Func_Msgboard: Inspiration & Reference

Posted by metlslime on 2003/02/17 08:18:34

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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Speaking Of Natural Bridges

#311 posted by cyBeAr on 2005/07/15 02:23:54

While googling for one I knew of in china I found this site: http://www.naturalarches.org/

Blender

#312 posted by HeadThump on 2005/07/15 06:51:56

:) -- just as good for some things. That is probably as smooth as I could hope to get for import into Quake.

Metl - Cool Links

#313 posted by CETME on 2005/07/15 16:09:50

But I assure you that is not Albany, NY - Albany is 250 miles inland!

Pretty cool what water can do to sedimentary rock!

Albany Somewhere Then! :P

#314 posted by metlslime on 2005/07/15 16:32:46

Tokyo Undeground

#315 posted by BadKarma on 2005/07/17 13:22:36

http://www.g-cans.jp/intro/07photo/index.html

Meep meep

Castle Via BoingBoing

#316 posted by czg on 2005/07/25 03:13:38

http://flickr.com/photos/stillburning/sets/638142/
There is some good stuff there if you can manage to filter out all the "OMG EVERYTHING FOR FREE NOW, HITLER!" crap

Now That's My Kind Of Inspiration

#317 posted by Kinn on 2005/07/25 09:45:38

castles rock.

Now That's My Kind Of Inspiration

#318 posted by Kinn on 2005/07/25 09:46:10

castles rock.

Just Wanted To Say

#319 posted by grahf on 2005/07/30 17:04:19

that national geographic magazine can be a great source of inspiration. especially for asian cities.

Taktsang Monastery In Bhutan

#320 posted by grahf on 2005/07/31 12:24:28

http://www.uib.no/bot/qeprg/pictures/places/Bhutan/pages/Taktsang%20Monastery%20(photo%20Jane%20Jopling).htm

http://www.barbara-and-stu.com/Taksang%20Monastery%202.jpg

Built into the side of a sheer cliff. Wow.

I Could Just

#321 posted by HeadThump on 2005/07/31 13:21:47

print that out and hang it on my wall. Wow is right.

#322 posted by grahf on 2005/08/01 08:19:13

bet you'd like to see a map based on that. just wait, a while...

Architectural Sketches By Iikka Ker�nen:

#323 posted by grahf on 2005/08/01 12:38:57

http://www.digital-eel.com/scans/buildings.htm

Ooh Lovely

#324 posted by starbuck on 2005/08/01 15:49:59

Fingers must have an awesome brain to be able to just churn out stuff like that. It would take me a day to come up with one of those i think.

Thanks Again

#325 posted by HeadThump on 2005/08/01 16:58:10

Scrawled on small post-it notes at work, over a period of a few weeks.

I use to do that all the time.

I esp like Ikka's Black Mariah on the sword page

#326 posted by Vigil on 2005/08/02 11:38:05

I would just like to point out that those color WWI photos are the most impressive stuff I have seen all summer.

I mean. Holy fuck they look good to me.

Something Cool

#327 posted by Jago on 2005/08/07 02:13:24

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/208/4205/640/Wuhan-Yellow-Crane.jpg

Access Denied On That Link

#328 posted by grahf on 2005/08/07 17:49:31

Same Image, Different Link

#329 posted by Jago on 2005/08/07 17:57:31

http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Tourism/Wuhan-Yellow-Crane.jpg

Grahf:

#330 posted by metlslime on 2005/08/07 18:48:37

but the access denied page has a helpful link to the same image which works becuase the referer is local :P

I guess they want to enable <a> but not <img>.

#331 posted by anonymous user on 2005/08/16 19:39:32

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

Someone

#332 posted by . on 2005/08/16 19:55:55

Build that in Doom 3.

Ughh

#333 posted by HeadThump on 2005/08/16 20:41:11

I have seen more elegant design come from a dogs ass.

Still...

#334 posted by metlslime on 2005/08/16 23:33:15

it's better than the hideous EMP in Seattle.

Pointless Modern Architectural Shit

#335 posted by Shallow on 2005/08/17 02:37:10

I believe the Guggenheim was once described along the lines of 'a dynamic eruption of plastic form'. I prefer 'a tragic abortion of spastic foil' myself.

There's a museum in Japan, whose name mercifully escapes me, which is essentially a few geometric primitives stuck in a field. It has been featured in several books which go on about how great it is. What utter bollocks. It's the architectural equivalent of a newbie boxmap.

Some modern architecture is cool, a lot really makes me wonder how on Earth ANYONE could approve these designs before they are built.

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