Friendly Mapmaking Challenge - Everyone Welcome!

by **natty dread** on Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:06 pm

DiM wrote: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!

DiM wrote:PS: is nobody else going for this challenge?

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

by **thenobodies80** on Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:02 pm

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 :oops:

) but i'm really short with time so here we go:

by **DiM** on Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:09 pm

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

by **thenobodies80** on Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:14 pm

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

by **natty dread** on Sun Feb 19, 2012 4:05 am

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

by **Victor Sullivan** on Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:54 pm

natty dread wrote:Well, nothing that adding some MORE filters couldn't fix!

Click image to enlarge.

We should have a new competition: Make Sully's piece of shit look halfways decent! :lol:

-Sully

by **koontz1973** on Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:05 am

If that is your shit, I would go see a doctor right away. :lol:

by **DiM** on Sat Feb 25, 2012 5:38 pm

well, this initiative had a really short life.

it's a shame, but i kinda expected this to happen, given the foundry's current situation.

by **koontz1973** on Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:59 pm

Got images DiM to post but just not had time to polish and post. Remember RL comes into play now and then.

natty, this one seems done with, chose a winner of sorts as it is your thread and get them to post the next image.

by **natty dread** on Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:14 am

Uh oh, someone didn't read the 1st page...

There's no reason to stop this, in fact since the revamp comp is now at the same time I think it's best we extend this thing further... also because if there are no more participants than this, then I don't have any interest in continuing this.

by **DiM** on Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:40 am

koontz1973 wrote:Got images DiM to post but just not had time to polish and post. Remember RL comes into play now and then.

natty, this one seems done with, chose a winner of sorts as it is your thread and get them to post the next image.

it's not about polishing images winning prizes or competing.
it's about sharing techniques and advices and commenting on what we do.
you can post your images no matter how rough they are.

by **koontz1973** on Sun Feb 26, 2012 6:42 am

DiM wrote:it's not about polishing images winning prizes or competing.
it's about sharing techniques and advices and commenting on what we do.
you can post your images no matter how rough they are.

I know that DiM, but when you have only got half done, it seems pointless to upload it. As natty said, comp time is upon us again.