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Rascality — Influence Map Meme
Published: 2010-09-05 06:26:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 893; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 7
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My version of the Influence Map Meme by fox orian. I'm quite certain I've forgotten a TON of stuff, but this was what I could come up with off the top of my head.Original meme over here .
Influences listed:
Row 1: Mucha, Miyazaki, Japanese art and culture (represented by one of my favorite woodblock prints - Yugao, one of the ladies from the Tale of Genji), concept art for Star Wars, concept art for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Row 2: Sailor Moon, Disney, Saint Tail, The Last Unicorn, She-Ra
Row 3: Sandman, Metanoia, Gunnerkrigg Court, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura, Digger
Row 4: Enayla, The Longest Journey, the Fallout series, Valkyrie Profile, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Row 5: the Persona series, World of Warcraft, Gargoyles, Dinotopia, Slayers
Row 6: Labyrinth, Morrowind, things one of my sequential professors showed my class to make us feel inadequate (represented by Josh Middleton), Remedios Varo, ancient sculpture (this is an Assyrian lamasu, but I'm also inspired by ancient Egyptian and Indian art)
I tried to stick to solely visual inspiration - if I got into books and music, I would never leave. Also, it's easier to represent visual inspirations. There are a lot of games on here, but something about them really gets the creative part of my brain going. Half my characters started their lives in one game or another and then migrated into original worlds...
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A lot of good inspirations there. Plus, Trolls & Gargoyles & Dinotopia... *nods sagely*
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Haha, thanks! I'm kind of all over the place, which really came home to me filling this out...
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*nods* But those three right there are strikingly great works in and of themselves. Standout pieces from the people who created them.
Of course, Miyazaki is quite impressive, too. I didn't care much for Howl's, but the rest of his portfolio is filled with movies I can watch over and over and never grow tired of.
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True enough!
Funny thing about Miyazaki - I really love his movies, but the thing I can sit and stare at forever is the concept sketches and the watercolors. I have... three of the art books, at last count. The one for Laputa is in Japanese. I just pull them out to marvel at.
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There is something I want to track down, in the vein of Miyazaki's art books: When concepting the movie of Ran, Kurosawa Akira hand painted the storyboards. He was going blind prior to filming the movie, and it was due to his storyboards that the movie was so well made. Apparently, one of the publishers in Japan published the paintings into a book and sold it about the time the movie came out.
Now that would be an impressive book to have on a coffee table.
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Oh, wow, that is incredible. I wish you luck in your search!
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Thank you. And perhaps in the near future, I can commission you for some good troll art.
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Well, I've got... two or three half-finished troll sketches on my computer right now. There should be more coming soon, if you don't mind the 'what-Rascality-felt-like-drawing' grab-bag!
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No, that would be fine. (: Troll art is still good art.
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