amazing work there seem pretty hard too
awesomely done : DDD
Kakifly Mangaka
Kyoto Animation Studio
K-On! Series
Mio Akiyama Character
Tsumugi Kotobuki Character
2560x1600 Wallpaper
Artist Comment
What would K-On! do after they reached Budokan?
In August 1969, Iain Macmillian was only given a 10 minute window to shoot the cover design of the Beatles album "Abbey Road". Who would have thought that 40 years later, he would be able to produce one of the most famous and imitated album covers in music history. That cover was the inspiration for my 7th wallpaper here in AP. And who would be the best subjects but only the (currently) most popular rock band in anime, "After School Tea Time".
I decided to channel all my negative energies into this wall and make it look good. I wanted to imitate the feeling of the original album cover by the beatles but make it more anime-ish, so to speak. Thus, I began my work by vectoring the best album cover of Abbey Road I can find on the net. Vectoring was done by simple layering of solid shapes. No gradients were used. This is my first time exploring something different. As you can see, there's no line art. I headed straight to coloring and putting highlights and shadows. It looked pretty good. It gives it a sense of pop art / cartoony feel to it.
The first most difficult part were the leaves. I almost gave up after making the base colors, and making all those curved lines with just the trackpad is downright hard. But, I had to put in the highlights and shadows to give it a sense of cartoony depth. I think my patience paid off.
The second most difficult part were the girls. Everything about them has to be right. One big problem was, I couldn't find a decent scan with them in their band outfit looking sideways. I searched high and low for that. Then I remembered seeing them walking side view in the anime's ending theme. I looked it up at youtube and found a high quality video. Made some screen shots then extracted the images. But I didn't stop there. Though they were walking, the video art was kinda bland, so I made use of what I know with manipulations. I extracted part of the girls' hands and legs from the video screen shots, pasted them, created a collage and did the vectoring later. Hence, they now have individual gaits kinda portraying their personalities. Their faces, shadows and higlights were also done the same manner as I did the background.
I hope you like this parody! This is a tribute to everyone who loves the Beatles, K-On! and reality that is Music. Enjoy
Tales of the Tape:
Time: Lost track
Program: Photoshop CS4, Mac OSX
Layers: 331
Tools: My trusty Macbook Pro trackpad...only
Images (see links):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fia0iyvd0Dw
Abbey Road, K-On! walking scene (check out 0:51 to 0:59 for the actual walk)
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8876/stepsforbeyondbudokan.jpg
Process Pic click on this to see the step by step process on making this wall
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Comments
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Shugotenshi-Alice May 06, 2010
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Yi-Yuan May 07, 2010
Lel, K-ON! Road :D XD
Is a very good wallpaper, good job <D! -
MiiMerii May 08, 2010
331 layers o.o
well. great wallpaper!
I really love the idea! Very original even the title xD -
EternalEthelion May 11, 2010
a very bad spying attempt if ever XD
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SiCZero2010 May 11, 2010
Super, its really beautiful...thanks for sharing!
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Krizalids May 12, 2010
lol, niceee... XD
Thanks for sharing ^^ -
francis9399 May 12, 2010
Nice work. Thanks for the pic.
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KyouS May 14, 2010
very nice k-on! wallie thanks
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SiDHe May 14, 2010
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edwardedic7 Restricted Member May 15, 2010
coool! image!**
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IamAlicE May 22, 2010
K-On in Abbey Road? GENIOUS :D
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nico1214 May 22, 2010
Wow nice scan
thanks for sharing
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doomknight20 May 29, 2010
Classic ! Background looks cool and suitable fo such a great band as High School Tea Time. LOL
merged: 05-29-2010 ~ 09:42am
The Video's kinda cool. Check it out. Poor guy used 331 layers to create it ? Amazing -
Kotomiii Jun 01, 2010
Graet concept!
Thx
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Darkside8169 Jun 06, 2010
wow good work, i like The Beatles reference.
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Denske Jun 09, 2010
I love K-on girls! cool wallpaper, thanks a lot!
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akika Jun 19, 2010
wowwwww this is SO K-On! I love it! One of my favourites of them XD so cute~
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OKWLTO Jul 07, 2010
Even the K-On! Girls do not resist taking a photo on Abbey Road. xDDDDDDD
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Reya-Konomi Mute Member Jul 09, 2010
It's so cute ><
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chris1412 Jul 26, 2010
It's really awesome (^_^)b
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lepenne Aug 06, 2010
abbey road! lol
nice scan! -
Tevy Aug 07, 2010
Great interpretation ... I love the colors! It's a bright wallpaper with a lot of colors.
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staron Aug 08, 2010
its good.............I Like it
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takizawa Aug 09, 2010
Wall is Sugoi Thanks for sharing
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