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K-On! Wallpaper: Beyond Budokan!

Kakifly, Kyoto Animation, K-On!, Mio Akiyama, Tsumugi Kotobuki Wallpaper
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

  1. mikeb23 Apr 11, 2011

    awsome awsome work. kudos to all the work u put into it. keep up the good work :)

  2. Darktekya May 11, 2011

    A really nice concept! Thanks!

  3. MonteCristo Jul 16, 2011

    ooooooh i love it that's beautiful my congratulations!

  4. jaymac Nov 22, 2011

    Love the concept, but the second girl from the left hand side (I think it's Ritsu) should be walking across the road barefooted - just like Paul McCartney did when the original cover photo was shot. Either way, I love it to bits. Great work.

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