September Entry: Glass Ocean

[ravells]

Constantly overcast? + messed up magnetic fields?

Except.....overcast wasn't mentioned in the description. Lol! Why do I get the feeling that we are the engineers to the the writers' architects? They put together all this airy fairy stuff and we have to make it actually stand up.

Amonite, thanks, but your execution is just brilliant - I don't want to taint it. I'll work in the information another way

Ravs

[Venardhi]

Except.....overcast wasn't mentioned in the description. Lol! Why do I get the feeling that we are the engineers to the the writers' architects? They put together all this airy fairy stuff and we have to make it actually stand up.

Amonite, thanks, but your execution is just brilliant - I don't want to taint it. I'll work in the information another way

Ravs

Well the lightning has to come out of something. When I read the description I got the impression of cloudy skies. . . :: shrug ::

[ravells]

Big rolling clouds in the desert, yes. But climatically, they are local not universal, if it was constantly overcast you wouldn't have that level of heat and lack of humidity, and you would still have a fair idea where the sun was at any given moment of day....sorry, don't buy it, unless it's more handwavium.

[Ishmayl]

Being in a fantasy setting, you can always attribute weird, wacky phenomena as magic

[Venardhi]

Big rolling clouds in the desert, yes. But climatically, they are local not universal, if it was constantly overcast you wouldn't have that level of heat and lack of humidity, and you would still have a fair idea where the sun was at any given moment of day....sorry, don't buy it, unless it's more handwavium.

Storms of untamed arcane energy! Solves both the stars and the compass problems. Booyah! Are you saying arcane storms are imaginary?

[ravells]

Lol...the good ol' storms of arcane energy!

Well, it's certainly a challenge!

Ravs

[ravells]

As I've been quiet for so long, I thought I'd put up a quick wip. I've decided to use this challenge to teach myself animation. So here is my first poor effort. Most of the day was spent drawing Lemis Keep, which is based on the castle in the 'Black Island' from Herge's Tin Tin books.

The animation of the sandstorm looks pretty horrific at the moment (the line weight is too heavy and it's just a straight blend on a line), but it'll look better by the end....if there is an end. I'm a very lazy mapper by nature and one of the things about animation I'm beginning to realise is that it takes a LOT of patience. The other animated features in the map will be a confused compass which will be a lot easier to do and storm clouds making the glass with lightning.

It's an animated gif, you you'll have to click the thumbnail.

Heigh ho! What have I taken on??

Ravs

[pyrandon]

Hahahaha!!!! That's awesome! Will you actually be able to finish this in two weeks?