#minecraft map art

[genevawrenn]

Tallulah has joined her brother Chayanne <3

[sculkapologist]

I finally finished a NEW CUSTOM MAP ART!!! "Visitor," a portrait of an enderman, is extra exciting because it's my first full-palette map painting, meaning I used block height to access all the highlight and shadow colours available!! More on the full process under the cut, but the short version of what this means is:

ITS A VERY COMPLICATED CONSTRUCTION. I created the art, then planned and built this manually, without any mods or schematics for construction. Huge props again to everyone else in the server for helping me gather all the materials to make this absurd thing possible!!!

This was the original art I made for it! I'm a huge fan of the "compressed" look of the vanilla paintings, so I've been starting with a large image and shrinking it down, though there were a lot of pixel tweaks to get it to read well. After shrinking it to 16x32 (for an art made of two maps), I convert it to a limited palette that I've set up to match the colours minecraft actually has available:

The map palette is actually tremendously limited, so figuring out a painting that will still look good with that constraint is a challenge in and of itself!

Anyway, the way minecraft maps work, a block that is Taller than the block to the north of it shows up with a slightly lighter colour, and a block that is Lower than the block north of it shows up on the map with a slightly darker colour. So when making a key for this one, I marked all the squares with a little arrow if it's the lighter or darker version:

Each "pixel" here is a full stack of blocks on the mapped area: 64 blocks, 8 rows of 8. In order to achieve the affect of every block in a given pixel being taller or shorter than the block to the north of it, dark and light shades need to staircase either up or down. Because staircasing downwards in survival sounds even worse than this madness, I did some planning to make sure each of the "downwards" staircases would touch the ground, so I could simply staircase up from south to north instead. This involved figuring out how many up and down movements were in each individual column and planning out 32 little layouts:

It's worth noting that if you look up minecraft map art on Youtube, most of what you'll find is either, the simple realisation that placing blocks allows you to make custom map art, or an explanation of how to use a generator that will let you plug in any picture and then produce a schematic for you. It's very cool that these exist, but I wanted to do full palette art myself, without an auto-generated schematic, and at the time THERE JUST WEREN'T ANY TUTORIALS FOR HOW TO DO ALL THIS?? Now, having the experience of finagling all this, i think perhaps the reason is that this is a mad undertaking.

ANYWAY: PROGRESS SHOTS!!

I actually love how the staircases look..... its like some kind of modern sculpture

Fewer shots of the second half since I did it on call with friends; the last screenshot is one Thren took of me activating the new locked map to use for the gallery.

Once these paintings are done, I lock the finished maps, make copies, and stock them in the art gallery so other friends on our server can also put these paintings in their homes! It's a lot of work, but really rewarding to see my art decorating various buildings around the server. ;u;

I have one more custom full-palette painting I've done the art for and gathered all materials for; I still need to do the full key and plan staircasing for it before I can start, but HOPEFULLY if my resolve doesn't waver there'll be at least one more of these!!

[wigglys-dikrats]

i did something insane and made minecraft map art of the four pulp album covers !!!

the images on the left are a bird’s eye view, and the right are the actual maps :]

more than 52 hours of work and a total of 65,536 hand placed blocks all the while listening to pulp :D (a total of seven times heehoo)

shoutout to the folks at brp for keeping me motivated and sane while working on this the past week love y’all

(please do not copy the work or repost these images ty <3)

@pulpmusicals

[dottymatrix]

This is one of my map art submissions for the competition yesterday on the JoeHills Patreon Vanilla SMP, Deep Slate Nine.

It's a 3D map I built and tore down over six weeks. It's called "Madonna of the Statues Book" and is inspired by Caravaggio paintings... and also my Heroforge design for the MCYTblr Sexyman competition.

[fandomanyt]

Update on my map art for my custom playing card deck on the Project Hydra SMP: The entire deck is complete! Featuring 4 different colored suits, and 12 famous Minecraft players as facecards. Featured players listed from left to right: BdoubleO100 Pearlescentmoon Technoblade Raysworks HelgaRakel TangoTek Grian Psiracy MumboJumbo Zedaph ZombieCleo EthosLab

[gabrioblu]

FINALLY

384x257 mapart of @pawtale, around 100,000 blocks, took around a month and a half.

Original image:

[clown-activist]

My 3 most recent map arts I made for minecraft, one of them almost a whole year old now; all 128x128, using only the original palate with no stair method.

here's the original sizes, the above ones where sized up for viewing sake. If anyone would want to recreate these in their minecraft world let me know, I can supply what blocks are each color and their count!

[maevedragoncreations]

Some mob-themed map art.

[heedzhee-art]

nice redstone gremlin

[shepscapades]

I FORGOR I could/should be posting my artfight attacks here!!! exploding me in dynaball every day of my life <3 this was my first attack, on @tibbycaps!! The beginning of my artfight sona arc >:]

[genevawrenn]

Phil made Chayanne map art <3

[sculkapologist]

WHEW, new painting finished and added to the art gallery! it's "Nether II" because this one was my second attempt at a nether landscape, when I was first figuring out how to make images that would work as map art.

This one's 2x2, so four maps went into its creation! More progress under the cut!

Here's the original concept! Same process as last time; draw a simple digital drawing in map-safe colours, shrink and compress the image to 32x32, then convert it to map-safe colours again. This one is still using that limited palette that I'd assumed was the default flat colours but turned out to be all the BRIGHTEST shades, which meant a single continuous staircase for each of the 4 maps...

...Except, as you might notice, for the frame -- I got frustrated with the picture frame part being 3 different materials and thought this might be a good opportunity to test out full staircasing possibilities -- up, down, and flat -- to create variation in a single colour that's more subtle! So the frame is kind of doing its own thing here.

(boo set off fireworks when i finished the whole thing, it was great)

This was a lot of work but I'm really pumped to finish a 2x2! Part of the reason I set out on this quest was because I love the existing 1x1 paintings, but so few of the larger sizes have the same vibes. Huge shoutouts to literally everyone else on the server for helping me gather materials and tear down each map so the next one could go up.

[maintaining-mutts]

MAP CALL FOR UNSTABLE UNIVERSE

why hello there!!! hope i got your attention. i, mutt, am planning to animate Parrot's first Unstable Universe video: "This Button Destroys the World". However to do this, I would need a LOT of help, considering the video is roughly 40 minutes long. So, here's a MAP call to see who would be interested!

please reblog this if you think you could help share the post! i'll probably make a discord server for this if it gets enough traction.

[lucy-the-pirate]

do you like my minecraft horse? her name is worse but pronounced in such a way that it rhymes with horse

[iyo-mcd-rewrite]

✥ | a map of ru’aun, circa 1416 a.i. (after irene)

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hi!! it’s me again!! today i bring you a little teaser for my mcd roleplay that’s gonna be coming up either this or next year!!

i’m really excited for it, and the guys in the mcd big bang server have really inspired me to keep on crafting. more updates about this will come soon if you guys are interested in hearing more!!

(under the cut is a little tidbit about roleplay locations)

every city in red is going to be an area/setting you can actually roleplay in!! it’s not concrete, and could change—but this is what i’m thinking. key below <3

circle with diamond — ‘capital’ of the phoenix drop alliance

circle with dot — major cities

circle — minor cities

diamond — settlement/village

animal footprint/marking — high concentration of that region’s nonhuman species

[fruitytooty]

minecraft map art

no mods but halfway through i wish i used one :]