Every week (with a few exceptions) we do a live mapping session on YouTube, showcasing a certain style or set of tools in CC3+. Here are the most recent Live Mapping videos, as archived on YouTube:
The June issue of the Cartographer’s Annual is now available. Depict the lineage of your noble house, show the ancestry of an important character or delve into your actual family history.
The 5-page mapping guide teaches you not only how to use the style itself, but also how to enlarge and expand the provided templates to your needs.
The June issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2021 yet, you can do so here.
Hello fellow map-makers, welcome to the May newsletter. We’ve got lots of example maps for you, by Sue Daniel, Christina Trani and the whole user community, as well as another great technical article by Remy Monsen.
News
- The May issue of the Annual 2021 is available.
Resources
- Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
- Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for April.
Articles
- Remy Monsen delves into symbol options, specifically ways to randomly tranform certains aspects of a symbol as it gets placed in a map.
- Christina Trani continues her journey through All the Annuals with Munson’s Mines from the Annual 2017.
- Ralf revisits the first Annual issues from 2007, while Sue prepares new example maps for the same.
Every week we do a live mapping session on YouTube, showcasing a certain style or set of tools in CC3+. Here are the most recent Live Mapping videos, as archived on YouTube:
Welcome dear cartographers to another instance of the Maps of the Month post. We’ve got another selection of gorgeous commmunity maps for you, posted during April on the Profantasy forum or the CC3+ Facebook group. Enjoy, and thanks to everybody out there sharing their maps, whether they are featured or not!
Jacob Hicks’ drew his Twin’s Crossing map with the Ferraris style by Sue Daniel, plus some modifications of his own and a few other bits and pieces.
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This month’s annual, by fellow mapper Jon C. Munson II, was meant to be used alone or in conjunction with Symbol Set 4. I decided to map out a small abandoned mine using only the symbols provided in the annual, since I realize not everyone has Symbol Set 4 available to them.
This map is pretty basic, with no special bells or whistles. Though I can be known for using some original, creative techniques with this program, I wanted to showcase some maps with those tricks and others with nothing but the basics, I’ve done this for the average mapper, to show that you can still produce quality maps for your gaming needs and not need the skill that some of the Master Mappers and longtime, proficient users out there.
About the author: Lorelei was my very first D&D character I created more years back than i’d like to remember. When I decided to venture into creating maps for my and others rpgs, I thought I owed it to her to name myself Lorelei Cartography, since it was her that led me to the wonderful world of tabletop gaming in the first place. Since then I have been honored to have worked with companies such as WizKids, Pelgrane Press, and ProFantasy.
The May issue of the Annual 2021 is now available. Dive into more sinister styles of overland mapping with Sue Daniel’s new Darklands drawing style.
More than 150 new symbols, beautiful bitmap textures and a 5-page mapping guide let you design your own darker fantasy maps. Sue’s detailed and beautiful sheet effects make sure everything comes together as one good-looking package.
The May issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2021 yet, you can do so here.
In our weekly live mapping series on YouTube I’ve recently begun to revisit the first styles that I created for the Cartographer’s Annual back in 2007. Sue Daniel was inspired to use these herself for some example maps, and as you’d expect the resulting maps are gorgeous pieces of art. See for yourself!
Mercator Historical
The very first Annual issue took the maps of perhaps the most famous cartographer of history as inspiration for some large-scale overland mapping. You can see me using it here.
Here is the map Sue came up with using the default Mercator style.
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(Download the FCW file)
Not satisfied with the looks, she expanded on the style with colours and effects to produce this beautiful variant.
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(Download the FCW file)
If you want to recreate Sue’s version, you can take a look at her sheets to see the effects she implemented, and you’ll need this little symbol catalog for the decorations on the map border.
John Speed City
The second Annual style was inspired by another historical cartographer: John Speed. The live video showing its use is here.
Sue used the John Speed City style to create a map of the early modern town of Dorchester.
(Download the FCW file)
Again, there is a symbol catalog with the extra material that Sue created for the map.
Dear mappers, the first quarter of the year has flown past and although it is unlikely we’ll see each other at conventions this year, the signs are there that the pandemic will loosen its grip on the world in the coming months. We are certainly looking forward to be travelling again, and to be sharing the maps we create virtually with our gaming groups in person. But until then we can still be content to share them virtually, as so many of our users do in the Profantasy community forum and the Facebook group. You’ll find a sample selection of these below, along with the latest Annual issue, example maps by Christina Trani, a superbly useful article by Remy and the latest live videos.
News
- The April issue of the Annual 2021 is available.
- The winners of the Community Atlas mapping competition have been decided and the prize vouchers have been distributed.
Resources
- Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
- Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for February.
Articles
- Christina Trani hast started on the next volume of the Cartographer’s Annual (Vol 11 – 2017) in her All the Annuals series. Check out a Black & White overland map, new wizard’s tower, a Wild West map and a star map maps.
- Remy Monsen provides a very useful guide on how to grid your dungeon floors, if you don’t want to slap a quick grid over your whole map.
Every week we do a live mapping session on YouTube, showcasing a certain style or set of tools in CC3+. Here are the most recent Live Mapping videos, as archived on YouTube:
