AWESOME!
First time venturing into unknown land is a success! I dunno why, but I felt sentimental everytime seeing the Parody of the Beatles' walk in Abbey Road. And this one especially since it portrayed HTT too...
Great, great job!
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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depression76 Aug 24, 2010
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oncita Mute Member Sep 07, 2010
Very nice picture, thanks a lot
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bugmealittle Sep 07, 2010
Ahahahah, Beatles. Golden.
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anime-lord Sep 19, 2010
The Beatles' album cover + K-ON! girls?
AMAZING! XD
Love it very much!
Thanks for sharing ^-^
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Karolaylg Sep 19, 2010
I love this pic ! ?_?
Soo CoOl!
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mingled Sep 19, 2010
great idea. two thumps up!
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mimiru214 Sep 19, 2010
thank for share~ good picture~
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darkchao45 Sep 24, 2010
nice work, it captures them well
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AnRi7 Oct 08, 2010
HTT's Abbey Road? Awesome!^^
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necroneko13 Oct 16, 2010
XD I love it! It fits so well
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Blubelfisch Oct 21, 2010
nice idea to paint it like that ^^
i like it =) thx for sharing -
minakoa Nov 14, 2010
Really good work thank you
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terry1988 Nov 16, 2010
jajajja esta loco este wallpaper
me recuerda a la portada de na banda famosa cuyo nombre no recuerdo como s escribe ^_^u -
ponchis Nov 16, 2010
awesome abbey road cover with k-on!10x for share n_n
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sora071121 Nov 19, 2010
cool wallpaper! classic!
thanks for sharing -
porwing Mute Member Dec 11, 2010
Great picture i like it
thx -
Seele21 Jan 21, 2011
incridible...cute...magnificent...
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zmczmckkk Jan 24, 2011
My god ineed credits.. i like it
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CrazyMialuvsAnime Feb 02, 2011
just like john lennon nice job
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jamynobu Feb 05, 2011
wowww! so cool wall! K-ON 4ever! :)
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axzie Feb 26, 2011
whatever you all think, to me it remaind me at hidamari sketch, lovely.
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nekophile Mar 01, 2011
saw a low res ver of this ages ago and wanted it, good to see it in high res here
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Ramseth Mar 12, 2011
Lol...XD
nice wall... i love it -
dcolares69 Mar 16, 2011
GOSTEI DA IDEIA.. BEATLES? RSRS
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