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Fly... by °Phill 1 month 1 week ago

Fly... by °Phill 1 month 1 week ago

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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.

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`Omnidevil 24 minutes ago
Fate Stay Night, The Movie! It's official, there will be a movie next year

~fama-chan 33 minutes ago
Hello terra!

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Hyh

~Terra517 34 minutes ago
Hii! Everyone! ^-^

~fama-chan 35 minutes ago
Yes same here...

$motogp 36 minutes ago
Good i guess nthin special ^^

~fama-chan 37 minutes ago
So sup? how did your "evening" go?

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~fama-chan 42 minutes ago
Hello again!!

$motogp 43 minutes ago
Back ^^.

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[bug] Broken link in groups' walls list

1 year 5 months ago

" Reference Address:

Ex : http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/wallpapers/groups/bleach/

Description:

The pages' links redirect to http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/wallpapers/groups/groups/ pagenumber/

It should instead redirect to
http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/wallpapers/groups/ groupid/ pagenumber/

Instructions for replication:
In each group : click "View groupname wallpapers" and then click on a page number. This shows a "No Wallpapers" page.
It seems to happen in every group."
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[wallpaper]Magical Girl Nanoha

1 year 9 months ago

"Update : User posted image

Sorry for not answering. I'm trying to avoid this double post alert thing ^^

So, I remade the talisman I deleted, with some text I found on the web.

I tried another clouds, with some tutorials red-head gave me by PM. I also tried to change the bg's contrast, then tried darker colors. It doesn't look good with the font (@Mimette : dafont.com - Hurricane font ;) ) or with the talisman...

Well, I'm not pretty sure the wall looks better now that it isn't empty any more. I think I can submit it, but is it worth submitting ? :/

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[wallpaper]Magical Girl Nanoha

1 year 9 months ago

"Here is my new wallpaper :
User posted image

No long speech today, I'm pretty tired -_-

All I can say is that it is a really simple wallpaper I find more beautiful than my other works until now.

The single thing I'm not pretty sure is the lack of contrast in the background. I made it in this way to be icon-friendly. I even deleted a great Magical Talisman I spent 4 hours drawing. But I'm not sure anymore...

A least, if you don't like this voluntary emptiness, I'll listen to all ideas, but I can't promise anything ;)

Thanks a lot :D"
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Zegapain Wallpaper

1 year 10 months ago

"
asa01
huh i said something about the characters? o.o i think that was zazou. ^^;


oh... well... yes ^^''
Sorry, I think I needed some rest :D

EDIT : And now in v3 :)
User posted image
I replaced the photo with one that blends better with the background :) Enjoy xD

I did one or two corrections on the text, as you can see. I find it funnier like this :D

I am know thinking of submitting it... but if you have other important comments, I'll take them :)

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Zegapain Wallpaper

1 year 10 months ago

"Ok, I've got a v2 :)

I didn't change the city scape. I'd like one or more comments on this version before I try another one. I did add a little more median noise and change opacity to 50%. Hope it blends more with the bg ^^

Fixed the grunge brushes on the characters' faces. But the result was too bright. So I modified the gradient overlay to give them a darker color.

Also fixed one or two things on the originale vector ^^"

Moved the bird that was on the buildings to the left upper corner cause I didn't change the photo behind :D

Found a new font for the text, changed its layer style (no more Screen, but Normal).

User posted image

@ Zazou : Merci énormément ;) Mon post en français"
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Zegapain Wallpaper

1 year 10 months ago

"I'd like to deeply thank firefox for crashing and making me write this reply for the third time. >_<

So, I realize that the city is kind of a problem here. I think I will try another photo with more filtering. I had problems to do what I want with this one because of the high resolution I work with. What filters would you recommend ? I experimented some "sponge" or "wet brush" effects, but none of them worked as I wanted (note that they perfectly worked as they needed to work, but I didn't exactly know how they would :D ).

For the grunge look, I'll fix the faces problem by using softer brushes on these places. I'll also try deeper ones elsewhere, like asa01 said :)

The birds are another kind of problem. I used Motion Blur to give them... a motion effect ^^. I can fix this easily by reducing the amount of blur. However, I'd like to keep the number of birds I chose, because it is something I took directly from the anime. See the capture below.
User posted image
Oh, and all the birds are on top of the buidings, it is just an optical effect :D It'll be fixed when I change the city stock photo ;)

Also, zazou told me there is something wrong with the characters' look on their face, while the bg is a very dark one. It is also something I took from the anime. Again, see the capture below. Zegapain is a very dark anime in which the characters does'nt know about their condition, or just try to live with it. The girl on the left is part of the first category, the one on the right is part of the second :) And for the main character (between the two girls on the cap), he is just between 1 and 2, so he looks really angry :D
User posted image

I nearly forgot the font : Yes it is too simple. I actually didn't found what I was looking for on dafont.com and finally used this one. I'll try to look a bit deeper on the site :)

Thanks a lot for your comments !

@Zazou : J'ai posté un sujet en français sur le French speeking people group ;) Tu peux y accéder via ma signature. Et merci beaucoup!:D"
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Zegapain Wallpaper

1 year 10 months ago

"I was gone for a time because of holidays and new school term, but here I am, with a fresh new wallpaper to submit. But before that, I'd like to hear comments and advices from you :)

Like my first attempt, it is a Zegapain wallpaper. I used a screen cap to vectorize two characters (vector is Yay!:) ). And then I wondered what background to create this time.

I wanted birds, cause I messed them up on my second wall (look at my sig), they were too simplistic. And they are important (and dark black) in the anime. I found several brush sets on devianart that were perfect for what I wanted to do. I converted them into Illustrator symbols, arranged them on the background (resize, rotate, etc...). I also used one or two cloud brushes (tired of the "Render>Clouds..." function in Photoshop).

I wanted a town. Found one (at random : tokyo), on sxc.hu. Used Median noise and a second Multiply layer to make it look better.

I wanted a green color for background. Found some tutorial one sxc too, about selective color and all... Used it to give a more sepia look to my too-lightened vector. And then adjusted the good levels to find the right color.

The basic thing was done. but the result was too clean. I didn't like it. So I decided to try a grunge set of brushes I had for days on my disk. I found one or more tutorials on "How to make a nice grunge piece of work", but the best results I obtained were when I just tried a new color, or a new size for the brush. Very experimental work here.

Added some text, with a little extra effect, but nothing really outstanding. A quote from the anime and my sig.

And here is the v1 of my work :
User posted image

I said it is very experimental, and I will accept every single harsh comment that would help improving this wallpaper ;)

Thanks!

EDIT : Typos, etc.."
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[Oban] Second Wallpaper

2 years 3 months ago

"I hope it is the last update. I've worked on this wall for 1 whole week \o/

User posted image

Enjoy... ;)"
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[Oban] Second Wallpaper

2 years 3 months ago

"Excuse me for beeing late, I had a full exams week :D

I made a second version of the wall :
User posted image

I added some birds to fill the empty sky. I tried to make some grass using Illustrator, but the result was not realistic (you can see it on the example above...). Sorry, lufiamanaelf, I decided to keep the photoshop brush I used before... :S
I added a lens flare effect and some extra text with the final name \o/

EDIT : I forgot to mention the blur effect, but I dropped it in the v3...
EDIT 2 (lol) : I forgot something in the v3 : I should rotate one or several birds, like I did in v2, cause they all look the same way >_<
EDIT 3 ... : Okay, @^|&# photoshop brush... there are grass bits growing in the air \o/

And here is the v3 :
User posted image

Thanks to all ;)"
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Yuna X-2

2 years 3 months ago

"I think you should clean the black dotted line under the text.

Other than that, it looks quite great to me, but wait for other comments as I am not yet an expert ;)"
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[Oban] Second Wallpaper

2 years 3 months ago

"Okay, here I am with a whole new first-version-not-completed-and very-simple-but-rather-good-looking-wall \o/

User posted image

It is from an anime airing in France (and soon in Japan) "Oban Star-Racers". I used several screencaps to vectorize the character in Illustrator. She was originally holding her shoes, but that was quite not aesthetic so I redrew the hand xD. Then I used Photoshop to draw the sky and a standard brush to add the grass bits.

Well I know, it is *very* simple. I don't know if I should really add more effects, it's up to you to comment on this point :)
What I sure want to do : fix this translucent grass bit in front of the girl's shirt >_<, maybe either change the color of the shirt or add a design onto it, and add something in the sky (bird(s) ? airplane(s) ? moon(s) ?)."
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Ghost in the Shell wall

2 years 3 months ago

"Beckor is right, try to use some pattern and add a perspective transform effect. it'll be nice ;)

Anyway, I like this space idea. Good wall here :)"
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Is it worth rejecting

2 years 3 months ago

"I can't see your wall cause I need an account to access it. Please use smthg like http://www.imageshack.us to host it."
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I need help on a background idea....:\

2 years 3 months ago

"Try editing the scan, and I think you could add some effects to the background :)"
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[Zegapain] New wallpaper

2 years 3 months ago

"Yeah!Here goes the first final version :D

I told you I was planing to make a tech-like BG. But I wanted to try something before.
The wall is 1280x960, and I had a lot of fun drawing the missing parts of Sogoru with my mouse XD I kinda like the result.
I had a break and watched again the first episode of Zegapain. And then I had my idea. I saw this :

User posted image

I found it quite beautiful. But I didn't want to vectorize again :D So I created my own mirrors, my own sky, took some city caps from High Res video, arranged them and here it is.

User posted image

I had some problems with Illustrator, and wasn't able to export to photoshop format. Too sad, cause it prevented me from adjusting some details in the background, like the mirrors blur, etc...

I also thought about the title. and I found a great one. "Virtualité réelle". Yeaah, it's french, but it kinda r0x, doesn't it ? XD
In english it means "Real Virtuality".

Now I want your comments, what could I improve/change/think about before I submit it.

Great thanks ;)"
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[Zegapain] New wallpaper

2 years 3 months ago

"Here is the vector v2 :)

I removed the gaps, corrected some outlining errors, and changed to a bevel shaped brush that gives a better look (in my opinion).

See the result here :
User posted image

Please tell me if there are gaps I didn't see, cause I had a few problems with this f*** brush that messed up my work at the beggining >_<

Now I'm looking for a proper background. A kind of tech-like one, I suppose.

EDIT : Smthg I wanted to ask : do you think the wall size would be better if Wild Screen ? Or should I find a way to get something up and down sogoru ?"
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wow these kinda took tyme

2 years 3 months ago

"Hmmm... what about making this power text purple ? I mean, different shades of purple, or a gradient, for each letter ?

Well, I think you could give it a try.

But without this, the wallpaper is awesome ;)"
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[Zegapain] New wallpaper

2 years 3 months ago

"
blu3angl
well, nice job, first of all.
next, the hardest part of vectoring...imho is the lines...lol..that's why i didn't add in the lines for my first vector wall. but you made a good choice to go for it! and well, now you have to fix them up a bit.

At some places, the lines just end there. make sure you have a thin trailing off sort of ending.


Yes you're right, I'm fixing them step by step just now :)


blu3angl
At other places, the lines are misplaced and shows gaps between value and value.


Okay, I'll work on them ASAP.


blu3angl
Awesome job for first try!

C: good luck!


Thank tutorials, time, perseverance, and luck xD

And thank you ;)"
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[Zegapain] New wallpaper

2 years 3 months ago

"So...

I've vectorized Sogoru :) I used Adobe Illustrator to do this part, after having some headache caused by Photoshop >_<

Now, here is the vectorized part. There's no background nor art, but I just want your comments about what I could have to correct on this work.

User posted image

I think I have to work a little bit on the eyes : see those gray parts, going over the black and white ones, do I have to play again with them ?

Thanks ;)"
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[Zegapain] New wallpaper

2 years 3 months ago

"
EdiBomb
well....first of all....that black thing should dissapear inmediatly, never is a good idea to do that, it breaks the whole concept.....
second of all....the extraction is not really good, looks poxelated in someplaces (remember to use the pen tool when extracting) and some parts you can see part of the old bg.....
the new bg i way to much like the old one....the same color, and is too simple...
you should keep the scan, extract it again (this time with the pen tool, look for a tutorial about it if you don't know how) but try to make another bg, more interesting.....and get rid of that black part, and get rid of the lens flare too =P...



Thanks for your advices. =] I'll work on it and post some news tomorrow.


when i see the scan makes me wanna vectorize it....maybe you should try, but that's up to you...



I'm not familiar with vectorizing (?) but I'll have a look at it tonight :)"
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[Zegapain] New wallpaper

2 years 3 months ago

"Hi all.

So, I made my first wallpaper for AP. It is about Zegapain, a new anime.
I used a screen capture from a 1280x720 raw divx. I followed some tutorials for extracting, cleaning, special FX,... And here comes the first version.

I have some troubles with the edges : the green color from the capture remains unchanged, and I need your advices on how to properly remove (or clean) it. Next problem : quality... it is divx, I know some parts remain pixelized : Sogoru's hair is a great example. Once again, I need comments and ideas :)

Here are the images :
The capture.
User posted image
The wall v1.1.
User posted image

Thanks a lot :)"
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