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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OMG

#465 posted by Kell on 2006/01/23 11:56:33

The Clockwork Orange!

personal anecdote: my dad, trained civil engineer, worked on the modernising of the glasgow underground. That victoriana building about halfway down the page, the entrance to St. Enoch station, had to be jacked up in one piece - by 7mm iirc - so the tunnels below could be worked on.
My dad has dozens more photos of the project, but I shan't be asking him for more 'inspiration' :P

What a surreal reminder o_O

Rocky Stuff

#466 posted by Vondur on 2006/01/25 00:31:17

http://www.inca.is/show/pages/thumbs.html

Creepy Wax Heads

#467 posted by Lunaran on 2006/01/26 18:21:38

http://www.joeseigenthaler.com/Joseph_Seigenthaler_Noggins.html

noggins I say!

Wtf

#468 posted by bal on 2006/01/27 03:19:45

Off of bear's pics of Thailand, what the hell is this place...
http://bear.leveldesign.org/wordpress/gallery/Thailand/IMG_9072.jpg.html
http://bear.leveldesign.org/wordpress/gallery/Thailand/IMG_9073.jpg.html
http://bear.leveldesign.org/wordpress/gallery/Thailand/IMG_9074.jpg.html
Pretty damn freaky.

(Btw, nice heads Lun)

Bal

#469 posted by JPL on 2006/01/27 07:07:55

he he he ... They drowned some people in concrete ;P ..

Bal:

#470 posted by cyBeAr on 2006/01/27 22:15:58

Contemporary thai artist making his own bhuddist temple after his own design. Apparently there's another artist that's answering with a black temple in the same city but haven't seen any of that.

Found This

#471 posted by here on 2006/02/08 23:19:09

http://www.inetgrafx.at/

This Painter is very good

Shipbreaking

#472 posted by metlslime on 2006/02/19 02:45:04

The shipbreaking yards of Chittagong, Bangledesh. We've seen a few photos of them in this thread before, but I never knew the name of the place they came from. Apparently half of the tankers in the world are dismantled on this beach:

http://www.aeroplastics.net/dreamscapes/BURTYNSKY/SHB_21_00.jpg
http://www.aeroplastics.net/dreamscapes/BURTYNSKY/SHB_12_00.jpg
http://www.aeroplastics.net/dreamscapes/BURTYNSKY/SHB_01_00.jpg
http://scenic-group.net/tsunamibenefit/artwork/burtynsky_number15.jpg
http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/photos/him/wallpaper/1024/him_288_01_l.jpg
http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/photos/him_photobook/wallpaper/1024/him_p_172_02_l.jpg

And this doesn't have anything to do with shipbreaking, but it came up in the search:

http://www.baaa-acro.com/Dossier%20Photo/S2-ADN.htm

Also, this guy took some of the above pictures, check out his website for more cool photos at a lower resolution:

http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/index.html

Really Wonderful Cave Photo

#473 posted by czg on 2006/02/22 10:12:18

http://tinyurl.com/kyveu
Notice the two tiny helicopters down at the bottom to get a sense of the scale.

Czg

#474 posted by Vondur on 2006/02/24 01:30:56

nice pic, but your caption is kinda werd

Let's Build An Extraterrestrial

#475 posted by bambuz on 2006/03/06 12:44:11

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3aa.html

Lots Of New Temple Ruins And More:

#476 posted by bear on 2006/03/10 03:15:05

http://bear.leveldesign.org/

Stuff From Berlin

#477 posted by Spirit on 2006/03/11 08:27:31

http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/pics/my/uselesspicsforfunc/

The spiky thing is something in the Viktoriapark between Berlin-Kreuzberg and Berlin-Sch�neberg. I think it looks pretty cool, maybe you like it too.

The red building is the Zitadelle Spandau, a citadel in Berlin-Spandau. Had a rather boring visit there but I thought I could make some photographs for you mappers. :)

#478 posted by negke on 2006/03/12 01:49:19

heh, that spiky thing looks a lot like one quake concept sketch i did a couple of years ago. :)
wasn't supposed to become a church/monument, though.

Anthroposophisch

#479 posted by Spirit on 2006/03/13 10:25:47

A building in souther Germany called Goetheanum.
http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/ogrod_antropozoficzny/goetheanum_06.jpg

Google for more pics of it and it's burned older brother (the rounder one).
http://images.google.de/images?q=goetheanum

Spirit

#480 posted by JPL on 2006/03/13 23:48:35

Nice Place !

Seamless Textures

#481 posted by JPL on 2006/03/31 11:21:16

Check it !

http://www.absolutecross.com/graphics/textures/

Yeah But They're All Terribly Ugly And Useless

#482 posted by czg on 2006/03/31 11:34:03

Just random generated swirly patterns in all the colors of the rainbow.
Useless for mapping.

Czg

#483 posted by JPL on 2006/04/01 02:27:37

Did I say it has to be used "as is" ?

Several Dozen Castles Of Wales

#484 posted by HeadThump on 2006/04/01 10:11:30

http://www.castlewales.com/listings.html

Wales

#485 posted by GibFest on 2006/04/01 16:25:42

Cool I live in wales, the only one Ive been to is Rhuddlan castle though, denbighshire is actually nw and not north east as the website says :o

Browsing Through

#486 posted by HeadThump on 2006/04/01 16:46:03

the pages, I find the more they lie in ruins, the more inspiring the castles are.

Nice Abandoned Stuff

#487 posted by Vondur on 2006/04/04 01:45:30

http://photos.dobi.nu/

Camobodia/angkor

#488 posted by bear on 2006/04/05 08:18:49

uploading photos from Cambodia atm, I'm really tired and the connection is pretty slow now so I probably will stop in the middle of the process and continue some other day.

Hmm

#489 posted by bear on 2006/04/05 09:03:45

Seems like there will only be material taken before going to Angkor today.

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