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Morrowind books interior illustrations recreation - A call to artists !

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=0Arnu0S8L8GpMdFd...

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/...

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=0Arnu0S8L8GpMdDV...

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

Edited by: robbinsmoth on 01/24/2014 - 17:40
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ABCs for Barbarians

ABCs for Barbarians

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I've been frustrated since I

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

@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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first!http://img823.imagesha

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

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That looks good to me!

That looks good to me!

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Nice sketch !

Nice sketch !

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the dwemmer robot sketch

the dwemmer robot sketch would need a update 

the rest looks simpel enough

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I'm willing to make all of

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

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Firmament

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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Honorable Writ of Execution

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

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second I like to keep it as

second :) I try to keep it as close to the original as possible, but also to improve it a bit. Hope its OK...




psd file:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jrdols

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Honorable Writ of Execution-Complete!

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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or as alternative version,

or as alternative version, but not as close to the original drawing. I like this one more:


 

psd file:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/q9lpj1

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Keep in mind that these are

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 wrote: Keep in mind that

Mehh wrote:

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

Well, GendumDrup, you beat me to it  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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36 Lessons of Vivec

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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Legions of the Dead

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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Darkest Darkness

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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Vivec

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

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Nerevar Moon-and-Star

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

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Made this for Invocation of

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

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

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why not make the tekst on the

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 wrote: why not make the

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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

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 wrote: no1

GendunDrup wrote:

no1 wrote:

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 wrote: excuse me for

Sicilium wrote:

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

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

what do you mean movable type ?

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@GendunDrup quick question:

@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 wrote:

@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

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

good work.

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digitalparanoid wrote: ooh

digitalparanoid wrote:

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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Easter Egg?

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

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Then Disney would come around

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

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Mysterious Akavir

Mysterious Akavir

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