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Morrowind books interior illustrations recreation - A call to artists !

Submitted by robbinsmoth on

UPDATE: I have updated the Texture Artist Worksheet. Please look and add your name into the appropriate slot :). Also Twisted, Ellange, Ted help me fill out the book list worksheet please ;)

Texture Artist Worksheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Arnu0S8L8GpMdFdkcFJNc1ZQSGlNYXkxRkdxQlByR2c&usp=drive_web#gid=0

I've gone to the effort to put together a few resources for you. I own a copy of Taschens' "The World of Ornament" and i have access to a few thousand hi-resolution scans of patterns. 

Because these images are royalty free for unrestricted use, i've gone through and provided you with a few that i though might help. I'll update and add more as i go:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/asjqeygy9w5x1yp/GwGORw2Xep

I have also written up a tutorial on how i created my map. Google drive destroyed the colors in it, so in the link above in the tutorials folder i've provided you with my map PSD and the PDF of the tut. 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7nu0S8L8GpMZ2lmZVNYV19sTVk/edit

Hope you guys make use of them. Message me with your progress and post images up for critique. Also remember that the image alone isn't the final product, you have the whole page to design. This includes any text, borders and ornamentation that comes along with it.

Link to Book List Worksheet. Refer to this for tasks that need doing please:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Arnu0S8L8GpMdDVfeWtJc25jTk9RT0E2V01mM3hXZEE#gid=0

Not all of the books need custom graphics. We will design a few templates and reuse them to fill out the various books content.

 

Here is the list of books illustrations we need:

Book Illustration Original User Status
ABCs for Barbarians Atronach [External image] 3AMt  
ABCs for Barbarians Bungler's Bane [External image]    
ABCs for Barbarians Comberry [External image] Ellagne  
Boethiah's Glory Boethiah [External image]    
Divine Metaphysics... Writings p1 [External image]    
Divine Metaphysics... Writings p2 [External image]    
Divine Metaphysics... Figure [External image] 3AMt  
The Egg of Time page 1 [External image]    
The Egg of Time page 2 [External image]    
The Egg of Time figure front [External image] 3AMt  
The Egg of Time figure back [External image] 3AMt  
The Firmament Warrior [External image]    
The Firmament Mage [External image]    
The Firmament Thief [External image]    
Guide to Ald'ruhn Ald'ruhn [External image]    
Guide to Balmora Balmora [External image]    
Guide to Sadrith Mora Sadrith Mora [External image]    
Guide to Vivec Vivec [External image]    
Guide to Vvardenfell Vvardenfell [External image]    
Honorable Writ of Execution Morag Tong seal [External image]    
Map of Red Mountain Red Mountain [External image]    
Secrets of Dwemer Animunculi Animunculi 1 [External image] 3AMt  
Secrets of Dwemer Animunculi Animunculi 2 [External image] 3AMt  
Secrets of Dwemer Animunculi Animunculi 2 [External image] 3AMt  
Secrets of Dwemer Animunculi Animunculi 3 [External image] 3AMt  
         
Invocation of Azura*     Ellagne  

I will update the table shortly.

PS: This lists the current vanilla books illustrations. If you want to create new, lore-friendly illustrations for books that don't have any, feel free to do so.

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Last edited by robbinsmoth on 24 Jan 2014 - 17:40.

user creations

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ABCs for Barbarians

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:ABCs_for_Barbarians

Boethiah's Glory

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Boethiah%27s_Glory

Divine Metaphysics...

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Divine_Metaphysics...

The Egg of Time

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:The_Egg_of_Time

The Firmament

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:The_Firmament

Guide to Ald'ruhn

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Guide_to_Ald%27ruhn

Guide to Balmora

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Guide_to_Balmora

Guide to Sadrith Mora

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Guide_to_Sadrith_Mora

Guide to Vivec

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Guide_to_Vivec

Guide to Vvardenfell

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Guide_to_Vvardenfell

Honorable Writ of Execution

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Honorable_Writ_of_Execution

Map of Red Mountain

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Map_of_Red_Mountain

Secrets of Dwemer Animunculi

http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Secrets_of_Dwemer_Animunculi

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ABCs for Barbarians

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I've been frustrated since I haven't been able to find a way to help with Skywind, but this is right up my alley. It's late where I live but I'll get cracking on these sketches tomorrow! (I know, I know, most people volunteer and then never come back)

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@Ellagne  Great! I'm impatient to see your sketches. Also, and I don't really know what I'm talking about but there should probably be some transparency in the pics so that they can match on any paper texture..

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updated post, to have all my sketches in one post :)

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That looks good to me!

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Nice sketch !

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the dwemmer robot sketch would need a update 

the rest looks simpel enough

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Original PSD file: http://www.mediafire.com/?aw1qjo8mjaveiba

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?9k27dbev8bd8lvl

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?t3k9af7hx2y200n

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I'm willing to make all of them. I've already made all the Firmament ones.

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Here's all the Firmament ones.

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?ijr59jd21052u7a

 

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?59ah87lrk4b6bd5

 

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?dwm72o2ahij76d6

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Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?n1u8dsanik8lbdb

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?o3bfjwa45hp1fbp

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?g71h98fhmw1uw6f

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Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?f1us95dtdox9tqu

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/download/8b9f476n8hquutj/eggoftimepage2.psd

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?tbnb74u7dijudmz

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?9fqg3bem8efpr1j

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Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/download/5je6zer7c3ltq73/mapofredmountain

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Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?7wa12hbmn3ftlhn

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Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?7icrdkevssm42gp

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Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?k1qvuk978jxwfg4

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Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?f3jz4t7trq39r4l

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Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?5j7ie1z25b1q75u

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This one is the most complicated, so it's going to take a while. Here's my progress.

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Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?4fbhw4x01hfq85w

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?4ula28he2h8wu96

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?6r18kr5l55kqkct

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This one took the longest out of all of them! I love how it turned out though.

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?i5te1epq7k7b6q

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Keep in mind that these are old books, and perhaps you can try and make the page color and ink look a little warn and faded out.

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Mehh

Keep in mind that these are old books, and perhaps you can try and make the page color and ink look a little warn and faded out.

I'll do that tomorrow. I just spent the last 4 hours on these so I'm going to take a break.

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Well, GendumDrup, you beat me to it smiley Ah well. I'll still post this anyway, though I do realise mine has far more line work than the original

I also have this Nerevarine image I made a little while ago, but I can't think of anywhere it could actually go (and it was made as a banner/tapestry rather than an illustration):

@3AMt: I really like those Dwemer sphere sketches. Personally, I prefer the first one, probably because it's closer to the original.

Also, do we need to remake the Vivec/Almsivi banners and the portraits of the saints?

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I just made this and I think it would work wonderfully in 36 Lessons of Vivec. I recreated a concept art of vivec fighting one of the creatures from that book.

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?t9ta7b497kpv8ug

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?7xrfawwqy998nhg

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?q7oq34dzdcoz3z7

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I recreated the bonelord concept art and I think it would do well in the Legions of the Dead book.

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?hbwb45334eztb0f

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So this is a Spider Daedra that I believe would do well in Darkest Darkness!

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?i42um7r91w1a97n

 

 

 


And... here's one of Shrek. You never know.... you never know.

 

But seriously, the Spider Daedra one would go good in Darkest Darkness because it discusses varieties of Daedra. The Shrek one is just a joke. Maybe it can be in a book in Skyblivion about OGRES.

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Update: I recreated 3 pieces of concept art of Vivec based on the 36 Lessons of Vivec book.

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Made this for Nerevar Moon and Star using Mehh's old paper suggestion.

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?8ld3vu91ckkijcc

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Made this for Invocation of Azura. I'm not happy with it yet but it's a start:

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Awesome work everyone :) I'll update the OP asap.

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why not make the tekst on the dwemmer drawings readable i hate to see scrabbels that dont even look like wordts

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no1

why not make the tekst on the dwemmer drawings readable i hate to see scrabbels that dont even look like wordts

all dwemer knowledge in morrowind is supposed to be illegible.

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excuse me for my English is not very good, but I do not quite understand what all of us need to draw / illustrate ... You have given in this job a list of books, links to their original sources, and apparently original sources of illustrations for in-game books, if I understand correctly... And what is required, for example, from me? I mean, I should have an example of illustration, its source, and then draw the object as it seems to me. is not it? 

I'm sorry, if you my questions seem a little stupid, I'm just still have never participated in such events, I'm just new to doing such, but I want to help somehow ))

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GendunDrup

no1

why not make the tekst on the dwemmer drawings readable i hate to see scrabbels that dont even look like wordts

all dwemer knowledge in morrowind is supposed to be illegible.

howe about elven leters than ore some scribel remarks from some 1 ho is observing the dwemmer robots

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Sicilium

excuse me for my English is not very good, but I do not quite understand what all of us need to draw / illustrate ... You have given in this job a list of books, links to their original sources, and apparently original sources of illustrations for in-game books, if I understand correctly... And what is required, for example, from me? I mean, I should have an example of illustration, its source, and then draw the object as it seems to me. is not it? 

I'm sorry, if you my questions seem a little stupid, I'm just still have never participated in such events, I'm just new to doing such, but I want to help somehow ))

Hi,

there's never a stupid question :)

What I posted are vanilla morrowind assets that we need to recreate. So I need artists to draw something similar so that we can add them to the books. Similar meaning that we can 1/ make them higher resolution 2/ take artistic liberties

Finally, as some of you started posting, if people are interested to illustrate more books, you can always draw something related to one of morrowind books.

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Here's a question. Do you think the Dwemer had movable type? Because that might be an interesting direction to go with the text from The Egg of Time and Divine Metaphysics.

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what do you mean movable type ?

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@GendunDrup quick question: Except for your creations for new illustrations, all the other links you posted are the current illustrations in psd format or did you draw them yourself?

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digitalparanoid

@GendunDrup quick question: Except for your creations for new illustrations, all the other links you posted are the current illustrations in psd format or did you draw them yourself?

 

i drew them all. It's what I was doing from 2:00PM-12:00AM yesterday.

the morag tong one took the longest thought. It took over 2 hours of non stop coloring to finish

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ooh nice. I thought they were very close. That's why I asked :P

good work.

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digitalparanoid

ooh nice. I thought they were very close. That's why I asked :P

good work.

i tried to make them as close as possible.

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The Shrek should be DEFINETLY used! Maybe just randomly at the back of a book?

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Then Disney would come around and send us a S&D email

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Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?e44dt8lgi5uw1hz

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Mysterious Akavir

Original PSD File: http://www.mediafire.com/?zgs8sem5ycms3dx

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