Hi everyone,

I would like to know how are done the maps of the levels of videogames like Icewind dale or Robin Hood, Legend of Sherwood. If anybody knows tutorials or making of explaining that, I would be very interested. Of what I know, they say it's 'handpainted' but it's seems like there is 3D in there. So maybe only the textures are handpainted...
Here are some images I selected that are really beautiful and love to understand how it's done.

From Icewind Dale:
http://guidesarchive.ign.com/guides/...ven_map_lg.jpg
http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/w...e/Kuldahar.jpg

From Robin Hood:
http://game-space.net/files/wallpape...sherwood-5.jpg
http://game-space.net/files/wallpape...sherwood-4.jpg
http://game-space.net/files/wallpape...sherwood-3.jpg
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen003.jpg