Game of Thrones season 8 is well in progress and individuals are losing it.
Also, craftsman Julio Lacerda is one of them. The 25-year-old devotee of the show has chosen to respect the last scenes of his darling arrangement in an inventive manner, also. The cartography aficionado has made a guide of Westeros, and it’s so definite, it’s an ideal portrayal of the convoluted world George R. R. Martin has made.
Also, you couldn’t think about a superior man for the activity. Julio has been a craftsman since he was little. These days, he functions as an artist, for the most part, drawing dinosaurs and other ancient creatures for books, magazines, and historical centers, despite the fact that he has a weakness for dream and popular culture as well.
”I found out about Game of Thrones when the show was in its second or third season,” Lacerda told Bored Panda. “It was starting to gather a big following, and even though none of my friends had been watching it yet, people were talking about it a lot on the internet. So, I decided to give it a chance and immediately fell in love with it.”
Julio is not only following the TV series, but he has also read the books. “As cliche as it sounds, I have to say that I prefer the literary version,” the artist said.
“The world that George R. R. Martin has built over the years is so incredibly detailed and well-thought-out, some aspects of it just have to be simplified or left out altogether for the TV adaptation. Also, working with such a huge audience, a [limited] budget and deadlines make the writing for the show a lot less rich and smart compared to the original.
That said, I still like the show very much and it did a great job of bringing the story to life.”
“I think what makes me like Game of Thrones so much is the fact that it’s one of the most complex stories I’ve seen, coupled with truly incredible world-building,” Julio said. “At least in the books, every single person and place mentioned have some background info presented at some point, and almost every action of the characters have a meaning or payoff later in the story. It’s a rabbit hole of trivia and theories that are hard to leave once you’ve jumped in!”
“I’ve always loved geography and cartography, and for the past year, I’ve been creating some fantasy maps of my own. With season 8 airing, I felt inspired to try my hand at replicating this iconic map in a somewhat realistic way (as if it was seen from space), since most reconstructions of the maps in Game of Thrones go for either a simplified or traditional, vintage look.”
“Fortunately, the map of Westeros is fairly well-documented,” Julio concluded. “I cross-referenced several different sources, with special attention to the official The Lands of Ice and Fire maps. It took me around two days to create it; At first, I did the outline of the landmass, I then created a height map to represent the different altitudes and ran it through an erosion simulator, which gives the terrain this realistic look.
Then I textured the image with the help of some aerial photographs from NASA and rendered it in a 3-D software which interpreted the height map I created to replicate lights and shadows. The final step was to add all the graphics and text.”
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