is it just me, or most of the art is charachter-centered, while finding inspirational environment art is much harder 

plus, it's mostly chicks aged 18-24, and a smattering of weird monster characters...

few artists seem interested in painting men, old women, or children (unless they are disturbed and-or sexualized girls.)

These guys do have a lot of talent, though. 

Are the bestest things to draw, metl -- EVERYONE knows that

Excellent stuff, Lunarol. 

not that I really care about spiderman but bengal is cool. 

stars = suspense, windows = voyeurism

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/06/book-review-the-wrong-house-th.php

I get it! 

stairs dammit, stairs 

then a ceiling fan is horror.
And couple em, you've got twin peaks. A girl told me she remembers only that from watching it as kid and it was a strong experience. 

Staris are like one of my fave tings to map in maps. I really have no idea, why -- but I always find them appealing in games, and even in architecture. 

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=7o_AzOVWu90

Just everything. 

http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/06/i2thchbpxyimlcpd7rya0.jpg 

The Buenos Aires Italian Qaurter. When the immigrants came off the ships they had no paint for their houses, so bought it on the docks. The paint was all for ships, so the colours were from all over the spectrum. 

that every house in that shot is a different color, or that every house in greece is whitewashed with a blue roof:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Greek_Church.jpg

So Mediterranean. 

you're thinking of Camino street in Boca. What you say is right back then, now only one street (the tourist street) has house like that. 

I was there less than a day. 

http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=17650 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss_bridge 

These are some great (and long.. over 2 hours each!) videos of Warren Spector interviewing a bunch of game industry people for a master class at U Texas.
info: http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/master-class-videos/
mirror of videos: http://www.ninjadodo.net/temp/spector/

I watched Hal Barwood, Richard Garriott, and Tim Willits which were all quite interesting. Willits kept calling Quake a "mess", and seemed to like Q2 more. 

http://www.intothepixel.com/artwork/2008_contest_winners.asp

Some great artwork by game developers, very nice to look at!

Sneak peak of a possible theme in HL2 ep3 (could perhaps be seen as a spoiler). 

it showing how fucking retarded he really is. 

It's awesome. He's awesome. 

The Death Star '49
http://saucers.greyfalcon.us/MECHANIX%20ILLUSTRATED.htm 

Have a sixties military laboratory environment?
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4308/p111a.jpg 

No-One Lives Forever
I guess. 

seem a bit 60's techno retro. I only recall a few labs in No One Lives Forever (btw, it was awesome), a sub base in the second, a chemical lab in the first, but neither had much technical detail. Most of the places were groovy instead, like the club in West Berlin, the shag carpet and corkscrew stairs in one villain's hidden private quarters -- good stuff. 

For real
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RecckjgLyqo&feature=related