The wallpaper making bug bite me again (writing series impressions of mediocre shows is so much fun ). For awhile I’ve been wanting to figure out a way to make wallpapers out of screen shots that could be used at all three sizes that I make wallpapers for and I think I hit upon a simple yet nice design. I hope you like them and I might have more wallpapers for other shows in the near future.
The awesomeness of the final televised episode of Bakemonogatari has been well documented already but there was one angle that I don’t think I’ve seen anyone pick up on. Namely, the night sky seemed to be on the minds of animators this season because it was featured in at least 3 different anime. There was maybe more but these are the three that I remembered.
Another thing that might be surprising to some is how these scenes were similar. One way was the idea that the night time sky in a rural area is an awe-inspiring sight. Second, upon seeing the night sky for the first time, the viewer is left speechless. And third, it’s possible to look at the night sky for a long period of time without getting bored. I say that it might be surprising because up until summer of last year, I was in the group of people who had never seen the night sky from a rural area and I didn’t believe that it looked as nice as it did in shows like Air. Therefore, I wouldn’t think that all three of these shows would follow so closely the same viewpoint since it really couldn’t be that amazing. Now, I know better, and seeing these scenes makes me want to go somewhere that I could see the true night sky.
I wonder why the awesomeness of a true night sky is suddenly showing up so frequently in anime? I don’t mind but I wonder if there’s some underlying reason. Maybe it’s a subtle environmental idea about getting rid of light pollution or just to appreciate nature. Or a desire to get back to simpler times when it was possible for everyone to see this sky. Or maybe it’s a desire to get people to appreciate the simple joys in life. Or something totally different, I don’t know. All I do know is that I have a bunch of screenshots (and one wallpaper) from these anime that I’m going to post now.
Aoi Hana
Sora no Manimani
That's Orion, one of maybe 4 constellations that I know.
Bakemonogatari
Not night sky related but just breathtakingly beautiful
Yeah for meteors
1280×1024 wallpaper and my current desktop below – stitched together from this episode of Bakemonogatari. When the bluray edition comes out in a few months, I’ll try to create a large one for other screen sizes.
Posted in anime, anime rants/views, anime wallpaper, general anime interst
The wallpaper making bug bite me again so I looked at the currently running shows for a good show to make wallpapers for. There’s a couple good candidates but Bakemonogatari is just too good of a show to pass up so here we are. I hope you like them and I might have more wallpapers for other shows in the near future.
Over the weekend, I decided to look for photoshop tutorials that would increase my relatively lackluster abilities. I found several that were helpful and as a result, I ended up with a new banner and a desktop wallpaper. I also learned several very handy commands that I didn’t know photoshop had. The wallpaper is the the picture above, click to get the full size. It’s sized 1280 x 1024 and I did it myself (though I mostly followed a tutorial ).
I really hate to see my Nagisa banner go. She’s by far and away my favorite Key girl and one of my favorite characters of all time. I had intended to keep the Nagisa banner up until the end of Clannad but after making the new banner, I couldn’t wait to put that one up.
And finally, I put up a new poll question as you can see to the right. This one will probably stay up till the end of the winter season when I plan to run another “Favorite Character of Toradora” poll and see if the results differ from the last one that I ran at the half-way point.
Posted in anime, meta/office keeping, SF wallpaper
Time for more Clannad wallpapers . This time I have wallpapers I made using the nice scans of the 2009 Clannad calendar found in the animesuki forums as well as several retrimmed scans. In case you can’t tell from in the small thumbnails, the first blue Nagisa wallpaper has her name from before episode 13 of Clannad - After Story and the second has her name after episode 13.
I was looking at my computer desktop last night and realized I needed something new. After looking around at what I had on hand, I ended making more Soul Eater wallpapers. For some reason, it’s easy to find lots of nice artwork from that show.
If you’ve looked at my other wallpaper, you’ll notice that I try to keep them relatively simple so that it’s still possible to use the desktop. After testing out the 1280 x 1024 ones on my own computer, I work on making the other 2 sizes and try to get them all to look similar.
). For awhile I’ve been wanting to figure out a way to make wallpapers out of screen shots that could be used at all three sizes that I make wallpapers for and I think I hit upon a simple yet nice design. I hope you like them and I might have more wallpapers for other shows in the near future.
