Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
October 2018 challenge : Photography-Cartography
Congratulations to Shall Teclex for winning October's challenge with map 'Masters of Ixtehcoatl'. This map was the clear favourite and won by a quite substantial margin! Shall wins a third gold compass. Check out the WIP thread here.
Honourable mention to runner-up Gidde with map 'The Nine Towers of Edemora'.
November 2018 challenge : Map A Story
November's challenge is hot off the press. Gidde writes...
In honor of National Novel Writing Month, this month's challenge is Map A Story.
If you are participating in NaNoWriMo, here's your chance to make a map for your project. If you are not, tell us a story with your map!
This is a challenge that could go off the rails in a couple of ways, so here are some ground rules:
If you are participating in NaNoWriMo, here's your chance to make a map for your project. If you are not, tell us a story with your map!
This is a challenge that could go off the rails in a couple of ways, so here are some ground rules:
- The focus here is the map, so please don't post your entire novel. For all of us writers, this is a great chance to practice our pitch!
- It doesn't necessarily have to be your story, but it must be your original map. Please respect copyrights.
- You may already have a map for your story; this one must be started and completed during the challenge. If you already have a world map, create a region, a city, or a scene's "encounter map".
If you have questions, head for the intro thread.
Oct / Nov '18 Lite Challenge: Finish Mapping this Island
There are less than 10 days before the current Lite Challenge ends, so still time to enter if you get moving!
We've got some great entries already, and you can have a peek at them here.
Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- Posted just before Halloween, 'Strange rock formation spotted' by Voolf. Also, check out Voolf's Mapvember thread.
- JsinOwl invites us to "Share your newest tools". If you've acquired any new goodies lately, post 'em here.
- Warlin posted an update on his Eldrany World Map
- Reyalinn, by Larb
- 'GIMP 2.10 vs Krita vs ???' What's the best drawing software?
Five Finished Maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- Two new threads from Ilanthar last week: 'Salon Fantastique, 7e Edition (Fantastic Event, 7th Edition)', and 'At Masdegar's House'
- Two recent challenge entries posted in Finished Maps, in case you missed them: 'City Blocks - Townhouse' by Bogie, and 'The Nine Towers of Edemora' by Gidde
- Mayoral Mansion, by DanielHasenbos
- Land of Beee, by J.Edward
- The Continent of Vanor, by Locution
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- From Maps Mania: 'Vintage Maps in 3D'
- Slightly late for Halloween, but here's a fun interactive map of 'Fantastic Folklore and Magical Myths'
- Download, print, and make your own planetary globes! (Thanks to Joseph (jshoer) for the link!)
- From National Geographic, 'Inside the daring plan to map every coral reef from space'
- From Allen Carroll, former Chief Cartographer at Nat Geo, 'Maps, Minds, and Stories'. Part One and Part Two.
- If there isn't enough insanity in your life already, the Flat Earth Society were out and about in the UK recently. Couple of tweets with pics.
- From Scotland's National Library, 'Defending the Nation – Mapping the Military Landscape'
- From Library of Congress blog, 'Extremities of the Earth: The Longest River (Part 2)'
- If you're looking for something new to read, the 2018 World Fantasy Award Winners have been announced.
Some mapping eye candy...
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