Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Portfolio Update


Added ten new maps to my portfolio today, as well as a link for the redux map for Twilight Struggle which (thanks to the good offices of GMT Games, Jason Matthews, Ananda Gupta, and Daniel McGinty) is now available for purchase...

Friday, April 24, 2009

Of dimension and projections...

So after an initial focus on antique map styles, then game map forms, then illustrative cartography, I've been moving in more technical directions the past few weeks - doing a lot of work with creating 3D terrain effects for maps, as well as reprojecting NASA's Blue Marble Next Generation (BMNG) RAW data to create hyper-accurate background maps.

The area surrounding Alesia, with 3d terrain and edge displacements...

NASA BMNG data of the Pacific, reprojected on an Albers equal-area cone...