Bill Owen wrote:*Of course, the outward appearance must at least not repel you. Ideally intrigue the prospective buyer. Games that suffered by their graphic treatment include War at Sea and Victory in the Pacific. We thought they were ugly and didn't play them until much later... then realizing that they were gems in the rough and a lot of fun.
mbassoc2003 wrote:I must confess to judging a book by its cover. I tend not to purchase items, or percieve them as having lower value, based on the care with which the publisher has taken in presenting his material. I was particularily fond of the original JG ... SNIPPED REST
Bill Owen wrote:*Here's a rather obscure JG factoid: did anyone know that we took the original CSIO Guide art from an old drawing of Rothenburg-ob-Tauber in Germany? It's a real place, old, with a wall around it and on the Romantic Road between Frankfurt & Munich roughly. The streetscene is a famous view of the buildings that is featured on lots of travel posters and brochures.Here's a sample photo; the spot is called Ploenlein:http://travel.webshots.com/photo/108409 ... 2854mJngOg Judges Guild Comes Home To The City State Tour!
robertsconley wrote:That is actually a tough question. I can do that easily with layers but it doesn't look as pleasing with this forest broken up by these blobs of text. I suppose for the Map 19 I will do it because it has large unbroken expenses of forest.
serleran wrote:What would you consider to be the "must-have" Judges Guild products, from a historical or "roleplaying value?" That is, essentially, your favorite stuff.
WereSteve wrote:If so, then there are ways to rig the shot so that the resulting picture will be an almost exact copy (To scale) of the original subject.Probably not a practical idea if doing limited copy work, but back when I was seriously playing around with a copy stand that I had, I went to a local shop that would cut glass to size and purcased a piece of non glare glass. Worked quite well to hold the piece of artwork in place and a good macro lens made short work of taking the photos. I'm not sure what the largest size of copy stand available today would be, and perhaps would be an exepnse best left up to those whose projects justify the expense.One thing that could be explored is to see if any local professional photograpy shops offer "workrooms" for rent or would allow the rental of copy stands big enough to handle the work. Just remember ... a macro lens is your friend when doing copy work.
Aneoth wrote:SNIPThe possibility of damage is (I think) what is making Bill search for affordable alternative ways to accomplish his goals. And rental of a studio (Or just its relevant equipment) might be a good one.
mbassoc2003 wrote:It's not all that affordable, but I've had large scale ink drawings photographically reproduced at large scale with incredible acuracy and preservation of detail (used to to measured drawings of cathedrals and the likes for Historic Scotland in my hayday).From what I remember of the process, the drawing is laid flat on a vacuum table, lit and photographed from above with a special camera. This produces a large negative on film which can then be printed because it captures a lot more detail than a regular 35mm camera.Don't know if there's a modern digital equivelant.
islestrike wrote:Hi Bill,In addition to some of Bob's hand drawn maps and scrolls that you auctioned off recently, the other items I found interesting were those two or three monster or NPC stat cards. Alongside the descriptions I recall there were what looked like cutouts from some sort of comic book pasted on the cards to illustrate the subject.Do you happen to know which comic(s) Bob would have culled these images from? It would be interesting to know since if he were designing a stat card and knew where he could cutout a suitable illustration, then does it follow that he was a big reader of fantasy comics? What titles would these have been?Cheers!
robertsconley wrote:Bill,Since you are still doing mapwork, I was wondering if you could help me. I been successful in locating nearly all of the old zipatone texture that Judges Guild uses except one; JungleDo you have any scan or sources where I can this texture?thanksRob Conley