Well, that's already quite impressive I'd say . The satellite view and globe are quite really pleasant. It's a very green world, I suppose?
I really like your work on history and the land shapes in general.
Around the beginning of this year I came to CG with a "How Do I" question about conworld building; thanks to CG I determined I wasn't able to help a potential client with his fantasy world. The idea kept nagging at the back of my mind though, so over this past month (September) I spent a bit of free time designing a fictional world for fun. Since CG was so helpful I figured I should say thank you by sharing.
WIP since I'll likely continue expanding on it with other related side projects in my free time. Original idea was to do a series of maps from a variety of time periods; early history, modern history, futuristic, etc. More of a science-fiction than fantasy person myself; so I opted for the common fantasy species but I wanted to roll them back to their mythological concepts instead of their modern, post-Tolkien, high-fantasy versions and rebuild them from the ground up to be more believable as a mental exercise in pseudoscience. Ultimately it's just a skills/tools practice so who knows how far i'll actually get with it.
Initial world was generated in Fractal Terrains, edited & eroded in Wilbur, then the satellite image look was done using GIMP. Cloud cover is an edited version of the Blue Marble public domain imagery. I dropped the whole thing into Blender for fun and made a low-framerate GIF animation. Scaled everything down to reasonable posting size.
Hope you enjoy!
Blender globe low-frame animation (Pre-history)
GIMP satellite imagery, no clouds (Pre-history)
Evolutionary ladder of modern species (1990s/Modern Textbook Style)
Migration of modern species (1990s/Modern Textbook Style)
WIP for what will be political map in (1990s/Modern Textbook Style)
Thanks for the compliment! I was disappointed that I didn't have time to learn G-Plates, and the plate tectonics are really very limited, but if there's no huge glaring problems then I can be happy with that.
The theory was this satellite view is at the height of the summer season, when all the fauna is in full; I’d eventually like to do a peak of the winter season imagery also. The fauna that has evolved has a slightly darker color than Earth due to atmospheric composition and distance from its F class star. The autumnal colors will also vary a bit from Earth. I haven’t worked out the solar system map entirely, and due to life this project is getting pushed to the bottom of the list for at least a few months or more.
Last edited by LordIndy; 09-30-2017 at 06:29 PM.
Thanks zhar2, glad you like it!
Addendum: I just realized a typo in the Evolution diagram, all instances of the word "Age" should be "Ago".
Had some inspiration while working on another gig so I came back to this project. Roughed out a couple more graphics, all feedback/criticism is welcome. Once again, scaled down to reasonable posting size.
Hope you enjoy!
WIP Ocean Currents Map (1990s/Modern Textbook Style) - This one needs names and some refinements.
WIP Stellar System Diagram - Basically a rough draft, nothing to scale, missing 2nd planet which will be a "super earth" semi-habitable world, barely started work on asteroid belt, moon needs shading, overall refinement and labeling.
Last edited by LordIndy; 09-30-2017 at 06:49 PM.
Hi Indy, it´s definitively quite interesting, I always loved maps with backgrounds, ideas and history !!
The result on the globe is fantastic, great job !
Some bits of your tectonics map are very good, namely, how it seems that there's a continental plate moving north and startig to shut down that oceanic ridge.
Yet, one aspect is less likely: The ocean/continent subduction on the top left side of the map has the concave/convex sides switched.. (see Chile's or Japan's coasts for reference)
however, since it's an area quite far north, the projection doesn't help. Have a look at that area on an orthogonal projection (you can use g.projector, which is free software) for that.