That's a great idea, Neyjour. I think it would spur the entire community into a huge frenzy of activity
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Pick a landscape/scenery painting, photomanip, or rendering that inspires you to create a map!
Example 1:
Cartographer #1 is inspired by FROSTBURN_cover art by albino-z and maps a battlemap of a snowy/winter castle or fortress, with the immediate surrounding area.
Example 2:
Cartographer #2 is also inspired by FROSTBURN_cover art by albino-z and maps a battlemap of interconnected snowy/winter ravines, with a blue, glowing, runic monument at the center.
Example 3:
Cartographer #3 is inspired by Organic valley by AndreeWallin and maps a regional map of tall, spiky mountains with winding rivers, surrounded by a desert with flaming yellow/orange sandstorms (or gasses).
Example 4:
Cartographer #4 is inspired by Tribe Environment Concept by bpsola and maps a "town & city" style map of an island/tropical/jungle village on stilts.
Example 5:
Cartographer #5 is inspired Highland Warriors by chvacher and maps a world map with various climate regions, each one including a massive monument that the inhabitants of each of those regions worship.
Example 6:
Cartographer #6 is inspired by Convocation by FerdinandLadera and maps a space/universe map of two identical planets (one of perpetual summer and one of perpetual winter), whose orbits collide once in a millennium, and the two planets merge into a shared "reality" for a short time period as they pass through each other.
RULES
In your initial post you must include:
1) A link to the painting/photomanip/rendering that inspired you.
2) What is was that inspired you, and how/what you plan to map.
Here's a few deviantART categories where you can look for inspiration:
Digital Art > 3-Dimensional Art > Scenes
Digital Art > Drawings & Paintings > Landscapes & Scenery
Digital Art > Photomanipulation > Landscapes & Scenery
Traditional Art > Mixed Media > Landscapes & Scenery
Traditional Art > Paintings > Landscapes & Scenery
Last edited by Neyjour; 07-29-2016 at 09:36 PM.
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That's a great idea, Neyjour. I think it would spur the entire community into a huge frenzy of activity
Free parchments | Free seamless textures | Battle tiles / floor patterns | Room 1024 - textures for CC3 | GUILD CITY INDEX
No one is ever a failure until they give up trying
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Oh, and... I'm not trolling you... honest. It just seems to me that whenever I take a five minute breather from pasting my city together to check the activity page, its more often than not your name I find on top of the list. LOL
I'm going to bed soon, so you can have some peace then!
Free parchments | Free seamless textures | Battle tiles / floor patterns | Room 1024 - textures for CC3 | GUILD CITY INDEX
No one is ever a failure until they give up trying
My: maps ~ mapping freebies
My Battlemaps Gallery http://www.cartographersguild.com/al...p?albumid=3407
My: maps ~ mapping freebies
This is a really great idea.
For some more Deviant Art inspiration: Really enigmatic matte painter, and this photographer and this one who have some absolutely fantastic landscapes.
My: maps ~ mapping freebies