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by asthexiancal
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19 years ago
There are times when your muses are SO numerous, you'd prefer to be alone (not to mention what kind of muses haunt me...) !!!!
Surrounding the Squeetah are 42 of the films, series, artists that inspired me the most for my drawings (so films like Brazil I worship at the highest point are not included as they don't directly) since my childhood - only SF, fantasy or anticipation-related -, will you be able to recognize at least 1/3d of them ? Some of them are REALLY hard to, because they are not known for some reasons, or known only in some countries, or I just drew a symbol for them...
Here are the references, from bottom left :
1/ Terror Dog from Ghostbuster
2/ Spiral from Twilight Zone
3/ Robby from Forbidden Planet (amongst other appearances)
4/ Flying saucer from The Invaders
5/ Thunderbird 2 cargo plane
6/ Crustacean monster from Deep Star Six
7/ Parrot from the Mysterious Cities of Gold (Les Mystérieuses Cités d'Or), holding Esteban's medallion
8/ Captain Future's helmet from Captain Future (Capitaine Flam)
9/ Anavel Gato's helmet from Gundam 0083
10/ Iron Man's helmet
11/ Light Cycle from Tron
12/ Helmet from Genesis Climber Mospeada (Robotech 3rd serie)
13/ Duke Freed's helmet from Grendizer (Goldorak)
14/ Helmet from Super Dimensional Fortress Macross (Robotech 1st serie)
15/ Pusher Hopper / Takayuki Takeya's and Yasushi Nirasawa's version of the Kamen Rider (Masked Rider)
16/ severed head from The Thing
17/ Alien warrior from Aliens
18/ Pseudopod eye/raygun from War of the Worlds
19/ T-800 endoskeletton
20/ The Lord of Darkness from Legend
21/ Powered suit from Metal Skin Panic Madox-01
22/ On the powered suit is written "Peter Elson", a great sci-fi illustrator alas too soon deceased at the beginning of this century
23/ Skeksis from The Dark Crystal
24/ Maximillian from The Black Hole
25/ Maximillian got a Star Trek badge
26/ Darth Vader from Star Wars
27/ Molasar from The Keep
28/ Protect Gear from Straydog Kerberos Panzer Cops
29/ On the Protect Gear is written "Don Lawrence", a great italian comic drawer
30/ Briareos from Appleseed
31/ Crystal Boy from Space Adventure Cobra
32/ Kenshirô from Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star)
33/ Mirage Knight from The Five Star Stories
34/ Lobo
35/ T-Rex from Jurassic Park (realistic design from scientific studies of the 90's)
36/ Balrog from The Fellowship of the Ring
37/ Vermithrax Pejorative from Dragonslayer
38/ Cham Fau from Aura Battler Dunbine
39/ ED-209 from Robocop
Now, back to the Squeetah, VERY subtile references (was short on space to do more)
40/ on the right arm, is written Dangaioh in japanese
41/ on the chest is the symbol of the Omega dictatorship from the serie Once Upon a Time... Space (Il était une Fois... L'Espace)
And last but not least... The "table" is nothing more than the black monolith from 2001 : a Space Odyssey !!!
Surrounding the Squeetah are 42 of the films, series, artists that inspired me the most for my drawings (so films like Brazil I worship at the highest point are not included as they don't directly) since my childhood - only SF, fantasy or anticipation-related -, will you be able to recognize at least 1/3d of them ? Some of them are REALLY hard to, because they are not known for some reasons, or known only in some countries, or I just drew a symbol for them...
Here are the references, from bottom left :
1/ Terror Dog from Ghostbuster
2/ Spiral from Twilight Zone
3/ Robby from Forbidden Planet (amongst other appearances)
4/ Flying saucer from The Invaders
5/ Thunderbird 2 cargo plane
6/ Crustacean monster from Deep Star Six
7/ Parrot from the Mysterious Cities of Gold (Les Mystérieuses Cités d'Or), holding Esteban's medallion
8/ Captain Future's helmet from Captain Future (Capitaine Flam)
9/ Anavel Gato's helmet from Gundam 0083
10/ Iron Man's helmet
11/ Light Cycle from Tron
12/ Helmet from Genesis Climber Mospeada (Robotech 3rd serie)
13/ Duke Freed's helmet from Grendizer (Goldorak)
14/ Helmet from Super Dimensional Fortress Macross (Robotech 1st serie)
15/ Pusher Hopper / Takayuki Takeya's and Yasushi Nirasawa's version of the Kamen Rider (Masked Rider)
16/ severed head from The Thing
17/ Alien warrior from Aliens
18/ Pseudopod eye/raygun from War of the Worlds
19/ T-800 endoskeletton
20/ The Lord of Darkness from Legend
21/ Powered suit from Metal Skin Panic Madox-01
22/ On the powered suit is written "Peter Elson", a great sci-fi illustrator alas too soon deceased at the beginning of this century
23/ Skeksis from The Dark Crystal
24/ Maximillian from The Black Hole
25/ Maximillian got a Star Trek badge
26/ Darth Vader from Star Wars
27/ Molasar from The Keep
28/ Protect Gear from Straydog Kerberos Panzer Cops
29/ On the Protect Gear is written "Don Lawrence", a great italian comic drawer
30/ Briareos from Appleseed
31/ Crystal Boy from Space Adventure Cobra
32/ Kenshirô from Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star)
33/ Mirage Knight from The Five Star Stories
34/ Lobo
35/ T-Rex from Jurassic Park (realistic design from scientific studies of the 90's)
36/ Balrog from The Fellowship of the Ring
37/ Vermithrax Pejorative from Dragonslayer
38/ Cham Fau from Aura Battler Dunbine
39/ ED-209 from Robocop
Now, back to the Squeetah, VERY subtile references (was short on space to do more)
40/ on the right arm, is written Dangaioh in japanese
41/ on the chest is the symbol of the Omega dictatorship from the serie Once Upon a Time... Space (Il était une Fois... L'Espace)
And last but not least... The "table" is nothing more than the black monolith from 2001 : a Space Odyssey !!!
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That's at least how I feel in those moments...
omg, is that maximillian from "the black hole"? i thought no one saw that movie. ^^;
anyway... your detailing will never cease to amaze me. ^^
That's all I get ! =^.^=
STP, n'en révèle pas plus ou le concours n'aura plus du tout raison d'être !!!
mais j'ai pas pu résister en voyant un panzer =^.^=
The beam emiter from 'War of the Worlds'
T-101 battal chassy from the Terminator series.
ED-something or other, from Robocop series.
Tim Currys charictor from 'Legend'
To the Artists left is a Skexsies from 'The Black Crystal'
Moving furtehr we see an Xenomorphic Alien creature from some odd movie, heard a few people saw it.
Above that is Darth Vader.
Above Vader and the wiered eyless guy is Briarios from 'Appleseed'.
further over to the Artists apparent left is the head creature from 'John Carpenters The Thing'
Below that is a colection of helmets, including one from Robotec, Iron Man, and Star Wars.
The Iron Man one has a light cycle from some Disney film jumping off of it. 'Tron' I think.
Past the bird and some crab looking thing is the robot from 'Forbiden Planet', a Sci-Fi version of shakespears 'The Tempest'.
And that is all I can think of. Feel free to use this as a jumping board. Or not.
ED (Enforcement Droid)- 209 (series)
The Xenomorph from "Aliens".
Sorry, those were the ones I had to point out ... for great justice! :3
I thank you for ED's series number, I though I had it but did not put anything down because I was not sure. And now it seems I was off by 300...
(Not a movie reference.)
Of course it was from Alien, Aliens, Aliens 3, and Alien resurection. But it would have been less fun to come right out and say I knew the title, I wanted to see how many would try to corect me on it before I got home. Just one?
To the last one. And yeah, just one that looks that particular. James Cameron or Stan Lee wanted to do something different with the Alien and thus took off the smooth crest atop it's head. Of course, to the orginal one, there was actually a human skull used for the "face" of it. They did away with that idea and redone that part.
Aliens: Yup, human skull, cut up with a scroll saw and glued back together into a shape more pleasing the costume designer.
dark vador :p
l'espece d'homme oiseau en capuche , c'est pas un perso de la guerre de lodos ? *ou quelque chose comme sa *
ya terminator :p
la moto de Tron !
le perso d'alien :D
la tete en forme d'araigner me fait pensser a un artists de manga que j'aime bien *et d'ont jai acheter tous les tomes* du : Manoir de la terreur .
puis la larve en bas me fait pensser au monstre de Star ship trooper mais je pensses pas que c'est sa :p
le dino est super beau , mais apres il peut etre tirée de partout , jurassik parc peut etre ?
le ptit piaf me dit quelque chose mais j'arrive plus a le situer , mais s'est un manga / anime . arf
en tous cas superbe images !
--> La tête-araignée : la bonne réponse a aussi été donnée - je vois de quoi tu veux parler mais ce n'est pas ça (très probable que cet artiste s'en soit également inspié pour ses manga ceci dit)
--> Starship Troopers : effectivement, ce n'est pas ça non plus - bon courage pour trouver de quoi il s'agit, même si c'est passé au cinéma et à la télé !!!
--> Pour le dino, tu as raison, quoique le design réaliste est typique Jurassic Park. Mais je comptais bien en faire un personnage "générique" pour montrer que je me référais également aux animation de Ray Harryhausen par exemple...
--> le piaf : tu y est presque, celui-là, la plupart des français le connaissent !! (réponse donnée également plus haut)
Big ol' Tim Curry from Legend, Max from The Black Hole, a Skeksis from The Dark Crystal, Alien, Robbie from Twilight Zone (he was also in Forbidden Planet of course, Terminator, Darth V. of course, War of the Worlds gun thingy, Brieros from Appleseed, ED-209 from Robocop, Lobo, Ironman, some Mobius guy near Lobo, umm... I think that's Draco from Dragonheart in the back...
No idea what the shrimpy thing is or the bug dude on the right but he looks familiar from your art.
As for the bug dude, you are indeed right, it does appear in a close form elsewhere in my galleries... ;)
Lots of other guys too. Isn't that vulture-looking thingy from the movie Dark Crystal?
As for Dark Crystal, Bingo, that's indeed one of the seven who appear there ^^
J'ai vu le méchant de Legend (moi, c'est plutôt Tom Cruise qui m'a inspiré, mais bon,chacun son truc hein ^^') le perroquet des Mystérieuses Cités d'or (tu sais qu'ils le repassent sur Gulli?), Rex (no coment.. ^^') et... euh l'elfe??... Je vais surement dire une betise mais je pense à ta nymphe....??
Ah oui et un des casques en bas à gauche me fait penser au gars bleu dans Ulysse 31..
Non, celle-là vient bien d'un véritable anime, mais qui n'est jamais passé en France.
Pour le casque, je n'y avais pas pensé ; je crois voir duquel tu parles, et d'après mes souvenirs, il est en effet assez proche - mais ce n'est pas ça... ;P
Pourquoi les Cités d'or t'inspirent au niveau SF?
DANGER WILL ROBINSON
léguman, si je l'ADORE pour ce qu'il est, ne m'a par contre pas spécialement inspiré non plus.
Et oui, on peut dire que ça m'a pris beaucoup de temps et de patience... ^^ ^^
^^
Terminator versus dark lord
Darth Vader versus Alien
Mega fight, all at the same time !!!!!!!!!!! XD XD
(at least I think its the little car from tron)
And just two guesses here
Do I see the robot from lost in space and a tremor worm? I'm not sure.
Je t'ai déjà dit que j'adorais ta façon de dessiner les dinos?
Encore bravo!
Comme tu peux le voir, il m'a fallu huit jours pour le faire - maintenant, le temps pris dans chaque jour a été assez variable, mais n'a jamais été en-dessous de deux heures. Ma page est une bête A4, je ne dessine que là-dessus. Au départ, il n'y avait que le Squeetah et son "entourage" proche, et puis au fur et à mesure, ça s'est élargi sur toute la surface, à tel point que j'ai dû ruser pour les dernières références, rapetisser les éléments à l'extrême voire ne mettre qu'un symbole ou un nom !!!!
Merchi encore ^^ ^^ ^^
Hmm, I think I know 19 or 20 of these characters. But I can't remember all the names...
And Robby, the robot - I knew him from the Forbidden Planet, Twilight Zone and Columbo.
But the filmography in imdb lists more than 20 films/series
http://imdb.com/name/nm1119475/
Je ne m'essaierai même pas au reste( surtout le non jap ;))
Baleze en tout cas !
Haven't read through everything, know that most of these are popular enough to have already been gotten (Darth Vader? c'mon...), but let's see...
ED-209 from the first 'Robocop' movie,
Is the dragon in the back left Vermithrax from 'Dragonslayer'?...Nobody remembers Vermithrax...
Unsure...
A T. Rex...Could be from lots of places, 'Jurassic Park'? 'Land That Time Forgot'? As old as some of this other stuff is, maybe 'Land of the Lost'?
A Terminator (looks more like the one in the 'Terminator 2' opening than the original movie?),
1953 'The War of the Worlds' heat ray projector,
Darkness from 'Legend' (played by Tim Curry,
unsure of the powered armor...
Maximillian from 'The Black Hole',
A skeksis (looks like Skeksil the Chamberlain?) from 'The Dark Crystal',
Alien (a la Giger) from 'Alien',
Darth Vader from the various 'Star Wars' movies,
Unsure of the fellow with his hand on Darth and the Kerberos suit's head...
Briareos from Shirow's 'Appleseed'
Looks like the Akai Megane Kerberos armor from 'Jin Roh'.
A few more I don't know...
Lobo from the comic of the same name,
Norris' Head from Carpenter's 'The Thing'
Robby the Robot (lots of reuses but most notably 'Forbidden Planet)'holding a flying saucer from 'The Invaders', beneath/behind the flying saucer looks like it might be Thunderbird 2 from 'Thunderbirds are Go',
Lower left is definitely one of the 'Ghostbusters' devil dogs.
The two helmets in the lower right look like possibly Aura Battler Dunbine? and a helmet from...Argh, I forget the correct name but in America it was released abominably as something called 'G-Force'. 'Gatchaman'?
Fourth helmet from the right definitely looks to be an Iron Man helmet.
All the helmets look familiar, but darnit, I just can't place'em...
Mark
Mark
Bravo : pour moi, il aurait fallu au moins une A3 ! ;)
Quant au concours... Bah ! Je crois que plein de gens ont déjà trouvé la majeure partie des réponses !
Il m'a semblé apercevoir un vieil heaume d'Iron man, mais c'est sûrement une erreur : Iron Man n'a jamais connu d'adaptation au cinéma, à ma connaissance !
Apparamment, y aurait une moto tirée d'Akira, une soucoupe volante de la série des "Invaders" et un casque de "2001, L'Odyssée de l'Espace", aussi... Mais je n'en jurerai pas !
Une série n'est pas un film de cinéma, et peut même être une série en BD... :)
Pas d'Akira (c'est fou ce que tout le monde a tendance à voir Akira quand on dessine une moto...), pas de casque de 2001 (mais une autre référence très subtile qu'un seul, peut-être deux, a trouvée), par contre bravo pour la soucoupe !!
Pour la soucoupe des Invaders, celà m'étonne : il y a vraiment si peu de gens qui retrouvent cette reference !? Ah... C'est vrais que c'est une série de la fin des années 1960 !
Sinon, en regardant bien, je crois avoir reconnu le Molasar de "The Keep" ! ;) =>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keep_%28film%29
Mais, là... Désolé , hein ! C'est parce que je te connais un peu : il ne me parait pas trop reconnaissable sur ce dessin !
Ou alors, je me trompe encore totalement !?
Lord, tu es LE ROI DES CHEFS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tu es le seul et unique à l'avoir reconnu - ce qui est normal aussi, vu le "succès fantastique" et la "très large distribution" de cette oeuvre maudite. Mais tu m'en avais déjà parlé, donc je sais que tu le connaissais. Par contre, je suis déçu que tu me dises qu'il n'est pas très reconnaissable, moi qui avait fait beaucoup d'efforts dessus !!! Il est pourtant bien proche du model sheet que j'ai utilisé... Enfin bon. Tu pourrais me dire ce qui cloche pour que je vois comment améliorer ma perception du personnage ? (je lui ai pourtant fait sa "cicatrice" sur la joue droite, rien qu'à ça on devrait reconnaître la formidable puissance de mon art !! LOL ;D )
En fait, le problème - ici - est que l'on ne voit que sa tête... Et qu'elle n'est pas en couleurs !
Molasar est normalement bleu-nuit tirant vers le noir, si mes souvenirs sont exacts. S'il y avait des couleurs, tes personnages seraient certainement plus faciles à identifier, je crois !
Oui, effectivement, Molasar est gris-noir, avec de superbes éclairages bleu nuit qui donnent tous ces superbes reflets... Ca avec ses yeux et sa bouche rougeoyants, effets garantis !!!
Mais tu ne m'as toujours pas dit ce qui clochait sur le peu que j'en ai dessiné !!
C'est le manque de couleurs qui m'a principalement perturbé ! :)
Do I see the silver surfer?
Nope, that's not him at all, look closely, he is not shiny like metal, but clear like water...
I particularly like how you drew Darkness, in that it not only looks like him, but that expression is pure Tim Curry. Kudos on your uncanny realism.
Li'l tiny Lightcycle makes me happy!
Smog from animated Hobbit
The fairy chicks from Tank Police Dominion?
Jurassic Park T-Rex or inspired by Arthur Adams
Biarios from Appleseed
Is it Lusifer from Legends, can't quite make out who's next to him though, looks like one of those Battle Tech Mechs., Darth Vader, The CPU guy from Tron?, a Jin-Ron solider, Lobo, Guyver, Alien warrior, a Sketsie from Dark Crystal, a T-1000 Terminator, Robby the Robot, I want to say a chocobo, 80's Iron Man, Rick Folkers Robotech helmet, a Tron cylce, Vermithrax
1953 'The War of the Worlds' alien thing, 'The Thing', flying saucer from 'The Invaders',isn't that the old puppet THunderbirds ship?, that demon thing from Ghostbusters, Oh, it that clear guy a Micronaught?, That one helmet reminds me of Captain Power and the other a G-Force helmet.
Well, that's all I got, but I know wone thing, it's a kick ass picture. Damn.
It originally aired in France in 1981, but didn't air in the US until the mid to late 80's on Nickelodeon. It was a fun show filled with adventure. The twist of the show was the constant discovery of ancient high technology from lost civilizations, such as the solar powered Flying Golden Condor. Basically, it was filled with Atlantis type stuff.
The show was a blast and I remember it fondly.
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/130/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbVNZ-cghz0&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBJDxIs7vGY&mode=related&search=
At least having that many all at once let you come up with this! This is brilliant ^_^
It's really awesomely done. Love the time and effort you put into each character!
DAVID *cuddle* thats amazing *purr loud*
so much movies... i show it my human friends and they find that picture absolutly great (-:
you should study art *blushes*
PERFEKT in all ways ... "love it"
That is not perfect at all, but am proud of it anyway... :)
And even more strange how many I love.
Way to go! I love it!
D.O.P.R
May I ask who is the bug with the inverte human face?
I think I didn't saw that movie.
You didn't see "the thing" ? Seems so, that's one of the scenes that's most remembered by all who watched it...
At any rate - this is a great piece and is perfect for something for fans to do online - all trying to solve a puzzle like this. :) My congratulations on themost interesting, involing piece of artwork I have yet seen.
Anyway, OK for TDB, but that's NOT Smaug !!!!
As for the TZ symbol, BRAVO !!!! I am surprised to see it was recognized quite a few times, I didn't think it could, and as far as I remember, nobody confound it with the time tunnel, contrary to what I thought...
Thank you !!! ^^ ^^
Et en plus tout les personnages de films qui m'ont tellement marqués aussi ! };)
Meme pitchou des mysterieuse citées d'or !
C'est comme les Ulysse 31, tous sont des must ! Ah, ca me rapelle de bons souvenirs tout ca. }:)
Wow...that's a lot of work put into one pic there bud! Put that hand on some ice. XD
Of those 6 things, it brought back some good memories though. Your list of inspirations are pretty big!
You got a ton of classics there!
But oh wow....I thought it was done in pencil/graphite. I'm always smearing my work unintentionally.
It's amazing what you do with pen...I can't believe it's not pencil. All that precision!
Out of curiosity, what is your background in art? Have you always been drawing? Any particular influences or stories to tell? ^_^ *sits down, tail wagging*
I haven't been studying art at all, but I have been practising longer than I can remember, that means more than 30 years (I use to say that when I was born, the pencil came first). I've above all been infuenced by sci-fi (films and animation), and that is the vast majority of my works. I encountered the furry world in 2002 only (through the yahoo groups, it was a group about the pizza cats), in a period when following a heartbreak three years before, I have been left with no more will to draw anything, something that never happened to me (I always drew at least one rough per day). I always created my own characters before, but since that date, that's the (almost) total opposite, I only draw copyrighted characters. You've been able to see some old works of mine here and there in my galleries, you can measure all the changes that happened...
So although I don't consider myself furry at all, I appreciate the fact that the furry world was the element that threw me out of my depressive state regarding drawings.
This is a condensed story of my art life :)
As for Legend, I think I saw three versions of it in a collector DVD...
As for Legend, I watched the DVD, but I have a tape of the movie that is much different. I prefer the taped version more. The DVD did have some additional footage that the tape didn't. At least the music in the tape version is bearable=D
I wonder what it would look like in colour . :D
Hmm, indeed, this drawing looks like it was quite the undertaking.
yes, colours on that would be... Interesting, indeed... Too bad I cannot myself...
<3<3<3
Glad you like that pic I've put quite some time on it :) :)
Any chance of a picture of Legend's Darkness on his own?
I know it's not my typical over-amped lexicon. But I think BAD ASS quite nicely expresses exactly what I want to say when I see this piece.
This has to be the most masculine, testosterone-appreciated piece I've seen in ages. xD
It's got everything that guys love and... what can I say... this is art! So... I repeat... BAD ASS.
-Kit Karamak
Seems I missed your comment - thank you !!! ^^ ^^ ^^
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA, awesome XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD
:)))
This crossover would be so epic that Keith Giffen would have to kill Lobo again before he becomes a pansy again.
Nice group picture BTW, I can actually recognize some characters without reading the description.
I'm surprised that there's no reference to Captain Harlock anywhere.
As for Harlock,, it certainly was a (good) shock, but it did not inspire me the way Captain Future or Grendizer did at the same time, for example. That is why I did not include any reference, though both versions of the Arcadia will always got a special place in my heart of course.
J'ai pourtant pas mal regardé la télé quand j'étais plus jeune. Suis-je un ignare ?