Chicago Reference Pack

by Wes Burke

Last year I hoofed it around the shoreline of Chicago here in the states, taking reference photos for this piece here. Though it was a rather cold day, and snow on the ground I gathered over 700 images. Not all of them were rock stars, but still a great variety of urban reference and textures.

I have bundled 120 of the better ones from that day and have include them here for you. These are not treated, corrected or even looked at by photoshop, but if you are need a parking meter reference, interesting scene to model, or referencing a building facade this package is great for that. It contains some skyline views, grungy photos, some interesting shapes and general cityscape photos.

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Chicago Reference Pack by Wes Burke is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at wesburke.com.

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Discussion

13 Responses to “Chicago Reference Pack”
  1. Pascal P.
    Posts: 13

    Thank you for sharing these pictures. It will be a great help and bunch of ideas for my architecture modeling exercices practice and training in Blender.

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     Jan 8, 2010 at 5:22 pm
  2. Solineoz
    Posts: 95

    Thanks Wes. There is beautiful old architectural’s buildings in Chicago with nice textures.

    For those who wants to try their Blender architectural skills with some of this pictures, you should check the properties of the photography before —> RMB on the picture, “Properties”, tab “Summary” then “Advanced >>”.
    You should find there all the useful informations as the focal lenght,etc..

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     Jan 8, 2010 at 6:11 pm
  3. Mitch Klein
    Posts: 45

    Very cool. Thanks, Wes!

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     Jan 8, 2010 at 6:25 pm
  4. Corniger
    Posts: 43

    Reference Packs… That’s good! Like CG Stock Cookies.

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     Jan 9, 2010 at 12:55 am
  5. Dominik Kirylo
    Posts: 38

    Cool cool, thanks.

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     Jan 9, 2010 at 6:55 am
  6. Wes Burke
    Posts: 424

    Welcome guys, I really want to get back and do the Architectural tour or hoof it around the inside of the city. Some pretty kick-arse visuals, but perhaps I will wait until it is warmer. Currently about 7F here.

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     Jan 9, 2010 at 9:40 am
  7. Corniger
    Posts: 43

    I live in a city of baroque, some gothic style and nearby romanic style architecture, which to a large extent would probably be suitable for sculpting, too. Also lots of sculptures around, very good work for the largest part. In case anybody were interested, I could dig through my archives and see what I can find. The quality sometimes isn’t great, did a lot of it 5 years ago with my first DSLR, but sure good enough for reference in that style, which is, imo, being severely neglected these days. But also way harder to model :)

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     Jan 9, 2010 at 11:50 am
    • Jonathan Williamson
      Posts: 2952

      I don’t think anyone would be opposed to that :)

      If you are willing to pack a few of them up and send them over via the contribute page I have no doubt many people would find them useful!

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       Jan 9, 2010 at 6:57 pm
    • Wes Burke
      Posts: 424

      That definitely would be awesome to see. Send what you have over and will have our robots comb through them. :)

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       Jan 9, 2010 at 8:47 pm
  8. roofoo
    Posts: 9

    Thanks! This is an awesome reference!

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     Jan 9, 2010 at 8:41 pm
  9. Solineoz
    Posts: 95

    @Corniger – Yeah, could be nice to see these gothic style’s architectures.
    They are always plenty of details in it.
    Thanks in advance.

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     Jan 10, 2010 at 12:40 pm
  10. gr8
    Posts: 2

    Thank you! Best wishes for ’10!

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     Jan 11, 2010 at 8:12 am
  11. DreadKnight
    Posts: 5

    Just what I needed. Cheers!

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     Jan 11, 2010 at 7:16 pm

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