I need some good y2k wallpapers. I'll start off with.
I have several vintage Y2K wallpapers I've been meaning to upscale/expand to HD but here's one I just found.
>>8087959i dont mean to be a dick or pushy or anything but can you post the other y2k wallpapers you have, but upscaled? bc this one is alr so cool and beautiful
>>8087960This one is more or less done. Expanded to widescreen with Photoshop AI. I'll try to drop a couple more next week if the thread's still up. I have another one I was about to post but I can't help but feel it needs a little more work.
>>8087433>>8087432>>8087431These are great
>>8087431
>>8088011One of my favourites. But fuck that watermark.
bump
>>8089204>>8089207>>8089889>>8089891Holy crap these are amazing, thank you anons
>>8088047here you go pal
>>8089944Based. Thank you!
y2k is such a fucking aesthetic, good shit fr
https://www.desktopgeneration.com/this site has a bunch of talented artists that specialize in this aesthetic
>>8090048Wow, great find anon!
>>8090048Warez shit.I have no clue how you people find this kind of websites.It's a shame there is no option to pirate some of the stuff from this website.
>>8090105pretty sure its all free to download?
killing off this shit aesthetic was the one and only good thing that came out of 9/11.
>>8090153Go be old somewhere else
>>8090153Terrible bait
>>8090105
https://y2kaestheticinstitute.tumblr.com/I'm too lazy to drop my stuff rn so just check out this entire blog
>>8091183This is sick, thanks bro
animewallpaper narod ru/gallerea htmlcheck it. (add a dot in-between wallpaper and narod and a dot on ru and one on html)
>>8087431Thanks everyone for keeping this thread alive. I wish some of these were on wallpaper engine.
>>8091826I got several I'm gonna dump next week. Just doing touch-ups on them.
>>8091826you can add them simply by dragging the files on the bottom of the window. Maybe try making your own?
>>8091838can't wait
>>8091125>>8090979>>8089891>>8089889>>8089888Metalheart is so cool bros
>>8087959What upscaler do you use? I've tried AI upscalers but they all output a sort of smeared watercolor look that I hate.
>>8092108Metalheart is underatted.
>>8091825is there a version of this but without the cartoon pornography?
>>8087964Edited the spheres on the bottom corners to reduce the lens warp.
I'm almost certain I'll be updating this one in the future.
I was apprehensive about expanding this one to 16:9 so you'll have to crop it or expand it yourself. Sorry.
Note: I don't know the actual title for many of these papes.This one was made by 'J Bois' in 2004. That is all I know.
The quality is a bit spotty with some of these edits so if I ever get around to updating them, I'll post them here:https://mega.nz/folder/qFRTCBKR#5aUllou_aLkh0TZ9dEBbqQ/folder/WZoS3ITJ
>>8092110Sorry if I gave the impression that that was an unscale. It's just an image I found off the web. I mostly use Gigapixel AI, and on occasion, CupScale. But I don't know of any upscalers that can really produce HiRes upscales that truly have immaculate or photorealistic quality. We need AI that can recognize what it's looking at and actually 'imagine' what that image would look like at HiRes by creatively inputting missing details in a blown up image. Programs like Gigapixel can sort of do that with faces to a limited extent but little else. For better or worse, we're still very much neck-deep in the era of AI slop. Not so different from what life was like a century ago when people were first wrestling with the advent of airplanes and moving pictures.All of this is part of the reason I'm not interested in super HD displays. There's a real issue of diminishing returns with upscaling. You can make a vintage wallpaper look passable on a 1920p display but it would be a lot harder to make it look decent at 4K. And by the time AI can do that, we might be done with traditional desktops anyways. Who knows.
>>8092513
>>8092514
Can someone help me? I've been looking for a wallpaper I had that's very similar to this. It's got some large, clear crystals in the foreground, a large pale blue or white field, and maybe a volcano or something orange like fire. Sorry if that's too vague. It looked fucking clean and powerful. I miss it.
A curiously large image for a wallpaper from 2001. It was uploaded by mistake on the website. Makes you wonder what other vintage wallpapers are available in HiRes on someone's hard drive somewhere.
>>8092291can you post the non-upscaled/edited ones as well? i've been looking for stuff to use on my old computers.
>>8092548I uploaded them to a folder since I didn't feel like posting them.https://mega.nz/folder/qFRTCBKR#5aUllou_aLkh0TZ9dEBbqQ/folder/KZJ3HDrS
Thank god, an actual good thread!
>>8092690danks anon :)
>>8092696this just makes me want to play the first Xenoblade Chronicles game again
Don't want to spam the thread with the same image, but I rendered some 1600x1200 and 2650x1440 versions also if people want.
>>8087431Y2K and Frutiger Aero are amazing Aesthetic.
>>8093101Xenoblade Chronicles X has a similar Aesthetic. I would recommend playing it. It's futuristic but very cool. Definitive Edition is coming out in two months.
More please, I have a DIRE NEED for this aesthetic.
are there games with this aesthetic?
>>8095511Broken Reality kinda...
>>8095511The old Sonic games have this aesthetic in the special stages. Would be cool if it translated into the actual stages but I guess that's part of the schtick is that they're "special stages".
Is this good enough? i tried to restore a very fucked source and add some noise to hide the uncanney valley artifacts.
>>8092513Source?
Is this too blurry? I'm trying to get the hang out of resampling.
>>8095502Caedes dot netAbstract and surrealism sections
>>8096166Digital illustration section also has some good ones and some very appropriate for the period
>>8096168
>>8088011More like this?
>>8095511rollercoaster tycoon 3 (2004)
>>8096405silver
>>8096035It looks like 1080p with chromatic aberration. I am not a fan.
>>8096405>>8096410Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
>>8096412Yeah i revisited this edit later and realized i didn't like it. Here is the original picture, maybe someone else can make it work better. I still have a lot to learn.
>>8092287No hate, but what even is the point of upscaling the image if you can tell where the ai starts and the og image ends? I don't know if I'm just picky but a uniform pattern turning to slop ruins the pape for me personally.
>>8095511Hypnospace Outlaw
Does this count?>>8096646I'm blind, i can't spot the ugly part.
>>8096910These early 3D renders of castles are max comfy. We can never go back.
>>8088011Thumbnail looked like the Jedi Council chambers.
>>80966461. They're just desktop wallpapers. If they look halfway decent on a surface level then I consider them passable as wallpapers. I have plenty of flawed stuff made by others and I can live with them. If you're anal about the technical flaws of AI generation then these are not for you. You're just gonna have to wait a while for them to be updated (or request someone on the /wg/ modification threads to do it).2. AI slop is not huge deal since AI is at least competent enough to do 99% of the hard work involved with image generation. There is obviously room for improvement with these, I acknowledged as much in my previous post. I don't like the idea of waiting months or years to perfect something like a wallpaper before releasing it (again, they're just wallpapers). I welcome people to post flawed material. It's good to just get stuff out there. Seeing a vintage wallpaper expanded to 16/9 ratio might prompt someone to update it. I have updated other people's edits too. Not a big deal. I'm not the least bit bothered by AI slop since I know I can always fix it. And if the mood to update something finally strikes me I do just that. I recently updated an AI-expanded liminal space pape I did months back. Feels good.3. Anon requested that I post them so I did. They were made on the spot. So flaws are to be expected.
>>8092538Is it perhaps this one?
tiling y2k?>Error: Image resolution is too small.https://files.catbox.moe/zh7i4e.png
>>8091825Some of these are pretty good, but I hate having that watermark in the corner.>>8094515I'd appreciate a 2650x1440 version, thanks anon.
>>8098164Whoops, reuploading again. I mislablelled the file and thought I accidentaly rendered at the wrong res lmao. It should be 2560 NOT 2650
Does this count?
>>8098536No, because it looks like poorly AI upscaled garbage. It would otherwise count.
Found this one here http://imaputz.com/I recommend Wiby for searching old websites
these next ones I found them at https://aminet.net/pix/back there are other pix categories if you're curious. It's kinda tedious checking the images, it's easier if you use the extension Imagus
>>8099354sorry for the weird resolutions, they came like that
this one had a small height so I made this, the spaces are transparent
another one I had to resize, in case you want the originals these 3d renders are in https://aminet.net/pix/addic
source: https://groovythemes.com/abstract/
Yandex also helps a lot finding similar pics
DON'T DIEI'm gonna dump some stuff laterWelcome back
>>8101081Missed this thread
>>8101136Me too, I can post nowI found all of these browsing customize.org through wayback machine. It's a goldmine for this type of stuff (sadly some wallpapers weren't archived, maybe they are on other sites)
sorry, the filenames of the 2 papes above are>thepaininside_by_tw13ve_and_illphorm>ENSNARE_by_Shadowness
>>8101160Hell yea, epic dump, these are kino
>>8101174I'm surprised that a lot of these have pretty good quality, I guess that website didn't compress the files
I've barely scratched the surface because this site has thousands of images, and I got these clicking on a random date so idk if later dates have even more
>>8101220 (me)don't worry I'm not gonna hijack the thread, I'll be more selective
Feels, I rekon I have used at least half of these papes at one time or another over the past 25years.
RIP, The GOAT of 90s CGI got taken down. Apparently some guy has been going around abusing the copyright system and the original upload of Peshay Studio Set 1996 got hit. Fortunately, the guy who made the music back in the day reuploaded the video to his channel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXL8Z93AnE&t=1s
I just made this yesterday. Enjoy
>>8101481Nice, did you use Bryce?
>>8101494Looks like it.
>>8101481do you have any website with your art?
>>8094515 here againGot into a bit of a Bryce kick, so here's a few new papes. Let me know if you want them in different resolutions! 1/3
2/3
3/3
>>8103147Gorgeous
>>8101456are you talking shit again anon?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXL8Z93AnE
>>8104542Fucking posted the wrong one didnt Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK8ilaPZbKE
>>8104542>>8104543No, that video really did get taken down for a short while. You can look at both of the community posts from Ambiance and Peshay Music for the details. Even Peshay's reupload got taken down eventually, which prompted the community to create a petition to get the videos reinstated.
>>8099326>>8099327Did you make this?
>>8105734nope, they're on the page I mentioned before those postshttp://imaputz.com/wallpaper/
>>8099443>https://groovythemes.com/abstract/Hopefully someone can upscale these. Some look nice.
>>8105734More weird things like this?
>>8095511MGS2, Deus Ex, System Shock, Quake III, UT '99.
>>8095511The original Prey from 2006
>>8107088
>>8108020Edited
Ace Combat Y2Khttps://files.catbox.moe/qb8odv.png
>>8091825>animewallpaper narod ru/gallerea htmlthis is dope as fuck downloaded the entire site for preservation, last updated 2003. How'd you find this?
>>8092111looks like that Pendulum album cover
>>8104542>>8104543Copyright is a piece of shit
>>8109591
Bump. Any purple ones? Those ones hit the hardest.
>>8101199Is that drip car???
>>8099327>>8099326These are amazing
Any mobile ones?
Lost my fav y2k wallpaper after da PC died, posted once in one of these threads. It was something like blue beams going upwards on a black bg. May some kind soul repost it one day.The archive is not helping either, insanely slow and can't do a simple search. Fuck my life.
What program can I use to make my own Y2K 3d renders?
>>8115163There's bryce 3d, the results of that are more 90's than y2k though
>>8115164Y2K is 90s
>>8115164Honestly I do wish we had a modern program to make Bryce 3D like Renders. It's kind of weird nobody has made a 3D Program like it. We have so much advancements in Hardware and Software, even with AI nowadays it feels like we are leaving a lot on the table. Hopefully someone does it.
>>8117312It needs someone with the money, time, and (access to the) coding skills, to buy the rights to the program from Daz3D (which would make it the fifth time the program changed owners in about 31 years), and then they could finally remake Bryce, as version 8, into the 64-bit app all Bryce enthusiasts have been desperately asking for since forever; which is a project Daz3D themselves have apparently been unwilling to take on since their last update to version 7 back in 2010, presumably because they feel a 64-bit rewrite project...A: would take too long and cost too much moneyB: wouldn't sell enough copies to recoup all the costs and turn a profitAnd they're probably not wrong on both counts, but even so, in the crowded modern day market of 3D graphics software, there's nothing quite like Bryce.
>>8117312>>8117410To be fair, I'm sure any of the modern 3D graphics apps can produce renders that look like a Bryce render if an artist took a few moments to recreate the appropriate look and feel in their work using their program of choice, and that's great and all, but for existing Bryce users in particular, most/all of these modern apps simply don't have the kind of comparatively easy to grasp user interface and readily accessible built-in libraries (for textures, skies, trees, objects, etc.) that Bryce has always had since version 1 and which was slowly expanded upon in successive versions over the years.And by rewriting Bryce to be a 64-bit application it would not only allow even more expansion of such features, but it would finally allow the program to use more than approx. 3.5Gb of memory, which would unlock so much potential for creating larger and much more complex renders but in the familiar Bryce 'style'.But will such a massive rewrite project ever happen?It's been almost 15 years now since the last update to version 7.1 was released, making it far and away the longest gap between any kind of an update the program has ever experienced, so at this point the signs are honestly not looking so good for there ever being a version 8, much less a version 8 in 64-bit form.But never say never, after all, stranger things have been known to randomly happen on the internet.
For anyone interested in giving Bryce 7.1 Pro a go, check out the following link from archive.org:https://archive.org/details/install-bryce-7.1.0.109-win-32In 2012 DAZ3D (current owners of Bryce) briefly put the full version of Bryce 7.1 Pro on sale on their website for free in the form of the "Personal Learning Edition".It's basically the full version of Bryce 7.1 Pro just without commercial licensing terms; included is a 1200+ page manual/guide and additional bonus content.Make sure to read through the installation guide, particularly Step 7 - as this will help get the most from the software on modern systems.And, obviously, make sure to verify any download with your antivirus/internet security software before installation.Alternatively, at the time of writing this, Daz3D have put the full commercial version of Bryce 7.1 Pro on sale on their website (daz3d.com) at $4.39 (an 80% discount).
>>8087431https://youtu.be/d3KfkKXRDzkThis video and entire album is very reminiscent of Y2K in many ways. Breakbeat, Futuristic Sci-Fi, a sense of wonder and chill. We really need to make Art and Design this beautiful again.
>>8117410>>8117411Honestly I would say we need an Open Source version of Bryce 3D or Bryce 3D should go Open Source so everyone can maintain the code or add onto it and revolutionize it even further. I do worry because there has not been a rewrite like one of you mentioned, but also it's expensive as well. Crowdsourcing and Open Source would be the next best path to go into.
>>8117901Is Bryce 3D easy to learn and easy to render and understand? I might get into it.
>>8116167>>8116166Feels so weird and so chill. Makes me feel like this is 3D Backgrounds to a Video Game.
>>8118033Very, you can pick it up in an afternoon and make stuff. I made this basic music video for a song I wrote in an afternoon, it's not great but you get the idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH14ecVLZcA&feature=youtu.be
The following video was made with an early-ish version of Bryce (likely either a later update of v2 or a pre-production/early production version of v3) where animation controls had finally been added to the program.Planetary Traveler : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L9OXAhAlm4Prior to this video, which was released back in the day on DVD, Bryce was essentially a still image creation tool only.A sequel to this video was released some time later (created with Bryce v4 I believe), that video was called "Infinity's Child".
