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Ye Olde Mappe Tutorial
Published: 2012-03-03 05:24:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 64173; Favourites: 4125; Downloads: 1645
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The promised tutorial on how I make my maps! If you have any questions, just ask
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Nice! There's depth in the concept of map making here for a beginner like me to get direction. It's easy to read and the examples are clear. Great presentation. Now one of my favs.
Great work!
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Great, I'm very glad to hear it. Thanks a lot, and good luck to you! If it helps, it's not really about artistic skill or designer/Photoshop know-how. It's really just a lot of patience and fiddling around with settings. Emphasis on the patience XD
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Hmm. When I designed the map of my character's fantasy world a long time ago, I didn't want the layout to look too much like I created it, so I made an evolving map instead where the landmasses all drifted into their positions from prehistory.
The map looked pretty crappy compared to this, and the continents didn't change shape enough, but I liked it.
I put it on YouTube if someone wants to see it . Hope it's cool enough it doesn't count as shameless promotion
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Heh, that's a neat idea
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You don't do each frame at a quality like that! The "modern" people won't be living there to populate the map anyway until the very end! Plus, in the grand scheme of things, does it even matter that a little squiggle of land jutted out one mile in a particular spot, or that the forest extended two more miles out that way? Nope. In the grander dance of the continents, you just draw the outlines moving and then work out the details for the "present day" map. That's the only map where all the little details matter.
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Haha, but my OCD tells me to! x_x
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It won't be telling you that after you try to get through more than six frames of animation!
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Yeah. It'll be telling me ABANDON ALL HOPE GIVE UP NAO
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It's not incredible hard to do though if you just draw simply. Then you end up with a really cool map that didn't leap straight from your head to the paper, that developed itself sort of, based on you.
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I LOOOVE UUU!!!!!!!!! XD <3 *high pitched screams*......... (omg. I'm such--a fan girl... =.
Absolutely AMAZING!
It's so easy to follow!
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Hahaha, awesome, thanks a lot! Glad to hear it
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You're very welcome
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Beautiful job! I've always loved old maps.
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Yeah, they have a real charm to them, don't they? Mine could use some more work, but I just don't have the patience, I don't think. Not yet, anyway XD
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THIS IS BRUUUUTAAAAL!!! So helpful, and it looks great! Thank you so much for this! <3
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Haha, you're super welcome!
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Oh, very nice - I've made a few maps before, but there are definitely some tips here I want to try out. Thank you for taking the time to make this!
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Great! Best of luck to you, and you're welcome
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sow coool~!
awesome tutorial~!
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Your coloring style for this looks exactly how my bf did a roll out map. I think it was on a vinyl mat or something. Only he used sharpies smudged with his fingers to get the blended effect. Looks really cool. Grats on the DD!
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Heh, that's a cool idea
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I think we took pictures of it, maybe get him to submit it to his DA. He made the map for his D&D friends, their world.
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WHERE WAS THIS FOR MY BIOLOGY PROJECT.
thank you though!
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lol, what were you trying to do? A biome map or some such?
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Ah no, haha. We were doing a 'wanted' poster for dangerous bacteria and I needed to know how to create old looking paper for the western theme. I got by though!
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Oh, haha! That sounds awesome 
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As a map lover and explorer, I really liked this tutorial. 
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This so helpful I don't know what to comment, but I feel bad about not commenting at all. So here you go.
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Omg this is so cool! I was planing on doing something like this but had no idea how. Thanks for making it!
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Great, good luck with it
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Oh, excellent! Thanks so much for sharing, it's going to be so useful
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And tips on naming places too. This is brilliant and is really going to help me with naming some capital cities and map-making in general
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Heh, awesome, glad to hear it
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This is an amazing deviation, and I wish I found it sooner! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
I love the detail you have put into this piece totally worth of a daily Deviation!
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Thank you very much! I only just made it, so I don't know if you could have found it much sooner than you did (if that's any consolation). Cheers
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Awsome tutorial!
I allways wonderd how people could make those old looking map ^.^
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