References Thread

http://www.texturehunt.com/

Contributing my little collection of texture/reference images, if it might help anyone. The site needs some work, I know

Hai !

So last Saturday, I went walking downtown Montreal and stopped by a massive Church on Saint-Catherine Street. I've already been there once for an early music concert that was pretty rad but I decided to stick around to maybe take some shots of the Chapel. Went up to the main door, but found it closed so a guy came running up to me and asked me if I wanted to see inside the Church. I said yes and he brought me in a little back alley on the side of the Church where he opened a door that led behind the Chapel (the rest of the Church's building). To my excitement the place was incredibly old, the floor was cracking, the paint was coming of the wall and tons of work lights everywhere were installed. The guy made me meet with the priest and I explained to him that I was a game developer and that I was looking to take pictures for further reference. He was delighted and made me enter the Chapel (but the real fun was everything else to be honest). So I told him that I didn't want to touch anything sacred or mess around their stuff and he told me that everything was good. I asked where I could go and he granted me permission to look everywhere. I was freaking excited. So here's a few shots of the Church. Some pretty inspiring stuff in there. I even went to the roof and inside the basement (that was incredibly creepy).

So I thought I'd share that for environment reference. I also took quite a few little videos that I'll be uploading to Youtube later.

Everything is taken on an Iphone which... gives crap pictures. I do have a nice camera, but didn't think I would take reference pictures that day.

I couldn't help but grin at this. Could make a nice little "environment encounter" for a horror game Bioshock style.

Took this one because I thought it was a pretty awesome reference for using global illumination in games.

So this is a corridor that you'd access by walking up stairs that were completely in the dark with only the bright red exit sign at the top of the stairs to light it. In this corridor there was a clinic called "Just Solutions".

The whole building had crackled paint inside. The floor was noisy when walking on it. Everything was so freaking old.

From this pic everything else was taken in the basement of the Church. I had to stop exploring at some point because the whole thing felt like a maze. Sooo many little passages, corners, didn't want to get lost.

I just loved how everything was slightly off on this board.

In the little videos I have a segment where I walk up into the roof of the Church. Now that was something.

Awww crap just posted a reference thread and didn't notice there was one already. Sorry guys !

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Awww crap just posted a reference thread and didn't notice there was one already. Sorry guys !

Fixed it.

http://www.deviantart.com/

Just some stuff i found.

Random stuff I collected;

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This has CSGO or Insurgency map written all over it.

do you know what this place is called?

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do you know what this place is called?

No man, spotted it on a picdump, no text or anything that came with it.

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No man, spotted it on a picdump, no text or anything that came with it.

aight. i searched a bit. it's called "wadi dawan" there are quite some pictures at google img search.

Yeah it's in Yemen, there are lots of places like that in the Middle East. Maaloula in Syria is quite interesting, kind of like a Brazilian favela imbedded in a mountain;

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Also one of the oldest towns in the world, the people there still speak aramaic...

More desert goodness:

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And some jungle stuff for contrast:

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Plus some epic Gothic stuff:

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And some amazing concept stuff:

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On my Tumblr I try to post things about architecture / atmosphere / etc...things that could be used for inspiration in my work.
If you are interested you can check it here :

http://elmoroes.tumblr.com/ or http://elmoroes.tumblr.com/archive

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Etc.

Go to the "unseen london" section of this portfolio, some locations may be very interesting

http://www.peterdazeley.com/

A cool pics research engine - you'll associate different thematic to filter your search : http://atlas-of-forms.net/

South of France, 2010

More here http://imgur.com/a/sYoZp

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Aaaaaaand a new one :

http://www.reddit.com/r/sfwpornnetwork/wiki/network

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http://www.centralparksydney.com/live/one-central-park

Looks like a complier error. Wat.

2400 Free NASA HIRES photos.

Have a ball, get it now!

If it would be down for some reason send me a PM and I can send them to you by mail.

http://selz.co/1F1vNYe

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