[Francis]

Hi

This is probably only marginally Digital Art, but...

Here's a photo from our recent trip to Hong Kong. There's too much cool stuff to look at there - more photos can be found here:

http://www.teamgt.com/hk2k.htm



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Francis Tsai
TeamGT Studios

[Guy]

thats just crazy. i think it would make a neat environment for a game, just wouldnt want to live there :P

[Anthony]

Dang, so much great reference material! I saved most of the images on your site for future reference. Post all you have! Just kidding of course-I'm sure you have hundreds. But hey, I'm game. :]

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-Anthony
Carpe Carpem

[Plop]

That pic with steps leading up to giant buddha statue is very cool.

[SporQ]

man, you rock!

i've been looking for some photos like that for a long time. thanks for posting

SporQ

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

WOWEE! i just went to hongkong this summer. its an awsome place! although i do sweat too much and it smells funny. remind me to never go to the public washrooms there...they smell..delicious. mmm..ok heh. nice pics man. i wish i remembered to bring my digi cam too!
-geoff!

[TweeK]

Went to Beijin 'bout a month ago... intense maybe not as modern as hongkong but they really got cyberpunk ghetto's
nice scenery for shooting a movie

greetz
Jeff

[SplitSoul]

I LOVE YOU.

-Split

[Chapel]

Those are great Francis! I hope to visit that side of the world some day.

[PuckDewd]

Thanks for posting these Francis. It's great to see the different style of architecture from over there. Gald to hear you had a good trip, welcome home.
-Puck

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Electric Synapse

[Clockwork Bacon]

Woah, it's like living inside of a Syd Mead painting.

[balistic]

Have you seen Lan Di? He killed my father.

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"What we're hearing, techno, is the process of trying to create something of the future." - J.M.

Brian "balistic" Prince
3D Artist
Eggington Productions
www.bprince.com

[shardik]

those pictures just make me want to start making texture maps
yum....
(the thing is.. im not a texture map artist)

[A]

Thanks a heap for posting stuff like this.

One of the things that can really help our collective art is good reference material - and that's sometimes hard to come by. Posting a link to your photos is a great way to share that resource. Perhaps there should be a regular "post your reference material" thread/forum/page or something.....??

Cheers, A.

[mjmcchesney]

Really cool, Francis. I used to live in Okinawa, Japan, and saw very similar architecture (Korea served as a land bridge for Chinese ideas to Japan, for all that don't know). Yeah, feels almost a bit like Blade Runner at times.

That statue of Buddha reminded me, anyone heard of http://www.maitreyaproject.org ? Being planned to be built in Bhodgaya, India by January, 2005. 500-foot tall Maitreya Buddha statue (2 times as tall as the Statue of Liberty).

[LordArioch]

Thanks, man.

[Superbug]

For francis and anyone else who's lived in Hong Kong. Is there are large english speaking majority there? What is the first language. Just wondering because I've always wanted to live there with my wife.

[Francis]

Yeah, there is so much incredible reference there. I almost feel a little disillusioned, because now I realize a lot of my heroes were just depicting reality instead of coming up with this stuff out of their heads. Well, that may not be giving them enough credit, but still, I was pretty amazed.

Superbug, I believe the official language is (now) Mandarin, with Cantonese a close second. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Someone else asked me about English, and it is spoken pretty widely, especially in the more urban, touristy parts. Chinese definitely helps tho.

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Francis Tsai
TeamGT Studios

[Superbug]

Thanks fracis!

[Snake Grunger]

I like cantonnese style chow-mein.