Zoo 1

I took all of these pictures myself, feel free to use them for whatev.

Background Ideas

I adore the orange coloring of this one. I'd imagine tilting the image to be at a disorienting angle, and add some steam and stuff...

I love how the color green of the chairs is almost a perfect contrasting color to that of the walls. I imagine this being one of those things where a bunch of people are sitting, looking uniform, except for whomever is supposed to be the picture's subject...probably sitting there in the far left front char.

Spooky! I want to put a character in the right 3rd of the picture, and give the piece a dark blue color scheme.

I like how this is like a frame within a frame within a frame. My favorite part about this one is the door area- it's so dark and spooky inside this building with dreary nuetral colors, but through the opened dark-green doors, it's a bright and saturated green.

An interesting composition idea- there's repeition for the first 2/3 of the picture, but then there's a change in the last 3rd, which would make for a great frame. I would probably put a character in that last 3rd :)!

Most of these are from deviantart stock-accounts or morguefile that I thought interesting enough to keep close at hand.

Youtube Video Reference

For motion and pose reference

Bird Flying
Canary Flying (slow-motion, closeup of Canary in flight in many different angles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNdiS8RywTI
Dove flapping wings (close up)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHT0wlM0xGQ&NR=1
Birds flying in air as seen from far away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiGm63QYLfM

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

Parkour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEeqHj3Nj2c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4keJWQDOBHY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO8aWZnxrA8&feature=related

Edwardian America, pre-WWI

Props

San Francisco, 1906~1911


American Edwardian Fashion













REFERENCES:
History of 20th Century Fashion (3rd edition), Elizabeth Ewing, Costume & Fashion Press 1992
Vanity Rules: A History of American Fashion and Beauty, Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler, 21st century books
Twentieth-Century American Fashion

With Grace and Favor: Victorian & Edwardian Fashion in America, Otto Charles Thieme
American Experience- The great San Francisco Earthquake DVD
Various image references from google image searches