Nephilim, new edition of a French RPG

[Ilanthar]

What an impressive set of maps! I admire both your tenacity & your efficiency, Thomas.
It might be due to the fact you did them in a row, but there is both diversity and some kind of harmony here .

Great, great work!

[ThomasR]

Those are some cool maps, I like the castle one especially it seems very much like something you could find in the real world.

Thanks QED42 ! About the castle, it's certainly because it was modeled from an actual satellite image with some tweaks for the game. The whole "Bretagne" set has strong real world sources.

Great work Thom. I can see J.Edward's influence in some of those, especially the town maps.

Sadly can't rep you at the moment.

Wingshaw

Thanks a lot George ! You are right, John's work has been a great influence. I studied his Haalthran map quite a lot for the flat roof style with satellite images here again. For the second town map, it was more Brian VanHunsel and Tommi Salama's work that helped me. No worries about the map, your comment is worth more to me

Nicely done.
Congrats on such a big commission.
How did you feel working on this sort of content?
Do you enjoy it as much as regional maps?

Thanks a lot John ! Working on something this different from my usual map was really stressful but I realize I managed to do those maps without much difficulty thanks to the Guild (I have hoarded a very large amount of excellent maps by master mapmakerz since I roam the forums of the Guild and they're really inspirational !). It was also quite thrilling to have to go out of my comfort zone so much and the short deadline helped a lot keeping the fear at bay.
But ! I still love regional maps a lot more as I can play with different styles more easily and I never lack inspiration for regional maps. I usually let them come to life under my pencil while I have to think really hard to get a decent battle map or floor plan.

Incredible job! Very impressive work ethic there. It's really cool to be able to see your style throughout a range of beautifully designed maps drawn in different perspectives.

Thanks a lot SarahEvelyn ! I agree with you, it's cool to see such a wide variety of maps from me as I had almost exclusively drawn regional or world maps before. The client had faith in me and it pushed me to try and exceed their expectations for each map.

Wow! What a job!!!!!
Very impressive in the rendering and especially in such a short time! I can't imagine the stress and pressure! But a great success! It's really very interesting to see how, under pressure, you've managed to get out of your style and produce some very surprising pieces: I think of the city of Krymmene and the property of Saint-Ylliades, in particular: I find them very successful, and it's very promising! Impressive how you have broadened your range of skills! And it's really very satisfying to see publishers calling for your work: it's the road to success (and the end of the teaching?)
As you said: we see that some maps are less worked on than what you usually do, but I imagine that the result is achieved without problems: we see what it is all about and a certain atmosphere is set...
I think it's a great success in your career as a illustrator ! Congratulations!

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Merci beaucoup pour ce commentaire très encourageant, Joël, ça me fait très plaisir ! You are right, the pressure forced me to be better and Krymmène and Saint-Yliades are amongst my favorites with the manor (you must guess these three are 12 to 15 hours maps). I'm not dropping out of teaching anytime soon because 1- I like it a lot 2- It gives me a good amount of time for my family as there's a large part of my work that I can schedule as I like and 3- Even if clients are a steady stream these last few month, it's a hazardous occupation and I still haven't found clients that value my work as much as I value it and I'm still not practicing prices that satisfy me (but it's on the rise). To be perfectly honest, the publisher hooked me with the promise of maps to draw for their upcoming novels but it appears their budget for publication is lower than what I ask for private use ... so, no novel maps.
And I'm glad you think that the less worked on still work enough. Cheers ! (et en passant, je l'ai testé, ce traducteur est une tuerie !).

That is an insane schedule, props for you to be able to get all this work done on time Thomas! For 4-6 hour pieces, some in styles you'd never attempted before, these are terrific!

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

Thanks a lot Tad ! I'm a bona fide : I have a problem of motivation until I have a problem of time

Splendid set Thomas. I remember seeing some wip of them on twitter and you said you have to hurry with them
Honestly, I don't handle pressure so good, I don't know if I would agreed to do so many maps knowing I dont have so much time. KUDOS.

Thanks Rafal ! It was an opportunity that should not come back soon so, I had to take it. It turned out well enough.

It's nice to see such a wide variety of things all for the same setting.

Thanks Ashlynn Yeah, the variety was a good exercise and having all those maps by the same mapmaker makes for a nice consistent bundle.

Excellent!
Des belles cartes pour un jeu mythique. En effet, impossible de refuser une telle offre
Mention spéciale pour le chateau de Fougères si j'ai bien reconnu!!!

Héhé, merci Robin ! C'est exactement le chateau de Fougères (si je te dis que j'ai qq plans châteaux dans ce style commencés sur mon disque dur pour les proposer aux offices de tourisme, tu me crois ?).

What an impressive set of maps! I admire both your tenacity & your efficiency, Thomas.
It might be due to the fact you did them in a row, but there is both diversity and some kind of harmony here .

Great, great work!

Merci beaucoup Julien Yeah, I really needed to be efficient. The short deadline gave me no room for redo and it was quite liberating. The harmony really comes from the short period, I can see that when I go back to some of my WIPs and want to redo everything

[MistyBeee]

Great collection !
And yeah, definitely, working with Mnemos is not something you can refuse ! ^^

I went to work like a crazy bee.

Damn !! o_o

[SteffenBrand]

I can't give you Rep for them right now, but you would have deserved it!
Great work on these, ThomasR! Like them a lot! =)

[ThomasR]

Sorry for the belated response ...

Great collection !
And yeah, definitely, working with Mnemos is not something you can refuse ! ^^



Damn !! o_o

Indeed And sorry for the bees, they're perfectly balanced creatures !

I can't give you Rep for them right now, but you would have deserved it!
Great work on these, ThomasR! Like them a lot! =)

No worries Steffen and thank you

[Wired]

Must have been a stressful time, Thomas, but it sure looks like it was worth it.

[ThomasR]

Must have been a stressful time, Thomas, but it sure looks like it was worth it.

It sure was thanks Sebastian ! I've received my complimentary copy, I'll have to post some photos soon.

[damonjynx]

Mate, that is an awesome collection. If I could even produce that quantity of maps in such a short time frame I would be suitably impressed, not to mention most likely divorced! But to do so with the quality of your work is truly remarkable. I tip my metaphorical hat to you sir! Well done!

[ThomasR]

Mate, that is an awesome collection. If I could even produce that quantity of maps in such a short time frame I would be suitably impressed, not to mention most likely divorced! But to do so with the quality of your work is truly remarkable. I tip my metaphorical hat to you sir! Well done!

You're way too kind Damon, thanks