He did most of the character concepts for Shifter which was swiftly adapted into what became Soul Reaver. Without him, Soul Reaver would not have such rich and interesting looking characters and environments. Many of his sketches can be also seen in SR1 Credits. He has also done in-game textures for Zephon, Turel, the City and the Undercity.

Boyd worked on the Lieutenant models we can see in the iconic Soul Reaver intro and later released screenshots of these models in different poses. I used one of his Melchiah shots (standing up and up close) to create a mural of Melchiah for Necropolis as there are no other better shots available.

I stumbled upon this website when I was searching for some references and the sheer amount and quality of photographs there stunned me. David is a brilliant photographer and kindly allowed me to use his photos in my project. It is a perfect fit as the developers chose to base Kain's empire on Islamic architecture, avoiding the typical Gothic style. I used some of David's high res photographs on the game's prominent mosque, the Sanctuary of the Clans.

Dr. Davies' website caught my attention as it has a really great close up of one of the Maya glyphs. As the very first Warp Gate in the game has Maya architecture, the glyphs from her photographer were an ideal replacement. Her enthusiasm for my project even though she had not heard of it from before was heart warming and I am grateful she allowed me to use her Maya glyph photo. Did you know that Maya invented chocolate and even bouncing balls?

Flycast stands out from other Dreamcast emulators due to being able to dump textures and without this feature, my project would not be possible. FlyingHead was very helpful with advice on the best settings and is frequently updating his Flycast emulator.

While these books were published in 1920 and 1856 respectively, they both have excellent illustrations and imagine my surprise when we discovered several patterns found in the game were from these books. Can you guess which ones? Courtesy of digital archive.

The go-to author in 90s and early 2000s if you wanted a quality texture reference book. Juracek published several books over the last couple decades (called the Surface series) and they became the golden standard for many uses - including textures in games and movies. Her photographs bear a distinct style and are versatile, neatly organised into folders. She inspired me to start my own collection of photographs some of which I used in my SR1 remaster.

Marlin Studios are known for their portfolio of various 3D objects, 2D sprites, animations and textures. You may find these in movies such as Frozen, the original Matrix, Star Wars: Phantom Menace or Shrek 2. On top of that, their services are used extensively by a vast amount of leading videogame and movie companies such as Microsoft, Autodesk, Disney, Sony, Take Two, Epic, Rockstar, etc. It is hard to not see why as I purchased several of their seamless textures myself and used them extensively in my project. They offer excellent value for the amount of textures you receive and the fact that they come in a seamless form is important in texture design.

When you search through hundreds of textures, you usually get swarmed with many hidden behind paywall, however, this one is an exception. Benkyou studio provides a large library of excellent seamless textures and covers many types of surfaces. Benkyou studio is actually a free open source toolkit in language learning. It was originally created for Japanese but the creator added the support of other languages as well.

I was searching for the specific arches for the Razielim Territory when I saw it was actually part of Lincoln's cathedral and found Rob's website. He uploaded many great shots of the Cathedral on his site and was super helpful. His blog is well maintained and contains lots of interesting information and photographs from places around UK but also worldwide.