Darkmod: Inspiration thread

[Spooks]

 

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ODzay

[VanishedOne]

Precursor-esque masks for a museum heist or Lost City...?

Bronze Animal Mask [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], by momo (Flickr: Bronze Animal Mask (青銅獸面)), from Wikimedia Commons


Gold Mask (黄金面罩) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], by momo (Flickr: Gold Mask (黄金面罩)), from Wikimedia Commons


Bronze Mask with Protruding Eyes [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], by momo, from Wikimedia Commons

Alternative theories were propounded stating that the protruding eyes actually depict ancient glass goggles fitted on wooden cylindrical frame with leather mask that were used by ancient bronze smelters at the time. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanxingdui (ancient inventor goggles?)

[NeonsStyle]

Introduction to Middle English

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOS2ugsf8T8

[demagogue]

I like the style of this. Not a fan of the popups or even the gameplay, but the world looks great.

 

[VanishedOne]

Indeed, this Vampyr screenshot could practically be mistaken for TDM already.

[demagogue]

It's the little touches like all the strewn crap on the muddy streets, boards sticking out of walls, a set of lose and crumbling bricks, rounded bumpy edges on most things instead of hard right angles, rips in the wallpaper, etc., that pull a level up to realism.

[Anderson]

I live near the complex of a Pschiatric Hospital named Costiujeni in Chisinau.
It has a an impressive array of buildings reminaing from the end of the XIX-'th century and twin water towers built circa 1904. A despaired gasp of failed and much too late attempts at reform inside the falling Russian Empire.

 

 

 

The morgue in the past and today.

 

 

 

 

 

Update: 24.12.2016

 

For some reason the spoilered pictures don't work on my end. If you have trouble seeing them, look here:
http://locals.md/2015/legendarnaya-istoriya-kostyuzhenskoy-psihbolnitsyi/

Edited December 24, 2016 by Anderson

[NeonsStyle]

Awesome looking game. So theify. Shame about the floating markers. Still atmosphere aplenty

[Dragofer]

Recently I've gone through my inspiration folder again, which has become quite large over the years. Here are a few picks.

 

This one is an illustration of a Victorian house that could be considered an illustrated guide on Victorian inner decoration. Some things are sure: Victorian houses were incredibly cluttered and full of heavy furniture.

 

A Victorian doll house this time. For me the most interesting part is the bottom third showing a well done foyer.

 

Someone has inadvertently designed a Thief mission here. A large inn that's actually a stronghold of the Thieves' Guild. That sounds like a lot of fun.

 

Album

A maritime set of inspiration and concepts that I added more recently. It's a fascinating theme to map, which I can only recommend.

[ERH+]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGlDsFAOWXc

 

 

Stirling engine - I encountered this type of engine while searching ideas for submarine and as it is now considered to have some future with new materials it could fit in steampunk science fiction.

[Taquito]

Really good stuff Dragofer. The concept of Old Dollhouses for Interior and Exteriors. Here are some others I found:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Taquito]

Moar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bikerdude]

That second last shot is very impressive, it almost looks life size!

[Dragofer]

Really good stuff Dragofer. The concept of Old Dollhouses for Interior and Exteriors. Here are some others I found:

 

Very good idea, to expand on the topic of old dollhouses. Who would've thought there's all this untapped potential for finding unusual inspiration in these.

 

 

That second last shot is very impressive, it almost looks life size!

 

It's almost surreal, as if it were a fairytale castle. You'd get a very unique mission if it took cues from this architecture.

[Taquito]

The Fairy tale castle is part of the Chicago Museum which is quite impressive too:

 

 

The mini Palace:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Taquito]

Details:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Taquito]

Bath:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outside:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[demagogue]

I've always been in love with these kinds of boxes.

There's a museum in Chicago for them I know about.

 

I had a dream once about a towering room with veins of thin tall stairs crisscrossing their way to higher levels, and that one image evokes it a little. I should be building more from my dreams, come to think of it. They have a better aesthetic than I could come up with.

 

One of my concepts for Darkmod was in fact to make a kind of scene in a box like this the player can look into, with lots of hand made models and some activity going on. But at that point one may as well put the player into the scene.

[VanishedOne]

I just found a copy of this lurking on my hard drive: https://archive.org/details/CharlesRobinsonTheConstructionOfSecretHidingPlaces

[demagogue]

Castle overtaken by nature, anybody?

http://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/08/07/the-french-sleeping-beauty-the-abandoned-castle-left-to-deteriorate-due-to-lack-of-funds-2/

[Melan]

This one's pretty cool:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuQ2LtqAzT8

[demagogue]

Nice timing. I just independently posted a screenshot from that movie.

http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=147256&page=3&p=2338821&viewfull=1#post2338821

Well I think it was that version. I'm on a phone and can't confirm for sure.

[Melan]

It is a different adaptation. Not flawless, but the visuals are great for both the city streets and the cellars.

[rich_is_bored]

[Bikerdude]

Man, this makes working in DR very ficher price...

 

Thats extremely impressive work shown in that vide, The engineering is superb!... wish I had that kind of patience..

 

http://pietrasupietra.blogspot.co.uk/20