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Thanks to some inspiration from 's gallery, it pushed me to do a three day project by going to the full length of trying to remember all the influences I now presently. It might not have everything from way into the future after I post this, but this is my honest look into my psyche.
If you're wondering why I have people I make diatribe statements about in my journal, it's due to them being people not mindless tools. My inspirations can have opinions just like I or anyone can.
The list, from left to right:
Walt Disney, Hayao Miyazaki, Star Wars
Keropii, Pokemon(all mediums), Batman the Animated Series, Marc Davis, EC Comics
Theodore Geisel, Series of Unfortunate Events, Roger Corman, Universal Studios Monsters, Tim Burton
Salvidor Dali, Terry Gillium, The Big O, Rumiko Takahashi, Danny Elfman
Hiromu Arakawa, Umbrella Academy, Mar, Akira Toriyama, Eiichero Oda
Sunrise animation, Sergio Argonez, Paul Williams, Tom Waits, Jack Kevorkian
The Beatles, Saw, H. R. Giger, Tom Lehrer
Hanna Barabarra, 9, Todd Schorr, Eric Powell, Wackos store and art gallery
Adam Warren, Cirque Du Solei, Aaron Bordner, Eric Pigor,
Pirates of the Caribbean, Gonzo, Bones, skeletons, Rango
Army of Darkness, David Okum art tutorials, Asterix, Mel Brooks, Gillmero Del Toro
Santa's demonic helper: Krampus, Death Note, Genkaku Picasso, Afro Samurai, Quinton Tarintino
Joss Whedon, John K, Doug Tenaple, Todd in the Shadows, Osamu Tezuka
Harry Plinket, Sublime, Beck, Bob Hope, Team Fortress 2
Alan Moore(Rasputin?), Brom's The Plucker, E.T.A. Hoffman's Der Sandman, Fairy Tail, Dr. Steel
Gorillaz, Klezmer music, Christopher Walken, James Woods, Jodie Benson
Chris Sarandon, Jhonny Depp, Ennio Morricone, Soul Eater, Support Your Local Sheriff
Robert "Sideshow Bob" Terwilliger, Phoenix Wright, Old rebellious Mickey Mouse cartoons, Coen Brothers, Stan Sakai
General Grievous, cats, Clive Barker/Neil Gaiman, Jeff Smith's Bone, Henry Sellick
Billy Joel, Jim Henson, Pirates, Gene Kelly, Nietzsche
Word definitions, fire, Don Bluth, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Little Kuriboh
Toys, Satan, homunculi, Griffins, Patrick Warburton
Paul Freez, Steven Sommers, Death, Max Fleisher, Weird Al
Elvira, , Juxtapoz magazine, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, Petshop of Horrors
eyes, Doctor McNinja, Deadpool, Butch Hartman, Peter Stormare
Christoph Waltz, Abe Lincoln, Ravel, Edgar Allen Poe, Venture Bros.
Robot Chicken, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, DMFA, ,
, Paul Dini, Cutthroat Island, Ray Harryhousen, Stephen King
The Number Devil, Sideshows, TMBG, Dr. Demento, Hellsing
, , the Matrix, Midori Days,
Penny Arcade(and maybe 's art as well), , , , Ronald Serling
Peter Lorre, Keith David, Mark Raiden, Dwight Frye, Norman Rockwell
Jim Jarmusch, Flaming Lips, H. P. Lovecraft, Jeffry Combs, Jhonen Vasquez
, hearses, spiders, African Culture, Nightmare on Elm Street
Glen Keane, G4TV, Escapist magazine, Yahtzee, Shamus Young
Extra Credits, Pixar, Brad Bird, Walter foster art tutorials,
Seth Macfarlane, horses, Rankin Bass, Paul Cocker jr., Bleach
William Joyce, Phantom of the Paradise, Cole Porter, Posada, School House Rock
Ralph Bashki, Ghostbumps, Peter Jackson, 1960 The Time Machine , Halloween Haunt
Spiderwick Chronicles, Harry potter, Bill Nighy, Wizard of Oz, Nightmare Before Christmas
Chuck Jones, Vincent Price, Eric Carle, Wizard of Id, Dan Piraro's Bizarro
Ska, Zydeco, MovieBob, The professor's Daughter, Steve Buschemi
, Joe Pantoliano, Stephen Fry, Julie Wertz, Dominic Degan
Linkara, X-play, Dragon quest, Micheal Swaim, John Lassiter
Fafnir(ogre but also dragon), Ghostbusters, Jack, Christopher Lee, Elmer Bernstien
Scott Meyer, ,
Wow... That's a lot.
Now that I'm done typing down these names and items, it makes me think that my mind is a unstable carnival with a side of a grand guignol on one side, and a library on the other... I think.
Well, that's all I can think of right now, but as usual, I can never stop being influenced! Otherwise, why wouldn't i be a artist if I didn't?
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I forgot to put and David Lynch in the list.
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Thanks. Glad you like it.
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BILLY JOEL!!! 
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Yup! That guy's music is awesome. Tom Waits early music like "The Early Years" and "Closing Time" makes me think of his music.
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hayao Miyazaki is also one of my inspirsator! Before I draw cartoon I was using the anime style.
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The top half is my childhood. Disney, Ghibli, and Star Wars. Pretty normal childhood of any 90s kid actually, with the vhs tapes of the unaltered original trilogy while also watching the revamped versions in the theater.
I would have put Nightmare Before Christmas in the second row if it weren't for the fact that even though I first saw it in the theater when I was little, the film didn't impact me until in my early teens.
As you can see, Universal and Roger Corman horror films I watched in my childhood were much more of a impact on my than most of the animation I watched during the time, but even animation like Tenchi Muyo, Slayers, and Cutie Honey(the ones that I wasn't supposed to see at my age, but my uncle thought I was a mature five-year-old, he even let me play Dead Or Alive 2, he's a fun guy).
Before Lassiter obtained the faithful licensing, I saw Ghibli works from Fox and pre-Lassiter Disney(Fox did My Neighbor Totoro and Pre-Lassiter Disney did Kiki's Delivery Service).
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wow, yeah I never like Nightmare Before Christmas when I was a kid, but then I like it after I grew bigger.
My Neighbor Totoro is a very funny movie, i love MEi very much
but my favorite *the most* is Spirited Away, have you watched it?
PS: you should watch "Grave of Fireflies" I almost cry when I watch it. It's so sad.
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Yes, I have a lot of Ghibli's films. Including Spirited Away. Even when I was little I connected with Noface. A individual who didn't belong in places that corrupted him. Easily persuaded by the elements and then copying those elements to gain popularity(for better or worse).
Already watched Grave of the Fireflies a few months ago, but surprisingly, it didn't make me cry, just feel wistful(like Princess Mononoke).
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lol you mean you were acting like no-face?
oh wow, I feel so sad when I watch it. Surprisingly, it was created by american animator, not a japanese animator.
I feel kinda boring when I watched Hayao's old movies. Princess mononoke was great but kinda boring in the middle. And the most boring for me is the "Nausicaa of Valey of the Wind" Have you watched it? I fast forward it so many times in half last scene.
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I still kind of act like Noface, but for different reasons I can't really think of.
Only saw a scene or two of Nausica, but tended to miss it whenever it came on. My uncle might have a copy.
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lol no face is my favorite character in SA.
It's kinda boring. Because more talk and less action. What about Howl's Moving Castle? Have u watched it?
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I have HMC myself(my uncle got me the Chinese edition which has the English and Japanese dub, he tends to get a lot of Chinese editions of different films for some reason). My favorite characters have to be Turnip Head and Calcifer. Maybe it's due to them not being human characters to begin with(well, more for Calcifer than Turnip).
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yeah the turnip man is amazing. But the novel and the movie is so different. Hayao change half of the plot and turned it from the original story. I like the novel better. Dianna Wynne Jones created it. She also created Chrestomanci series, which I ever drawn (the Tonino and Angelica picture). But Hayao still do amazing art with the castle itself
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I actually own both the book and the film, so I like both of them in their own right, but it's a not a favorite of mine. Good reads, just not as a huge focus to me like Rosto's Mind My Gap is.
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Well Chrestomanci and Howl's are different story. I don't have serious focus on Howl's either, but I'm a big fan of Chrestomanci. It is the book that inspired JK rowling to create Harry Potter.
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I'm kind of interested in reading the story, but I haven't even finished Artemis Fowl or Something Wicked this way comes yet.
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Oh, talking about wicked, have you read any of Stephen King's book?
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Yeah, one of my favorites was "N". It's a H.P. Lovecraft inspired tale about a man revisiting his memories of Ackerman's Farm with letters to his psychiatrist. In some ways, it reminds me of E.T.A. Hoffman's the Sandman in way of storytelling.
Another has to be the Cat from Hell(same short story collection). It's a favorite of my father's. Speaking of my father, he loves the more biographical book from King, Danse Macabre.
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Oh I never read his book, but i'd like to watch his movie called "the mist"
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It was good, they actually had a poster made by a famous artist(I forget his name, but he did the posters for Star Wars and other famous posters).
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Yeah but the DVD pretty hard to find.
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Try looking it up at your local library. Sometimes libraries have dvd sections.
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We rarely have library around here except at school. We have one in Jakarta, but I have to drive to get into the library, beside they only rent educational DVDs in library over here. But ill find it at the mall or DVD store later.
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Oh, then Netflicks and other good online retailers would be the next good option.
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I dont usually buy movies at internet, and downloading over here is so slow. We dont have good connections over here. But if I cant find the DVD then Ill use download as an option XD
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Yeah... I usually don't like to order online myself, due to not liking credit cards. Thankfully, I can pay my father with regular cash when he uses his card to help me with my orders.
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Yes, credit cards suck and such a waste.
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Thanks. I think the more I have influences, the more they make me go in a new direction as well as connections.
Due to Tom Waits and Terry Gillium, I found a new inspiration. His name is Rosto. His imagination of two men and the devil that chased them has given me new ideas like the people on the Influence board.
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Yes!!! He rocks!!! ^_^
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His voice is audio porn in my opinion. Just like Stephen Fry.
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What...? I do not think so.
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Huh? Guess it's just me then. I mean, his voice is so deep and awesome it can call angels!
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His voice IS awesome. ^_^ So does Jim Walker (Who does Fox McCloud from Star Fox Assault)
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Wow I didn't think ANYONE ever heard of Phantom of the Paradise.
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Whenever I want to laugh my bum off, I put the soundtrack on. There's points in the soundtrack that makes me feel the pain as the singer. Sadly, I wish Paul Williams finished that little ditty "Never thought I meet the Devil". Oh well...
It's a great film that anyone should watch once in their life. One of the interesting points to the film is that it shows the evolution of music and bands as the film goes on.
Also, Paul Williams is a great villain(his voice as Penguin backs that up).
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...It's scary how much we have in common. Like, almost every media/pop culture thing. Wow.
Very impressive!
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Kind of like Micheal Medved, I'm a media crusader. Difference is that if something seems like it has sexuality in it, I'm not going to point and shake my finger at the object(like Suckerpunch, I like the film, but he hated it due to the "exploitation of the beautiful and oppressed women in a institution").
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Same, unless it's intensely obvious, like MST3k movies.
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That's like...4 times my version of the meme. I only included my mayor influences, you included...a lot more!
That being said, you have really good taste.
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Yup, it's pretty big.
I don't know, maybe it's due to my mother being a Virgo. 
She tends to want to bigger and better tasting things in life, while me and my father being Sagittariuses like the more laid back side of things(hence the picture of Sublime in there)... Like I said, I don't know why I like the things I do.
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Dang that's a lot. I have many influences myself, but I wonder how I'm going to include all of my major ones on mine. How'd you extend your influence map?
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Just take a pair of five boxes in one row and cut it out, then adjust the ratio/canvas height to 500 more inches/pixels. Keep doing so and copy the row you cutted out and keep adding. Remove the white areas and put the images underneath to get the right measurement.
Then you just repeat. It was simple but it took a while due to the long saving, hence why it took me three days to finish.
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Very cool!
I thought I also caught a Paul Gustave Dore (influence) in there too!
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(22 lines down, 2 over from the left-an angel print)
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Oh! Thanks, I wanted to use that image of Satan due to the fact that it looked classical and broke away from the "heavy Metal" look to him. If I used Terry Gilliam's Mr. Nick, it would probably be too esoteric/obscure for people to understand why that devil. The reason why the Devil is in there for the first place was due to the fact that each representation is different(just like death), and with each interpretation comes with a different personality.
When I looked at the images on the Wikipedia entry, I thought it looked like the example of the early comic "A week of Kindness" from Understanding Comics, but when I looked at my copy, it turns out the name of that was actually Maxwell Earnest. I'll look at more work of Dore tomorrow, thanks for pointing him in my direction.
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Oh you're welcome! Always glad to help out
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Oh wow! That's a lot of different influences! I never saw a huge influence map like this one
It's amazing.. I can really see the all the effort you had put in it
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