Nice one. I was typing about this issue and you answered my question preemptively.Originally Posted by rdanhenry
Nice one. I was typing about this issue and you answered my question preemptively.
_ben
I really like the continent shapes, although, to my mind, they look like some sort of polar azimuthal projection with the (north?) pole being centered roughly at Absalom island.
I'm moving in the opposite direction. Trying to integrate Illustrator into my very raster-oriented approach. I've been inspired by the HandsomeRob tutorial and atlas, although my work is still very different.
Astrographer - My blog.
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-How to Fit a Map to a Globe
-Regina, Jewel of the Spinward Main(uvmapping to apply icosahedral projection worldmaps to 3d globes)
-Building a Ridge Heightmap in PS
-Faking Morphological Dilate and Contract with PS
-Editing Noise Into Terrain the Burpwallow Way
-Wilbur is Waldronate's. I'm just a fan.
A long overdue update
Hi all,
I've been away from the forum for a while and thought I should check in to show what I've been working on. It is far from done, as I hope to apply a pretty high level of detail, but I think it is far enough along that you can get a sense of where I am going with this iteration. Taking cues from Tear's exceptional Saderan tutorial, I am trying to make a richly contoured, painterly/realistic iteration of the Known World. This has so far been a major Photoshop learning experience for me - I'm amazed at some of the painting techniques possible with that program.
Happy New Year.
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_ben
Looks fabulous.
Yeah, might be the coolest landmasses I've seen around here.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Agreed. How did you make their shape? They look very realistic.
Oh, and have some rep!
Last edited by Rongar; 01-27-2010 at 01:33 PM.
Honestly, I just drew them by hand in my notebook when I was supposed to be paying attention in a particularly dry meeting. Then later I scanned my sketch and added a fair bit of detail tracing it in CAD. That's my method in total.
-ben
_ben
Oh my.. I think the bottom just fell out over here. I can't wait to see where this goes; I'm quite intrigued.
-asp
My current worldbuilding experiment(s):
Geidor
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-W.B. Yeats
This is quite nice so far, looking forward to seeing it develop.
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