In the most recent episode, I mentioned having found the old notebook that contained a master list of inspiration for the Sky World we detailed in Episode 8: Let’s Build a World. I was originally going to scan the page in and post the image but my handwriting is atrocious, so I’ve decided to present the information here as a bulleted list! The list contains the full titles of the materials so it should be fairly easy to google anything you’re unfamiliar with.
Sky World
- The Adventures of Tin-Tin
- Howl’s Moving Castle (book and movie)
- Castle in the Sky
- Guardian Heroes
- The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
- Skies of Arcadia
- Brave Fencer Musashi
- Legend of Mana
- Dragon Ball
- Kiki’s Delivery Service
- Samurai Pizza Cats
- The Cat Returns
Surface World
- Princess Mononoke
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- The Vision of Escaflowne
- the Black Cauldron
- Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara
- The Legend of Zelda series of games
- Farmer Giles of Ham
- The Smith of Wooton Major
- Gargoyles
- Tim Burton Movies
- Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer (films)
- The Neverending Story
- Mouse Guard
Both
- Cave Story
- The Fable Series (video game)
- The Princess Bride (film and novel)
- The World of David the Gnome
- Mega Man Legends
- Avatar: The Last Air Bender
- Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie
If people want, I could post links to whatever you’re unable to find so that you can check out a lot of this stuff for yourself!
(Header photo from Castle in the Sky)