flyin's contribution for the Millenium Actress anthology with crapmonster <3 I'm submitting this early though, sorry crap, I
couldn't hold it any longer >.<
And here... damn you're fast crap, *jealous jealous jealous*
crap's Millenium
Actress Wall
I like how it turned out so differently XD Go partake in the Millenium Actress love <333
My first ever vector, done completely in Illustrator :) Damn it was painful... I was like how do you group objects T.T I
became a complete and utter noob again for a week. It was really sad.
The motivation behind this wall was also kind of sad, actually, about a week ago I checked out the MT homepage and saw
that candy-chan had walled an image that I was psyching myself up to wall. So after I whined to crap about it, I
remembered this treasure trove of high-res Millenium Actress screenshots that he was showing me from movieweb.com the night before... and I knew I wanted to try
vectoring and using Illustrator because I hadn't had the chance to try it out yet. And in the spirit of dragging someone
down with me I asked crap if he wanted to do a non-collab collab like what taters and gideon did with their vintage
poster walls <3 (see here). And crap,
being the nice guy that he is, couldn't say "I need to work on apps" or *cough* "I need to work on my
w.a.r. round 3 wallie"... ^^;;
So, this wall took about a week's worth of work, plus a lot of almost sleepless nights... I dunno if I REALLY learned
how to vector because I basically went crazy with the smooth tool XD The original plan was to vector this screenshot in its entirety,
but after I finished Chiyoko's profile I was like, damn that's beautiful... so how did I decide to showcase those
stunning lines? YES, by making MORE line art XD. (flyin is indeed completely and utterly crazy). I vectored the
background designs off of this
screenshot, and had to do a fair amount of improvisation overall with line art, extensions, some colors... which was
nice, made me exercise some creativity. I will say right now that pine needles are SPAWNS OF THE DEVIL T_T *burns them
in tates' bonfire* I played with the idea of adding texture for a while for her kimono, but decided that I wanted to
keep the clean vectored look... and keep the focus on the smooth lines =P I couldn't decide between
"determination" and "desperation" for the title since I kept seeing both, so in the end I just
meshed the two XP
I actually have three versions of this wall, this one with the off-white background, one with a black background, and
one with a soft green background (for Keltosh nii-san =P) since popular opinion on what the background color should be
divided down the lines 50-50 XP But since I'm dedicating this wall to crap, and he liked the white one best, I'm
uploading that one here :)
Crap, I'm really glad that I've gotten to know you in the past couple of weeks, I've really enjoyed
chatting/commiserating with you about anime, movies, school, life... doing random stuff like sharing music and sharing
tidbits of wallers' gossip =P You kept making me want to wall (evil boy) so, I really do hope that you like this one
since you've seen it grow from the beginning, and you had to take all of my whining in the process =P You ARE one of my
favorite wallers of all time and... good luck with everything right now :) I know you'll be able to work things out
<3
Since the number of people that I bugged about this wall reached unprecendented numbers, I gotta thank everyone
properly... <3 Much thanks to Tates, who spurred me on
to new heights of insomnia; rockiee, who's one of
the few people I know that can call me butthead in a way that makes me want to hug her; shinn, with his impeccable eye for details <3; Keltosh nii-san, for making (or trying to make) sure that I got at least SOME
sleep every night... my offline friends, and of course crap. <3, <3 you guys XD
I always got the sneaking suspicion that most of you were too nice to actually eat my wall =P So please do it now XD
P.S. I'll try to make another wallie in a bit, I hate having four walls... makes your gallery look so lopsided
XP
Oh, and... the green experimental version for Kel nii-san... here
Updates:
11/9/05: I've uploaded the version with the black background on AP, which the women in the peanut gallery (and me too
actually) like the best <3 So if you're curious, check it out here :)
And as usual... thumbnail is evil T.T
Ahhh your get great in what you do so fast.... but yeah i love how the whole wall goes together so well... feels like
you put much effort on this and i like that. awesome wall, continue doing great walls girl! ^__^