Post things you would like to be used as inspirations in Skyrim. (pictures, drawings, movies, videos, music, books, stories, gameplay elements [anything really])

Here's mine: A picture that screams Skyrim. Frozen cobweb covered statue of a bearded man.

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/428/frozenwebbedstatue.jpg

Well, even if i love your intention and the picture is amazingly correct for Skyrim, the artistic design phase is long over by now.

http://www.uptake.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lucerne-Lion_Monument.jpg

Monuments like this carved into cliffsides and mountains.

Well, just going aout the door and into the woods here in Norway is inspirasjon too me

theodor kittelsen was a norwegian painter that made som very eerie and dark type of paintings, with roots in scary lore here in Norway, some of he's pictures below

http://www.kittelsen.ru/archive/hun_farer_landet_rundt4.jpg - The dark plauge, a woman wandering through norway spreading disease and death

http://www.kittelsen.ru/archive/hun_farer_landet_rundt1.jpg - The original version

http://pics.livejournal.com/baleanoptera/pic/0001sask/ - A creature living in little remote lakes, and dragging people into the deep

http://www.signatureillustration.org/illustration-blog/wp-content/Theodor-Kittelsen-Musstad-1896.jpg - The black plauge spared no one.

http://www.signatureillustration.org/illustration-blog/wp-content/Theodor-Kittelsen-Draugen.jpg - The father of the Draugr who bethesda uses, this is the original one they found inspirasjon from, men dead and cursed att sea

http://www.signatureillustration.org/illustration-blog/wp-content/Theodor-Kittelsen-Kvitebj?rn-Kong-Valemon-1912.JPG

http://www.signatureillustration.org/illustration-blog/wp-content/Theodor-Kittelsen-Fattig-Mann.jpg - A dead traveler

I know I may not be helping Bethesda at all, but it's still worth it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thief_Deadly_Shadows_boxart.jpg

this for stealth characters , that game should be a copy paste for skyrim stealth system (game play elements duh)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Darkmessiah_undeadcyclops.jpg

dark messiah for every thing combaty and magicy

Thick web is thick! Is this a real photo or some fantasy prop?

On the topic,I haven't got any inspiration sources but I hope that Conan thing doesn't be dominant.

If i remember correctly it's a real photo. The webs look like that because they're covered with frost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKFpCoTYJ0c

Google Frank Frazetta's artwork for some Skyrim inspiration. :thumbsup:

Wow reminds me alot of many of the settings in OBLIVION. Thanks for the wonderful info on this Artist and his works.

Ok music like Garmarna and others like Wardruna compliments the feel of this game so much.

Here are some more inspiration

Nature:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TUVGlxegcU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5YLbVKwr7E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvNXm48UwJo

Photos:
http://www.fife.50megs.com/viking-raid.htm

interweb:
http://www.cracked.com/funny-994-vikings/ - Well a generalization...
http://cd7.e2bn.net/e2bn/leas/c99/schools/cd7/website/Vikings.htm - Vikings
http://callitaweasel.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/medieval-european-armour-the-standard-shpiel/ - Armour

Creepy.


For me it would be...GODZILLA MUSIC!!!

Destroy All Monsters, T29: Fire Dragon Pursuit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ogqxaDfqMg&feature=related

Destroy All Monsters, T14: The 4 Monsters Attack Tokyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01BPIrWMpoI&feature=related

Godzilla March for Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zha42gCoAy8&feature=related

and a bit of the flying turtle GAMERA,

Gamera vs. Barugon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx8X9BEBV1o

Then of course theres Simon Bisley's MELTING POT Comics,

http://simonbisleygallery.com/?bisley=home.gallery&gallery=6

These are the things which inspire much violence joyful and abundent in the Nord way of pleasurable past times.

EX-ACT-LY! omg, you must be some lost twin for mine.

For those peaceful isolated moments walking in the icy tundra of SKYRIM or crawling as the case may be-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPaMxJ2FBYI&feature=related

We have some epic scenery in the NW.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2403/2228311766_9cc073f84b.jpg&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/36258499%40N00/2228311766&usg=__3YLnzBJNSp45cnzZU22hzoUu1lo=&h=334&w=500&sz=102&hl=en&start=0&sig2=QrmbLtX7plCa1hPFsUJboA&zoom=1&tbnid=Cn3opTEeY96xGM:&tbnh=142&tbnw=199&ei=W447TbuNHpCosAP6rLWSAw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcolumbia%2Briver%2Bgorge%2Bbeacon%2Brock%2Bsnow%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26rlz%3D1R2ADRA_enUS412%26biw%3D1007%26bih%3D555%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C167&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=465&vpy=200&dur=2953&hovh=183&hovw=275&tx=162&ty=78&oei=W447TbuNHpCosAP6rLWSAw&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:12,s:0&biw=1007&bih=555 Foreground, Crown Point. Background, Beacon Rock.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/0mega/2227520695/in/photostream/

As for inspirations, I would suggest taking a look into http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1148167-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words or http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1105491-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words.

Completely agreed with both of those. Especially just listening to the Skyrim theme and then Wardruna, I can see them fitting in perfectly.