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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#2704 posted by Spirit on 2015/03/21 23:26:55

https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Nikolai+Nedbailo

#2705 posted by Text_Fish on 2015/03/22 15:09:35

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/22/supertide-mont-saint-michel-france?CMP=fb_gu

#2706 posted by JneeraZ on 2015/03/22 16:08:48

I got to visit Mont Saint-Michel a few years back and it really is spectacular. It's a Quake level. It really is. Everything is medieval and chunky. It's gorgeous.

It's Cool

#2707 posted by DaZ on 2015/03/22 16:16:52

I went there with a school trip way back when. I really wasn't old enough to truly appreciate how amazing it is.

Would love to go back there now!

Mt Saint-Michel

#2708 posted by bal on 2015/03/22 19:07:25

All the touristy stuff in it makes it feel a bit Disney-landish now, but yeah it's still a really amazing spot.

#2709 posted by JneeraZ on 2015/03/22 19:13:57

Right, you have to fight through the tourist town at the base but once you're inside the abbey itself it's really pretty amazing.

#2710 posted by JneeraZ on 2015/03/23 15:02:41

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2260700&postcount=136

Nice

#2711 posted by ijed on 2015/03/23 16:08:22

#2712 posted by Zwiffle on 2015/03/26 17:47:56

http://imgur.com/gallery/pvyD4uu

#2713 posted by mfx on 2015/03/27 12:20:22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmNPE0HwE8

#2714 posted by JneeraZ on 2015/03/27 13:14:53

Cool as hell!

#2715 posted by Lunaran on 2015/03/27 17:00:30

Removing something from a scene is easy, because you're replacing it with empty background nobody is looking at. Putting something in the scene very much isn't, especially a character that's supposed to be performing. Rather than put the expensive weight of a lot of CGI behind creating a character everyone would be focusing on, they just used it to remove the puppeteer instead.

Beats the hell out of tennis balls on sticks.

Cloud Tank Magic

#2716 posted by mfx on 2015/03/28 22:17:23

https://youtu.be/RypKl8MJPRE

Skull Graveyard

#2717 posted by mfx on 2015/03/28 23:04:39

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1571629469768783.1073741881.1555415761390154&type=3

Gardens And Hedges

#2718 posted by hypnos on 2015/03/31 05:56:19

https://www.google.ca/search?q=Santiago+Rusi%C3%B1ol&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=eBoaVZmJGo-1yASCjIK4Bw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1048&bih=662#tbm=isch&q=santiago+rusi%C3%B1ol+paintings&revid=587206655&imgdii=qMy1Wk1ztjjn3M%3A%3BNBgfz40aoCUH6M%3BqMy1Wk1ztjjn3M%3A

#2719 posted by mfx on 2015/03/31 07:13:43

http://i.imgur.com/W1Wa9WC.jpg

#2720 posted by FifthElephant on 2015/03/31 12:02:16

So the sun is closest to greenland, canada and britain... makes sense considering how hot those places are... and australia is furthest from the sun, that icy tundra of a country.

#2721 posted by Lunaran on 2015/04/02 16:47:14

Other than the Tower of Babel, does anyone have any neat reference of a "tower of stairs"? Stuff like Tatlin's Tower:
http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/11.1/images/croizier_fig06b.jpg
or things of that ilk. Tall, and a little out of control.

#2722 posted by ijed on 2015/04/02 18:02:54

Not quite the same, but campaniles are weirdly absent from Quake.

https://www.google.cl/search?q=campaniles&rlz=1C1KMZB_enCL575CL575&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=965&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=nmcdVbqeFYKkyAS_pILICQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=medieval+campaniles

I couldn't see of the crumbling examples though. Climbing up the inside of one is pretty hair raising, because there are no internal floors (at least in the one I went up).

#2723 posted by mfx on 2015/04/02 19:29:36

For the laughs: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Ribart_Elephant_triomphal.jpg

Peter Cook:
http://crad.visualdeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/archigram.jpg

Just google Erich Kettelhut.
Do it.

Bonus staircase:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WBYSELQPeo8/VRlsOYsILXI/AAAAAAABBHQ/d6UMcNmqMRA/s1600/tumblr_mtfs7n3ZzQ1qgpvyjo1_1280.jpg

Extra bonus: Micromegas leakage by Liebeskind:
http://libeskind.com/wp-content/uploads/leakage-2280x1798.jpg

No wooden stairtowers except Lebbeus Woods atm. you know them i guess..
Tatlin is pretty unique, i post when i find some..

#2724 posted by JneeraZ on 2015/04/03 17:33:16

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/eclipse-v

#2725 posted by Lunaran on 2015/04/03 18:25:02

you guys are great

#2726 posted by mfx on 2015/04/04 06:25:45

http://hardsurface.tumblr.com/

Memories...

#2727 posted by Mike Woodham on 2015/04/04 09:29:10

Second row, third from left: I used to use a very similar one of these comptometers, made by Burroughs. I used it to work out discounts like thirty-three and one third % plus ten %, which is 40%, not 43.33% of course. More complicated discounts were not so obvious and needed a machine to work out.

Those were the (non-decimal) days when men were men and pin tables were the Quake of the day.

#2728 posted by JneeraZ on 2015/04/04 11:12:36

mfx - That's an awesome link. And then I saw this : "Curated by Paul Pepera." Ahh, that's why. :)

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