Friendly Mapmaking Challenge - Everyone Welcome!

[koontz1973]

This is why I don't do graphics



Just screwed around with filters

-Sully

And that is all the beginnings of maps. Screwing around till something clicks. Keep on doing it sully and one day you might get a quench.

[natty dread]

You forgot the in.

[DiM]

what are you using sully?
i don't recognize those filters.

[MrBenn]

what are you using sully?
i don't recognize those filters.

Looks a bit like difference clouds with colour filters on top?

[DiM]

what are you using sully?
i don't recognize those filters.

Looks a bit like difference clouds with colour filters on top?

difference clouds are nice. that actually looks awful. or maybe he added a lot of grain then blurred everything...

[Victor Sullivan]

what are you using sully?
i don't recognize those filters.

Looks a bit like difference clouds with colour filters on top?

difference clouds are nice. that actually looks awful. or maybe he added a lot of grain then blurred everything...

-Sully

[natty dread]

Well, nothing that adding some MORE filters couldn't fix!

Click image to enlarge.

[natty dread]

Here's something fun I wanted to try.

Click image to enlarge.

[natty dread]

You know... because Kaliningrad is part of Russia... and Tetris was made in Russia... and... well, it made sense at the time!

[DiM]

You know... because Kaliningrad is part of Russia... and Tetris was made in Russia... and... well, it made sense at the time!

is that a preset/filter/action/mask? or did you draw it?
i'm talking about the tetris image.

PS: is nobody else going for this challenge?

[natty dread]

is that a preset/filter/action/mask? or did you draw it?

Drew it myself... I tried searching for a tetris pattern at first but couldn't find anything that looked good without watermarks, so I made one myself. I just used the render grid filter to draw a grid of 18x18 squares, then coloured them with the fill tool until I had a large enough, repeating pattern of tetris blocks, then added a little bevel and such to make the squares more tetris-like. Also, I used a NES palette for the colours!

PS: is nobody else going for this challenge?

Give it time... not everyone works at lightning speed

[thenobodies80]

I was going to draw a soviet/communist map, but DiM is too fast for me (or he has more free time )

Anyway I decided to develop a space view....it's different from what I had in mind (it's not totally finished ) but i'm really short with time so here we go:

[DiM]

that's a cool twist tnb, but isn't the size kinda awkward? i mean it makes kaliningrad seem huge

[thenobodies80]

yeah perspective is a bit not realistic....the size limits forced me to play with sizes a bit........but who cares?
A bit of creativity/fantasy doesn't hurt

[natty dread]

Yeah, creativity is what this is all about. Nice work! I like the clouds, there's a real feeling of movement in them...