Probably not, unfortunately.



tl;dr Things are hard. I’m lazy. You could probably make the ones you want just as well as(or better than!) I could.



You’re not the first to ask this, nearly all the meatspace-folks I know who I told this about wanted to know if I would do mobile stuff too. The way I see it, making those takes waaay more work to actually do right versus the work I put into making stuff for desktops.

Pretty much all of the backgrounds here were already at or darn near close to a 16:9 aspect ratio. All I have to do is get a program to trim off the edges of the originals, more or less. When you go mobile, you flip that aspect ratio on it’s head and it presents bunches of challenges.



Some of the backgrounds have strong vertical features that are clear candidates. I need a program to recognize when these show up.



Some have potentially multiple good backgrounds in them. Pretty much all of the shots of the temple have an option to make two (one of the temple goddess’ face and another of the sky to her side). If I wanna still use a program, I gotta find a way to pluck out the interesting stuff.

Some are just too gosh-darned cluttered to work for mobile. I’d have to make the computer throw these out.

Getting a computer to recognize shapes is the sort of stuff that PhD theses are written about, much less getting cold hard silicon to make interesting aesthetic decisions. That means all mobile backgrounds would likely need to be made by hand, and that doesn’t play to my strengths, really. I don’t have much in the way of artistic skill (my sis did the theming and logo for the blog, and she did a darn good job if I must say so myself) and being a student means I don’t have the time to do a project that large.

It might be that I could get some results thru some mixture of seam carving & cropping, but that’d take time to calibrate and isn’t a sure bet (you have to cut the horizontal resolution by a factor of four to get it to fit on an iPhone). I might get some free time later in the summer to screw around that, but I wouldn’t count on it if I were you.



If you really want it, I’d recommend downloading the images I use as sources for the backgrounds, pick some from your favorite episodes and DIY. All you really need to do is fire up MSPaint to get it done (you can find the size of you iPhone’s screen here). If you like what you make, don’t forget to share!

