sunsorbit:

classified-queer:

be sure to check out the amazing whitelock_design_limited on Instagram for even more process photos/material of their mesmerizing work on Dream’s Prison for The Sandman (2022)

imagine being locked in a glass bowl for a century and above you, the entire time, a mockery of the real thing, has been a ceiling painted deep blue with yellow stars

like there are stars in your eyes and in the lining of your coat and the cracks and crevices and the rivers and lakes and oceans of your kingdom. there are stars in your eyes and the dust of them is in the pouch you keep under your cloak. there are stars in your eyes and you haven’t seen them in more than a hundred years, and yet every day and night for a century a painted blue sky with yellow stars twinkles above your head

i am losing my mind

umd:

genuinely just adore this DS9 shot where they combined greenscreen footage, an exterior crowd shot and layered matte painting, it’s so well done

overthinkinglotr:

So (according to the concept art book) as the Fellowship travels deeper into Middle Earth, the places they pass through become inspired by progressively older periods of history. The farther along you are in the story, the more ancient the design influences

We begin in The Shire: which feels so familiar because, with its tea-kettles and cozy fireplaces, it’s inspired by the relatively recent era of rural England in the 1800s

But when we leave Hobbiton, we also leave that familiar 1800s-England aesthetic behind and start going farther back in time. 

Bree is based on late 1600s English architecture

Rohan is even farther back, based on old  anglo-saxon era architecture (400s-700s? ce)

Gondor is way back, and no longer the familiar English or Anglo-Saxon: its design comes from classical Greek and Roman architecture

And far far FAR back is Mordor. It’s a land of tents and huts: prehistoric, primitive, primeval. Cavemen times

And the heart of Mordor is a barren lifeless hellscape of volcanic rock…like a relic from the ages when the world was still being formed,  and life didn’t yet exist

And then they finally reach Mount Doom, which one artist described as 

“where the ring was made, which represents, in a sense, the moment of creation itself”

Originally posted by credencesbarebone