A bit of a lazy post this week, not because I don’t want to, but because I don’t have time at the moment. I’m getting ready to take a trip to Singapore next week, so from here until the beginning of December, you probably won’t see a photoshop post. But I may keep you updated on AFA 09 and whatever cool things happen while I’m there.
I’ve decided to take this opportunity and post some of the omitted shots from both Winged Lily and Angel Lily. By the way, all these pics have larger versions if you click on them.
When I was deciding on doing Winged Lily, I took several shots from all slightly different angles to figure out what sort of look and feel worked, as well as the most appropriate angle for which I wanted to illustrate my wings.
Each shot in their own right looked nice and did have their advantages and disadvantages.
When I was taking shots of Saber Lily Nendoroid with her new friends, I had a lot of trouble setting up the shots. Mainly because I didn’t have a streamlined process of switching body parts and whatnot, as all the extra parts were still in their boxes. I really gotta hand it to Kodomut. It’s a huge time sink and dedication.
I decided that since the nendoroids were out, I might as well play around with Saber Lily cosplaying.
Since many of you liked this picture of Konata stealing Saber’s armor, I decided to make it a wallpaper. Did a little bit of color tweaking and filtering. Click it for the full size wallpaper!
Well, I’m off. I’ll post again when I get the chance to, but expect some possible no-goes for the next 30 days. 🙂
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Konata is so funny with the Saber’s armor ^^ I love the last pic’ so hilarous ^^ Yours Saber Lily wallpapers are beautiful ! Congratulation !
Thanks Leonia!
? What happened to your gravatar?
I don’t know, it’s strange… Louise did not love me anymore :'(
Maybe it’s because I used Shadonia’s mail >_<
I fixed it for you! 🙂
Really nice 🙂
I tend to shy away from actual photos as wallpaper, especially light background ones, because it makes reading the names of the icons harder. Sadly, many awesome wallpapers are too busy, or too busy on the left side of the screen, and I can’t use them.
I alternate every 3 months or so as it is, but I do have some favourite ones.
It’s true – some people like it, others can’t take it. Also, it depends on if you put your icons on the left side or the right side of the screen. Though swapping icons around just for the wallpaper can be a bit of a hassle.
I should really play around with my Nendoroids more often. The cosplays are quite cute! It’s just that they’re such a pain in the @$$ to stand XD
Nendoroids can be a little tricky to stand, since they don’t have the same flexible display base as figmas. Kodomut truly has a lot of patience to put them to stand without their bases! O_O
body swaping action!
Saber is just too cute, love her cosplaying with that expression. the Konata wallpaper it pure awesome XD have a safe trip and enjoy AFA 09! ^_^
thanks! I’ll definitely try to enjoy, and to take lots o’ photos!
Pouty Lily is my favorite Lily expression. ^_^
Lily in Mikuru fighting waitress outfit is just sooooo cute! >w<
I would snag it as my wallpaper but I prefer my wallpapers to have the focus on the right side (for some reason)
Have fun in AFA 09 ;~;
She is ready to SERVE! XD
You can always horizontally flip the image. 🙂
LOL. I like the pun 😀
u-uhm. I can’t flip the image… your watermark/logo would be flipped too that’ll just look odd @_@;
Good point. Here, just for you:
http://bit.ly/fightingmaidlily
oh, see ya soon! :3
I remember doing a photoshop once before a while ago back for one of Danny Choos first ever contests (this was waaaay back) but yeah, I totally understand the difficulties of doing many shots to find 1 which could be used.
It was so annoying, I decided not to do another again… Too much hassle.
And I’m with Guy, I try to avoid using photos as wallpaper if I can help it. Luckily, windows 7 has a nifty auto-randomize feature for it’s wallpapers so I just set it to change to a random one in my set every 30 minutes or so.
Seriously? I remember that contest! I was third place winner with the Katamari entry. Everyone thought that I would have had it in the bag. Those were difficult times with the crazy “race to preorder” Shiraki figures. I had secured Mei Feng at the time, and missed my preorder for Shall. 3rd prize I basically got an extra Mei Feng, and had to keep fighting for a Shall elsewhere.
*shakes fist*
So it was YOU!! dammit, I was tied up in 4th with some other guy and I think the votes were pretty close between the 3 of us.
meh, I only wanted Char at the time and took advantage of the fact that HLJ did their preorders later than other sites.
In the end, I ended up getting all but 1 of the other Shuraki figures later on…
Ah, good old times!! Where have they gone?
Heh… I remember those days… and I know exactly what you mean by it. ^_^
Back then, Coros and a couple of others on AFN were deciding that if three of us won first second and third, then we would discuss with each other which Shiraki figure we wanted, so as to insure that we all got what we wanted. In the end, only Coros and I placed. We still don’t know how that guy with Rin won. I mean, it’s kinda funny, but not THAT funny. Ours were significantly better, especially mine with all the crazy stuff happening in it. 😛
With the 1/7 Lily, I think it was a good choice using the photo with eye contact with the model (Lily in this case). It gives a lot of impact when the model has the kind of heroic posture and the audience actually has contact with the eyes. What’s more, the light exposure is REALLY GooD, gives a very strong feeling. Amazing shot. A big thanks that you kindly let me borrow your post to put on my blog. Many comments there like your Winged Lily, fantastic! Though, they don’t comment here due to languge.
About the little Lily, nothing much to say. Nendo + heads chopping (I mean switching heads or cosplay) = never-ending fun! haha XD
Hey thanks! I’m happy to share my works with other communities in other languages!
Head swapping is possibly one of the hidden true funs for nendoroids, especially when you have lots of them~ ^^
Possibly a bit late to say this, but hope you have fun in Singapore as well as the AFA!
Hehe that reminds me that I should get more Nendos to play around with.
I do own more Petit Nendos so I guess ill have to settle witth those so far.
Enjoy your trip!
Petits are awesome. They’re very adorable, and in many cases, more unique than their full Nendoroid counterparts. The only unfortunate thing about them is their lack of different facial expressions.
LOL @ Konata! Oh god those Saber Lily shots make great wallpapers!!
I hate to admit it…
But, that is hilarious! Silly Konata!