Brainstorming x “2d kitbash” - artist reference .. exists..

[dobkeratops]

One idea I had s that an image labelling website/tool could double up somehow as reference for artists,

Recently I was looking for “2d kitbashing” (for an unrelated reason) and did indeed encounter a clip art library for 2d art... cutouts from photos:

artstation 2d kitbashing library

So imagine if someone wanting this could just flick through photos, draw around anything interesting that grabs their eye, and those can either be labelled immiediately or thrown into a queue for “identification tasks”.

But all you have you do for some sorting at the point of creation is have a vocabulary that is at least complete. Eg ... “animal,vegetable,mineral” would qualify.. just 3 labels can cover everything in the world. (But I would go a little deeper with words like container, tool, vehicle,mechanical component, structural element,...)

you could still have other people come back and refine the descriptions.. just as you are intending for people to be able to add attributes to the polygon.

The workflow for this usecase would be the exact opposite to what we have now, but all the search modes would have great utility