--Inspiration---

Makoto Kobayashi is an amazing japanese designer, illustrator and model kit Creator.
He is famous in japan for the designs in the Gundam Series, and collaborated in many japanese masterpieces such as Giant ROBO, Battleship Yamato, Samourai 7, Venus Wars.. and worked on videogames too: Armored Core, Lost Odyssey...
His unique sense of shapes and mecha designs are @ the core of some other Japanese masters inspirations like Katsuhiro Otomo ( Akira), Ayaho Miyasaki (specially in Nausicaa) and Masumune Shirow ( Appleseed, Ghost in the Shell) He also created a serie of magazines called Hyper weapon, from 2001 to 2011... a must have!


oh yes.. looks like he is fan of Moebius as well ;)...

---Connections---

Heya guys, been a while :)
Today ill talk about more inspirations and connections...
What i like the most in Art, is to find the links that connect artists i love...

Here's a little journey on the derelict planet...
First here's a painting from John Schoenherr for Dune



and a cover from Moebius for Arzack.

Moebius being part of the preproduction on Alexandro Jodorovsky's Dune movie,
he sure got inspired by the amazing works of Schoenherr who was
Frank Herbert's official cover Artist at that time !

Another piece for Dune from John Schoenherr....


and a painting from Roger Dean for a Psygnosis box cover


another Arzack piece by Moebius...


a cover by talented Paul Lehr...


...mix them together and you get....
some of the inspirations for the first Miyazaki's masterpiece: Nausicaa :)