I’ve posted a new visual catalog page of the curated style references in the 2000-2999 range. My goal was to whittle the initial 2000 srefs down by 80% and only present the unique ones (that interested me). I made it down to 202 presented srefs.
This is about the 12th set of srefs that I’ve created, the initial 1000 being done in sets of 100. I have tried to present four different subject matter domains (for lack of a better term) for each style reference, keeping it consistent across this set. The first two (couple, i.e. man and woman, and car) have been pretty consistent. I wanted an architectural one, so in this case used “watchtower and bridge” as bridge by itself can be a bit boring. In the past I typically had the fourth image be a famous city, but for this set, chose an object: “animated chess knight on a chessboard”.
For each of the style references, I originally generated two sets of pictures: “vehicle” and “man and woman dancing” (this one as a result of a project for a Project Dance fundraiser).
I then reviewed each style reference and created a list of srefs that were interesting. For each of those (about 210), I created four sets of images (couple, car, bridge, knight). From each of those sets of images, I generated an image that I considered representative of the style. These were then run through a couple of additional processes to get to the visual catalog as presented on the website.
There are a handful of style references in this series that I would like to study more indepth. They include the following: 2008, 2010, 2012, 2023, 2074, 2136, 2273, 2275, 2283, 2339,2481, 2814. At one a week, that would take me 3 months, so we’ll see to what degree that happens.
-Ben
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