What images inspire you?

[Hormalakh]

Hello,

 

I was watching this

the other day, where Tim Cain talks about movies, books, and other sources of inspiration for the first Fallout. I wanted to make a topic thread for everyone here and ask you, "What IMAGES you find inspiring your thoughts on Project Eternity?"

 

I wanted to know what images you find yourself thinking about when imagining what the Project Eternity world to be, and I wanted you to post them here. Try to keep the text to a minimum and keep the picture sizes small (linking to them would be better). I wanted this to be a sort of "flipbook" for the devs to look at as inspirations for their own creativity when creating this world. Obviously, pictures you've taken yourself would be better than images you've taken from someone else.

 

so... show them your pictures! Throw something up whenever it inspires you about something you know about the PE lore!

 

This is, for example, what I thought of when Josh Sawyer was talking about the Vailians.

Edited October 17, 2012 by Hormalakh

[Kilroy_Was_Here]

The Vailians are... statues?

[AGX-17]

Hello,

 

I was watching this

the other day, where Tim Cain talks about movies, books, and other sources of inspiration for the first Fallout. I wanted to make a topic thread for everyone here and ask you, "What IMAGES you find inspiring your thoughts on Project Eternity?"

 

I wanted to know what images you find yourself thinking about when imagining what the Project Eternity world to be, and I wanted you to post them here. Try to keep the text to a minimum and keep the picture sizes small (linking to them would be better). I wanted this to be a sort of "flipbook" for the devs to look at as inspirations for their own creativity when creating this world. Obviously, pictures you've taken yourself would be better than images you've taken from someone else.

 

so... show them your pictures! Throw something up whenever it inspires you about something you know about the PE lore!

 

This is, for example, what I thought of when Josh Sawyer was talking about the Vailians.

 

Ancient Egypt is not the vibe I get from Vailians. It sounds like a mix of ancient Carthage (a contemporary of ancient Rome, and a mercantile state ruled by council of merchants,) and ancient Greece (a bunch of city-states that allied when mutually endangered, several of which were naval powers.) The government is obviously modeled on the Iroquois Confederacy. And evidence for slave labor in ancient Egypt is thin. There's strong physical and written evidence that the workers who built the great Pyramids and other monuments were working in lieu of paying taxes for a given period of time. The Egyptians were not a "great" seafaring people, and there's no evidence of piracy or shanghaiing that I'm aware of, because the Nile valley is immensely fertile (leading to large populations,) and all of their wars were with neighboring countries over land toward the East.

Edited October 17, 2012 by AGX-17

[eimatshya]

Yeah, I get more of a Phoenician vibe than an Egyptian vibe from the Vailians (neither of these pictures are all that great, but you would not believe how hard it is to find images representing the Phonecians/Carthaginians where they aren't depicted, incorrectly, as being white).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or, how about some Barbary Corsairs? They fit the time period better than the ancient Egyptians and Phoenecians.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really, though, since Josh described them as "black Italians", they may look more like Sub-Saharan Africans, rather than near-Eastern/North African (so not like the Phoenicians or Berbers).

 

Moving on, when I lived in the Spanish Basque Country, I could see this weird looking mountain from the window of my apartment. It's called Aiako Harria in Basque (lit. the Rock of Aia) and las Peñas de Aya in Spanish (i.e. the crags of Aya).

 

Aiako Harria:

 

 

 

 

 

I always thought that it was a very evocative part of the landscape, and I could see it being part of a fantasy setting (although P:E's isometric perspective might make it difficult to view mountains from afar).

Edited October 17, 2012 by eimatshya

[Shadowless]

Green Shirt Girl

[Hormalakh]

Not sure if the developers have seen this movie, but when I saw it, I thought Glenfanthan immediately. Devs, you should see this movie - it's pretty awesome. Obviously, your graphics aren't going to look anything like it (unless you have monks writing books!)

 

http://newvideo.com/secretofkells/

 

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485601/

[Monte Carlo]

[Gromnir]

heroism

 

black hound

 

religon

 

pe should be this much fun

 

HA! Good Fun!

[Freshock]

 

[Pshaw]

When it comes to locations I really love John Avons work.

http://www.johnavon.com/fantasy-art/Galleries/

 

 

[jivex5k]

This is the overall feeling I get from this project:

[Karranthain]

[Zoma]

Valhalla Rising has awesome visuals

 

[smithereen]

HBO's Rome and Game of Thrones had some very inspiring visuals.

 

 

Edited October 25, 2012 by smithereen

[nikolokolus]

Anything painted by Frank Frezzetta

[mokona]

Fantasy art that inspires me: http://mageou.tumblr.com/