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New Alice Wallpaper !

Depthcharge101 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:43:36 +0800

Wow... it's been a while... AS is still as lively as usual.

Anywho, new wallpaper is up~
http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/wallpape...test/item99702/

Description can be read from AP.

Direct link dl for those without an AP account:
2560x1600 - http://tiny.cc/PVgSb

Comments would be appreciated as always.

Has anyone ever wondered how much anime

Depthcharge101 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:51:57 +0800

It has been bugging me for a while, and I was guessing maybe around 50s. It's been more than 6-7 years ever since I started watching anime, watching 1-3 eps of anime almost everyday...

And so I went and compile my anime list... and I guess I am officially an otaku now, having watched over 100 titles =/

http://myanimelist.net/animelist/depthcharge101

How about you, do you know how much stuff you've watched? Ever feel like finding it out?

Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th~

Depthcharge101 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:59:13 +0800

Hm any marimite fans here? Episode 1 is coming out today...

More Shimako awesomeness : D

Your best 2008?

Depthcharge101 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:17:12 +0800

And so the year is coming to an end, and it's been a good interesting year with many solid titles.

So what's your best 2008 anime? Here's a list of them (possibly incomplete) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anime_of_2008

Best:
Aria the Origination for me, with True Tears closely behind. Still heaps of good shows that I've enjoyed, but then it wouldn't be considered best if I just list them all : )

Worst:
Probably Mnemosyne, I don't know, I feel sick after finishing the show =/

Saimoe 2008

Depthcharge101 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:26:46 +0800

http://friend.45.kg/saimoe2008/html/main.html
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/4027/1218715373845pf7.png
http://saimoe2008.hp.infoseek.co.jp/toname2.html (pix)
http://saimoe2008.hp.infoseek.co.jp/toname3.html (pix, losers with angry/sad face)

But I'm too sad to care anymore. Seems like the few chars that I want to support will lose in either 1st or 2nd round.

シロウ、最後の一 ...

Depthcharge101 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:27:29 +0800

(EN: Shirou, there's one last thing I need to tell you..)

http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/wallpape...rgex/item73017/

Anyway I've always loved this scene, and Saber still being my most favourite character, I've decided to vector her and recreate this scene. This is the original screencap

Erm... more descriptions at that animepaper link. In short clouds are brushed, mountains are painted, Saber is vectored.

Alternate link:
5:4 ratio, 1280x1024
4:3 ratio, 1600x1200
Widescreen 1.6 ratio, 1920x1200:

Erm, all done in Photoshop CS2, I wanted to use Illustrator actually, but I couldn't find a good newbie guide to get me to understand how to do it properly and all. If anyone knows any that would be good.

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EDIT
Anyway more alternate versions as requested-
WS 1920x1200 no txt
WS 1920x1200 english txt

4:3 1600x1200 no txt
4:3 1600x1200 english txt

5:4 1280x1024 no txt
5:4 1280x1024 english txt

My first "real" vectored wallpaper...

Depthcharge101 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:02:23 +0800

http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/wallpape...-Ito/item71879/

Okay, saw first saw this amazing image when I was playing this visual novel (kinda yuri'ish) on the PS2. Thought it would make a good wallie, but turned out it's only in 640x480 =/. I then thought man maybe if I could vector it that would be good... and so I went to pick up vectoring, and vectored this image.

Original image (640x480):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/dep...riginal_img.jpg

Took a total of 6 days of work, slowness mostly due to my inexperience >_<. The process for those who are interested (each image transition is about a day of work):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/dep...hou/process.jpg

English Text version:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/dep...Chou_en_txt.jpg

No Text version:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/dep...Chou_no_txt.jpg

Stats:
Layer: 90+ (most of them are colour layers)
Most tedious/annoying part to vector: Kimono butterfly outlines (grr...)
Hardest part to vector: The eye... yes the eye, took me 2 hours to get the first eye right...
My favourite part of the vector: The extended sleeves of the kimono...
My least favourite part of the vector: The hair.. also probably because it's the part I first coloured, so it's probably not too good...

Credits:
-Unmei's awesome vector guide (http://www.ferricorp.com/public/forum/viewtopic.php?t=202)
-asa01 on Session Zero for giving me valuable critiques and comments
-My friend Kenneth for pointing out several weird outlines on the image
-And lastly Solwyvern, his awesome vector wallpapers is my inspiration

Comments/critiques are very appreciated.
(copied from animepaper the description..)

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In any case, I guess a lot of people here couldn't be bothered to register an account on animepaper (although if you do please comment/+fav/+hate on that site ^^), so here's a direct link to the 1600x1200 original version. Just shrink/crop it as you see fit:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/dep...ira_no_Chou.jpg

You're in a room full of anime girls.....

Depthcharge101 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:12:32 +0800

Lol saw ins on another board, thought it's pretty funny and interesting, anyway:

In the room, there are 20 pairs of maid twins, 5 furries, 20 catgirls, 30 school girls, 10 girls in kimonos, a shy miko, an Ah! My Goddess goddess, 50 generic Lolis, a reverse trap girl, a vampire girl who has Iori's (KoF) moveset, Krystal, Sakura (Naruto), Jam (Guilty Gear), Peach, and Zelda standing in the middle of the room. This group is neutral, but they hold an appreciable amount of gold collectively.

You have the same Geass Lelouch does.

What do you do?

Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica ?

Depthcharge101 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:18:16 +0800

Doesn't seem like anyone's watched it seems... The only thing I've heard about the show is that it's really bad.

Anyway I just finished the crimson series visual novel so I thought might as well check the anime out and see what's going wrong... Wow I was surprised, by a lot of stuff.

All the seiyuu are changed, everyone's alright except I don't like the anime Corti's voice much, but I am sure I'll get used to it. Good thing is Kawasumi Ayako is playing Tsuge senpai ^^, <3 her. The animation quality is weird, the animation is pretty fluid although the faces look different from different angles from different time >_>. Of course none of the characters really look like the original Visual Novel's but that always happen to anime adaptation.... In any case the biggest surprise is that, it turns out the anime isn't really a real adaptation of the novel, from the first episode I am pretty it actually takes place after the story of the VN, with Phoron already being a Dantist, working in Yufinri's office and all instead of studying...

But I didn't find it all that bad, at least in ep1... Then again it's probably because of the underlying things that I might know so it could be really different from fresh people watching it. Although the motorbike one man orchestra is a bit... um.. too flashy and ugly. It wasn't that big in the VN, and one-man orchestra is carriable to walk around.

Oh <3 the ending, although I've already listed to it plenty times before I watched the show. <3 kukui, myu and shimotsuki.

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien new season (focused on Haruka)

Depthcharge101 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:12:57 +0800

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-...mo-video-posted

Not a big fan of the series, but it's cool to know a new season focused on Haruka ^^.

Looking forward to the series.

Haibane Renmei?

Depthcharge101 — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:35:17 +0800

Hm, started the show a few days ago, up to episode 6. Very nice so far (awesomeness begin to surface after ep5...). Haven't finished yet, but somehow it gives a feeling similar to Aria, a feeling for liking the show, but unable to explain why...

No spoilers if possible (hide it with spoiler tags), anyone watched the show?

Gunparade March

Depthcharge101 — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:26:58 +0800

Wow, this show must be REALLY unpopular or something, it's like you can't find anywhere to talk about it!

ADB: http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=518

I haven't finished the series myself (only up to episode 7), but seriously, I find it very good so far. It's more of a romance or character driven story with a little spice of mecha. If you get into the characters, it should be pretty interesting, one of the episode got me pretty sad as well >_<.

So anyway, I definitely recommend it and have a go, it's probably not everyone's cup of tea, but it might be good to get a break from loli shows.

PS: Love the character design.

Saimoe 2007

Depthcharge101 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:41:50 +0800

Hm anyone voting and stuff for it? I only realized it yesterday but turned out I have some proxy error and couldn't vote...

http://animemoe2007.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

Ah the day Suigintou fight Fate will be fearce.... Hopefully Alice and Suigintou will make it far...

I guess I might as well post some helpful for those who can't read japanese:
How to vote guide-
http://omo.serenana.info/2007/08/24/again-...in-saimoe-2007/

English translated bracket-
http://bakudon.net/saimoe/

Elfen Lied manga....

Depthcharge101 — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:53:55 +0800

Hm duno why just got the feel of reading and finished it in 2 days....

The story is soooo much deeper than the anime, but I think I probably didn't enjoy it as much as the anime,

*SPOILER FOR ELFEN LIED MANGA*

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

So did anyone read it? How do you find it?

Aria Undine piano by me~

Depthcharge101 — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:02:56 +0800

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vrhz5BqNMQ

Yay finally finished practising it and recorded it. Any comments are welcome!

Note: I tried to put this under my previous Aria topic but sadly I was the last one who posted in the topic... and so my new post didn't bump the thread at all so I thought I might as well make a new thread...

Aria the Origination~

Depthcharge101 — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:08:43 +0800

Crystal Nova finally finished their subbing of Aria the Natural.... yay now I can start the sequel. Any Aria lovers here?

First wallpaper attempt ><

Depthcharge101 — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:56:37 +0800

Yea been editing wallpapers lately (still a newbie in photoshops), but haven't tried making one before and I finally took up the heart to try today ><. It isn't good of course, but it's good learning experience ^^

Anyway here it is, it's a wallpaper for Cartagra (a visual novel by Innocent Grey):

Material used:
Solwyvern's rozen maiden frame:

Direct scan from the game itself:

Most work is done on extracting the frame, and cleaning the snow.... So much snow it's not funny!

Anyone does wallpaper here as well?

Anyone here plays Visual Novels

Depthcharge101 — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:02:28 +0800

Just curious... I feel lonely cuz I can't find a board that talks about it. And I am not interested in discussion of crappy ero games made for the H material like Bible Black....

First game made by me ^^

Depthcharge101 — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:39:34 +0800

Ok not really anime-related but I wanna share it with my friends in this forum! It would be kinda pointless to put it at the game section cuz I know noone there >_>. So please don't move the topic

http://www.divshare.com/download/647255-68b

It's my first uni project that deals with game. Its gameplay is like gunbound, but in 3d. A very simple game, instructions are all in the zip file, so play it and lemme know what you think! Also don't be scared of the exe it won't have anything harmful

Comments welcome, also don't complain if it's too simple! Cuz it's my first attempt in making game...

Toki wo kakeru shoujo

Depthcharge101 — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:59:12 +0800

Anyone watched it? I just watched it and gawd it is amazing. I thought it's gonna be another overated show (it won many awards), and started out kinda bad as well, so I wasn't having much high hope for it, but then it developed, and everything is done well, it's definitely worthy of all the awards.

Have a look at it, I think it's definitely a show everyone should give it a try.
(http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6733)