Comments | uthoroc: Next year's Annual

uthoroc

Next year's Annual

Dec 05, 2007 18:06

Here's a little preview on next year's Cartographer's Annual.

10 plastic point for the first one to tell me who's map work this style is based on.

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Comments 11

temporus December 5 2007, 17:20:19 UTC

Probably wrong, but this reminds me of Tolkiens Middle Earth stuff.

uthoroc December 6 2007, 07:26:22 UTC

You're on the right track with middle-earth, but it's not Tolkien. :)

gbsteve December 6 2007, 09:42:02 UTC

I know, I know. I took all the maps out the middle of the supplements and tried to get them to fit together. Which they didn't.

And then when I flogged them all it took ages to sort out which map went in which book.

That's a very nice map btw. It looks shiny.

uthoroc December 6 2007, 09:46:11 UTC

LOL ... strange, I had exactly the same experience. The kitchen floor was /just/ big enough to spread them all out.

ernolander December 8 2007, 20:29:49 UTC

Looking very good, Ralf, count me in for 2008, is all I'm saying! :)

P.S. I read a guess on the list before I saw the sample, but I would agree it does look like Pete Fenlon's ICE maps.

Maps ernolander December 9 2007, 11:43:28 UTC

When I see your maps I don't know whether to be elated or despair. They are just so much better than anything that I can produce although, as an annual subscriber, I can do some 'copies' that look a huge amount better than what I normally produce!

Keep up the good work - I look forward to next years subscription! Why the wait? Is Simon planning to shock us with the new price?

Greyhawk

Connected mountain ridges anonymous December 9 2007, 17:50:49 UTC

Hi Ralf,

I e-mailed Simon back and forth when he asked for examples of mountains and pointed out this style. There is a lovely sense of continuity that exists with this style vs. previous styles. The use of colour has been used to show continuity.

Are the mountain symbols that you plan to include in this pack joined in any other way than by hand?

Django

Re: Connected mountain ridges uthoroc December 10 2007, 07:33:40 UTC

For this style I have a create a few "Mountain Ridge" symbols that connect the normal mountains, which I guess results in the continuity you're looking for. They are still placed by hand though.

anonymous December 10 2007, 17:02:16 UTC

Hi Ralf,

This style is amazing. Thx for doing this and the annual in general.