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Inspiration & Reference
I just wanted to know if people had any links to good websites for either level design inspiration (photos, paintings, concept art, etc.) or just for architectural reference. We had a thread like this on the old qmap, but we know how much good that does us.
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WoW 
So many different styles. 
 
The Disma Album Art 
Is pure quake. 
Lego Brushes 
And How Its Done 
Cover Art 
since lunaran mentioned cover art i post on my so called site, here's link to a couple of artists that make it:
http://cargocollective.com/nickbkeller/Album-Art
http://www.graphic-noise.com/zbigniew-m-bielak
http://www.riddickart.com/ 
 
Nick Keller 
yesh! 
Supposedly A Meteorite Cut In Half 
That Nick Keller 
thing should be a skybox! 
Alien 
Kewl 
 
 
I saw Alien the first weekend it was released in theaters. Even after all these years I've never forgotten the first time I saw the Nostromo landing on LV-426. 
 
That movie has not aged one bit and is still as terrifying. 
 
One of the few scifi flicks that have aged really well.
The sequels suck tho. 
Aliens Rules 
 
 
And Aliens 3 is great. The sequels suck? Yikes. 
 
Gotta disagree with that though, Alien 3 is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It does have killer visuals though. 
One Of The Worst... 
the worst being Prometheus...

*shudders* 
There Were Aspects Of Prometheus That Were Great. 
Aesthetically, it was pretty amazing. 
The Director's Cut Of Alien 3 
is actually pretty decent IMHO.

And I liked Prometheus :) 
Game Over. 
Alien: A great horror film and a great scifi film. Along with Aliens, Star Wars, 2001: ASO, Blade Runner & Star Trek, Alien is a corner stone of scifi art. 90% of scifi design is derivative of the films I just mentioned.

Aliens: Another truly great scifi film and one of my favorites of James Cameron. While not as refined and cohesive as Terminator 2 (IMO, James' most matured and polished work, but not my favorite) it boasts great story, pacing and set pieces and shows us Cameron's great eye for composition and practical effects.

Alien 3: I wouldn't say it's "terrible", but it's not exactly good either. It's flaws are more subtle than, say, Alien Resurrection. The film had a difficult production, things happen. The idea of Aliens coming from non-human hosts was neat. However, going back to the single alien, mysterious horror route is a hard road after the hardcore alien porn that is Aliens.

Alien Resurrection: Terrible. Some neat ideas, but very poorly executed. This is the first time the alien franchise had a "movie", the previous installments are "films".

AVP: Fuck you. Get out of my house. 
Oh Yeah. Prometheus. 
Prometheus was another film that's allegorical of modern society: insipid and pretty. 
Killpixel 
you missed AVP2 hehe, it makes AVP look good. 
 
As the Alien blog linked in that imgur gallery reveals, a lot of the ideas that went into Prometheus were envisioned and cut for Alien/s/3. The big pyramid, the heiroglyphs, the mixing of DNA, etc.

Trouble is they were all kind of thrown into Prometheus at the same time, and "integrated" by the master of throwing shit at the wall and hoping you won't notice what sticks, Damon Lindelof. 
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