WiP: Tarina for BlackStar Studios...

[mearrin69]

Uh oh! BlackStar may have to license it from her.
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[RevGunn]

She says she'll wait and see how well it sells....

[Hugo Solis]

Looking real good, and that Genova map is a fantastic inspirational ill. The googlemap pic for reference is a great technique too. Learning lots in here!

[mearrin69]

Thanks, Hugo. I'm looking at your recent posts as learning opportunities myself!

Here are some more closeups. The pullout is still a bit dodgy so I'll save posting it until it's closer to done. Still some touchup to be done, even on these areas.
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[ravells]

Very cool! First time I've seen a map created in this way!

[mearrin69]

Thanks! Dang, nearly knocked me out with your rep stick.

Here's another 100% shot.
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[Ascension]

Don't know how ya do it but it looks awesome, dude.

[torstan]

Wow! Blackstar are definitely getting their money's worth from you

How are you doing each of the buildings? It looks like a satellite image.

[mearrin69]

Thanks guys.

@Torstan: That's pretty much what it is...with a lot of mushing about of pixels, tweaking, recoloring, hand-painting, etc. Unfortunately they're getting well more than their money's worth...at least if you consider the time I've spent on this times my real-world hourly rate! Of course, there's no real excuse for my having taken this long on it. I'm well past several deadlines. Still, I hope the end result is worth it.
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[ravells]

Yeah, I figured the really hard part in this is to get consistent lighting / colour into all the individual elements. I dread to think how much time this must have taken.