Lets share our inspiration folders

vend3r · Mar 2009

I had the idea that we could all use some cross inspiration and I'm sure you guys have some really great stuff you have collected over the years, Ironically I have not started an inspiration folder until now so I have nothing to share but still wanted to bring the idea up and see what happens

What I can help with is a method of sharing.

First off you will need some type of archive tool you can get winrar from here http://rarlabs.com/download.htm

After that is installed you can just rightclick your folder and then select add to .rar

When that is done you will need a place to upload it.

If you dont have your own file host you can use http://www.filefront.com/ or something similar I recommend filefront due to the unlimited storage

Then just post the link here.

I hope to see some exchanges!

Spark · Mar 2009

Vend3r, haha I think you would have better luck if you said, "hey I have this and this to share in case anyone else wants to share as well" Rather then basically saying, "hey I have been to lazy to get anything, and want to take all your hard work in finding reference and inspiration!" I for one will pass on doing any work for you:), but will share with my friends that already have:P

Spark

System · Mar 2009

What? All 2-3gb of it?!

Tbh you can pick up a fuckton of coolshit from the reference thread here and;

http://redbeardead.com/c9/viewforum.php?f=18

http://gingerbox.spiteshow.com/viewtopic.php?t=2888

And various other forums!

Go nuts.

Paul Pepera · Mar 2009

Ya, srsly, my inspiration folder is almost 10 gigs in size. Also, consider that there will be a lot of repeating pieces from everyone's folder, since we all probably gathered much of the same inspirational work.

Yozora · Mar 2009

Mine is the size of the internet;

http://www.google.com/

rooster · Mar 2009

lame

rolfness · Mar 2009

LOL ...

Slipstream · Mar 2009

you can pick up tons of references from my daily sites:

www.cgtalk.com
www.gameartisans.org
www.deviantart.com
http://chasarsis.deviantart.com/favourites/

and o course polycount . . . but we're here already and I its probably unnecessary to link to it . . .

I'd share the contents of my folder, but that's about 6.5 gigs of pictures gathered up from the past 8 or 9 years.

TheSplash · Mar 2009

Slipstream wrote: »

http://chasarsis.deviantart.com/favourites/

http://chasarsis.deviantart.com/favourites/#_featured--7 "reference" aye.. :poly121:

But yeah seriously, my inspiration folder is 24GB, so I dunno how you'd share something like that... torrent maybe.
Sharing things on a specific topic would be a lot easier.

NyneDown · Mar 2009

Dang homie...tryin to hussle us on the interwebz! :P

Seriously, that's a lot of uploading....I'm at about 8 gigs worth as of right now. Just hit up all of the usual sites. Right click->save image as

cep · Mar 2009

Spark wrote: »

Vend3r, haha I think you would have better luck if you said, "hey I have this and this to share in case anyone else wants to share as well" Rather then basically saying, "hey I have been to lazy to get anything, and want to take all your hard work in finding reference and inspiration!" I for one will pass on doing any work for you:), but will share with my friends that already have:P

Spark

I am Samson, and my reference folder is thy hair.

Elhrrah · Mar 2009

Does the concept art for my own project count? The idea inspires the concept which inspires the art, which inspires the next idea, which leads off on a huge tangent. That's how we once went from asymmetrical genetic engineering, to brain-eating, soul-possessing spiders. And a whole new look for the husk/possessor.

And, as others have said, the file size is a bit too large to pack into a rar. And the fact that I am using glorified dial-up. Luckily, the medium of this madness has a Deviant art page. http://atothex.deviantart.com/

Daaark · Mar 2009

Teacher: I expect to your reference folders on my desk monday morning...
Vend3r: Shit! I did nothing this whole semester. What do I do.. what do I do?...

EVIL · Mar 2009

My ref folder is 65 gig in size, I aint gonna pack that shit up in rars. Its fun building up your own ref folder, just use google and categorize it well!

pior · Mar 2009

Hey anyone remembers that website showing various inspirational pictures at random when you refresh? Some sort of collage of pictures, some small some big.

(and yeah that rar idea is huh, weak hehe)

rooster · Mar 2009

cghub?

Peris · Mar 2009

?
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=34320

Unleashed · Mar 2009

how about sharing how we categorize our inspiration/reference folders

Unleashed · Mar 2009

I also use both windows live gallery and xnview to view images.

pior · Mar 2009

Thank you Rooster that's it!

Super · Mar 2009

We need another 3dcreature.com.

Renaud Galand · Mar 2009

http://creatureartists.blogspot.com/

hawken · Mar 2009

dropbox can be handy for this kind of thing.

here's how I structure mine:

kwakkie · Mar 2009

Unleashed wrote: »

how about sharing how we categorize our inspiration/reference folders

OMG LEAKED CONCEPT ART FROM TAH FUTAR!!!11!

Rens · Mar 2009

If i would share my refs and inspiration pics, you can buy a new harddrive.

I Might take photography to another level.
Im thinking about building my own online ref database, bit 3dsk related, but then more art in the shots, bigger range of variation in everything. Im missing alot of things when i browse though those type of refs.

Josh_Singh · Mar 2009

I love cghub.
Tonz of inspiration there.

super_villain · Mar 2009

I would share my inspiration folders, but EarthQuake would become ragingly jealous when he didn't see his work in there. Better I just keep it all to my self.

Aside from that, I did Deviantwatch you Slipstream, just to teach you lesson.

|Buddy| · Mar 2009

431 gigs here, if i selected all folders that is.

i basiclly downloaded the internetz

EVIL · Mar 2009

|Buddy| wrote: »

431 gigs here, if i selected all folders that is.

i basiclly downloaded the internetz

Porn doesnt count :P

TWilson · Mar 2009

Here's a sampling:

Inspirational.jpg?t=1236636937

nkoste · Mar 2009

lol *saved*

JohnnyRaptor · Mar 2009

Unleashed wrote: »

how about sharing how we categorize our inspiration/reference folders

Hmm shit nice one dude, mines a disgrace compared to this, i shall have to steal this design and pretend i came up with it!

Pedro Amorim · Mar 2009

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/93793/Inspiration.zip

A couple of images i downloaded last night from some chinese or korean website. cant tell the diference

Talbot · Mar 2009

Are people actually saving images they find inspirational? I don't understand the point unless you were going to use it as reference.

Tumerboy · Mar 2009

well, ref, or . . . inspiration.

Most of us (of course not me though) run dry sometimes, and can't get started on something. Usually a quick glance through 3-10 gigs of inspirational art is enough to kickstart people's creativity (or kleptomania)

ericdigital · Mar 2009

I totally have a inspiration folder. Actually I have a bunch of them. Like Tumer said, sometimes instead of digging online I just rapid click through a massive folder and it kind of helps get me excited to make something cool.

cep · Mar 2009

caseofchill wrote: »

I would share my inspiration folders, but EarthQuake would become ragingly jealous when he didn't see his work in there. Better I just keep it all to my self.

Aside from that, I did Deviantwatch you Slipstream, just to teach you lesson.

LOL

Blaizer · Mar 2009

hawken wrote: »

dropbox can be handy for this kind of thing.

here's how I structure mine:

hahhaa love your first folder name ^^

fade1 · Mar 2009

just a question for all:
what do you do if pictures fit well in two or more catagories.? happens especially on environment stuff...
tried some tools for tagging images , but everything took way too much time and had bad workflow. save the pictures in more then one folder seems stupid to me, too...

Tumerboy · Mar 2009

just copy it to both.

conte · Mar 2009

65gb of inspiration images? or what?
or do you do have some interesting videos in \work\superseriouscontent\reallyseriousnoninterestingstuff\isaiditislame,don'tlookthat,mom\... %^#.avi
)

Daaark · Mar 2009

Dammit, do the multi-quote buttons not work?

As for the problem of more than one category, use tagging.

HellMark · Mar 2009

Not sure if it's ok to post these in this thread. Found them over at NeoGaf and to be pretty inspiring. They are colorized photos from America in the 30's and Nazi Germany in the 30's and 40's.

America
http://forums.nonewbs.com/showthread.php?t=42556

Germany
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=151191

fade1 · Mar 2009

Daaark wrote: »

As for the problem of more than one category, use tagging.

any suggestions for a userfriendly software. i couldn't find one...

Lets share our inspiration folders

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