Quote by ValunaThere has been a
discussion about close ups of characters as wallpapers some time ago. This also belongs to changes of the rules.
Apparently, your Rias wallpaper was too flat of a close-up, in which it was more considered an indy art than a
wallpaper. Then to think that AP standards crumbled down a long time ago...sorry to say that but it only took a few
downloads to reach a high score at some point.
I read the article. I'm not sure I even agree with the premise, but since indy art is just wrong to put a wallpaper
when indy art has no wallpaper section. how can you put in multiple sizes?
Also indy art reflects art that is NOT series based -- that why it is independent.
Clearly mine is a popular wall of a series and indy art doesn't fit. It also didn't fit in with the
examples that were given:
On my own by Yuki-k
Bloody Eye by Bad--Girl
Attack! by Morrow
Now as you can see all these wallpaper sized arts showcase very close images
of the character/characters, much of the background isn't visible and it looks more like
we're looking to see the vectoring quality than an actual wallpaper as a whole.
Those are face shot more than head shots.
Mine was nothing like that.
Vs. the ones that were ok...:
Examples of what doesn't belong in the
Indy Art
Midnight Magic by Yamibou-Eve
And the Angel Sings by Yamionpu
rudeboy by Fran
In these we have a background visible, it brings the wall together and you aren't staring at just the face
of the character.
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Mine had at least as much background as any of them. I had to create a background to fit the look I was going for in the
walll -- @ 720p the original was way to small to copy, so the 3120p version had lots of detail created including a
background. If you talk square inches or % of picture or pixels, bu any measure, I had more background than the ones
that were said NOT to belong in in indy-- yet mine was put there because I said I created the wall with vector
techniques. Problem is when I say vectoring, I mean vectoring -- something made with vectors layers shades gradients,
fills 100+ layers -- some well over 500 layers. Most of my source files are in the 100-700mb size range with a fair
percentage over 1GB -- and one topped 4 before I went back and redid bitmap layers as vectors.
That's not the type of vectoring most people talking when they talk about vectoring -- that more of a tracing. But
you can't get a 3000-4000 pixel image out of a 720p, by tracing.
So it didn't fit the indy category in any sense of the word... so they put it there. It made no sense.
Personally, I also think it is a bit insulting to the artist to tell them where they can put something that met the
criteria for wallpapers in terms of size and content, but then add them to section where they can't add multisizes
and isn't shown as a wallpaper when people search for such. -- Even though it is a wallpaper by size.
Other sites have polices that if you submit someting in the dimensions of a wall -- it's a wall, very objective.
Problem with both these rules is that theya re very subjective and are arbitrarily enforced....
I saw another Risa Senpai that was nearly the same as mine -- and it was left in wallpaper. and it had less background
than mine -- but I don't belive you should single them out either. They are happy where it is at .. why cause
waves?
