#Animated maps

[mapsontheweb]

Lands lost by the Native Americans In the US (1776-1930)

[cmaidaartworkblog]

I have just now finished a video where I played some of the animated maps for this project on a globe in Blender, so here's that now too! Since the first published aspect of this project was a video, it's only fair that a video should be the *last* thing I share about it. Just the wonderful continuity of a bookend. Animated maps exported from Photopea, edited together in ClipChamp, used as textures for a sphere in Blender, from which I directly exported video elements, and, finally, spliced and narrated and captioned in ClipChamp once again. 2024

This video showcases my Blender model of the planet that the Scud aliens call home, the fourth and final world I've mapped out for @jayrockin's "Runaway to the Stars" project. A *lot* of maps were created in service of this final render, and also in service of presenting the special qualities of this planet. I intend to show you as many of these as I can under the cut, and also in subsequent posts focusing on some of the more interstitial, ancillary maps and figures that played a part in producing the primary maps you'll see in this main post.

Before I show the first maps I made for this project, what you see below are the satellite-style maps for the Equinoxes and Solstices, in order of (Northern) Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, the latter serving as the texture for the Blender object you saw in the video.

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With that matter covered, our next focus is this project's foundation: Geology. While I didn't spin as elaborate a tectonic history for this planet as I did for the Ayrum commission, I did work out as much detail as I could for the more recent geological activity, to set the stage for the elevation data - including a narrower focus on the coastal shallows that host the Scud populations.

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Once I could move on to climate, my first step was finding this planet's relative Insolation, which I managed thanks to @reversedumbrella's code and coaching. With an obliquity of only 16 degrees, this planet's yearly maximum Insolation levels stick close to the equator, compared to pole-to-pole oscillation we see on Earth

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Having a rough sense of where heat would concentrate seasonally and how the landmasses would deflect water in light of the planet's retrograde spin, I was able to set down the bi-annual ocean currents (Northern Summer above and Northern Winter below), then the monthly water temperatures pushed around by said currents, and finally -after factoring in many other considerations- the monthly land temperatures as well (combined in the second gif)

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Next came the seasonal air pressure maps and subsequent wind patterns (my first time creating those from scratch), which later factored into the precipitation maps. The incredible temperatures at the largest continent's interior make a desert of most of it, and the other interiors are fairly dry too, but all that heat on the equatorial ocean generates a *lot* of evaporation which ends up coming down elsewhere.

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With temperatures and precipitation mapped out for each month, I was able to find how the accumulation and melt of ice and snow played out, too. Given such a hot equator it's surprising to see freezing temperatures hold out in some places, but low obliquity and high elevation shield what areas they can, it seems.

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All this monthly data was then painstakingly combined and compared and plugged into equations to produce maps of discrete climate zones, using both the Köppen (left) and Trewartha (right) classification systems. The higher latitudes see some overlap with Earth's conditions, but the Tropics...

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I never really finished the map I wanted to make with my own loosely customized classification system, but I *did* get as far as this breakdown of the areas that sometimes surpass 56.7 degrees Celsius, Earth's record for highest surface temperature ever directly measured. And as you can see, that earthly record is broken by a *significant* fraction of this planet's surface, and far exceeded by the equatorial continent's deep interior

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The final phase of this project dealt with creating satellite maps of this planet's surface (which you saw at the top of this post), which started with a map of dry and submerged substrate, then a density map of the vegetation that sits atop it, then the colors of that vegetation under annual average conditions (demonstrating how they would appear in-person, rather than the area's appearance from orbit), and finally plant colors under seasonal conditions (same conceit as previous). In concert with the seasonal ice and snow maps, it was the four maps in the last sequence which were overlaid on the Substrate map, using the plant density map as raster masks, to produce the final Satellite-Style maps.

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This planet's sophonts being a marine species, it was then worth focusing on the conditions underwater, which included monthly seafloor temperatures (first gif), annual discharge of sediment from rivers (magenta in the 2nd gif), and seasonal upwelling of nutrients from deeper water (blue in the 2nd gif).

The creation of all my maps seen in this post was possible thanks to Photopea, which has been my go-to for several years now. The resolution kinda got crunched when I uploaded these here, so when I share them on Reddit later I'll add those links under this. These have also already been posted on Twitter, which you can see here if you like. Thanks for scrolling all the way down here!

[vinceaddams]

[389]

Nine Eyes of Google Street View Jon Rafman

[sexy-dance-fighting]

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOREVER TO POST THIS AAA!!

But here is the animation I've done for Danny Phantom's 20th Anniversary!! It's part of the 'DP: RePhanimated' project on Youtube!! (WHICH IS FINALLY OUT, WE BEAT THE COPYRIGHT STRIKE, GO WATCH IT YO!!! :D)

I was so stoked to have been assigned part of the original theme song, it was so amazing to animate it and pay homeage to the cartoon that actually inspired me to work in animation as an adult.

It was so meaningful to be a part of this project and I met so many cool and talented people!! (It was truly a labour of love, y'all.)

(Also as a bonus, here's my lineart pass!)

[drawwithmis]

Get yeeted idiot

[herpsandbirds]

Black-knobbed Map Turtle (Graptemys nigrinoda), juvenile, family Emydidae, found in river basins in AL and MS, USA

photograph by Turtoise.IDN

[mipexch]

i love animating these little freaks

[fellkyd]

They tried to skip class.

At least they left something memorable

[thevitalportal]

Sad but true. I worked for Conrail in late 70s and 80s as a paid internI fought against the freight industry dismantling of the passenger network. They did not hire at the end of my internship. I raged against the machine.

The decline of passenger railway service in the USA

[mebis-art-dump]

[RAIN WORLD SPOILERS] Here's my contribution to the Rain World MAP "Plastic Beach"

And here's the making of:

[ohno-the-sun]

Watch on Youtube

Song- Dr. Sunshine is Dead by Will Wood

It is done!

Thank you all these wonderful people for being apart of this and working so hard on it!

Part 1: Me! Hello! Part 2: @kibbits Part 3: @piixelpaint Part 4: @nebuladreamz Part 5: @smoljeanius Part 6: @garbagechocolate Part 7: @garbagechocolate Part 8: @amberluvsbugs Part 9: @cookiiemancer Part 10: @cloudyvoid Part 11: @skizabaa Part 12: @circleheadd Part 13: @gopsnippers Part 14: @just-a-drawing-bean Part 15: @nosleepygayy Part 16: @soupdweller

Go send them some love if you love the MAP!

[damian-navarro-art]

Cass & Maps

Almost done with my little 7 page story I’ve been doing for Mia and Cass, I’m really having the most fun i’ve ever have, I.. hope you will like them :)

(This is just a little sneak peek on Black & White! All the pages are gonna be full color, it’s just that I was taking the chance to post these since the “noir” vibe kinda fits as well into the story 😅 but im probably gonna be posting my lineart version too after all the pages, idk , i will see!)

My Batman & Robin <3

[thebonelessbee]

update on this map part also :3 since there's a bit of hype around HK on my account hehe

[sosadraws]

- DIE TOTENINSEL -

Usually I don't like posting my parts for animation projects on their own, but I think that with the audio changed this one stands pretty well on their own.