The Reference Thread

eepberries · Oct 2004

Might as well do it on these new boards hmm?

I'll start off with this cool site with many up close squirrel references.

http://www.dlc.fi/~marianna/flor_fau/squirrel.htm

MoP · Oct 2004

http://www.fineart.sk/
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Human anatomy references, also the online home of Andrew Loomis' figure drawing books.

http://www.suurland.com/
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Thomas Suurland's homepage, with a metric assload of various blueprints of all kinds of vehicles.

http://www.bartleby.com/107/
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Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body. Plenty of in-depth stuff on muscles and internal organs.

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings.html
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Buildings, all sorts.

http://www.mayang.com/textures/
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Mayang's online collection of free textures. If you have the spare cash, I recommend buying the collection on CD. Exceptionally good value.

http://www.imageafter.com/
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ImageAfter, a good archive of assorted textures and reference photos.

I'll make this thread sticky for the time being, if you post a reply in it, please include a link to a site that hasn't already been linked in your post, to avoid cluttering the thread.

MoP

HarlequiN · Oct 2004

No point reinventing the wheel. Here's the original bunch, minus about 4 links I hadn't added before the old boards went down (bah)

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/qbranch/ref_links.shtml

adam · Nov 2004

Also, could we get those who post links to put whether or not you have to pay $$$ for the resources. I'll post my links once i get home from work.

Downsizer · Nov 2004

I love beating a dead horse.

I've been called wierd for this in the past, but for human model references, I use mannequins. In the gameing world, the typical character has ideal proportions. Mannequins display that hero image quite well with flawless sculpted form. I got a full body male and female set for under 100$ on ebay. Great for studying muscles and proportions.

HarlequiN · Nov 2004

Some Automotive Refs:

Hi Res photos of exotic and concept type dealies
http://www.highresautoimages.com/

As above, but less of them
http://www.motorpix.com/

Photo Albums of New Cars
http://www.3dfinlay.net/gallery/carphotos

Photo Albums of Classic Cars
http://www.3dfinlay.net/gallery/classics

Photo Albums of Motorcycles
http://www.3dfinlay.net/gallery/bikephotos

Photo Albums of Rims/Tires Etc
http://www.3dfinlay.net/gallery/kits

Blueprint Albums by manufacturer
http://www.3dfinlay.net/gallery/blueprints

Model Kit Site, look around for blueprints
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/plamo/index_e.asp?Bno=&Typ1_c=102

Some Riced Tuned and Blinged Car Galleries
http://www.fastandfuriouseast.com/galleries/boti04/default_sub01.php

Hi Res Car Wallpapers
http://www.dieselstation.com/archives.html

hi-res galleries of almost every car you can imagine - really
http://www.allsportauto.com/english/

Just some general photos in thei thread. Short but sweet.
http://www.jongerensite.nl/forum/showtopic.php?topicid=1018

Some interesting photos of smashed up cars.
http://www.barriesauto.com/index.html

Wheel rims and spinners a-go-go
http://www.aaarims.com/specials/ford.shtml

Lots of car wallpapers and images - watch out for the shitty popups though.
http://www.speedycars.net/wallpaper/index.html

Classic cars, and more trashed cars, oh yeah.
http://www.dealsonwheels.com/category/index.cfm/cat/1

Yet more hi-res car galleries
http://www.carphotoalbums.com/photos/index.php

Slow site, but with yet more hi-res car galleries. Plenty to choose from.
http://www.galeriasamochodow.friko.pl/index.html

Rare and unusual cars
http://www.petersen.org/

More rims and accessories
http://www.carxpressions.com/car_wheels.htm

Nice searchable car site of enthusiasts cars.
http://www.cardomain.com/member_pages

Daz · Nov 2004

handy for animation: a high speed movie archive:

http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/high_speed_video/

Josh_Singh · Nov 2004

anybody got any good tileable texture sites? Im looking for a number of really good concrete/construction type textures.

HarlequiN · Nov 2004

Look through the sites on my first post in this thread Ghost, I'm pretty sure there's a couple of texture sites in the list already.

Eric Chadwick · Dec 2004

Lemog
http://perso.club-internet.fr/lemog/lemog_textures/acc_textures01.html#
Tons of textures, well-organized, mostly 512's, all tiled (though often an ugly tiling job).

I like the Flesh ones... not easy to find decent pathology textures on the web., and this is a nice large collection.

They're free, mostly...
"All images in this site are free of rights. These images are created with personal works, images of the web or send by friend. I can&#146t control all images precisely used, thanks to said me if some images are not free."
... the ceramic tile ones are probably ©'d.

adam · Dec 2004

Our trusy leader has references up on his site:
http://www.rogue13.com/texture_reference/Concrete/index.html

I know this because a lot of the new ones going up will be mine

NoSeRider · Dec 2004

http://www.smugmug.com

Just type in a search word. I'm sure you'll find something.

bearkub · Dec 2004

http://www.spiritofbaraka.com

If you click on the links for one of the movies, they have 100's of stills of various landscapes and people.

thnom · Dec 2004

http://thnom.tehunlose.com/model_resource/

Hasn't been updated since I first put it up but should still help some peeps

Rajeev3d · Dec 2004

does any 1 no a good ref site for artillery>?... i havent been able to find good pics... wonder how those war games modellers make them..

bearkub · Dec 2004

There is a section in here: http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/qbranch/ref_links.shtml marked Artillery and Weaponry. I am sure you can find something useful in there.

Rajeev3d · Dec 2004

thnx bearkub..

Eric Chadwick · Dec 2004

Elaborate drainage system under Tokyo.
http://www.g-cans.jp/photo/
Great inspiration, and apparently is open to the public, for the next time you're in town.

Cthogua · Dec 2004

wow, I didn't even know about that drainage thing. There's some pics on that site that would make some really nice "massive structure" lighting reference...something that I've always found alittle difficult.

Eric Chadwick · Dec 2004

I was searching for shots of Cambodian temples and cave interiors, found some nice large pictures.

Angkor temples
http://www.tropicalisland.de/travel_cambodia.html

A cave in Kuala Lumpur.
http://www.tropicalisland.de/travel_malaysia.html

KUL%20Kuala%20Lumpur%20-%20Batu%20Caves%20inner%20cave.jpg

Tons of good jungle reference in there too.

BTW, a nice way to download all the pictures from a site...
http://www.quadsucker.com/quadweb/
Can anyone recommend other utils like this one?

FatAssasin · Dec 2004

I use HTTrack website copier to download images. It's free and very customizable. I've got it set up to just copy all the image files from a site to one directory so that it's easy to use ACDSee to browse the images. That's opposed to downloading all the html files and having to navigate a copy of the site offline.

Cool temple images by the way.

Badname · Dec 2004

The BEST weapon site ever

high res pics from all views and clos-ups AND VIDEOS! Eventough they are modelguns they look damn the same to me

http://www.modelguns.co.uk
example

Thanx for those japan pics, though anyone has a link with pics from a tempel form multiple sides?

flaagan · Dec 2004

two quick links for slate and wood grain. I've found these both to be very useful.

EarthQuake · Dec 2004

Found a free program to make wood tiles, up to 3000x3000
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm

JKMakowka · Dec 2004

http://www.got3d.com/index.html

some useful sprites and textures, mostly for pay, but also free samples.

FatAssasin · Dec 2004

"Eye of Science" microscopic photography.

Link

Steve · Dec 2004

Someone posted this over on cgtalk, muscle and anatomy reference, quite cool I thought.
http://www.reybustos.com/03ra/ra.html

flaagan · Jan 2005

a few good car ref's
http://blueprints.onnovanbraam.com/
http://www.smcars.net/forum/index.php
http://suurland.com/

NoSeRider · Jan 2005

http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~polycount/ubb/Forum1/HTML/010080.html?00000

I saved it.....thought it be a good idea to link it.

HarlequiN · Jan 2005

From the Silo site via Rick S:

http://www.reybustos.com/03ra/ra.html

Photos of poses, with the muscle structure illustrated.

Hmmm, I need to update the links page. Soon as Crunch is over.

Fuse · Jan 2005

anatomy

http://www.bartelby.com/107/indexillus.html

oXYnary · Jan 2005

Lots and lots of derelict buildings and places. Rust, dirt, weathered - You name it.

http://www.oboylephoto.com

Daz · Feb 2005

awesome stock photo search site

http://www.fotosearch.com

*EDIT* btw, forgot to mention. I figured out a crafty way to get most of these images super high res. If you find the shot you need, most of them have a 'zoom' button. Click that and it dumps several images that make up one huge image into your web browser cache.

http://www.fotosearch.com/image-source/flesh/IGS219/2/

Cubik · Feb 2005

Tons of guns with closeups:

http://www.superiorgunsonline.com/assault.htm

ElysiumGX · Feb 2005

Domain says it all.

http://www.fighter-planes.com/

Badname · Mar 2005

http://www.tridentmilitary.com/Photo-Gallery.html
Military uniform references. Many diffrent camo and other outfits used by diffrent countries.

Does anyone have a site with good soldier refs? front/side pics?

Badname · Mar 2005

Some good inspiration pics for making your buggy

http://www.rhinobuggies.com.au/

EmAr · Mar 2005

nice photos of gas masks etc.
http://www.scotthealthsafety.com/photolib.htm

cholden · Mar 2005

This site has tons of blueprints and pictures of home designs. Great reference for anyone wanting to do realistic environment work.
http://www.design-house.com/

Sett · Apr 2005

The museum of retro technology.

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm

odd stuff. vehicles, gears, underwater cannon...

lkraan · Apr 2005

High res scans of pretty much all the Masamune Shirow poster books. Tons of awesome drawing of hot chicks.
I guess I have to mention that this is adult content!

http://mshirow.free.fr/pbcollection.html

Thegodzero · Apr 2005

armor:
http://www.kropserkel.com/reproductions.htm

Erol · Apr 2005

"Unidentified Photos" from the mid/late 19th and early 20th century. Good for costume ref and getting mildly creeped out.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~txfalls/UNKNOWNPEOPLEpicturegallery.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/photosun.htm
http://www.jbdesignsnw.com/Unid_photos/
http://www.simpsonco.bizland.com/UNIDENTIFIED_PHOTOS.HTM
http://www.library.okstate.edu/scua/unidentified/photo%20albumes/1891_1910.htm
http://www.library.okstate.edu/scua/unidentified/photo%20albumes/1911_1930.htm
http://www.library.okstate.edu/scua/unidentified/photo%20albumes/1931_1950.htm
http://www.larigan.com/unknown/unknown.htm
http://www.nobletthistory.fsnet.co.uk/Photosx.html

iMag · May 2005

http://www.satanslaundromat.com/sl/

Badname · May 2005

Musa The Warrior
I saw this asian movie on mtv and man it has such great asian chracters that you could use as ref or inspiration.

here is the google link http://images.google.nl/images?hl=nl&lr=&q=Musa+The+Warrior

snemmy · May 2005

http://www.capcom.co.jp/bio/index.html

has links to quicktime movie turn arounds of the characters from the Resident Evil remake on GameCube

Quasar · May 2005

The US Patent Office

http://www.uspto.gov

It contains an incredible amount of information, with highres drawings of each invention

seantree · May 2005

would anyone know where i can grab the model sheets of Mr. Fantastic from. I remember their being one for each member of the Fantastic four. I saved them, but they are long gone. any help would be appreciated as I'm sure you've all seen it before. It was pretty common, but now i just cant locate it. thanks

EmAr · Jun 2005

This site has a nice list of car blueprints too:
http://3dcenter.ru/blueprints/
BTW, sorry, I don't know anything about Mr.Fantastic model sheet.

Eric Chadwick · Jun 2005

Some video reference sites...

Getty stock video
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/frontdoor/defaultfilm.aspx

BBC stock video
http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/customer/index.jsp

Corbis stock video
http://www.corbismotion.com/home.aspx

VCE stock video: explosions, etc.
http://www.vce.com/../imagelib.html

Sediment in action! (good for particle fx reference)
http://faculty.gg.uwyo.edu/heller/sed_video_downloads.htm

Gunshots
http://www.sscmagnum.de/hochgeschwindigkeitsvideos.htm

Eadweard Muybridge (photographic motion studies)
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/anima/chronoph/motion/index.htm

Looped walking references
http://www.adidas.com/y-3/index_high.html

Altavista web search
http://www.altavista.com/video/default

Google web search
http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Video/

Lycos web search
http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?loc=searchbox&tab=multi&adf=&cat=video

SyaPed · Jul 2005

This place has some nice clean anatomical line drawings.Need to register though.

Anatomy Line Drawings

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