Over 5000

- 2010-05-24 As the topic says, over 5000 plays of Yui Makino for me now at last.fm. It took about three years to get to 5000, and that equals to around 5 songs per day. And to celebrate this, a new wallpaper:



Also a 1920x1080 version availible in the gallery.

If you go in to the gallery you'll also notice a subtle difference (maybe ). The images are no longer all scaled too a 100x100 thumbnail but a more aspect ratio correct one. Makes it a bit easier to make out what the image is suppose to be.

Btw please vote in the poll for a chance to decide the color scheme of the next skallen.net theme!

Three posts in one month, must be some kind of record for me, weeee!

 yuimakino       wallpaper    gallery   

Argento Soma

It's time again....

- 2010-04-07 For a new wallpaper

This time it's actually based on an image taken with my camera, on the CD-booklet for the fuwafuwa single (I don't have a scanner). But quality-wise it turned out pretty okay, but feels a bit primitive.

Well well, anyhow, here it is:


Also working on a 1920x1080 version with a different text. And don't forget to check the other one I did last month, it's in the gallery!

Been playing some other games than HoN this month, an old classic (civ 4) as well as a new "tactic rpg" game called The Last Remnant. Not gotten into it yet, took a while just to get the controls right, but at least its playable

One more month then it's finally golf season up here again

   牧野由依    ふわふわ♪    wallpaper    gaming   

Kobato., Cross Game, Nodame Cantabile: Finale

Up in the Air, Sherlock Holmes

Civilization IV, The Last Remnant

New single from Yui Makino

- 2010-03-05 Weee, got the new Yui Makino Single Only one day after release, straight from japan. Since I've ordered the "First Press Limited Edition" I also got a nice poster and a DVD with the video for fuwafuwa.

Still working on some new wallpapers.... Now I just need to find a decent scanner or something to get some of the pictures from the CD to my comp for even more wallpapers!

There's three songs on the disc, Fuwafuwa (ふわふわ♪), an instrumental version of it, and The Never Ending Rainbows.

I didn't like fuwafuwa that much on the first listen, but it grew on me and now I would probably rate it as one of her top 10 songs. The Never Ending Rainbows was okay, but not outstanding.

 yuimakino    牧野由依    ふわふわ♪    fuwafuwa      

Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex, You are under arrest

Law Abiding Citizen

More heroes of newerth!

Early christmas present!

- 2009-12-01 Yes, early present for you, so be nice!



I'm impressed by myself! Fourth wallpaper this year (all Yui Makino ), I think that's some kind of record for me.

This time, it was a bit more work than usual, like 5000 hours in paint for one thing, and a couple of different sources combined as well. So here's some credits:

» Wings: Falln-Stock
» Background: maz hewitt
» Other brush effects: ihea
» Font: Hawaii Lover
» Original image: Tanpopo Suisha ~Yui Makino Version~ album booklet

This time it was more than just adding some text . The source image was really good though, the original file is 2790x1877, so I can make it pretty much any resolution. For now I'll just add the 1680x1050 which I use myself. Need another resolution? Just ask

No kanji this time, I don't have any good-looking kanji fonts, the few I have looks pretty bland and didn't fit at all.

Off topic: Now I'm safe this year, at least one post for each month, woohoo!

 牧野由依       wallpaper    xmas   

Another wallpaper

- 2009-10-01 This is crazy, two new wallpapers this close together! And the third Yui Makino wallpaper this year. And I still have a few more drafts I'm working on .

This one was a little more exciting to do than the last one, the image I had to work on then was really tiny, and I couldn't do very much about it. This time I had a bigger image, and a better background on the image as well.

Anyway, enough talk, here's the wallpaper:



Fun fact, my three wallpapers of Yui Makino are kind of the only ones availible in the world! My previous two currently ranks one and third on a google image search for 'Yui Makino Wallpaper' and I cant spot any other wallpapers around there either.

As for news one the site, nothing much this time, changed the layout on the frontpage to only display six posts at a time. I've started to use more and more pictures when posting, and they eat both loading times and page length. The 'recent posts' box already provided quick links to the first six posts, so I just cut away the extra ones.

One more paragraph before ending it... This weekend I watched my 300th (unique) anime! The honor goes to 'Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind' (link below).

   牧野由依    anime    wallpaper   

Hidamari Sketch, Major, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Mahjong

New wallpaper!

- 2009-08-13 Wow, I made a new wallpaper, thats not happening every day. Again featuring Yui Makino . Unfortunately the original image was a bit low quality so i had to go for a minimalistic look in this one. Here it is anyway:



If anyone is interested in other resolutions than 1280x1024 just ask, its easy to fix. I mostly make them for myself and I use it on a 1280x1024 screen.



Not much more for now... as always, have more stuff I'm tinkering on, but thats for future posts

 牧野由依    yuimakino    wallpaper   

Sora o Kakeru Shoujo, xxxHOLiC: Kei

WALL-E

New gallery system!

- 2009-02-15 Wee, finally made the changes to my gallery, now I can have subdirectories . Also uploaded some photos in the gallery now that it works a bit better.

Was a new animesuki forum banner contest this month. The theme this time was Friendship/Family. The banners I did are in the gallery, check it out... My favorite was the school rumble one.

Also made a new wallpaper featuring Yui Makino.


The original image looked like this:


Turned out quite nice imho

Been sick last week, so quite a lot of anime since last time.

   wallpaper    animesuki    gallery    牧野由依   

Eureka Seven, Bounen no Xamdou, Bleach, Itazura na Kiss, Strawberry Panic, Mai-HiME, Mai-Otome

Small things can be good too...

- 2008-06-04 I've done some small updates I've been thinking about doing for a long time. The comments are back! Yay, now I can talk with myself both in the shoutbox and in the comments! Also removed the big box on the frontpage. It was simply too much space for a few headlines. Now you will get right on the latest blog post (hello!). I've also reworked the sidebar a bit, now a small box with recent posts are there (as a replacement for the missing headlines box above the blog), and it moves! If you haven't had time to vote in the poll (you really should) the poll goes on top, but if you already voted, the headlines goes first instead. Also changed a few things in the coding, but mostly non-visible stuff.

Now, for the second time in history, a post with an image!



Two Yui Makino albums fresh from japan!
The picture quality is not the greatest, taken with my old S700i.


It's back

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True Tears, KimiKiss Pure Rouge, Shakugan no Shana II

Crossroads of Twilight

Big Buck Bunny

nothing!