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Published: 2006-06-01 02:47:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 891; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 15
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Description Yet another piece as an answer to 's call for people to re-design some of the stuff for his in-the-making roleplaying game. ^_^ This one was based off of his Map of Magic: [link]

Here's his description of it if you're too lazy to click the link (which you should click!!): "The top icon is for life, the bottom for death, and then clockwise from the tree we have earth, water, wind, and fire... The dashed lines are supposed to represent opposition, while the solid lines represent relation."

He recently decided that the side two would be time and space, but he hadn't drawn symbols for them , so I ade them up. ^o^;; Probably gonna be changed, since they don't make sense right away...

So anyway, after some thinking, I decided that it'd be cool to make the diagram more circular and stuff, and it'd look like a really standard, everyone-should-know-this diagram to put in the book if he ever got published. I also decided to keep the lines of relation, but change the dashed lines of opposition to be arrows instead. So I set out with that in mind, and used Photoshop to make a bunch of circles. That...was a LOT of layers. 0o0 But it worked out. I had to use the Navigator to make sure it was all lined up correctly, since I have no idea how to use the ruler in Photoshop...

This is in scraps since it's just the first draft; the next step will to add lots of pretties with my tablet, like dressing up the lines and the symbols and arrows stuff, and maybe adding a background. ^_^ Derek likes it so far, so YAY~

This diagram's concept belongs to !!
This diagram here belongs to ME!!

NO STEALING!! Seriously people, this is going towards something that might be published and stuff, so yeah. *nods seriously*
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Comments: 5

TonyDennison [2007-07-23 22:47:20 +0000 UTC]

This is really beautiful- just as pure design...

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minako134 In reply to TonyDennison [2007-07-25 17:05:02 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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alienfirst [2006-06-01 03:38:50 +0000 UTC]

DUDE. I am impressed. *_* This looks positively awesome and like it could really be for an "official" RPG.

When you get back from Japan, I should totally show you Illustrator. This thing would be the perfect project for that program.

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minako134 In reply to alienfirst [2006-06-01 03:56:22 +0000 UTC]

Yaaaay, I'm glad you like it~ ^o^ Yeah, I was thinking there've gotta be better graphic-making programs out there...I wonder what I can get for free off the internet...

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alienfirst In reply to minako134 [2006-06-01 04:18:43 +0000 UTC]

*cough*isogotyoucovered*cough*

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