Hello out there!
Good monring!
My name is Thom Ryng, and I'm a game designer and amateur map-maker. I use Photoshop pretty exclusively, but I'm always keen on finding new and better (and easier) ways of working.
I stumbled here in my quest to improve the look and feel of my maps, and I have to say I'm already a little overwhelmed with the amount of talent and skill here.
Here are some samples of my maps:
flat_map_a1.jpg
Golmath_1525.jpg
flat_map_c3.jpg
cheers,
thom
Not bad at all. All I can really say is that you might want to get more creative fonts (but still legible) and the mountain and hill symbols repeat too often so you might want to make up a few more to break up the repeats. Otherwise these are top-notch political maps. Nice job, man.
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Thanks, Ascension.Originally Posted by Ascension
I made the first iteration of the maps several years ago, and I had even less idea then of what I'm doing than I do now.
My main concern was to get the map set out - there are 17 of them altogether - and it was a daunting task. I pretty much used the same mountain and same hill throughout all the maps. I don't think I'd do that now, but of course I'm in the process of creating a map for a new continent so I have to keep the same aesthetic throughout all of the atlas maps.
I'm doing jezelf's tutorials to create a poster-sized world map, including several continents that exist only in outline to this point. For that map, I'll be using a wide number of different mountain and hill images.
cheers,
thom
Thom Ryng
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Welcome from a new mapper!! Think you have created some really nice maps already
Welcome to the Guild!
Nice maps there!
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Thanks for the kind words. I look forward to learning a lot. Just started my first tutorial...
Welcome to the Guild! Nice maps, have some rep!
M
Cheers!
My very first rep, huzzah!
Thom Ryng
Cruenti Dei Line Editor
Sardarthion Press
"The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is very nearly reasonable, but not quite." (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
Hi Thom,
Disregard my reply from the other thread. The color scheme of the second piece reminds me a little of first edition Axis and Allies. It does, however,
also remind me of older 70's maps with strong regional and political delineation as was common then. I like them.
Good on you for the rep.
Your quote reflects my current mood these days. Thanks for the introduction. Look forward to more of your work.
Namasté,
~Tim
P.S.: Were these pieces created in photoshop?
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