoots AG*
~LenasLover
4 minutes ago
Aha! I have the power to bring back the dead!
~Moto101
6 minutes ago
Lol Kath, you know what I mean :)
~LenasLover
6 minutes ago
I think you killed him. *pokes Moto*
$damoser
10 minutes ago
Not so sure it's an act moto
^hatesyou
11 minutes ago
Great... more stupidity... just what the world needs.
~Moto101
12 minutes ago
Lol MotoGP, you don't have to Ninja out, just do what I do, act stupid :D
~LenasLover
14 minutes ago
Lol dam. That's it. damn I've been discovered.
How do YOU support your anime habits?
3 years 1 month ago
"I work(I actually have two jobs : a digital imaging shop, and a magazine layout designer..but I don't buy animes, instead I download them thru internet, and my paycheck spent on paying internet bills =3 how's that :)"
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STUUUCK!! >_
3 years 1 month ago
"rofl XD
she's in a happy mood I sppose'...
Or is that tears of joy ? ^_^'
ahaha... nice idea, tho..
edit :
Wallpaper is finalized. Uploaded in wallpapers section :) http://www.animepaper.net/wallpapers/Basilisk/entry1124/
Thank you all for the great inputs *hugs all*"
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STUUUCK!! >_
3 years 1 month ago
"Erm.. Kalico... I decided not to use sakura petals ^_^' so don't worry about the brush :)"View
disgaea
3 years 1 month ago
"Owlaaaaa O_Opurdy colors, very stylish composition, and very crisp vector!! (Yeah tell the world, PS is the real thing XD~ rofl .. j.k.)
Hmmm... I can't find anything wrong ^_^' really.. or is it just me...
but erm... I think the rightmost orange panel should be expanded to the edge of the screen a bit... when I downloading it, I see that it's kinda 'unbalanced' ... as the orange panel gives that impression.
And the 'Disgaea' text... I think it will be better to apply the same dropshadowed style as Laharl ... to make it fit better.
Really nifty job overall =3 I wub it.."
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Whats your top anime right now??
3 years 1 month ago
"Hmmm... currently watching Basilisk and Eye Shield 21... and I'm sold XDothers that I've been wanting to watch : Mai-HiME, He Is My Master, and Marchen Awakens Romance"
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Heroes of Might and Magic V
3 years 1 month ago
"http://www.mightandmagicgame.com/teaser/uk/
it's now in 3D, and it seems that Ubisoft had taken over 3DO/NWC ... o_O
I'm a forever fan of Heroes series,... and I'm really looking forward to this title.. I hope they release it soon... (hotseat mode is the best!)
some of the confirmed features:
Creatures and Towns
the numer of creatures in the initial game will be less than 130 but close to the base number in HOMM3; an expansion will add more.
there will be six towns;
demons and the undead might form separate factions again;
unit stacks, dragons, and unit upgrades will be back;
towns will seem more "alive" than before;
The Engine & Development
the game will use a 3D engine
the system requirements will remain low, and offer some scalability;
the game will lean more towards strategy than RPG
a simultaneous turn system is considered, but only as a means to speed up the early parts of the game;
the multiplayer mode will focus on Internet play, but hotseat will be included;
there will be a demo;
there will be a beta (Summer 2005);
more screenshots are coming out at E3 (May 17 - 20)
Gameplay
there will be a unique storyline for the single-player campaigns;
the story style will be the faction switching / linked storyline style;
a combat-grid resembling the one in H3 will be implemented;
lots of changes/improvements in the combat-phase of the game;
heroes will probably not participate in combat as in H4, but they'll be more involved than in H3;
diplomacy will not be a major key in the game, but creating alliances during missions will be possible;
oo... can't wait~! XD"
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STUUUCK!! >_
3 years 1 month ago
"Revised :Yay! I'm allowed to use a moon XD~
oh, but don't worry... as you can see, I made it not so visually pronounced.. so it's only a hint of a moon rather than a big round one.. I think it's better because it doesn't steal attention from the couple much =3 Not that I hate planets that much, but... yeah.. ^_^'
Added clouds. Tell me if it looks bad >_<
Added slight fog layers/ white smoke, something... XD
It's originally intended to cover some of the parts in the vector... like tris said. But I think I'll add some big branches and sakura petals afterall.
Kalico : sakura petal brush... ^^ I'd appreciate if you can make one for me, if that's okay.. arigatou~
Yeah, I've fixed (modified) her hand so it looks like she's clamping him instead. After several re-done it still looks awful T_T aaaaghhh.. failure!!"
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Full Metal Panic
3 years 1 month ago
"I aggree.. the third one looks very much improved. I also aggree with Kalico.. you should use overlayed or modified stock photo of clouds to make it appear more realistic. Anyone looking at that can tell it's a clouds filter. Or... if you insist on using filters, then you can simply modify the perspective view of it (and apply some distortion) to give the impression of a real 'cloudscape'. But personally, I think clouds stock photo would be the easiest and suited approach to this wall.The rain effect, and the blurring looks very good.
The planet or moon can use some surface texture and/or shadowing, just like tris said. Usually, some further parts of it are covered by clouds so they aren't visible. One way to do it is to erase the right part of the moon so it will look similar to a half-crescent.. Logically, you can see a full moon when the weather is clear. This one has lots of clouds, so the moon won't be a perfect circle.
One thing that bothers me a lot is the dark/black part under the clouds..it looks very empty as of now. I think it would be better to put silhouetted mountain ranges, or rubbled city/buildings. It would be even better if you make the city looks like it's on fire (yeah, just got this idea in my mind).
And the colors in this wall seems a little washed-out.. dunno why.. but I think you can use some correction hue/saturation layer at the end to overcome that.
I hope my ramblings are of any help :)
Keep it up!"
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Two Walls In The Making.... HELP!!!!
3 years 1 month ago
"Abenobashi wall :The extraction is very good... the character is clean and crisp.. but the shadow beneath her is weird-looking. Shadows aren't spposed to have white outlining like that... it should blend more to the floor/background. Try erasing the edges of the shadow, or just simply re-make the shadow by yourself. (remove the pre-made shadow, then make a new one using soft-edged brush)
it's a cliche' concept actually,.. putting a character in front, then making copies of it in the background, then making it out-of-focus, by reducing the opacity, saturation or by blurring it. Also, in this composition, I cannot see the logic reason why there is shadow casted on the floor, since there's no light source and what not. Normally, shadows are casted because there is a light source in the vicinity.. because of that, shadows are more suited to 'sceneric' or 'semi-sceneric' walling method.
I prefer decorative shapes in the background to maintain simplicity to this approach.. Or you can make abstract style background and just remove the shadow afterall.
RaXephon wall :
It's an ok, minimalistic concept for a personal desktop, but it's wayy too dark. At least for my monitor, it's overly dark. Other than that, I don't know what to say, since the scan itself eats up to almost 90% of the whole wall, so I see little to no room for improvement, and I'm not fond of this type of wall, since it can be made in less than 5 mins with less than 3 layers. If it was submitted it would likely be deleted with the case of 'Low Effort wall'. If you did put a reasonable effort in making it, I'm sorry.. but it does look that way from most wallers' point of view.
I hope I wasn't too harsh there,^_^' I hope you can find anything useful from my ramblings.. because I see some points that can be much improved from your walls."
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STUUUCK!! >_
3 years 1 month ago
"Tris : zomg... I wub you and your helpful tips :) Yeah, I will fix the hand since it's very noticeable oddity in the entire wall...dias : hmmm... hilltop... fantastic idea, but that means I have to re-make the whole bg concept ^_^' neways, thanks a lot for the suggestions.."
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The manga you like most!?
3 years 1 month ago
"Bleach, NHK Ni Youkoso (it's about hikikomori, Japan's youth life and its problems), Marchen Awakens Romance, D-Gray Man (It's about exorcists, but the style is similar to Fullmetal Alchemists somehow), Futari Ecchi (yeah, this one is really good to fill in spare time ROFL) XD"View
STUUUCK!! >_
3 years 1 month ago
"trust me, her eye is the most annoying thing when I was vectoring >_< I tried to make, like, 5 different vectors only for her eye!! And this one I think is the closest, lol..
dunno why Gennosuke's (the male) eye is much much easier...
thanks for the input, btw ;) I'll see if I can make a nice lil' moon to go with it.."
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STUUUCK!! >_
3 years 1 month ago
"Thanks Furi~
umm.. any idea on how 'big' the moon should be? ^_^'"
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STUUUCK!! >_
3 years 1 month ago
"In BIG need of help!I'm working on this Basilisk wallpaper :
the characters was entirely vectored (as usual) from this series of screenshots :
if it looks weird, then bear with me,... vectoring screencaps aren't a walk in the park ya know <_<
what I really need are helpful inputs about the background...
it looks very empty at the moment... or should I leave it as it is? or is there any more elements I should add?
I want to make the sky 'livier' but I don't know what to add... I try to avoid planetary objects as much as possible.. but it turns out that I ran out of idea T_T
I also think that there are lots of things are really wrong in this beta concept, but I don't know what...
The initial concept was to re-build the scene from the opening sequence (as seen in the shots), because it's already beautiful...
oh, and if anyone owns a good sakura petal brush set, can you please send it to my e-mail? >_< because I have a feeling that I have to make sakura petals to go with this one...
Any inputs would be very appreciated .. arigatou!"
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Wallpapers
3 years 1 month ago
"I use some of the walls I made...some even goes unpublished because lack of quality (but still pleases my very own eyes =P )"
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What song are YOU listening to right now?
3 years 1 month ago
" Basilisk - Kouga Ninpo Chou by Onmyouzarocking song, and great anime show :)"
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Where do you from ?
3 years 1 month ago
"I'm from Indonesia :) a small country in South East Asia..it's very near to Malaysia and Singapore.
I live in a city called Bandung, in the West Java province..
If I could, I would like to move to countries with better internet connections, such as Singapore and/or Australia "
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A new kind of wall
3 years 2 months ago
"Lol... looks totally like a cell-shaded thingy XDvery colourful and happy (although her expression doesn't seem to show that)
I really like it, but yea, the vectors have broken lines and some ugly intersections at some parts... if those were cleaned up I think it'll be awesome =3"
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Suggestions
3 years 2 months ago
"ehh thanks for commenting on my post :)
I personally don't really care if my vector is used by other people to make walls or else, well.. that's what vectors and re-cgs were meant for ... but I do appreciate if they credit me in any smallest way possible :)
About the more expensive credit to download vectors/re-cgs I think that's a brilliant idea :D"
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Vectoring in Illustrator
3 years 2 months ago
"well, vectoring is indeed time-consuming, but being a pro at vectors is all about patience :)
oh, and you might want to check out Illustrator, too.. because PS's pen tool is nothing compared to Illustrator's"
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which one is your favorite RPG?
3 years 2 months ago
"Ne... RPG huh? :)Kinda played a lot back then, but not recently... too busy.
Some that I highly rated :
- Grandia II : very much fun... and colourful graphics.. this is one of console games that was ported to PC almost flawlessly and was really enjoyable. Great storyline, easy-to-understand battle system, and superb graphics & sounds.
- Final Fantasy V : dunno... people said that FF VI is much better, but what I liked most of FF V is the job system, and the element crystals... it was awesome...
- Elder Scrolls i : Morrowind ... this is CRACK... lol... the best RPG EVER! I almost totally immersed in the game world and forgetting about my real life XD and the fact it wasn't an on-line game w00t...
- Dungeon Siege : huh? yeah... the graphics was, well,.. not that great, and the storyline is just so-so.. but hey, it's very easy to play, and this is one of the best RPG to fill in your spare time (not something to play seriously)
- Diablo II : Lord of Destruction : how can I forget this one? Play it LAN, and woah,.. totally addiction! X_X"
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senior member's
3 years 2 months ago
"O_o oo.. so that's how the member ranks gained ...lol I thought it was the same with old AP,... but now I know.. ^_^;"
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senior member's
3 years 2 months ago
"I think you're only 6 posts away from being a senior member :)"View