I’m inspired by Kraaftwerk, Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Stomu Yamashita, Klause Schultze, Neu, Steve Hackett. As far as art, most of the pre raphaelites do it for me.
Who Inspires You the Most?
bonestructure
#42
As far as CG, though it’s old, I still find the CG work done in the series ROUGHNECKS" STARSHIP TROOPERS CHRONICLES to be some of the best CG I’ve ever seen.
umbrellasky
#43
hmmm many things inspire me, nature for one 
I allso like Brian Froud’s work, his paintings are so detailed and full of character. I love John howe and Alan Lee’s paintings.
Tim Burton’s works are so unique and ‘weird’ I love them too.
Linda Bergkvist, you are an inspiration to me. I think it was you and artists such as Natascha (Kyena) and Linda-Peachysticks that helped me find a way of painting that I am comfortable with and that enables me to learn and grow.
I have recently been looking into a lot of matte painting and concept art. Artists such as: Dylan Cole and Feng Zhu are very inspiring.
I love fantasy art and images that tell a stories
Oh and books, lots of books inspire me such as Phillip Pullman’s, Dark Materials Trilogy and J.R.R.Tolkiens LOTR series. 
<edit> heehee keep thinking of things that inspire me 
the old masters inspire me too, like Michaelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci
3mm
#45
i’m inspired first by father of fantasy art “Frank Frazetta”, then some works of Bisley, Brom,Ashlley Wood & …
in comic :joe Mad,Travis Charest,Adam hughes,Chris Bachalo &…
in 3d :all of Blizzard Film department “BFD”,Pixar, and 3d artist:1-pascal b 2-john chalfant 3-Mark Skeleton 4-Ryan Duncan 5-F.Cortina &…
SevenString
#46
musically? Symphony-X, Vanden Plas and ARK are sort my my holy trinity of musical inspirations at the moment. Plus, Russ Allen of Sym-X and Jorn Lande, formerly of ARK, are two of the best rock singers on the planet.
artistically and creatively? gotta go with a previous poster who was talking about Studio Gibli. Most every film out of that studio is chock-full of amazing ideas. Also, G. Lucas back in the day, when he made Star Wars, seemingly out of talent (his and others) and thin air. I’m STILL stunned when I realize that ANH came out nearly 30 years ago, yet the original cut (of which I have the widescreen laserdiscs) still holds up. Dayum!
Robert Rodriquez is another inspiration because he just “does it”. Doesn’t worry about all the extra BS: he just gets the shots.
Finally, in that same spirit, people like Terrence Walker, Tim Albee, Jason Wen, and Makoto Shinkai are cool inspirations because they’re taking advantage of modern technology to create their “one-man-show” visions. I’m especially impressed with Makoto Shinkai because “Voices of a Distant Star” comes across as more of a full production, even though it was just one guy on a mac. However, anyone who tackles, and completes a full CG production on their own has my utmost respect and admiration.
Awesome. Symphony X is one of my favorite bands. I always have them blasting while drawing or just sitting around. I actually drove four hours to Atlanta last month to see them play at Gigantour, and when I got there I found out their bus driver had gotten sick and they weren’t playing. I’ve never been so pissed.
umbrellasky
#49
Another one, music I listen to a lot of music, mostly classical artists such as: Bond, Maksim, Duel, Bach. I’m a sort of all round girl when it comes to music I like a bit of everything, if I like a song I like it no matter what genre it comes from, but classical is favourite of mine.
I like a lot of film sound tracks. I loved the Collateral soundtrack, Mounlin Rogue, LotR
other music: John Mayer, james blunt, some of the latest oasis, a little bit of Jennifer Lopez, Keane, Foo fighters, Muse, Red Hot Chillie peppers.
SOE_digital
#50
Hmmm. It has most definately got tobe music that inspires me. Not so much on the visual art side of things, but about 75% of scripts I’ve written have been based off lyrics to music.
Run Away -by The Corrs for example. Was listening to that and I started thinking about writing a story in Northern Ireland about a couple fleeing the ‘war’, all inspired by the title and chorus of the song.
fuss
#51
Well, I think this site inspires me the most . Each time I am lacking motivation to practice (I’m still a newbie ) I just need to load the start page of this forum in my browser and a quick glance at the thumbnails at the top is usually enough to get my lazy ass up. If I had to give you some names of artists… There are many of them, but since my main interest lies in concept art I would say it’s people like Craig Mullins, Ryan Church, Feng Zhu, Scott Robertson…
And Music… Music does not really inspire me in doing art (or my doodlings, I would not call the stuff I am creating right now “art”, not yet anyway ), but it sometimes helps me to reach a certain state of mind that really helps when drawing/practicing. Well, not quite true, music DOES sometimes inspire me, but mainly in my own songwriting, but it’s a complete different topic. Anyway, I like to listen to bands like Charon, Sentenced, Poisonblack, For My Pain when doodling…
Not sure why anybody should laugh about it? I had the pleasure to meet Mr. Burton and his wife personally a couple of weeks ago (they are both sooo, soo damn nice…) and I actually had a chance to talk to both of them, and you know what… I had an absolute blackout, so after some short “it’s so nice to meet you blablabla” I had no idea what to talk about… They were both hanging around for quite a while at the place where I was working so I had THE chance to talk to them in an informal atmosphere and all I could do was staying there with a stupid smile on my face without being able to say a single smart sentence… I think this missed opportunity will be one of the things one regrets till his last days… But going off topic here, so I am just shutting up again.
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