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[[File:crysis3_8743.jpg|link=Crysis (series)|frame|It's just like that.]]
 
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Compare [[Real Place Background]].
 
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== Comic Books ==
* If there are two things that ''[[Cerebus]]'' is known for, the one that ''isn't'' soul-crushing misogyny are the intricate pen-and-ink backgrounds rendered by artist Gerhard. The trade paperback covers are even more impressive.
* The series ''[[Top Ten]]'' is a good example of this trope in comics. Every bloody ''panel'' is filled with incredible detail of the city of Neopolis, as well as no less than three visual [[Easter Egg]]s per page.
* Another independent comic book example, ''Luther Arkwright'' and its colored spinoff ''Heart Of Empire'' had a lot of thought put into the [[Steampunk]] backgrounds, which were usually flooded with references to other issues, Victorian culture, [[Science Fiction]] or random statues of Luther (after he died).
* ''[[Sky Doll]]'' puts great effort in settings that will only be shown for few panels. It helps that one of the creators is an architect.
* Kazu Kibuishi's ''[[Amulet]]'' has far more interesting scenery than characters, at least so far.
** His ''Copper'' strips on the other hand have both.
* In Archie Comics' ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures]]'' series, the Turtles' world tour arc is kicked off with some breathtaking artwork of the cliffs of Tibet.
* [[Archie Comics]] themselves were prone to this, especially if Bob Bolling was behind the desk. [http://greatestape.blogspot.com/search/label/bob%20bolling Just look.]
* Roger Leloup of ''[[Yoko Tsuno]]'' fame loves drawing ''very'' complicated backgrounds of all kinds.
* Bryan Hitch. His [[The Ultimates|Triskelion]] is a sight to behold.
* Moritat the main artist for the ''[[Elephantmen]]'' series has his work often compared to ''[[Blade Runner]]''’s fantastic [[Cyberpunk]] sets.
* James Stokoe’s comics like ''[[Wonton Soup]]'' have heavily detailed backgrounds full of [[Easter Egg]]s.
* Brandon Graham's comics have weird and wonderful environments full of imaginative bizarreness and [[Funny Background Event]]s.
* [[Geof Darrow]], hands down. Though his work can also enter into [[Scenery Gorn]] due to [[Squick]], like when the main character in ''Hard Boiled'' wonders through the red light district.
* [[Moebius]], who is a major influence on the four artists mentioned above, is quite the master of this trope, ranging from the [[Arcadia]]n forests of The Adena cycle, the strange alien worlds of Arzarch and the futuristic metropolises of many of his [[Science Fiction|sci-fi]] stories.
* [[Philippe Druillet]] takes this to insane heights with his multiple page spreads of epic, near-surreal landscapes.
* [[Jack Kirby]] liked to create so many distinct and strange fantastic machines and cities that ''Kirby Tech'' is practically a [[Trope]] in and of itself.
 
== Fan Works ==
* [[Fanime|Maikaze]] did a '''great''' job with the landscaping in their portrayal of [[Touhou|Gensokyo]].
 
== New Media ==
* [[Demoscene]] productions. Just skim through them and there's a lot which make you say "wow".
* Go to the [http://www.planetside.co.uk/ TerraGen website] and look through the photo gallery.
* ''ADVENT'' ([[wikipedia:Colossal Cave Adventure|Colossal Cave Adventure]], the original text-only [[Interactive Fiction]] game) has a [[Wall of Text|long description]] for room 126, as given on the [[Scenery Porn/Quotes|quotes page]].
* Many videos on [[YouTube]] featuring serene music will accompany the music with gorgeous visuals that don't necessarily have anything to do with the song itself, either because there's no companion music video or simply because there are no performers to show; this happens with songs ranging from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA-2hl1Vbc Pachelbel's Canon in D] to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROCiggFsmXI more obscure electronic music].
* [http://lj-photophile.livejournal.com This] livejournal community contains quite a lot of this.
* Reddit has a Subreddit named "Earth Porn" that is devoted entirely to real photographs of brilliant landscapes. [http://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/\] Related are the Subreddits City Porn, Space Porn, Village Porn, and {{color|blue|Water}} Porn.
 
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' sometimes does this when [[Mr. Imagination|Calvin]] plays in the woods, or during the "Spaceman Spiff" strips. (Though arguably this served the [[Plot]] in each instance to emphasize the natural world as a [[Trope]] in Calvin's life—contrasting it with his television watching habits—or to emphasize the expanse of his imagination.) Incidentally, most of the alien desert scenery isn't made up—they're basically Bill Watterson's sketches of beautiful desert scenery in southern Utah.
* ''[[Pogo (comic strip)|Pogo]]'' has some [https://web.archive.org/web/20080827165440/http://www.comicoriginalart.com/seiten_englisch/eoauskelly01.html fantastic scenery].
 
== Web Animation ==
* ''[[Elephants Dream]]''. The sheer level of detail that was put into the machine is simply astounding.
* Most everything in the ''[[Colour My... Series]]'' is drawn with great detail, even rooms or machines with little to no interactions.
 
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