A new dungeon map every day (throughout May)

[Kris]

As a quick experiment I have blown the first map up to battlematt size and made it into a six page pdf.

I'll be honest and say that it doesn't look that great when blown up to such an extent, but I've dropped a couple of filters over the top to try and eliminate some of the pixelation.

Anyway, I'm not sure if I'll go ahead and do this to all the maps, but I figured I'd post this example here, and see what you guys think.

www.enworld.org/CrookedStaffProductions/generic_dungeon_01.pdf ...link updated in post #44

(note that I printed these out in black & white draft quality on my printer and I guess they looked OK)

 

[Crazy Eights]

Anyway, I'm not sure if I'll go ahead and do this to all the maps, but I figured I'd post this example here, and see what you guys think.

I haven't had a chance to print this out yet to see what it looks like on paper, but I don't think it looks too pixelated at all.

It might be a lot of work for you to give all your may maps this treatment, but it would officially be bad ass to have a chunk of battle mat sized dungeon tiles like this.

Again, thanks for the cool stuff!

 

[Kris]

Yeah, it would be some extra work - but I might look into it.

Maybe, if enough folks express an interest, I'll make that June's project

 

[Keith Robinson]

These are great map, Kris.

Are these done entirely in photoshop (or whatever software you use) or is there any freehand involved?

 

[Kris]

A lot of it is done in photoshop, but I create the basic layout first in a vector graphics program called Greenstreet Draw4 ...which I'll then export as a bitmap image - which will look something like this:

That image then gets loaded into photoshop, which is where I attempt to pretty it up a bit.

I suppose there is nothing stopping me from doing it 100% in photoshop, but I find it easier to work with vector graphics first - probably just because I have been using this 'Draw4' software for years now.

 

[Parduz]

...silently watching this thread... count me in the folks that show interest for whatever

 

[Michael Silverbane]

Hey, this is awesome!

Uh... That is all...

 

[Kris]

Here's the next one... which (not surprisingly) looks somewhat like the unfinished sample I posted yesterday...

MAY 5TH MAP

 

[Keith Robinson]

A lot of it is done in photoshop, but I create the basic layout first in a vector graphics program called Greenstreet Draw4 ...which I'll then export as a bitmap image ...snip... That image then gets loaded into photoshop, which is where I attempt to pretty it up a bit.

Ah, I see. It's interesting to see how the vector image turned out - very nicely, I might add.

Many thanks for insight

 

[Kris]

A dungeon within a dungeon:

MAY 6TH MAP