That embossing is nice and subtle and feels real.
June/July Entry: A Practical Guide to Exotic & Dangerous Locations
Backstory
A book by Captain Dirk Fiddling
"A Practical Guide to Exotic & Dangerous Locations"
This book was written by Fiddling on his expeditions into the
unexplored regions of the known world.
The particular entry we will be focusing on is Fort Grenstien.
Long abandoned Fort Grenstien was forgotten and has fallen
into ruin.
Legend has it that there is a great amount of precious minerals
stored inside the fort.
An image of the front of the book. And Current WIP
CaptainFiddlingsBook.jpg FortGrenstien4.jpg
As you can see the book is well worn with the embosing almost
all gone.
I will upload the map closer to the closing date.
Last edited by JakeWoods; 06-24-2009 at 03:52 AM. Reason: Spelling mistake on map
That embossing is nice and subtle and feels real.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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Current WIP
This is where Im up to.
I wanted a different approach this time around.
Let me know what you think
FortGrenstien.jpg
Crap. I was just getting used to "running unopposed," if you will.
I'm extremely impressed, my entry isn't nearly as original.
"Unless I'm allowed to carry around a gun to shoot their giant killer-spiders, Australia needs to stay the hell away from me. Also Australians, who if they have lived this long are obviously agents of the spiders and not to be trusted."
Cool stuff
Are you going to do more pages?
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Gandwarf has fallen into shadow...
I did think about that and am still wondering if I should.Originally Posted by Gandwarf
The only problem is the original Image that I used for the
book. I could do more pages but they would still have the
same book image underlying them
Not saying that you should do more pages, but I like the style and was curious if there was more coming.
Anyway, the right page is a bit unreadable at the moment. You aged it beautifully, but personally, I would like to see a bit more details pop out. I wouldn't change it though, if none of the others comment about this.
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Gandwarf has fallen into shadow...
I made sure that the map was only barely readable in some parts
ss it is supposed to be an old book. I think Im happy with the
overall effect but I may make changes as Im abit of a tinkerer
Wow, very nice work. Love the "real" feel of this map.
I'm with Gandwarf on this one. I think that the book effect is really pretty, and you've done a great job modifying this image to make the new additions look like they fit. But... a pretty big part of the competition is the map, and right now its pretty hard to make out. I think if you could figure out how to add more hints about the treasures at the fort it would help a lot.
That said... beautiful!
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