AR Custom Artwork FAQ

Like our stuff but didn't find anything you wanted? Do you have a favorite character or series that isn't featured here? Need a banner for your anime webpage? Don't despair! Anime Revolution will make you a custom banner, wallpaper, or Winamp skin tailored to your specifications!

If you are requesting for the first time, please read the entire FAQ before proceeding to the order form! A lot of future problems for both you and AR can be avoided this way.

• The First Commandment of Requesting from AR
• What can you make for me?
• What are the rules for banners?
• What are the rules for wallpapers?
• What are the rules for Winamp skins?
• Inappropriate Content
• What information do you need from me?
• What kind of art do you use?
• Do I have to give you pictures to use?
        - The Ranma Amendment
• What are your picture specifications?
• Can you make me something with hentai pictures?
        - The Digimon Amendment
• How many things can I request at one time?
• When will my request be finished?
• Will you e-mail me my request?
• Where do I pick up my request?
• What does AR get out of all this?

The very first rule of requesting anything, be it banner, Winamp skin, or wallpaper is this: Always Be Courteous!! Please don't forget that we are doing this for free, getting nothing but a link here or there as payment. (Believe it or not, we love doing this, and we are wildly happy when we get nice people that say please and thank you when we do things for them!) We don't like e-mails that say, "Make me this. Now." No one likes to get ordered around. Ask nice and we'll happily make you what you desire. Be rude and we're sure as hell not going to do our best work on it. Hey, we're only human. (Though StarFire's parents may contest that fact. They insist that she's not really from this planet. -_- Love you too, Mom.) But please, above all, keep this in mind when you're making your request! Please and thank you will get you on our good side. Courteous people are our favorite customers! =^_^=

1. Blank Banner - A custom banner with characters/series/idol of your choice, WITHOUT text.
2. Full Fill-In Banner (Complete Banner) - A custom banner with characters/series/idol of your choice, WITH your site name/URL.
3. Fill-In Banner - An existing AR banner, WITH your site name/URL added.

Normal-Sized Banners: 400 x 70 pixels or 468 x 60 (Standard sizes for most banner rings.)



Button and Mini Banners: 88 x 31 pixels or 200 x 35 pixels.



Custom-Sized Banners: Your specification.

We make wallpapers featuring anime / manga characters, game characters, seiyuu, or Jpop idols ONLY. We will not, as cool as they may be, make a wallpaper featuring They Might Be Giants. (Damn.)

If you would like text on your wallpaper, we can add yours or come up with our own. You also have the option of not having any text. We advise that you let us choose whether to add text or not if you don't have something specific you want used.

Like the rest of our wallpapers, all custom-made wallpapers will have the AR logo embossed in a corner. We do our best to put it in an out-of-the-way spot as not to detract from the picture. These logos may not be removed under any circumstances.

Standard wallpaper size: 800 x 600 pixels or 1024x768 pixels (We can also make a wallpaper to fit your particular screen resolution.)

AR's wallpapers are saved in JPEG format. JPEG's are smaller and of better quality than bitmaps. You can always resave the images as bitmaps in any graphics program if you would prefer it in that format.

General Rules For Wallpapers:

We make Winamp skins featuring anime / manga characters, game characters, seiyuu, or Jpop idols ONLY. We will not, as much as you might beg, make a Winamp skin featuring you in drag (even if it IS for cosplay). (::ahem:: Sure.)

All of AR's Winamp skins are full skins, meaning skins with equalizers and playlists. We do not have the capabilities for skinning the mini-browser at this time. Because we love the pictures so much, all of our skins have hidden equalizers. However, if you desperately want a visible equalizer, let us know and we'll discuss your request. We also hide the shuffle and repeat buttons for aesthetic purposes. (This can also be negotiated.)

All of AR's Winamp skins are designed to work in Winamp versions 2.81 and LOWER. They will not work in the new Winamp version 3. We are not creating skins for Winamp 3, even by request. If you request a skin, be aware that it will only work correctly if you have Winamp 2.81 or lower installed on your system. (If you don't have it, you can go to Nullsoft's Winamp 2 site to get it.)

If you would like text on your skin, we can add yours or come up with our own. You also have the option of not having any text. Keep in mind that there is little room to work with.

General Rules For Skins:

AR will not accept requests whose content may offend other patrons. This means we will not accept requests for creations that offer insult to anyone's race, skin color, sex, sexual preference, or religious beliefs. We will only accept requests for religious based text when it is directly from or related to a specific anime. (Example - Evangelion, Saint Tail, etc.) Please be courteous towards all of our differences.

For information on our nudity / hentai / explicit content guidelines, please see Can you make me something with hentai pictures?.

When you are ready to make your request , please follow these guidelines:

1. Go to the Request Form and fill in all the required fields.
2. Do not e-mail Anime Revolution with a request, especially if the form is down. If the form is down, it means that requests are temporarily closed. Don't assume that this means you can just e-mail us and we'll fill your request, because we won't. We do not accept requests via e-mail.
3. If you leave any required fields blank, or if you try to send in more than one request (even using a sneaky different name or e-mail address), your form(s) will be promptly deleted, with no response from Anime Revolution.

If you have a specific picture in mind, we highly suggest that you include the URL to it on the form. We will only replace it if we have a better-quality version or if it is completely unusable. We have a resident picture-fixer-upper ::the Mattousai waves::, so we can usually salvage most images, but sometimes they're just too horribly distorted or small to use. Note that requests submitted using bad-quality images that must be retouched take longer due to the fix-up process.

If we do not know the character you requested, we may e-mail you for a picture. Please do not ask us to go hunting for pictures of a rare or hard-to-find character. We don't have the time.

AR has some rather extensive anime libraries. (Ah! My poor hard-drive!) If you do not have a specific picture in mind, we can choose one for you. We have good taste. Yes, we know that most of our libraries are shoujo, but hey, that's what we like. Anyway, here is the list of our libraries (all have at least 10 decent-quality pictures suitable for at least Winamp skins, some, like Bishoujo Senshi SailorMoon and Card Captor Sakura, have over 100, many that could be used for wallpapers):

• Aa! Megami-Sama / Oh! My Goddess
• AIR - Kanon
• Bishoujo Senshi SailorMoon
• Bubblegum Crisis / Tokyo: 2040
• Card Captor Sakura
• Candidate for Goddess / Pilot Candidate / Megami Kohousei
• Cowboy Bebop
• DiGi Charat
• Dragonball
• FAKE
• Final Fantasy (IV, V, VI, VII, IX, X)
• Fushigi Yugi
• GALS! / Chou GALS! Kotobuki Ran
• Grandia
• Gravitation
• Gundam W
• Hamtaro / Tottoko Hamutaro
• Hana Yori Dango
• Hunter X Hunter
• Inu-Yasha
• Irresponsible Captain Tylor / Musekinin Kanchou Tylor
• Kingdom Hearts
• Koko wa Greenwood / Here Is Greenwood
• Kyuuketsuki Miyu / Vampire Princess Miyu
• Love Hina
• Lunar: The Silver Star Story
• Macross 7
• Magic Knight Rayearth
• Mahou Tsukai Tai! / Magic User's Club
• Mamotte Shugogetten!
• Martian Successor Nadesico
• Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli Works (various)
• Mononoke Hime / Princess Mononoke
• Neon Genesis Evangelion / Shin Seiki Evangelion
• Nightwalker
• Nurse Angel Ririka SOS
• Ojamajo Doremi
• Outlaw Star
• Peach Girl
• Pokémon / Pocket Monsters
• Record of Lodoss War / Lodoss-tou Senki
• RG Veda
• Rurouni Kenshin / Samurai X
• Saber Marionette
• Shoujo Kakumei Utena / Revolutionary Girl Utena
• Slayers
• Tenchi Muyo! / No Need For Tenchi!
• Thousand Arms
• To Heart
• Trigun
• Vision of Escaflowne / Tenkuu no Escaflowne
• Violinist of Hamelin / Hamerun no Baiorin Hiki
• Wedding Peach
• Weiß Kreuz / Knight Hunters
• X/1999
• Yami no Matsuei / Descendants of Darkness
• Yu Yu Hakusho / Ghost Files

• /\ucifer
• Aikawa Nanase
• Amuro Namie
• Baby V.O.X
• Chinen Rina
• Every Little Thing
• Gackt
• Hamasaki Ayumi
• Hayashibara Megumi
• Hiro
• Imai Eriko
• Kanno Yoko
• Malice Mizer
• MAX
• Morning Musume
• Ogata Megumi / em:óu
• Olivia
• Onitsuka Chihiro
• Sakamoto Maaya
• S.E.S.
• Suzuki Ami
• T.M. Revolution
• Utada Hikaru / Cubic U
• V6

The Ranma Amendment

We will not go searching for Ranma 1/2 pictures for your request. If you want something from Ranma, (especially something rare) please supply us with the pictures you want us to use. (But please bear in mind the tips below about picture size and quality affecting your request piece.) We have very limited knowledge of the series, and there are just simply too many sites out there for us to go searching though. (We do have some galleries for a few of these series, such as Dragonball and Slayers, however, if you want a specific character that we don't have anything of or a specific picture, you must supply it.)

The Ranma Amendment currently applies to the following series titles:

• Digimon
• Dragonball Z (or any other incarnation of the Dragonball universe)
• Gundam W (or any other incarnation of the Gundam universe)
• Ranma 1/2
• Pokémon / Pocket Monsters
• Slayers
• Yu-Gi-Oh!


If we discover the same problem with any other series, we'll post it on the FAQ and let you know.

If you are sending us pictures to use, please make sure that they are large and of good quality! This is especially important for wallpapers. If you send us a crappy-quality picture, your request will look crappy (unless we can wheedle the Mattousai into fixing it up, but he can only do so many things at once...). We can't stress the importance of good quality pictures enough! Good quality pictures have vibrant colors and sharp, crisp lines and (ideally) do not cut off on all sides. On the most part, screenshots are NOT good quality pictures. We can use decent screenshots for banners and maybe skins, but unless you want a collage, screenshots do not make nice wallpapers. Also, the bigger the picture, the better - especially if it needs to be fixed before it can be used. Please do not give us thumbnails and expect us to make wallpapers with them. It ain't happening. If you send us a picture to use and we have a better copy of it, we will use ours. We won't use a completely different image without discussing it with you first. Remember, a better quality image will make a higher quality creation! While the Mattousai is a veritable genius at fixing anime- and CG-style images (we have StarFire for fixing up photos), there are some beyond even his talents or patience to repair. Below is a sample of a bad quality and good quality version of the same image. Remember, the bigger an image, the better!

That's a good question. It depends on your definition of "hentai." At AR, we have a special section called "Ai no Himitsu" (Secrets of Love) which showcases our yaoi, yuri, and hentai (H) wallpapers and skins. This is where we put any of our creations that some people (or their parents) may find objectionable. To be honest, however, most of our works in this section are barely hentai at all. We mainly do same-sex kissing and cuddling, with the occasional tasteful-nudity piece. We will do some "tasteful" shonen-ai and shoujo-ai pieces if requested. Nude pictures also have to be "tasteful," meaning AR decides if it is or not. We WILL NOT do any pieces featuring heavily hentai or "lemon" artwork! (Sorry, no graphic sex or nudity.) If you would like to request something you think is hentai, send us the image link and we'll tell you if it is or not. If you are in doubt about your picture, send the link to us, and we'll make a decision.

Okay, here are the RULES; no exceptions - You are allowed ONLY ONE active form submission at a time!!! This means that if you submit us a wallpaper request and then submit a banner request (or if you try to submit two requests on one form), BOTH OF YOUR REQUESTS WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT BEING FILLED. We're very serious about this. Here's the low-down on ordering:

• Banners - 1 request per form - total of TWO (2) banners per month - OR -
• Wallpapers - 1 request per form - total of ONE (1) wallpaper per month - OR -
• Winamp Skins - 1 request per form - total of ONE (1) skin per month

Because of the large number of requests we receive each month you are now allowed either one wallpaper request OR one skin request per month (NOT one of each).

You can only request another creation one month AFTER you receive the pickup notice for your first request. (For banners, a second form request may not be sent until the first has been completely filled and your first request sent to you.) This means that if you request on Sept. 15th and you receive the pickup letter from us on Sept. 28th, you cannot request again until Oct. 28th.

We do keep a written log of all our requests (names, e-mails, and both the received and completed dates, etc.), so we will be able to check our notes. We're sorry we have to do things this way, but we get a lot of requests and we are very busy. Please do not try to trick us into making you more than one creation by submitting second or third requests under a different e-mail address and alias. This is very inconsiderate and it pisses us off. And besides, most of the time we can tell. So let's be nice everyone, and follow the rules. If we catch you, we won't make you anything until we damn well feel like it. We have very elephantine memories - we always remember our trust being violated and our services being abused.

Please don't e-mail us a request and expect it the next day. ChibiCree and the Mattousai actually are working-class Americans and have to go to work. StarFire has two part-time jobs, carpal tunnel problems and a shitty Internet connection (not to mention the computer from the darkest depths of Hell). And our friends insist that we "do" stuff with them, and get "lives." Sorry, but that's how it is. Yeah, sure, we'd love to sit on our asses all day and do this stuff... That's why we all went to school for web design. Anyway, don't expect next-day turnaround. Although we strive to complete your requests in a timely fashion (generally within a week), sometimes it will take more time, and yes, on rare occasions less time. Here's a loose timetable (loose meaning "average" - all numbers depend on how many requests we received before yours) for those of you who must have specific numbers:

• Banners usually take 2-3 days.
• Wallpapers and Winamp skins usually take 7-10 days
• Requests submitted with bad-quality images that must be cleaned up can take longer, depending on how many people put in requests that must be repaired before yours was submitted. Winamp skin repair requests usually take 10-12 days and wallpaper repair requests (those needing heavy editing) usually take 12-20. Remember, all times will vary depending on request volume and extent of image repairs required.

If you requested a banner, AR will e-mail it to you. If you cannot receive attachments on your e-mails, let us know and we will make accommodations for you. Please make sure that you keep some room free in your box until you receive the banner from us - they aren't that big, but if we can't send it, we have no way of telling you it's done.

If you requested a wallpaper or Winamp skin, AR cannot and will not e-mail your requests to you. The files are too big to send over e-mail.

AR will maintain a Pickup page in both the wallpaper and Winamp skin sections on which we will post your finished requests. Your pieces will remain on the request page for 2 weeks or so after the completion date. (All right, fine - they'll be there until we bloody well feel like taking them down.) After that they will be moved to either the wallpaper or skin pages, whichever is appropriate. If for some reason you miss downloading your request and we don't repost it on another page, e-mail us for help.

Fame and fortune! Nah, but wouldn't that be nice? We get credit and links. If you wish to post something we made for you on your own website, we ask only that you contact us for permission first, and then credit Anime Revolution and provide a link back to our page. We don't think that's too much to ask.