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NeoFun
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 Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 12:02 am |
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| Okay-- well, I'm getting a bit more serious about art-- i.e. I'm spending more time on it. Now here is my problem-- I'm currently working on a guy standing at the top of a building-- how would I go about collecting my refrences in order to build the picture? In other words; I need skyscrapers at nighttime, rainfall on brick, and city lighting. I understand that losers dont use refrences, mediocre people (my aspiration) use refs, and pros once again don't use refs... Now where the heck do us mediocre people get our refs? Do most of you all scour the web? Are there books of just textures and scenery? Gah! Help, help, help... |
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edraket
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| Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 12:41 am |
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| www.ditto.com www.tonystone.com (Have to sign up..briljant site though. They also send you free photobooks...very usefull to play with) |
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faB
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| Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:46 am |
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If you have the cash, a book is always a good investment, you dont need to alt-tab all the time, and you're not likely to loose it in a hard disk wipe.
Check out Natural Surfaces, it's pretty cool because it comes with a CD ROM containing all the images (1200+) uncompressed all average 780x520 portrait or landscape (which appears larger than in the book).
DVD's are also good reference.. you can also save images with a player like PowerDVD. |
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