Major Project: Inspirations and Research

I am going to make a post of inspirations, more of a mood-board of my project, lots of my inspirations can also been found on my Pinterest here.

Candle research & reference:

I wanted to have cream coloured candles in my animation, nothing too out of the ordinary, i need to see how they cast light in a dark space and how fast they melt so i will be doing some of my own video reference once i am back at home in a week or so.
In my animatic I have accomplished a good flicker with the flame, i only need to see how it illuminates the room and the wax.

Potion research and reference: 

Potions is a fun one for me because of the shapes of the bottle and the colours i can play around with, there are a lot of interesting shapes, it is just replicating it for the animation, it needs to be simple enough to animate but still look quirky. I feel like the last image is similar to my preference in design.

Hourglass research and reference:

Hourglass from Braid, Number None inc, 2008

Hourglass from Days of our Lives, 1965- present

Wall and floor research & reference: 

I like the cobblestone look but my animation is very dimly lit. I need the references more for the shape and how the bricks fit together as my backgrounds shouldn't be too detailed.

Similarly with the wood look, i have already accomplished what I want in terms of the wood, I used the bottom picture for a colour reference and I liked the cracks but I haven't used it in my backgrounds as again, they are very simple. 

Smoke and cobwebs research & reference: 

I haven't got on to drawing cobwebs or smoke yet, but they are more for the design of my character when he turns into a wraith. - I still haven't settled on a design yet.

Forest research and reference:
 

Here are a couple of images I liked for reference to the forest, being as I am currently revising my premise I doubt I will have a forest scene now -maybe in a future project perhaps. 

Picture references :

I do not own any of these photos or pictures. 

I googled "cream candle" "candle" "cobwebs" and took a lot of images off there, a lot of them were stock photos for shops such as amazon, with no other reference details.