EOW Inspiration Thread (Pictures, concepts, thoughts, tutorials etc.)

[Vulgar`]

Have something that inspires you to create environments? Recommendations for tutorials, techniques, wisdom from the grandmasters of painting, or just knowledge you wish to share.. this is the spot. Photographs, philosophy - anything you've got on your mind or would like to share.

[Flame_Unquenchable]

Saw these pictures the other day, they were pretty damn awesome.

Volcano-LightningPhotos

[Flame_Unquenchable]

Saw these a while back so I thought I'd post them up too. Largest Caves in the World-Vietnam

[Flame_Unquenchable]

Some stuff by Feng Zhu that was apropos.


A good portion of these are Environmental, he's got some pretty awesome stuff in there for characters as well, but I thought this would be cool for people to check out, there is a lot of stuff to digest in his videos, plus they're free.


http://www.fengzhudesign.com/tutorials.htm

[Flame_Unquenchable]

An interesting icy landscape and rare ice bubbles taken by this photographer.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/frozen-...572-slideshow/

[Dayle]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14248915

Some interesting cloud formations.

[Flame_Unquenchable]

Some Environmental stuff from Nat. Geo.

http://environment.nationalgeographi...-tropical.html

http://photography.nationalgeographi...63_600x450.jpg

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com...15_600x450.jpg

http://photography.nationalgeographi...75_600x450.jpg

[AlexTLe]

So i was watching a youtube music video and it actually has some great inspiration if you look closely, its called Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks. There are some environmental ideas in there, like the balloon, the cave, and the temple looking thing. Links not working so you can look it up if you want.

[Incinerated]

with the forum change we're gonna need a new banner for the activity, perhaps that could be a decent way of kicking of the updated forums.

Probably should wait for the final look though.

[takashmen]

tutorials that open my eyes
by Shaddy Safadi

http://www.youtube.com/user/shaddy1100

i think they will help a lot

[Mike Yakovlev]

Oh man, Shaddy! Eytan Zana introduced me to him. His stuff is awesome!

[Mike Yakovlev]

This guy (BASTIEN GRIVET) uses texture and digital painting flawlessly. Great scale and atmosphere. Hope the art brings much inspiration.
http://grivetart.com/artworks.html#album=1

[Dayle]

http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_026051_2160

HiRise website - Mars high res images. Good for textures, colours and reference.

[Nemome]

Any need for keeping this as a sticky?
We have THIS forum category as well, so posting there should be more useful I guess.

But it's up to you.
Please drop your opinion.