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Hey folks,

For years now I've been noticing how disconnected we are from classical art as digital artists. There is such a treasure trove of brilliant creative thought and yet we still usually go to the same 3 places as source of inspiration. The OGs have some amazing takes on dramatic lighting, environment composition or even outlandish character design yet most of us in the gaming space can barely tell our Zorn apart from Sargent.

I was looking for ways to make it easier for us to be closer to this knowledge and be inspired by it so ended up making ImagineMore.art as a side project. It's one of the biggest collections of classic art in one place in an interface that is actually built for artists and not stuffy collectors or some other nonsense.

A few key points:
Natural Language Search: You don't need to know the names of anything. Just describe what you are looking for with words and we'll use our really smart search to surface you the best results.

"More Like This": Once you find one example of what you like, you can keep going down rabbit holes learning about different painting movements just by clicking "More like this".

Visual Search: You can upload your own WIP and it'll find classical references with similar compositions/lighting. Super useful when you're stuck and need to get genuinely fresh ideas. Always great to see how the masters handled similar scenes.

Analysis Tools: Evaluate values, histogram, composition, color palette directly on the page to understand why the pieces work. For example it's amazing to see how much of classic art follows the Rabatment composition principle. Especially since aspect ratios were all over the place. And don't get me started on Bouguereau's perfect value distribution and soft lighting.

The more I've been working on this the more I've had my mind blown by all of this inspiration I've been missing out on for most of my career. We ended up starting social accounts to share these daily - if you're tired of divisive news and want to see the best of art instead, we'd be grateful for a follow. But not as grateful as we would be for any bugs you might find or feature suggestions you might have

What classical artists have you found most useful for your work? We are constantly expanding the library and would love to add more artists you've been inspired by. I'd love to keep polishing with your feedback and make it really easy for everyone to have the perspective of Rembrandt or Monet in their pocket. I strongly believe that game artists are some of the best artists of our generation period. Some of our shit will be studied in museums and I'd love it if we remembered that this is the legacy we should both be living up to and striving towards.