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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.
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.
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~fama-chan
32 seconds ago
Hello terra!
$motogp
1 minute ago
Hyh
~Terra517
2 minutes ago
Hii! Everyone! ^-^
~fama-chan
3 minutes ago
Yes same here...
$motogp
4 minutes ago
Good i guess nthin special ^^
~fama-chan
4 minutes ago
So sup? how did your "evening" go?
$motogp
8 minutes ago
Heyyy 
~fama-chan
9 minutes ago
Hello again!!
$motogp
10 minutes ago
Back ^^.
~fama-chan
10 minutes ago
Good for you ^^
Mikuru-Chan fanart project
1 year 5 months ago
"Bump for Super Edit:an extraordinarily early coloring attempt. >.> i am lacking serious motivation to get this finished because i have a wallpaper i want to start on and im toying with the idea of starting a comic. ^_^ (that and its spring break and i want to sleep for 4 days straight.) anyways, i fixed up mikuru-chan's hair and clothing here and there, now plz help me on the shading, i am having major trouble on the car. -_-"
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Command and Conquer 3
1 year 5 months ago
"I dont know, the fact that its EA making the game scares me to no end. (im still in shock from CC generals. no, it was not C&C, it was a pathetic attempt at diluting the C&C system with the trendy, generic RTS elements first introduced by starcraft) also, supreme commander is an amazing rts, i dont know which game ill be able to enjoy more.then again, it is C&C...and there are MAMMOTH TANKs, and KANE IS ALIVE.
on second thought, im at least gonna give at least 2 weeks to fully try it out before making my decision. :D"
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Mikuru-Chan fanart project
1 year 5 months ago
"I have finished the rest of the picture. plz check first post and critique it. ^_^"View
Mikuru-Chan fanart project
1 year 5 months ago
"oh no, i must have worded my post wrong. >.< sry! wut i meant to say is that she is part of a larger picture, and the finished lineart (drawn, cleaned, inked) for her is seen here. the only adjustments i can do now is in PS, and since i lack a tablet, the adjustments have to be fairly simple. Basically, this is very close to my intended finished product (for her part)
this is my first real attempt at drawing clothing by myself, and yeah, they are quite bad. I wanted the wrinkles to be guidelines for when i color in the shades, but even then it looks quite weird. I have a lot of trouble trying to show the shapes underneath clothes, definitely needs more practice. >.>
Thank you! :D yeah i tried to show off Mikuru's personality as much as i can here. I purposely tried to thin out her hair for coloring, but im not so sure about that now. >.>
Thank you both for your comments and critiques. you guys pointed out some things i never even bothered to think about. XD Hopefully i can fix her up more while im coloring."
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All my drawings
1 year 5 months ago
"O you have a very cool style.nice shading with colored pencils, but the body proportions are off sometimes.
im still stuck in my fanart stage, so i would like to see you color some of your fanart pieces.
have you ever thought about using watercolor pencils? im not sure how close the techniques are between regular colored pencils and watercolor, but i think it would be a nice extension to your style."
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OMG! It's a Mac!!!
1 year 5 months ago
"Mac-tan! woohoo!yeah im pretty big into os-tans too (wish i can show you my win-chan figure).
the only thing that bothered me is that theres no eyes, but i guess your fixing that soon, so theres really nothing wrong with it.
but....how about some breasts? XD from wut i remember, chest size is an indication of how the amount of memory/processing speed an OS-tan takes up (for example, XP-tan has....a well-endowed figure because XP sucks up so much resources). of course, that is very hard to do with the chest piece she is wearing, so i would just save that for your next os-tan pic.
as for lining, i use some artist pens i found in at my local art store, then i clean the pic in Photoshop. (if im really lazy, i'd just ink it with PS directly)
im learning CG rite now just from some online tutorials that i googled. just experiment and practice it a bit and you can do CG too!"
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300
1 year 5 months ago
"This is blasphemy!This is Madness!
madness?
THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
sry about that, every time i see 300 mentioned i have to do that.
and BTW, AMAZING movie. watch it, love it, buy a blue-ray player for it. and while your at it, by a HDTV too.
lol, but seriously, its a great action flick. i thought it had a little too much nipple shots when compared to the original comic, but lots of people appearantly liked those too. XD"
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Mikuru-Chan fanart project
1 year 5 months ago
"Hi there, this is the first part of a drawing that I'm working on, the girl is Asahina Mikuru of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya series (she's such an adorable character ^_^). I tried to base her off of the original Novel illustrations rather than the anime series because i am a HUGE fan of the artist, Ito Noizi sensei, but i think i failed fairly bad at that. (>.<)anyways, this is the rest of the picture. if you don't get the reference, Mikuru-chan is a time traveler from the future, and its never clear how she does that, so this is my interpretation. (the car is a time machine for those that never watched the back to the future series) talk about a clash between Japanese and American Geek-ness. XD Also, the car was drawn separately and shopped together, hopefully i can get them to look more natural together once the colors are in.
Super Edit:
an extraordinarily early coloring attempt. >.> i am lacking serious motivation to get this finished because i have a wallpaper i want to start on and im toying with the idea of starting a comic. ^_^ (that and its spring break and i want to sleep for 4 days straight.) anyways, i fixed up mikuru-chan's hair and clothing here and there, now plz help me on the shading, i am having major trouble on the car. -_-
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I draw. A lot. xD
1 year 5 months ago
"U have a very cute style and a lot of skillz in coloring. ^_^i dont know, the face seems like its just a little too wide at times, and the necks are sometimes placed to far in the back. but other than that they are very good. I like how you have your own style, just refine proportions a little better and they will be awesome! XD "
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1st attempt at CG Anime girl!
1 year 5 months ago
"I like it. A lot.awsome job on the first attempt coloring. It looks very natural and the scheme is nicely done as well. although i would have to agree that the right side of the face is off proportion a bit (i never figured out how to fix that in my drawings >.<)and the blade is in a slightly awkward position. i dont know, maybe move it back a little so it looks like she's resting it on the ground instead of mid-swinging?
keep up the good work, "
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Heart of Sword
1 year 5 months ago
"O.O!!!wow, did you draw this without any references? very nice. the hair and the face are well proportioned and nicely colored, vut the skirt looks a little out of sync. I think some more details on the clothes would be nice, but thats more of my perference than anything, and yeah, the coloring is very nicely done but the scheme could be better.
other than that, an excellent piece of work. Hope to see more pieces from you!
(b ^.^)b"
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Gears of War
1 year 6 months ago
"GoW is an amazing game... for the wut, 6, 7 hours the campaign lasted? There's just so much more the developers could have added to the game, especially multiplayer. vehicles, modes, etc. If you compare this with, oh, say unreal tournament, the wasted potential is obvious. nevertheless, the developers managed to polish the short game into a jewel, a very short, very small jewel, but still a jewel. nevertheless, i have high hopes for GoW2, hopefully Epic will try to give more flesh to the game. "View
Strike Freedom vs. Wing Zero
1 year 8 months ago
"ahh my bad. i didnt really take Freedom's armaments into the comparision equation. :P
(wait....the Agni was as long as the Strike's height....How did terminal fit a gun thats more powerful into the chest of strike freedom? >.> crazy coordinators) still, i dont think there are many weapons in the Gundam universe that can match the buster rifle. (well, except maybe genesis or requiem, but those dont count.)
no need to apologize, i kinda tried to skip over the pilots as much as possible cause i like just looking at the technical stats. :P I think where i was going was that Kira has advanced ablilities such as faster processing speed (adjusting the strike for desert conditions in battle etc.) which normal people wont have, and that places him on par with Heero's hardcore training....somewhat. (like i said, pilots are just too unpredictable)"
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Strike Freedom vs. Wing Zero
1 year 8 months ago
"Time to break out the super robot taisen game again. ^_^ (wikipedia it if you dont get me)first lets consider the machines themselves:
ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom
Manufacturer: Terminal
User: Three Ships Alliance, Orb Union
Unit type: prototype assault mobile suit
First Deployment: Cosmic Era 74
Head height: 18.88 meters
Weight: 80.09 metric tons
Special equipment: Phase Shift armor, Neutron Jammer Canceller, Super DRAGOON (Disconnected Rapid Armament Group Overlook Operation Network) system, hardpoint for docking with METEOR (Mobile suit Embedded Tactical EnfORcer) mobile weapons platform.
Powerplant: Ultracompact Hyper-Deuterion Nuclear Fission Reactor
Armament: MMI-GAU27D 31 mm CIWS x2, MGX-2235 "Callidus" multi-phase beam cannon x1, MA-M02G "Super Lacerta" beam saber x2, MMI-M15E "Xiphias 3" railgun x2, MX2200 beam shield x2, MA-M21KF combinable high-energy beam rifle x2, EQFU-3X Super DRAGOON mobile weapon wings x8 (MA-80V beam assault cannon x1)
Pilot(s): Kira Yamato
XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero (OVA version)
Manufacturer: Quatre Raberba Winner (based on a design by Doctor J, Professor G, Instructor H, Doktor S and Master O)
User: Gundam pilot
Unit type: Mobile suit
First Deployment: AC 195
Head Height: 16.7 m
Weight: Empty 8.0 t
Equipment and design features: "ZERO System" combat computer/pilot interface in cockpit; self-destruct system
Powerplant: Ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 3732 kW
Armament: 2 x machinecannon, fire-linked, mounted in torso; 2 x beam saber, stored in recharge racks in wing binders, hand-carried in use; twin buster rifle, can be separated into two separate single-barrel buster rifles
Pilot: Heero Yuy
First of all, energy. strike freedom uses a fission process, while the zero uses fusion reactor. while fusion is superior to fission in terms of energy, we have never seen either suit needing energy replenishments in either show, so we'll just assume that they are equal in achieving their purpose.
now lets move on to armaments. we do not have an accurate scale in terms of power for both units, so we'll have to make rough estimates. The buster rifles, as seen in the last episode of wing, are capable of shooting through a space colony (The launcher strike's 320 mm hyper impulse beam cannon, which is comparable in power to strike freedom's chest mounted "Callidus" multi-phase beam cannon, can shoot out of a colony but not necessarily through it). As to how strike freedom’s MA-M21KF combinable high-energy beam rifles compare in power, we just say its slightly superior to buster gundam’s combined rifles and rivals the energy output of the launcher strike gun. In essence, wing zero’s buster rifles are much stronger than all the weapons on the strike freedom, at least indivitually. However, we must place a strong emphasis on individually. The strike freedom simply has a much larger number of equipped Guns, and while they cannot go head to head with the buster rifles even when focus firing, the DRAGOON system’s maneuverability and the large amounts of guns places strike freedom’s offensive capabilities slightly above the wing zero. (but zero still wins in pure firepower >.>)
As for defense, both suits are listed as assault suits, so their defensive equipments are secondary to armaments. Nevertheless, the strike freedom is equipped with 2 energy shields, while wing zero’s large white wings function as shields capable of surviving atmospheric entry. Strike freedom is equipped with phase shift armor that takes energy from its battries, while the wing zero is built from gundanium, the strongest alloy known to man. Thus in pure defense wing zero has the advantage.
Onwards to mobility. We will assume that both suits employ Active Mass Balance Auto Control (AMBAC), in which gundams use limbs/extensions to move through space by changing their moment of inertia. Strike freedom also has an improved HiMAT (High Maneuver Aerial Tactical) mode, and that the DRAGOON’s thrusters can be used to achieve a lesser effect of Destiny gundam’s “wings of light” ability, albeit without the images resulting from mirage colloid technology. Wing zero custom lacks the Neo bird mode of its predessor, but by using the wings to change its own direction, it can achieve greater mobility than the original zero. In this case, Strike freedom has the upper hand in maneuverability.
Finally, we move on the most unpredictable variable of the fight: the pilots. Kira is the ultimate coordinator who prevails on the battlefield because of his innate powers. Heero is a hardened soldier who has undergone years of training and battles, not to mention he is mentally stable enough to withstand the zero system. So now it comes to kira’s “seed” mode versus the zero system, and IMO, I believe that although kira has been through many battles, his reluctance to kill and lack of experience places him at a lesser edge than Heero.
In conclusion, we have found that the strike freedom has a slight advantage over wing zero in mobility and offensive capabilities, but no where close to the point where strike freedom can dominate the zero in anyway. If they were piloted by people of equal skill, it would be an extremely close match. Of course, in reality there is a significant difference in pilot skills between Heero and Kira that the fight might just tip in zero’s favor.
Theoretical result:
Strike freedom is a better machine.
But in battle Wing Zero > Strike Freedom.
Of course, this is just my personal theory. There simply just are too many technical differences between Cosmic Era and After Colony to compare both seriously. Maybe in the next gundam series they need to provide an accurate blueprint with all power output, armament damage, and Gallons per Hour listed. :P
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Midori Days : Is it a good read?
1 year 9 months ago
"LOL, Midori no hibi is awsome manga. not a lot of re-read value, but it's great the first time.i usually prefer manga over anime, and that still applys here. >.>"
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have any people read ichigo 100 percent?
1 year 9 months ago
">.> i read it like last year and everytime i think of the ending it still angers me.yeah yea i know all the arguments about y *that girl* (dont want to spoil) was chosen (been arguing about it since last year ^.^), but y set up the whole first half of the series for the other girl and change it at the last second?
Grrr....."
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Hola!
1 year 9 months ago
">.> i been lurking here for a while now, but i was always too lazy to join in on all teh delicious action. (probably because the only drawing program i know is MS paint) but all that lurking got me fairly excited, so i am now going to teach myself gimp (and fail) and hopefully make some cool walls. :D"View