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Anonymous
A friendly notice for the guy who keeps manufacturing SZS wallpapers:

Both SZS and ZSZS have awfully nice scenes with with great variety of detailed textures and yet you keep making these simplistic character + one background color desktops. Do you just lack the skill to do anything more detailed or what's the deal? It's like every SZS episode has its own unique graphic theme, you know.
>> Anonymous
>>470664
lord of jackass, could you be any ruder? STFU ingrate.
>> Anonymous
>>470671
One shouldn't get upset over critique, especially when it is true.

In my opinion the problems seems to be that there are lots of SZS wallpapers that are highly similar and that are obviously made quite fastly. The quantity is not as important as quality when it comes to wallpapers.

Of course I understand that minimalistic approach is a thing on it's own, but I can't say that most of the wallpapers that are obviously made by that one same person are that visually pleasing. More original art from the screencaps and less stylisation, please.
>> Anonymous
>>470695
it's not the critique itself, it's the overwhelmingly rude presentation. have you even watched SZS? you need to let people down gently; soft landings.

Of course, the easiest solution to having a beef with how someone vectors is to lead by example.
>> Anonymous
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>>470703
Well, okay then.

Here we see a good SZS wallpaper. It's detailed and strictly made after the original screenshot.
>> Anonymous
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And here's an example of bad one. It's generic, obviously made in a hurry and the minimalism doesn't work at all
>> Anonymous
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And lastly here's horribly failed one. Ugly as hell, heavily, but unskillfully edited and boring. The only component of failure that could make it even more awful would be multible stitched images in it.
>> Anonymous
>>470664
maybe you should give some examples which wallpapers you mean
>> Anonymous
>>470719
that wallpaper IS an example; lurk more.
>> Anonymous
>>470721
yeah but you mentioned that it's a specific person who makes the crappy vectors. i wouldn't say the last two are from the same guy. and what about scenes which just haven't got the details you seem to find so great? the style of SZS often is just simplistic
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>>470671
welcome to 4chan.
>> Anonymous
>>470735
Well. it's obvious that the vast majority of the backgrounds are made by a few people. I'm not saying that they all are same person.

It's true that the art in SZS is profoundly minimalistic. Therefore most of the desktops tend to be naturally minimalistic. It's just that while the series has really neat looking and somewhat "detailed" minimalism (like the japanese art in general tends to be) the overly simplified vectors just don't deliver the quality that the original shots contain. Something is wrong when I rather use a screenshot as my wallpaper than the vectored version of it.
>> Anonymous
>>470760
You've got an overly simplistic, and I guess that's a detailed (or faithful to the screencap). What's an in-between or sufficient to you? Where's your bar set? That I'm curious?
>> Anonymous
>>470773
I'd say that the more faithful to the original the better. Some simplified vectors are really good-looking, though. The most of them are not.
>> Rei-chan
lol, I found this thread through /cm/. It kind of makes me want to vector now... I've done it before, but jesus it takes so long.
>> Anonymous
>you need to let people down gently; soft landings.
lol'd
>> Anonymous
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Man, vectoring in 'shop is fucking long and tedious. At least, that's how I found it after trying it for the first time. I don't know about using Illustrator or anything; I haven't pirated it (yet).

Just look at this pic. I vectored this guitar to try and learn a bit about vectoring. You know how long this took me? Hours. Fucking hours making this shitty looking vector. Granted, it was my first time, but goddamn was that shit tedious.

So when simplistic vectors show up for shows I like, I don't complain 'cause I'm happy just seeing them around (god knows I don't want to fucking do that shit). Lack of skill? Perhaps. Mor like lack of time and patience.

And when I see amazingly detailed vectors around? I just go "wow, that must've taken fucking forever."

Keep it up, SZS wallpaper guy.
>> Anonymous
>>470821
We don't have to suck anyones cock in this board, you know.
>> Anonymous
>>470664
i know what is SZS, but ZSZS?
sequel of SZS perhaps
>> Anonymous
>>470831
what rock have you been under?
>> Anonymous
>>470664

if its so up your ass, then why not try and learn to vector for yourself.

also did you know that the only reason why vectors became a trend is because they are easily manipulated and can be reduce to different resolutions w/o having the image quality degraded?

the anons who make these vectors produce simplistic vectors so that the anons who save them can later manipulate/customize/edit/turn them into walls they want/prefer.
>> Anonymous
>>470821
Yeah...vectoring in photoshop is absolutely horrible...use illustrator...the work put in is more than halved.

On the topic of why there are so many of the same types; well looking at the quality of the vectored image, it is a more minimalistic approach, but hey it looks good, whoever is doing it is definitely more into the color than the actual vector (be this from lack of patience or skill), thats cool...I suppose...but it would be nice to see some variation once every while.
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>> Anonymous
Why would you even think of vectoring in PHOTOSHOP?!!! Use Illustrator. It would save you a lot of time and angst.
>> Anonymous
>>470821
that's a great first shot at vectoring. i think i'll save that guitar. maybe you could put it conveniently in an anime girl's hands and post it in the girls with guitars thread.
>> Anonymous
Some of us like minimalistic walls. Go make your own board if you don't want to see them.
>> Anonymous
why the FUCK do we have 2 active threads about the same thing?? dammit, why don't we just have a board for shit like this.
>> Anonymous
>>471446
so you like trolling huh?
go back to b newfag. While SZS was airing there was often 2-3 active threads, so STFU and go cry to your mom or something
>> Anonymous
>>471638
>b
lol underageb&/gaiafag detected.

Yeah you fucktard, only one thread is necessary.

To address the issue of the thread, OP is right and he sounded pretty nice. He could've cut right to it and said most of the walls are shit, which they are. If the maker/makers of the flood of szs walls put some effort into just a few walls, I'd have something worth keeping. There are programs and applets that can generate vectors like the ones we've been seeing.
>> Anonymous
>>471667
i agree with your opinion, however, i doubt anyone half-assing their vectors will do a better job just because anon demands it. because people are lazy fucks, and they go on 4chan.

cutenotpedo and notchii make good vectors though.
>> Anonymous
sorry but i just don't get the problems of some people here.
it seems that you are complaining that people vector the scenes they like and not the ones you would prefer.
oh, they are "generic" ... so what? most of them are just scenes out of SZS or ZSZS and if they want to vector them it's ok.
there are enough people who are glad that such scenes get vectored and nobody is obliged to make vectors they don't like only because some idiots on the internet think they are better than the simple ones in typical SZS style. it's your problem that there are few people who share your taste
>> Bridget !Tz0ULG.7to
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bump for the fact that i saved a bunch of the super-simple wallpapers around when it was originally sub'd only up to like 5 or 6, and we're this far along and SZS has been a fucking magnet for super simple vectors, the only which have been really stylish are the all-brown classic japanese art style silhouette look WPs.